Events Next Week

  • Monday, February 26th: Assembly at 1:30 PM (Awards)
  • Monday, February 26th: Soup & Bun
  • Monday, February 26th: Grade 4 ELA Workshop
  • Tuesday, February 27th: EV has Principals’ Meeting all afternoon
  • Tuesday, February 27th: Basketball at SHS at 7:00 PM
  • Wednesday, February 28th: Annual Pink Shirt (or hoodie) Day
  • Friday, March 2nd: Crazy Hair Day for free
  • Friday, March 2nd: House activities in afternoon
  • Saturday, March 3rd: Spring Break for teachers and students!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • So many staff helped work out our problems due to shortage of replacements: thanks to all of you!
  • NP is amazing!! She found the old banner for registration and arranged to have it mounted!!
  • DG did an excellent job of organizing a photographer to come for a newspaper article.
  • When shown a photo of biathlon and asked to identify what sport it was, a K boy answered that it was for walking on snowshoes and shooting a moose!

Bits & Pieces

  • Math Consultant is booked to come on March 12th (K-2 all day) (Please note that we switched groups to accommodate teacher absences on the 12th)
  • Award Assembly is coming up
  • Only 10 school days until March Break!

Events Next Week

  • Monday, February 19th: Soup and Bun for Sec 3 fundraising
  • Tuesday, February 20th: Vaccinations for Secondary
  • Tuesday, February 20th: Fire extinguishers are returned to our school
  • Tuesday, February 20th: Basketball at SHS 19h00
  • Wednesday, February 21st: Bake Sale for Grade 5
  • Thursday, February 22nd: Math consultant with Grades 3-4-5 half day, Grades 6-Sec 2 other half
  • Thursday, February 22nd: STAC for 4 Secondary students in p.m. (RF, SJL, CH, ND)
  • Thursday, February 22nd: Spaghetti Supper for Sec 5 Grad
  • Friday, February 23rd: PJ Day for 50¢

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • A Grade 6 student will be receiving a prize from the Lions’ Club at the Assembly on Monday!
  • When asked what was in the down coat to keep the teacher warm, Kindergarten students guessed: sugar / sand / blanket / oxygen / nothing / pillows / air / some little bags with rice in it / white fluff / something soft / feathers.
  • It was neat on Monday morning to see a couple teachers sharing plates of food from the Staff Appreciation with students (who could likely use a good snack).
  • On Tuesday morning, three 3 boys were building up the Unifix cubes into the 10-frame trains.  The teacher gathered the class around and started showing them a limited piece of ‘land’ and asked what people would do when there’s no more land to build houses. One student quickly answered, « They go to Cuba. »

Bits & Pieces

  • Teacher meeting discussions will include lunch hour options for next year (due to increased enrolment and Pre-K program), school uniform choices, and a test on who’s replacing whom
  • Elementary panel will discuss extra PED Day in Spring and math manipulatives
  • Secondary panel will discuss options and possibility of Secondary boot lockers
  • Math Consultant is booked to come on February 22nd (K-2 all day) and March 12th (Grades 3-5 half day and Grades 6-Sec2 other half)