Daysland Digest

It is hard to believe this is the final newsletter of 2023. We have lots to look forward to as we wrap up the year. Our Christmas Concert is tomorrow, and we host two shows. The dress rehearsal is at 1:00 pm and the evening performance at 7:00 pm. The evening show will be live-streamed on our YouTube Channel. An extra special thank you to Mrs. Tanton and Mrs. McKay for their work on the Christmas Concert. Preparing for the concert is a big job, and we are very grateful for their time and effort.

We are also excited for our Christmas Dinner that is on December 19th. This is one of my favorite school events. We will have our students eat in their cross-graded squads. We want to thank our parent volunteers who donated food items and who are coming in to prepare and serve our students and staff that day. Please know that you are appreciated!

Even though many activities are happening, it is important to remind students to focus on their schoolwork. This is especially important for our Grade 9-12 students returning to PATs, diploma and final exams in January. An exam calendar is included in the newsletter. For our younger students, we appreciate any opportunity to support literacy and numeracy skills at home over the holidays. This can include reading a book or playing family games involving numeracy skills.

We have some staffing news to share. Mrs. Schlaut will be returning to her role as our Grade Two teacher. We have missed her and are thankful to have her back on the team. Mrs. Tucker has been replacing Mrs. Schlaut these past few months, and we are so glad she did. She stepped in on short notice and put in tremendous work for our Grade Two class. We cannot thank her enough. We will have one final staffing update to share early next week with news of who will be taking over the Grade Five position that became available due to Mr. Gratrix accepting a position at Killam School.

As we wrap up this calendar year, we wish our entire school community a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to working with and serving you in 2024.

This is a reminder to check PowerSchool for regular updates on your child’s progress. If you are experiencing any issues with accessing PowerSchool, please get in touch with the office. Also, some users have reported that they cannot access new marks. If you are experiencing this issue, you may need to change the time frame in the top right corner of the screen. Some users have needed to change their password on a desktop computer in order to fix the problem. If these solutions do not work, please let us know. If you have questions about your child’s marks, please check for assignment feedback and follow up with your child’s teacher if needed.

Dec.

14 - Christmas Concert

15/16 - Jr. B B-Ball @ Bawlf

19 - Christmas Buffet

19 - Sr. B-Ball @ New Norway

20 - Last Day of Classes

Dec. 21 to Jan. 3 - Christmas Break

Jan.

4 - School Resumes

5/6 - Lloyd Sather Tournament

9 - THEME DAY - School Spirit (Black & Yellow)

10 - ELA 30 Diploma Pt. A

10 - Class of 2024 Parent Meeting @ 7:00pm

11 - Staff Meeting (Early Dismissal @ 11:40)

Our Sr Ski Trip for gr 10-12 students has been planned for January 28, 29, 30. Deposits and forms are due by Friday, December 15.

Our Sr. Boys hosted their annual Ice Breaker tournament on December 1st & 2nd. Thank you to all of our parents who provided food items and worked a shift in the concession! We appreciate your support!

Our Sr. High Teams will be hosting the annual Lloyd Sather Tournament on January 5th & 6th. Concession information will be going out before Christmas.

Buy a coupon book for $10. Save money and support your Daysland School.

Funds raised will be used to support elementary field trips, extracurricular activities and elementary sports.

Buy yours today at the school office (780-374-3676) or at Daysland AG Foods

Coupons are good for Daysland AG Foods and do not expire until December 31, 2023.

Purchase your coupon book today; 100% of sales are donated back to Daysland School.

Parents are reminded that Board policy requires all students who ride the bus to wear (or carry) clothing suitable for the weather conditions. This includes headgear, hand covering, and appropriate footwear. Students who arrive at school inappropriately dressed will not be allowed to ride home or to/from sporting events or school planned field trips until they have proper gear dropped off or are picked up by a parent.

As we enter the season of weather related bus delays and cancellations, BRSD would like to remind parents to check their school website or the BRSD website for updates. If there is a change to the schedule it will appear in an ALERT banner at the top of the website. If there is no banner, all routes are running as scheduled. Every family affected by a bus route delay or cancellation also receives an automated phone message.

The next School Council Meeting will be on Wednesday, January 17th at 7:00pm in the Learning Commons.

Everyone Welcome!

If you are interested in purchasing Daysland School clothing, please visit

https://dayslandschool.entripyshops.com

Orders can be paced at any time of the year and will ship directly to the purchaser.

