We have had such a fun past few days!  On Friday afternoon, Colleen Barry was here to do some fun dancing with the students outside.  On Tuesday of this week, we had the Blast Off for the Mango "Go for 42" program.  Our entire school met in the gym to hear from Mango representatives and sponsors of the program.  After, we all went for a walk.  Grades 3-12 walked to the Bartholomew Road and back, approximately 3 km.  This morning, we all had a treat in the gym.  Mr. Mason won the "Teacher Torture" campaign, which meant that a student from each grade got to throw a pie in his face.  Alex Jardine was the lucky student from Grade 5.  Mrs. Sturgeon was the lucky teacher that got to throw a pie at Mr. Mason.  Please check out the Photo Gallery to see pictures.  As teachers have meetings for the next 2 days, students will have the rest of the week off.   Mme Jen

As I am sure you have heard, we are working on castles for our Medieval theme in Social Studies.  They are coming together very nicely  The students are very artistic and creative, much more than I ! Congratulations to Kassidy Lyons who placed 3rd at the District Spelling Bee, and to Stephanie Hayne for placing 1st at the Provincial Archery competition in Bathurst on Saturday. Have a wonderful, safe Easter! Mme Jen

On Friday of last week we began our class spelling bee.  On Monday of this week, he held our final competition.  Congratulations to Kassidy and Janet who will be representing our school at the District 16 Spelling Bee at Croft Elementary on April 8th.  Way to go girls!

A quick reminder that tomorrow, February 23rd, we are asking students and staff to wear pink for bullying awareness.  Also, all staff members will be watching to "catch students caring".  If they do, students will get their name in a draw for prizes at the end of the week. Also, this Thursday, February 24th is the 100th day of school.  Students are encouraged to display "100" in fun, interesting ways! Have a great week! Mme Jen

As I am sure you heard, we had a fantastic time canoing on Thursday.  The students were very well behaved, and were rewarded with some free swim time at the end.  Please see the gallery to check out some pictures. Mme Jen

Our last week of Intensive French was a busy one!  Many of our students and teachers missed time this week due to colds and flu, me included.  Despite feeling under the weather, we got a lot done.  On Tuesday, Wedneday and Thursday, the students of 5JH were interviewed individually by an employee of the Dept. of Education.  He took each student on their own and interviewed them on a wide variety of topics, to be able to assess their oral proficiency.  He told me that he was very impressed with my students.  Way to go 5JH!  Also, students completed day 1 of a written Provincial Assessment in French.  Since we had so many students out this week, I am going to complete this assessment on Monday. On Wednesday, grades 5-12 were treated to a presentation by 2 people from the "Free the Children" organization, which tries to encourage young people to make positive changes in their community and globally.  On Friday, we had a lot of students missing due to illness, the Croft cup and interventions.  Even so, we had a very relaxing day to finish off our IF program.  We had some free time in the computer lab, cleaned out our desks and rearranged the class. Have a great weekend!

I hope that you all enjoyed your snow day yesterday as much as I did!  Next week, we have lots of exciting things going on, that I wanted to make sure you knew about. On Monday, Premier David Alward will be at the school to meet and talk with students.  At 9:35 am, the Grade 5’s and 7’s will be going to the Blackville rink to skate with the Premier for 1 hour.  Students need to bring with them a pair of skates and a helmet.  Please put the skates in a bag (school bag, canvas shopping bag with guards if you have them) to avoid hurting someone.  If you are free, you are welcome to come to the rink to help out tying skates! On Thursday of next week, I will be taking my class to 9 Pine restaurant  for breakfast.  The cost is $5.50.  Students will have 3 options to choose from, all at the same price.  Students will order their breakfast from me in French.  If the cost is a problem, please send a note with your child and we will take care of it. I wanted to give the students a chance to use their French in a “real-life” setting.  Please send the money as soon as you can, so that I can get the money organized before we go. We only have 3 weeks left of the Intensive French program.  I will be sorry to see it end, as many of the students will.  All Grade 5 students in the province will be doing a written assessment at the end of the program.  This is nothing to worry or stress about.  We do all the preparation in class, and the marks students receive have no bearing on their report cards.  Also, 3 classes in the district were chosen to take part in the oral assessment.  Our class was one of them.  Students will be interviewed by someone hired by the province to assess their oral proficiency.  Again, these results have no bearing on student’s report cards.  They are meant to measure how students as a group are doing in the IF program.  Have a great weekend!