Monday November 17, 2014

• For grade 7 and 8 students who are interested in joining this year’s intermediate band, please come to Mr. McLean’s room at first break today.

• Mr. Pinkerton will be having a Recycling meeting tomorrow morning at 10:55, second bell, at his portable. We will be making new recycling crews to help our amazing custodians collect our school’s recycling and compost. You need to be reliable and prepared to help at 1:35 to 1:50 each day for 4 weeks and in grade 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. You can come prepared in teams of 2 or 3, or individual students are welcome to come too. See you tomorrow.

• Here is last week’s Waste Free Wednesday results.  For our Kindergarten’s, Mrs. Tiessinga’s class won with 8 waste free lunches!!!!! Good job, most Kindergarten classes did a great job sorting this week.  In our primary division Mr. Brooks’ and Mrs. Elton’s classes won with 7 litter-less lunches. Awesome job!!!!  For our junior division Mr. Underhill’s class takes back the trophy from Mrs. Duits with 12 litter-less lunches!!!! Way to go! For the intermediate division Mrs. Ewaskiw’s class won with 6 litter – less lunches!  Good for them, and for our environment.  Keep fighting Global Warming Birchview. Save the polar bears! Friday is the last day to bring old or broken cell phones, pagers or bluetooth devices.

•  The Grade 5-8 students have completed their 2nd round of testing for the Brock University Caribou Math Competition.  Once again we have some great results.  Within our school in the Grade 5 and 6 classes we have:  1.  Ethan P.​  2.  Colby G. 3.  Jayden E. Also Ethan placed 16th in the Simcoe County Board out of 102 participants.  In the Grade 7 and 8 classes we have: 1.  Daniella H. 2.  Brianna H. 3.  Victoria W. Daniella placed 4th in Simcoe County Board out of 97 participants. Could all participants please come to the Computer Lab for a brief meeting at 10:35 to discuss the results and talk about the next test date.