March 23rd

Did You Know…? A ‘bobsled’ is so named because early racers bobbed their heads back and forth to gain speed (which didn’t work).

Good afternoon,

Today all of the Gr. 4-6 students participated in a Health and Wellness Day! The classes were divided into 6 groups and the groups rotated to different sessions. The sessions that we had today were on:

Teasing and Harassment (Mr. Rutledge and Mrs. Organ)
Cyberbullying (Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Shackleford)
Yoga (Mrs. Chaulk and Mrs. Harris)
Conflict Resolution (Mrs. Merrick and Mrs. Balfour)
Mindfulness (Ms. Barrington)
Dealing With Stress (Mrs. Holodniuk and Ms. McNeil)

I hope everyone learned something new today and had fun. Thank you for your excellent behaviour. Every group was very attentive during my sessions and it was appreciated.

This afternoon we had our Virtue of the Month Assembly. Our virtue this month is Peace. Congratulations to Sedrick, Risolat, Alex B., Rukaya, and Mounika on being our monthly award winners. Keep up the great work! Our class sang “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley along with the other Grade 5 classes today. They did a wonderful job! They sang loudly and got the rest of the school to join in.

We also did the following DPA activities today as part of our Assembly. We were hoping to encourage some peace and mindfulness through both:

Spring Break begins tomorrow! There is no school on Thursday or Friday this week. Take time to relax with your families and I will see you all on April 4th! We will be having a Spirit Week our first week back to help fund-raise our Breakfast Program.