We will have a Parent Meeting for our Class of 2024 on Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 at 7:00pm in the School Learning Commons.

Christmas Vacation is a great time for students to start looking into scholarships! Check out the BRSD HS Plus website 'Funding Your Education' for tips and lists of scholarships both local and beyond. Gr. 12's may want to finalize their verified AB account so they are ready to apply for Rutherford in August.

Holiday Toolkit https://elunanetwork.org/assets/files/NACG_Holiday_Toolkit.pdf

Kids Help Phone https://kidshelpphone.ca/

Resources for Kids https://childrensgrieffoundation.org/resources-alberta/

Teens & Grief https://whatsyourgrief.com/helping-a-teenager-deal-with-grief-2

K to 3 Grief Support https://prod.drupal.aws.sesamestreet.org/sites/default/files/media_folders/Media%20Root/Grief_Storybook.pdf?_ga=2.240967939.1886845230.1702321301-608569802.1697493732

Daysland School Council Meeting Minutes

October 25, 2023

In attendance:

Jeanni Hoermann Carrie Carrier Laura Zwack Alison Eshpeter Candice Guhle

Teena Kasha Chantelle Hayes Cristin Zimmer Kristie Nahajowich

Jenni Thomas (Assistant Principal)

I. Teena called to order the regular meeting of the Daysland School Council at 7:05 pm.

II. Open Floor Shout Out – School scarecrows are awesome! To Mr Gratrix for running Jr/Sr

high/Teacher intramurals.

III. Review of Agenda – Motion: Chantelle moved agenda be accepted as circulated. Jeanni

seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.

IV. Approval of minutes from last meeting

Minutes from September 20, 2023 were circulated. Motion: Laura moved minutes be accepted as

circulated. Chantelle seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.

V. Correspondence – None

VI. Reports

a) Administrator (reported by Jenni Thomas)

(i) Admin Report

1. Shout Outs

a) Awards Night

b) SAVY - organizing Halloween events

c) Literacy in Daysland School

2. Staffing Update

3. Professional Learning Series - November 1st

a) Team form AI for Education will join us virtually. The presentation will offer hands-on experience with AI tools and their application in innovative and engaging planning and teaching methods.

b) In the afternoon, support staff will access our new on-demand professional development series.

c) Kindergarten to grade six teachers will virtually join one of two CARC sessions (Numeracy or Literacy).

d) Grade 7 to 12 teachers will continue their AI work in the afternoon.

e) LCFs will be going to Camrose for a day of Learning at Chester Ronning school.

4. School Photos Update

a) Tuesday, November 21st.

5. Halloween Plans - October 31st

a) Festivities in the afternoon.

b) Elementary students to get ready following lunch and tour Providence Place.

c) Jr./Sr. High will have activities planned by SAVY

d) Everyone will arrive in the gym for the parade at 2:00pm and pie throwing contest.

6. Other Upcoming Dates

a) Book Fair this week October 23rd-27th

b) Grade 9 Take Your Kid to Work Day - November 2nd

c) Remembrance Day Assembly - November 9th

d) Fall Break for students - November 13th-17th

e) Christmas Concert - December 14th

f) Christmas Dinner - December 19th

7. Grocery coupon Fundraiser

(ii) School Generated Funds Report – Wes reviewed SGF report dated August 31. 2023.

b) Room Reps:

Kindergarten (submitted by Chantelle Hayes): Mrs Tanton - We are living our best life in Kindergarten. I have a lovely bunch of 17 busy little coconuts who are more than ready to be in Kindergarten. We have learned 11 letters so far and we've covered numbers 1-10. We have begun the process of sounding out CVC words. It's so neat to see their eyes get big as they uncover the mystery of reading, the wheels are turning! It's a HUGE AHA moment for them! On Friday we are hosting our annual Kindergarten Grandparents Day at the school. Our Grandparents will enjoy 5 different centers with their grandbaby and relish the one on one time with each other. We have been making Witches Brew in Kindergarten on the daily and I have been turned into a toad multiple times with their magic spells and rhymes, I always put in a request to be turned into a millionaire but oh well... Toad it is! I wish you all warm toes and noses, it's fairly chilly out there these days.

