Events This Week

  • Monday, May 17th: Online schooling for all staff and students all week again.
  • Monday, May 17th: Literacy meeting (HPSD) in afternoon (CW).
  • Tuesday, May 18th: Grad photo
  • Tuesday, May 18th: Admin PD in morning (for real this time).
  • Tuesday, May 18th: TR away in afternoon (for real this time).
  • Tuesday, May 18th: FSL Curriculum Collaboration (EV)
  • Thursday, May 20th: Last day of online schooling!
  • Friday, May 21st: Day off in exchange for PTI: 4-day long weekend!

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • Many staff will be purchasing their lunches from local businesses as a sign of support over the lockdown period.
  • The stolen pickle mystery has yet to be resolved, but in the meantime, students are eating pickles in their online classes! Poor NM…
  • Over the lunch hour, a sleeping student on a hill beside our track suddenly sprang up when other students approached with food. Wish our security cameras caught that one!
  • We will maintain our current number of teachers with the 2021-22 budget!
  • We will have another EA next year!

Bits & Pieces

  • 3-Year Plan discussion on PD day: consider data from surveys, choose priorities.
  • Core subject teachers will meet up with PRS teachers as a first step to vertical collaboration.
  • Our next regular bi-weekly team meeting will be on May 17th.
  • Chosen date for Grad is June 19th, at the rodeo grounds for the most flexibility.

Events This Week

  • Monday, May 10th: Online schooling for all staff and students.
  • Monday, May 10th: School Council meeting at 6:00 PM.
  • Tuesday, May 11th: Admin PD in morning.
  • Tuesday, May 11th: TR away in afternoon.
  • Tuesday, May 11th: Math-Science teachers’ HPSD collaboration after school.
  • Thursday, May 13th: Secondary administrators’ meeting.
  • Thursday, May 13th: Admin meeting after school.
  • Thursday, May 13th: PE/Specialist teachers’ HPSD collaboration after school.
  • Friday, May 14th: PD Day: 3-year Plan (discussion); core teachers meet PRS at 2:00 PM

Great Things Seen & Heard

  • We had great fun with the scavenger hunt on PD Day! Thank you, CB!
  • One of our staff members wrote that she went to a huge doctor!
  • Huge excitement for at least one Grade 10 class this past week: pancakes and fruit for breakfast!
  • Surveys may have a surprisingly good outcome: sometimes you can win a tablet!
  • New word: a Chromeboom is something like a laptop but explosive!

Clips & Tips

Have you ever completed the Briggs-Myers personality test? Sometimes, working on a team is easier when you understand your team-mates very well. It can also be fun to try to guess which personality type our colleagues fall into. Look into it and, if you choose to share, I’d love to know your type (and see if you can guess mine):

Bits & Pieces

  • CR Team meetings: reconsider group norms, current key issues (within the locus of control), work on Dossier with any remaining time (finish Block 2 students).
  • Core subject teachers will meet up with PRS teachers at 2:00 PM on May 14th (changed to accommodate our scavenger hunt!).
  • Our next regular bi-weekly team meeting will be on May 17th.
  • Chosen date for Grad is June 19th, at the rodeo grounds so both Plan A and Plan B work.