News Archive

Students today are getting an amazing opportunity today to grow in their faith by spending time with Jesus. Twice a year we spend time in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament here at school. It is truly an uplifting experience that bring us all closer to God. #egssfaith #ctrfaith

Charlotte, Erin, Lily, Chanel, Glenys and Abigail have big dreams in this week's podcast episode. They are walking us through how to plan to make our dreams happen, where we can find our dreams, and how to beat that voice in your head that tells you you can't. This is a dreamy episode that is all about going for your dreams! Click below to listen or subscribe to us at Even If You Miss on Apple podcasts or Spotify. By the way...don't forget to leave us review.... https://blubrry.com/evenifyoumiss/82128621/even-if-you-miss-season-3-episode-3-dreamsgo-for-it/

As a school division, we are collecting gently used winter jackets, snow pants and boots to support Jacket Racket during the month of October. We are off to a great start here at Good Shepherd! If you have anything your children may have outgrown or something you as an adult no longer need please send it in so a family in need can make great use of it. Thanks so much in advance! #egsscares

What an amazing morning of Cross-Country for our students. Due to COVID we were unable to have a full after-school race but we wanted to make sure the students still had an opportunity to have an official race. It was great weather and we had over 300 students running which was amazing to see.

Our Even If You Miss podcast is back up and running for our third season!!! In our premiere 3rd season episode, Cade, Addie, Justine, and Addison walk us through how kids can inspire the world. They teach us some really unique ways to build up our hope in hard times. You can listen here or subscribe to Even If You Miss on Apple podcasts or Spotify. https://blubrry.com/evenifyoumiss/81300248/even-if-you-miss-season-3-episode-1-lend-a-handnot-a-fist/ #healthyschoolsctr

Our school will be having activities all next week to honour September 30th as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As September 30th is now a day in which students will be out of school, we would like students to wear orange on September 29th.

Tomorrow morning, our school will be having our annual Terry Fox Run and Walk. We are encouraging students to bring a twonie (or other donation) for the Canadian Cancer Society. Just as a reminder, please complete the online permission form via School Cash so students can leave the school grounds to go on the class run/walk.

An absolutely beautiful afternoon for our first Grade 5-6 rugby practice. We know that as more permission forms are filled out online we will have even more people next week.

It’s federal Election Day and our grade six classes are participating in Student Vote. It will be interesting to see how closely their results mirror what is happening nationally.

Yesterday was our last hot lunch of the year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers who have been so giving of their time this year to help make this year as normal as possible. It was great that we could continue having a hot lunch program - we just had to make a few adjustment to make everything COVID safe. Our volunteers this year definitely went above and beyond.

The grade 6s had their grad ceremony today as well! We sure are going to miss these kids! We wish them all the best.

We had our annual year end awards and mass via Zoom today. We celebrated our amazing students for Good Shepherd Lives in Me awards, Wade Kientz and Michael Paul awards, citizenship awards, and the sacraments.

We had two more groups down in the valley yesterday on walking field trips. Our kindergarten classes had a fabulous morning exploring and ended up walking over 8 km - wow! Our grade three French Immersion classes were exploring for their rocks and minerals wrap up and had a great picnic.

Last but not least….Mr Kommes!

Mr Prescott seems to be a pro at this!

Mrs Hempel’s turn!

Second was Mr. Bassett!

Mr Lavery was up first!

Here are the pictures from Gunk the Teacher Fundraiser that happened yesterday! What a way to end the year! Special thanks goes to Abby, Ashton, Bukhosi, Levi, and Tyler for organizing and spearheading this whole event and fundraiser. They put in hours of work organizing and setting up the fundraiser, writing and doing announcements to pump up the event, putting on school wide challenges, making videos, writing the scripts for the event, setting up and getting ready for the event, and so much more. You are true leaders and difference makers and we are honored to have you lead EGSS! And yes....the slime was epic! Stay tuned for videos!