Grade 1 (submitted by Laura Zwack): Mrs Reber - The Gr.1 class is embracing everything spooky and impatiently waiting for Halloween. In ELA we just finished up making our coffee filter monsters and writing about the detail our monster consisted of. Gr.1's have started their home reading program and are off to a great start. During our reading time, we are working on reading stories with CVC words and irregular words (words we just know). Today's story was all about Wes the big hog (we were sad Mrs.Wilson wasn't here to enjoy the story). In Math, we made place-value pumpkins! We are also tackling our numbers to 20 while working on skip-counting by 2's. In science, we finished up our pumpkin week! Pumpkin week ties into learning about plants! We learned the life cycle of a pumpkin, and the 5 senses and talked about the needs of a pumpkin. Students enjoyed making pumpkin slime, baking pumpkin seeds to eat, and estimating how many seeds would be in their group's pumpkin.

Grade 2 (submitted by Kristie Nahajowich): Mrs Tucker - We have had a great start to the school year! In Language Arts we are focusing on our reading and writing skills. We read a new story every day, and the week’s booklets are sent home every Friday. Writing complete sentences has been the focus of our writing so far this year. In Math, we are working on numbers from 0-1000, counting forwards and backwards, skip counting, and place value. Science has been focused on materials and their properties. Right now we are beginning to do some hands-on activities and demonstrations to explore the properties of materials. The first unit of Social is about our community. We have learned about the different types of communities and what we can find there. Currently we are mapping and have learned what a compass rose is and how to remember cardinal directions.

Grade 3 (submitted by Alison Eshpeter): Mrs Schmidt-Tiegen - In ELA this week we are reviewing long vowel teams again and using what we know about them, as well as syllables, to read bigger words. We are finishing up our descriptive writing Haunted House Listings. At the end of the week, for some fun, we will go to the makerspace and create our own haunted houses based on our writing. We have one last government assessment to do and that is the HLAT--a 45 minute writing assessment based on a writing prompt given to us. Students will complete this assessment on Wednesday. In Math we are moving on from comparing and ordering numbers to finding the number that is ten more/ten less and 100 more/100 less than a given number. We will also be learning to round a number to the nearest 10 and 100.Looking ahead to Halloween, our party will start shortly after lunch with a costume tour at Providence Place. More information will be coming home about that tomorrow, from the school. For our classroom party, your child is welcome to bring a special snack for themselves. A small treat will be provided by me. Mr Wilson - In Science we are learning about Earth Science. We have been learning about the layers of the earth and the Earth's plates and how they cause things like earthquakes, volcanos and mountains. In Social, we just finished our mapping unit. The class was amazing at identifying the continents and oceans. They also learned how to use cardinal directions to find locations on a map. We are now going to learn more about four different countries, including Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine and India. This is a group of fantastic students and we are able to learn a lot while having some fun along the way.

Grade 4 (submitted by Kirby Schmidt-Teigen): Miss Hallback - My ELA and Math group are working on very similar things as Mrs. Thomas's group. In ELA, we just wrapped up writing descriptive paragraphs about the monsters the students created. We have also started buddy reading within our ELA group. In math, we finished our statistics unit and we are about half way through our decimals unit. In Science, students are learning about waste in our world. They are very excited about our class composter. In the near future, we will be using the compost created to plant a classsroom plant. In Social, we are learning about the 6 different regions of Alberta. Students have just started creating either a brochure or a google slides ebook to showcase what they know about the 3 regions (Canadian Shield, Boreal Forest, Parkland) we have learned thus far. Mrs. Thomas - My half of the ELA/Math group is working on very similar things to Miss Hallback's. We are busy working on our writing skills in ELA and reading The One and Only Ivan as a read aloud. In Math, we are in the middle of our decimals unit where kids are learning to name and compare decimals and getting ready to move on to rounding and then working with money. We are all looking forward to Halloween activities next week and going up to Providence Place to show off their costumes!

Grade 5 (submitted by Laura Zwack): Mr Gratrix - The grade 5 class has wrapped up their math unit on place value and decimals. We move into addition and subtraction next. In ELA after completing our novel study we are working on developing our writing skills. Mr Kerslake - Currently, the grade 5s are working on finishing their mapping unit in social studies. In science, the students have been looking at various parts of the weather. They have been working on looking at different weather tools and have made a few to test wind speed and direction. They are currently looking at different clouds and cloud types to determine what kind of weather will be forming throughout the day.

