Report Card Day: Friday December 1st

Friday, December 1st is Report Card Day. Forms have gone home with students for parents/guardians to sign up for an interview/pick-up time. Please set up a time ASAP. We'll see you on Friday! (Might need your snow gear!)

Awards Recognition Assembly

At today's Awards and Recognition assembly, Wayne Johnson and his wife Danielle accepted the money raised by our change drive, as well as $100 from the union. Today's bake sale put on by the 7-3 class helped to raise another $102.00. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson thanked the school for their efforts.

Several students (28 total) received perfect attendance certificates. This is down from 40 students in September. Let's hope the numbers bounce back up. Remember, December has only 3 weeks of school, so perfect attendance should be easily obtained in that month!

Visual Art awards were handed out for stellar performances from each class. Winners were as follows:

7-1: Bailey
Honourable Mentions: Chelsey, Yegwenyes

7-2: Kenisha
Honourable Mentions: Trista, Skylar

7-3: Hilary
Honourable Mentions: Kylie, Shawnee, Shanda

8-1: Heather
Honourable Mentions: Jesse, Jheri

8-2: John
Honourable Mentions: Brier, Lydia

8-3: Danielle
Honourable Mentions: Geeg, Alannah

Put the Home back in Home & School

Attention all parents: We need you to attend the Home & School meeting this Monday at 6 pm at JC Hill School. Important matters will be discussed and your input is paramount. Hope to see you there!

GREY CUP PICKS!

Helllo Everyone

Email your picks and the score to mikehickey52@hotmail.com and you could be the winner of a GREY CUP AUTHENTIC PRIZE! Closest to the actual score will win the prize. Picks have to be made by SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18th at 9:00pm in order to be eligable. MONTREAL or B.C.????? Who will win the Grey Cup???

Thanks
Mr. Hickey

First Nations Projects - Grade 7 & 8

All First Nations Projects are due today, Friday, November 17, 2006. Students have had one month to complete in-class research, use the computer lab for internet research and prepared a hand written, good copy. For the last two weeks, they have had the opportunity to take their projects home to complete rough copies and work on good copies. Eight grade 7 students and two grade 8 students have already handed in completed projects and will receive 5 Bonus Marks! Way to go! This completed project is worth 100 marks towards semester two report cards.

On Monday, November 20, we will begin in-class presentation of student projects. Each student will talk about what they researched and what they have learned about a particular First Nations People or an important First Nations Issue.

Change Drive Results

The results are in, and Mr. Hickey and Mr. Johnson's classes have won pizza parties for their class' contributions to the Johnson family change drive. Mr. Hickey's class had the greatest total, while Mr. Johnson's class had the best average per student. The teacher's union pitched in $100.00 to add to the school's total of $703.12 . Thanks to everyone who contributed. Every amount, big or small, goes a long way to helping the family through their tough times.

Here are the classroom totals:

8-1 Mr. Hickey $200.95
$8.04/student

7-2 Mr. Sowden $149.71
$7.49/student

8-2 Mrs. Martin $120.78
$4.83/student

Beh. Mr. Johnson $75.46
$9.43/student

8-3 Mrs. Monture $35.64
$1.48/student

7-3 Mr. R.G. $31.88
$1.44/student

ML3 Ms. Ireland $29.41
$2.67/student

Gr. 6 Mr. Freeman $28.25
$1.13/student

7-1 Miss General $17.25
$0.82/student

ML2 Mrs. McGregor $16.79
$1.40/student

ML1 Mrs. Thomas Did not participate

What's happening in D & T

Here's some photos taken by Mr. Shognosh from his grade 7 Design and Tech automotive classes. Some more shots of the carts in action should be up in the next week or two.

November 8/06

CHANGE DRIVE!!! 2 MORE DAYS TO RAISE $$$!!!
We had a touching Remembrance Day service this morning- thanks to Mrs. V. Monture and Mrs. J. Johnson for organizing that for our school- The students were very respectful.

We had a percentage assessment today, so there is no math homework (boohoohoo).

Spelling- Unit 8 p. 32, which most students are probably finished.

Remember to bring in clippings from magazines, newspapers, etc. for SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING careers for our class project.

See you in the a.m.
Mrs. Martin

Remembering Our Veterans

Tomorrow is the Remembrance Day assembly. Please wear your poppies with pride and remembrance. Enjoy this link, courtesy of Mr. M. Freeman, for a video for the song, "A Pittance of Time".

Halloween Dance

The Halloween dance went well. i received so much artwork during the last few days, some of it rush work, and some of it well done, that i think we should have a dance on a monthly basis if it's what gets these students so motivated. At least the ones who still do decent work.

There were some excellent costumes and some great dancing. Funniest costume went to Kevin for his cross dressing Joy Johnson imitation. Most original went to John Boy for his fat security guard. Scariest costume went to Shaylayna for her gory doctor costume.

Names and pictures must be cleared with permission before we can get them up on the blog, but let's just say, the boy who dressed as a woman, and the boy who was a fat security guard were two of my personal favourites. Not only did they wear the costumes, they really sold it through their performance and movement. Drama and dance marks are forthcoming.