News Archive

Our grade five and six classes spent an hour this morning with anti-racism advocate and educator Aubrey Noronha via Zoom discussing how best to combat racism around them. This was our second session with Aubrey and he is helped raise our awareness of our own biases and how we can commit to fighting racism we encounter. #ctrmanyandone

Buddy classes are a staple throughout the building here at EGSS. Today, one of the grade two French classes came together with their grade four buddies and worked on their oral French language development by playing various games. There was lots of smiles and a ton of vocabulary development!!

We are lucky enough today to have all our students participating in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Throughout the day all our students will spend time in silent prayer in the library in front of the consecrated host. Father Troy was also able to spend an hour with us so that some of our students could have the sacrament of reconciliation. #egssfaith

As a part of their Social Studies curriculum and learning about the various regions in Canada, our grade fives today participated in a Zoom all about Prince Edward Island straight from the Anne Of Green Gables Museum in Cavendish.

This Tuesday our grade six classes walked down to the town hall and spent some time doing a mock council meeting in chambers. It was a great learning experience for them.

Today we celebrated International Wheelchair Day and were lucky enough a former Holy Trinity Academy graduate and Paralympic medalist, Zak Madell in the school to talk about his life journey and celebrate his successes!

The grade two’s set the record this morning on building the biggest snowman. As the day continued more classes added on and it ended up looking more like a fort or tower. There were some other great snowmen out there as well. It made for a lot of fun at recess but hopefully that will be our last snowfall until next fall!

Today was our first day of our spring book fair. Classes circulated through the book fair all day seeing all the new books that are available. The book fair is open until noon on Thursday (and until 4:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday) so come on in and check it out.

Being involved in School Council is a great way to have input on decisions related to your child's education. It would be great to have a big turn out at our last meeting of the year.

The calendar may say May but it definitely looks more like December! Hopefully the snow doesn’t last too long and the students will definitely enjoy playing in the snow at recess today.

It was also great to have so many students at Friday’s performance to seat people and to serve treats during the intermission.

Our drama students wowed the crowd on Friday night with an amazing performance of Annie Jr. Here are some pictures from backstage of Friday night.

On Friday some of our English grade four classes had a writing workshop session over Zoom with Isabelle Ackroyd as a part of Litcon 2022. They really enjoyed it and a ready to jump into writing some new stories this week.

Here’s another video from this morning’s Annie presentation to students… the song we all know, It’s a Hard Knock Life.

For a sneak peak into tonight’s big performance of Annie here is a short video from this morning’s dress rehearsal. Tickets are still available from the office. The students have done an amazing job getting ready and this hard work has really paid off.

Look who is here bright and early this morning… the Scholastic Book Fair truck! Our second book fair of the year kicks off on Monday; there are sure to be some amazing books for sale. The book fair is open to parents visiting the school as well!

The mayor of Okotoks, Tanya Thorn, was in the school today talking to our grade six students about municipal government as a part of their Social Studies curriculum. They learned all about the roles of the mayor and how a local government works. Next week they will head downtown and spend some time in council chambers.

It has been an exciting week in Madame Riley’s kindergarten class this week. So far there have been 12 new additions to her room… all baby ducklings! The kids have been over the moon! (and they have had quite a few visitors as well.)

This was a big week with lots of events going on around our school! One particular event was.... MR. LAVERY TURNED 50 THIS WEEK! The students had so much fun singing to him. Some kids even dressed like him! Happy Bday Mr. Lavery!

Don't forget! We are holding an info night TONIGHT at 6 pm in the gym for all of our new families. We hope to see you there!