Grade 6 (submitted by Cristin Zimmer): Mrs McKay - Everything is great in grade 6! In ELA, we are wrapping up our realistic fiction book clubs and will be completing final projects next week. In Math, we have finished our integers unit and are onto multiplication and division, including decimals. We are learning about climate change in Science, and in Social Studies, we just finished projects on the regions of Alberta. One more exciting thing is that we will be welcoming another new student very soon! This brings the grade 6 class to a total 16 students, up from 12 at the end of last year.

Grade 7/8 (submitted by Alison Eshpeter): Mrs McKay - Math: Both grades are wrapping up their fractions units. Grade 7 will write their test this week and grade 8 will write their test next week. We are right on track with our year plans! Mrs V Zimmer - In Social, we are all learning to appreciate the Renaissance! And in ELA 7, we are enjoying our first novel study of "The Barren Grounds" by David A. Robertson, where the characters just discovered a secret portal to a cold, dangerous wilderness! Mrs Thomas - In Home Ec, the grade 7s and 8s have been taking advantage of all the fresh garden tomatoes and a variety of other fresh produce to make roasted pasta sauce and their own pizza sauce that we used to make pasta dishes and homemade pizzas. We have a freezer full of the extra sauces to use in future products!

Grade 9 (submitted by Carrie Carrier): Mrs Tobler - The Gr 9s will be participating in Take Your Kid To Work Day on Thursday, Nov 2. Students have received permission forms that detail all the information. Mr Gratrix - In Math the grade 9's are completing their unit on Linear Relations. Mrs Thomas - I’m Home ec the Grade 9s have been working on making quick and easy dinner foods. Recently, they have made pizza, shepherds (cottage) pie, and turkey pot pie.

Grade 10 (submitted by Teena Kasha): Mrs Walker - Grade 10s are working through a new unit in Math 10 on relations and functions. Now that the first unit is complete, students are encouraged to review any materials they struggled with and come see for additional help or to arrange for rewrites.

Grade 11 (submitted by Jeanni Hoermann): All is well.

Grade 12 (submitted by Candice Guhle): Mrs. V. Zimmer - We're approaching the half-way point of our independent choice novel study. By choosing the novels they study, they are interested in the content and more invested in the success of their comprehension. It's gong well! Mrs. Walker - Grade 12s are keeping on track in Math 30 and Chem 20 so far. In Chemistry, we started our Solutions, Acids and Bases unit, so we'll be completing some interesting labs in the next few weeks.

VII. Old business – No outstanding business.

VIII. New business:

a) BRSD Boundaries Review meeting – Daysland School Oct 18, 2023 – Discussion started by review from what was heard at the meeting by those who attended. A consultant has been hired by BRSD and this is information gathering stage. No proposed changes were presented and it was made clear school closure is not part of the discussion. A survey is out and all are encouraged to respond, even if living in town. Also share with anyone who will have children in coming into the school system but are not yet in as any changes may affect them (positively or negatively). BRSD only has access to families currently registered in BRSD.

IIIX. Adjournment

Teena adjourned the meeting at 7:47pm.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, Nov 22, 7:00pm at Daysland School (fourth Wednesday instead of third due to school break on Nov 15.)

Daysland School Council Meeting Minutes

November 27, 2023

In attendance: Carrie Carrier Alison Eshpeter Wes Wilson (Principal) Teena Kasha Chantelle Hayes Cristin Zimmer Kristie Nahajowich

I. Teena called to order the regular meeting of the Daysland School Council at 7:04 pm.

II. Open Floor Shout Out – To Colette Benfeld for organizing the wreath fundraiser. To Mrs Tanton for all the hard work for kindergarten Grandparents’ Day. To Jr Girls Volleyball coaches (Cristin Zimmer/Kim Loesch) for great year and nurturing a great, cohesive team.

III. Review of Agenda – Motion: Kirby moved agenda be accepted as circulated. Chantelle seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.

IV. Approval of minutes from last meeting

Minutes from October 25, 2023 were circulated. Motion: Kirby moved minutes to be accepted as circulated. Cristin seconded. All in favour. Motion carried.

V. Correspondence - None

VI. Reports

a) Administrator (Mr. Wilson)

1. Shout outs

a. Volleyball seasons are over and they were very successful.

b. Thank you to our coaches - Mrs. Reber (Sr. Girls), Cristin Zimmer and Kim Loesch (Jr. Girls), Mrs. Tobler and Ava G (Mini Slammers) for their time and hard work.

