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We definitely have some future comedians, dancers, gymnasts and musicians in our grades 1 to 3 classes. This afternoon was our division one talent show and they did not fail to impress!

As a part of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Mrs. Harding's grade three class made talking sticks outside and discussed the significance in the indigenous culture in Canada.

Some video from a few of our students

EGSS has got talent!!! Division two held their talent show on Monday and the talent was amazing!

Our year-end mass is also where we honour our overall Christian Witness (the Wade Kientz Award) and Sportsmanship (the Michael Paul Award) winners from each class as well as an overall winner from division one and division two. A huge congratulations to all our winners and there could have been so many other people acknowledged - we have amazing students here at Ecole Good Shepherd School.

Yesterday at our year-end mass we were able to acknowledge all those who received their first first Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation this year with a small token from the school. It’s great to see students taking steps to deepen their faith through their participation in the sacraments.

We know that with tomorrow being National Indigenous Peoples Day there is a bit of confusion about whether or not the kids have school. École Good Shepherd School does have a full day of school tomorrow. In the morning we will be having our year-end mass over at St. James Parish starting at 10:00 a.m. followed by our awards ceremony. If you have not already done so, please be sure to head on to School Cash and sign the permission form so your child can attend.

A huge congratulations to all our students who celebrated the First Eucharist this weekend at one of the masses. As Father stressed in his homily, you are all gifts to us!

A huge thank you to our School Council for getting a DJ truck and hosting games out on the field during our Food Truck Feast this afternoon. The kids even were lucky enough to have some balloon art created for them by the Dufresne family.

We were able to celebrate the retirement of our Learning Support teacher Mike Querry this afternoon. After 31 years he is officially retiring. We started with a drumming circle and then transitioned into some thank you speeches and catching up with old friends and colleagues. He will still be around until the end of the year so be sure to pass along your best wishes to him. He will definitely be missed! A huge thank you to the staffs from other schools that Mike has taught at that were able to attend, especially St. Anthony’s, St. Mary’s and Central Office.

We had great weather for our grade four sports day this morning! The kids played a bunch of games including basketball, 4-square, and relay races. It was a great morning all around.

All five food trucks have arrived at Good Shepherd!! It all kicks off at 1:00 p.m. and the weather is cooperating so it should be an amazing afternoon!

Here are a few more pictures from yesterdays grade two field trip to the Zoo.

After a wet start of the week, the weather co-operated for our grade two classes as hey all headed to the Zoo for their field trip. There were a lot of big smiles as they came back into the building at the end of the day and they said they had a fabulous time!

For the last two days after school our grade six extra-curricular badminton club has been playing their year-end tournaments. On Wednesday it was the boys and today was the girls turn. They all had a lot of fun and made some big improvements. Keep practicing and we’ll see you all on some St. John Paul II teams next year.

A privilege and a gift 🪨🌧 On Tuesday our Kindergarten team, along with other teams from Christ the Redeemer, had the honour and privilege to spend their day learning from Elder Randy Bottle. His lessons and stories most certainly touched their hearts.

Mrs Bolechowsky had her grade four music class play some piano solos for the kindergartens today!

We are going to have one final theme day tied in with our division two talent show. This coming Monday is officially 80s Day. Mr. Lorenz will be pulling out his acid wash and rumour has it Mrs. Hempel has some sweet leg warmers and a dress with padded shoulders. It should be a nice walk down memory lane (at least for the old fogies on staff!)

Dee Hahn came to visit the Grade 1 English classes today. She shared her book the Grave Thief and left them all wondering what would happen at the end of her book! It was quite a mysterious presentation and the students enjoyed every moment!

Our grade two students in Mlle Janes class paired up with their grade five buddies in Mlle Fitzpatrick class and played some games to develop their French language skills and also worked on some technology projects together.