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…
The Berezowsky Fun Blasters were busy little elves this Christmas season selling candy cane grams to the students. With the earnings from their sales they purchased hats, mittens, and scarves for the Little Pantries that are located throughout the city. What a lovely way to say “Merry Christmas” to our Prince Albert Community!
The City of Prince Albert recently played host to 32 high school curling teams from the province. The event was co-hosted by Meath Park Public School curling team. This was our 7th year of hosting the bonspiel which is called the Christmas Curling Classic. Curlers are treated to a t-shirt, 4-5 games, and some great high…
The spirit of local social justice is alive and well in SRPSD schools. A recent strong example is when Telus on behalf of Wesmor Public High School made a donation of $1000 to the Salvation Army in Prince Albert. This donation is available because of Wesmor students participation in Telus Give Where You Live…
As you may know, there has been significant discussion in government and in the media about transformational change. The discussion has included some concerning ideas about potential amalgamation to create even larger divisions or possibly the loss of locally elected school boards. Your Board of Education continues to advocate for the needs of staff, students…