2. Grade 9s Semester/High School Credit Plan

a. Grade 9s will finish LA/Math in the first semester.

b. With the extra periods that we gain in the second semester, we will provide students with the opportunity to gain credit that will be applied in Gr. 10. They will be offered Math 15 and a humanities focused course. First thoughts are a writing course of some kind, in place of Learning Strategies. We will work out the plan before February and communicate it in January.

3. Upcoming Dates

a. Quarter Two Jr. High Options started before the November Break.

i. Sport Performance

ii. Art

iii. Creative Writing

b. Ice Breaker basketball tournament: December 1st-2nd.

c. Christmas Concert: December 14th (1:00 Rehearsal Performance and 7:00 Evening Performance) d. Christmas Dinner: December 19th

e. Christmas Break: Last day of class is Wednesday, December 20th and return January 4th.

4. Snow Days

a. Reminder to high school students and parents that if it is a cold weather day, core classes still need to press forward.

5. Photo Feedback:

a. How was our return to Smart Photography?

6. Diploma Exams for 2023-24 are worth 30%

7. School Start Online Supply Ordering

a. 2024 Brochure

b. Is there interest this year in providing the option?

8. Secondary Classes Phone Policy

a. We had preliminary discussions with the secondary teachers about having consistency.

b. We are going to work through a process to have a policy in place for our Parent/Student School Handbook.

c. Are there any considerations/input that this group has for us as we work to prepare to develop and implement?

9. Staffing Update

a. We were able to hire Mrs. Karla Breitkreuz for additional hours we received to support student needs in Literacy and Numeracy. These hours were provided until Christmas. At this point, we do not know if they will continue.

b. Mrs. Walker will begin her maternity leave after Christmas. We are hoping to do interviews in early December.

10.AERR School Results and Growth Plan

b) Room Reps:

Kindergarten (submitted by Chantelle Hayes): Mrs Tanton – We’re just chugging along in Kindergarten. We had our annual Grandparents Day on Friday Oct. 27 and it was a hit! The Kinders gave their grandparents massages, they read to together, painted pumpkins, made a craft and enjoyed sensory bins together. We wrapped the event up with a few action songs that our grandparents boogied to with us :-)

Grade 1 (submitted by Laura Zwack): Mrs Reber - The Gr.1's came back from break ready to continue learning! It's a wonderful time of the year when students' reading starts to become fluent and they start to phonetically spell. Best of all, they become confident in their abilities! In Science, we are learning scientific methods. We discussed wonders this week. What do you wonder? We had some great answers from “Why do stars glow?” “Why do we have shadows?” Today, we completed our mystery box challenge. Students had to ask questions, make predictions, use their five senses, and guess what was in the box! After the big guess of gummy worms, we made our conclusion that this was indeed what was in the box. Then, we enjoyed our yummy reward! In ELA, students have mastered their short vowels and are starting to focus on digraphs. We have solved eight secret stories already to help us improve our writing and reading skills. In math, we are talking all about Gus the Plus and working on our addition facts to 20! Next week, we will be starting everything Christmas in our classroom! FALALALA!

Grade 2 (submitted by Kristie Nahajowich): Mrs Tucker – The grade 2s have continued to do amazing work. We have written stories about Jack o’ Lanterns that came to life, and we just finished writing about what is so great about being a kid. Weekly spelling tests are starting this Friday, which are connected to the daily reading work sent home. In Math we are now learning how to expand numbers, as well as write them in different ways. We have finished most of our Science unit and will be wrapping up Materials and Properties in the next week. We will have a Social test on Friday about community. Scholastic book orders and permission forms for the Remembrance Day poster contest will be out by Friday.

Grade 3 (submitted by Alison Eshpeter): Mrs Schmidt-Tiegen – In ELA before the break, our phonics pattern was /ea/ like in the words head, heavy, meant, etc. as well as /a/ when it makes the short o sound, like in the words water, watch, waddle, etc. We are moving on to opinion writing and we will also be presenting our Remembrance Day Posters to the class, highlighting why we chose to draw what we did and what we hope our viewers think and feel when they look at our posters. In math we will practice our money counting skills by playing a big game of store in the classroom. Mr Wilson – In Social we have started learning about the four countries we cover in this class. They are Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine and India. We are using Social Circle roles to learn about the different countries. These roles help the students look at the countries through different lenses. So far, we have learned the Reporter Role, where we report facts about life in one of the countries. We recently learned the

Connector Role where students learned to connect ways of living in other countries to life in Canada.

