Events Next Week

Monday, January 7^th: PED Day, quick meeting to decide new date for meal at 9h30 (Library)
Monday, January 7^th: School Council at 10h00
Monday, January 7^th: School Level Committee at 13h30
Monday, January 8^th: No Day 7 Meeting
Thursday, January 10^th: Grades 5 & 6 at Art Centre
Friday, January 11^th: Day 3 Meetings (Elementary in Oasis, Secondary in Art Room)

Inspiration of the Week

Children must be taught how to think

Great Things Seen & Heard

Grade 6 kids have been practicing coding! It’s fun to see them totally engaged!
First playground committee meeting took place this week! Great project for KK and ST!
Wonderful staff party in a unique setting with room to mingle! Thank you to our social committee, RD & MF!
Wear your glasses when eating out for you might end up eating something that isn’t food!

14 décembre 2018

Clips & Tips

Everything you ever wanted to know can be found on this website so go ahead and take a tour! This example is something I saw on a walk-through the other day: the answer to a student’s random question:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secret-of-ribbon-curling/

14 décembre 2018

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Bits & Pieces

Reminder: staff absences other than illness require at least 24-hours advance notice, during school hours.
Our Christmas Concert will be in the afternoon on December 20^th.
Thanks to the Student Council and our Governing Board, we will have a tourtière lunch for staff and students at 12:00pm on December 21^st.

14 décembre 2018

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Events Next Week

Monday, December 17^th: Elf Day
Monday, December 17^th: Wear Christmas Costume for 50¢
Monday, December 17^th: LV away in p.m.
Tuesday, December 18^th: Day 3 meeting in Oasis for Elementary (discuss playground) at 8:00.
Tuesday, December 18^th: No Secondary Meeting in morning
Tuesday, December 18^th: EV away in a.m.
Tuesday, December 18^th: Student Council at 13:00
Tuesday, December 18^th: EV at Principals’ meeting all afternoon
Wednesday, December 19^th: Dress rehearsal for Christmas Concert at 13:30
Thursday, December 20^th: Lunch hour for Elementary moved to 11:30-12:30.
Wednesday, December 20^th: Christmas Concert begins at 13:30.
Friday, December 21^st: Secondary dress fancy day (for free)
Friday, December 21^st: Lunch to be served in the cafeteria at 12:00 (students to be called down class by class).
Friday, December 21^st: Secondary + Gr 6 house activities at 14:40

Inspiration of the Week

Change thinking to change life

Great Things Seen & Heard

Overheard in morning daycare: “We can’t put all the presents under the tree… there are way too many!”
We figured out how to make the cloudbook cart charge the cloudbooks so it finally works!

7 décembre 2018

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Clips & Tips

As we talked about earlier this week, we will soon have our robotics supplies in the library for checkout. Find out more about using robotics in the classroom with this article.

http://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-teach-robotics-in-schools-49357

The same website also sheds some light on teaching coding in schools, so you could check these articles out also:

7 décembre 2018

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Bits & Pieces

Our Christmas Concert will be in the afternoon on December 20^th.
We expect to have a tourtière lunch for staff and students on December 21^st. (More information to follow.)