As you may know, French as a Second Language Week was the week of February 6th. The theme of the week this year was ‘Bilingualism, a celebration to share!’. As a way to celebrate our bilingualism and to build community among our French Immersion students and schools, a ‘Carnival d’hiver’ was held on Thursday, February…
Hello Principals and Staff, I often think of how fortunate I am to work with such a great team, but I always take some focused time during Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week to consider the efforts you make and the positive impacts you and your team have on our students. Wow. Thanks for all that…
Arthur Pechey Public School celebrated literacy by inviting students and their families to a Treasure Island Family Literacy Night. Families received a treasure map when they arrived and explored the treasure of literacy through a number of fun come and go stations including Storytelling, Reader’s Theatre, Story Crafts, Family Reading Pledges and even a Ship’s…
SRPSD grade one/two teacher Ms. Loehndorf’s classroom recently participated in a variety of Fun Friday activities at West Central Public School. These activities are designed to reinforce early literacy skills, such as sight words, phonics, word families, blending, segmenting, phoneme manipulation, nonsense words, and vowels. The EST, Ms. Miller, and Ms. Loehndorf co-teach in order…
SRPSD grade 9 students at Wesmor chose to cover the Creative Productive outcome (CP9.11 Select and use appropriate forms, technologies, images and art making processes to convey ideas about a topic of concern to youth) in a way that demonstrated research, collaboration, dedication and kindness. The students decided to fundraise after researching a local story from…
Wild Rose Public School holds three Family Literacy Nights throughout the school year. With the assistance of the Family Literacy Network they recently facilitated a Family Learning Olympics event which saw many students and families in attendance. The event was coordinated by teacher Karisa Klaassen and principal Graham McGregor with assistance from students and staff at the school. A fun time…
The Government of Saskatchewan has recently released a report examining the provincial education system and outlining four options for changing its governance structure in the future. The report can be viewed on the government’s website here: http://publications.gov.sk.ca/documents/11/96975-Perrins-Governance-Review-Report.pdf The government is gathering feedback from the public on the report and the four options. Online submissions can…
Learning about phases of matter can be magical! Mrs. Boettcher’s Grade 5 class made the best of a minus 38 degree day as they watched boiling water reach it’s freezing point instantaneously. Boiling water up, ice crystals (snow) down!
The Wesmor SADD group hosted a COPE Magazine signing. Authors Micheal Litwin, Skyler Ratt, Riley Waditaka, Warrick Beatty, and Raven Kishayinew were available to sign copies of Cope Magazine which featured their work. Cope Magazine is published by the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute. This magazine was created for Saskatchewan youth to have a voice regarding life’s…
The Prince Albert Food Bank proposed a project challenge for high school classes to get involved in creating and decorating a food bank donation bin. Wesmor Art Students designed and painted the bin while the Alt Grade 11 students collected food from staff and students to fill the bin with food donations. Filled with food…