In Science, we have been focused on mountains. We recently used the Chromebooks to create

diagrams illustrating how mountains are formed. We are going to turn our attention specifically to the Rocky Mountains this week. Mr Pastachak – In Art, we have been learning the techniques associated with watercolour, having painted flowers in September, and pumpkins in October. We are getting quite good at this! Grade 3 students are now learning how to draw a winter landscape with the idea of painting a watercolour background afterwards.

Grade 4 (submitted by Kirby Schmidt-Tiegen): Miss Halback - In Math, we have also wrapped up our unit on place value and are moving into adding and subtracting numbers including decimals. In ELA, we have started learning about the different types of figurative language and how we can apply them to our writing. In Science we will be starting to learn about the 3 R’s (reduce, recycle and reuse) and how we can apply them to our daily life to minimize waste in our world. The kids have just finished learning about the different regions of Alberta in Social. They are now working on a brochure or a google slides presentation to share what they have learned. Mrs Thomas - In Math, we have just wrapped up our unit on Place Value, including decimals and are moving into adding and subtracting numbers, also including decimals. In ELA, we are nearly done our read aloud of "The One and Only Ivan" and have started working on some Morphology lessons, where we look at root words and how they are changed by adding prefixes and suffixes.

Grade 5 (submitted by Laura Zwack): Mr Gratrix - In Math we are finishing up adding and subtracting, specifically working with money. In ELA we are working on writing paragraphs which will quickly lead into writing larger pieces with a continuous theme throughout each paragraph. Mr Kerslake - The students have just completed their mapping unit in Social and their weather unit in Science. They are now moving on to new topics in each. For social they are going to be looking more in-depth at the various geographic regions in Canada (Canadian Shield, Interior Plains, Arctic, etc.). In Science, the students are going to be starting on Electricity and Circuits. This will be a hands-on opportunity to learn about how electricity works in everything from powering our wall outlets to battery-operated devices.

Grade 6 (submitted by Cristin Zimmer): Mrs McKay - Everything is great in grade 6. In ELA, we are finishing up Remembrance Day poems to submit to the legion contest. In Math, we are multiplying decimals and will move on to dividing decimals on Friday. In Science, we are almost finished our unit on Climate Change. In the next few weeks, we will be busy preparing for the Christmas concert!

Grade 7/8 (submitted by Alison Eshpeter): Mrs McKay - In Math 7 & 8, we are into our third unit of the year. For grade 7 it's Fractions, Decimals and Percents, and for grade 8, it's Percent, Ratio and Rate. These units should take us up to the Christmas break. Mr Pastachak - In Science 7/8 we have just finished our first Unit (Cells and Systems) and are starting Light and Optics from now until after Christmas Break. In English 8, students have also finished looking at a variety of suspenseful short stories and writing their own. We are now starting a new english unit focusing on research and formulating an argument. This unit looks at contact sports with the main focus being, "are they worth the risk?". We will work on this unit until Christmas Break. Mrs V Zimmer – No ELA update. Mrs Thomas – Cooking in Home Ec is wrapping up.

Grade 9 (submitted by Carrie Carrier): Mrs Tobler – No ELA update. Mr Gratrix – In Math, Grade 9's are wrapping up their 5th unit of the year this week. That means we are over half way through the semester. Mrs Thomas - In Home Ec, the grade 9s have wrapped up their cooking unit, making some delicious soups as their final lab, and are moving into sewing!

Grade 10 (submitted by Teena Kasha): All is well.

Grade 11 (submitted by Jeanni Hoermann): All is well.

Grade 12 (submitted by Candice Guhle): Mrs Zimmer - We recently wrapped up our independent novel study and are now moving on to multi-genre studies focusing on interactions between characters and the lessons we learn from others. Mrs Walker - For Grade 12s, we are moving right on time with our schedule for Math and Chem. A reminder though that with the cold weather approaching, if we have days where there are no buses, we will have online lessons though Google Meets so we stay on track (especially for Math 30).

VII. Business arising from minutes: None

VIII. New Business:

a) School supply ordering – Mr Wilson asked if there is a desire for the school to organize school supply orders. There is no minimum number of orders to use the service.General feeling is that it is a nice service to offer if minimal work required from admin assistants. Mr. Wilson will determine if service is easily feasible.

IX. Adjournment - Teena adjourned the meeting at 8:16pm.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 17, 7:00pm at Daysland School

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