News Archive

Yesterday was our first popcorn day and it was a huge success! Our division one students purchased over 600 bags of popcorn. Don’t worry grade 4, 5 and 6, your first day will be happening shortly after the Easter break. A huge thank you to the parent volunteers who help out with this! The money raised helps fund shirts for when the grade sizes go to camp at the end of June.

Our teachers love to learn from each other and last week, our french immersion team got together to collaborate and learn about strategies to improve oral language in french in a social setting. The teacher leaders even put together a box of resources for each grade. So inspirational!

Our grade 6s are hosting a popcorn day for division one today and it is a big deal around here! Division two will have their day coming soon. A big thank you goes out to our volunteers who help to make this day happen. Thanks for POPPIN in! We couldn't do this without you!

Some video of the division two stations of the cross put on by the grade 5s.

Our amazingly talented grade 5s led us in a music filled stations of the cross. This is always such a powerful presentation in our school and it was so nice to have parents join us and have all of division two in the gym together in prayer.

The grade two students led us in our division one Stations of the Cross on Tuesday. It was a great way to highlight Holy Week here in the school.

We have authors amongst us!! And they are already starting in grade 2! Today, I was visited by Dawson, Jazzy Jaz, Matilda, Timmy, Cassidy (Casseroni) from Mlle Janes' class with their very own books they wrote. They have written so many books and are now sharing it with the entire school. They also love to sticker their faces to showcase that they are authors too! Keep em coming authors!

"Hey Google...ask Samantha to play the Weekend's song called Save Your Tears For Another Day on the piano!!" How lucky are we that we get to be serenaded by real musicians in our foyer! What a start to our Friday!

Our grade 2 classes spent a little time this morning getting ready for their Stations of the Cross Liturgy next week. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday this weekend. Our grade twos will lead our division one liturgy on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and our grade fives will lead our division two liturgy on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. Both liturgies will take place in the gymnasium.

Father Troy visited the grade ones to discuss Easter and to answer questions related to: Why it is called Good Friday – when it doesn’t seem like a good day? Why people didn’t like Jesus - when he seemed like a good guy? And… why did Jesus have to die anyway??? Father Troy welcomed the kids to ask questions about Jesus. It was an absolutely wonderful time to be able to spend with Father Troy and learn from his expertise.

This morning, some of our grade five and six students took part in a national math contest called Mathematica Centrum. They really buckled down and concentrated. Hopefully the hard work they have put in practicing over the last month will really help. We will get the results back in early June, so stay tuned!

A busy day at Good Shepherd today as our grade sixes held a basketball tournament in the gym. There were three courts playing at a time and games went straight from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The students showed some great sportsmanship and really had a lot of fun.

It is Poisson D'Avril in Kindergarten! Here are Mme Riley's kindy kids from Friday. For April Fools, she played a trick on them to have a « flood drill ». They all took off their shoes and socks, rolled up their pants, and stood on their chairs!! They thought it was so funny that she got them with her prank!

EGSS offers Nature Kindergarten in both french immersion and english programs and our kiddos love learning outside. Here are some photos from last week from Mme Riley's and Mme Killam’s class. They were learning about looking after the earth - cleaning garbage, having nature noticings, writing our names with pine cones! In our Nature Kindergarten program, we do all sorts of learning of the curriculum using nature as our classroom.

We had our first school assembly where parents were able to attend yesterday afternoon and it was great to see so many smiling faces. The grade fours shared two of the amazing things happening in their rooms right now - a dinosaur scavenger hunt and their grade 4 book battle.

This week in Phys. Ed. the school is participating in a skipping challenge called Jump Rope Ninja. As they complete goals they are able to progress from a white belt all the way up to a black belt. Students are really motivated to improve and are having a lot of fun with it.

As a part of their Social Studies curriculum, the grade 4s this week are learning about Alberta’s fossil history. The teachers set it up as a scavenger hunt and the kids are having a blast.

On Thursday, March 24th from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. we will he having our second round of Parent-Teacher Interviews. These will take place both in person and online. If you have not yet signed up you can do so through the Conference Manager software which you access through the parent portal. If you need any assistance please call Desiree Chimera here at the school.

The crowd also had an amazing time at the game today!