Jonathan Lapierre

Subject: Update on the Gr 7 Krispy Kreme Fundraiser

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all of your support with selling Krispy Kremes! If you haven’t had a chance to yet, please spread the word with your friends, family and co-workers! It’s $15/dozen, and orders can be picked up on either May 1 or May 4. The class that sells the most boxes of donuts will win an ice cream social—a sweet reward for a great effort! Here are the current sales by class:

• Division 1: 14 boxes
• Division 2: 39 boxes
• Division 3: 16 boxes

If every family sells 5 boxes, we can achieve our fundraising goal! The deadline to order on Munchalunch is Apr 24. 

We will also be organizing an in-person sale at Kensington Plaza on Sunday, May 17. Please contact Jen Vissier or Leah Nguyen if you and your gr. 7 student will be available to help make posters or volunteer for a shift to help sell donuts.

Thank you for supporting our grads and making this both fun and impactful for the grade 7 students!

Hi parents,

I have noticed that the small paper showing the Math 8 Honours placement test date is wrong. The correct date for this second round of testing is Tuesday May 5th. They provided us with papers showing May 6th but this is incorrect.

The first round of the Math 8 Honours test is tomorrow (Apr 22nd). Both are on the 3rd floor of Burnaby North at 3:30pm.

Thanks,

J Lapierre

Hi everyone,

The timing with hot lunch and our trip to see the movie today wasn’t great.

Thankfully it’s Agra today which keeps much better than a burger. They will put it aside for us and we will pick it up to bring home at 3.

Also, below are two pictures from the Science Alive workshop we had before the break and our skating trip with Div 3!

Skating was a lot of fun and I’m proud of how many beginner skaters progressed! The photos were taken by students using a class camera.

Our speeches were fantastic this week and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished Science Fair projects on Monday! The fair is Tuesday but it’s best to bring them to school Monday if possible.

Hi Parents,

Running the Science Fair is new to us at Aubrey but many schools across BC run them and there are regional fairs for every region of BC. We originally chose our March 10 presentation date in order to nominate some winners to go on to the regional fair but I have since learned that they often fill up before March 10th.

In order to allow some students who wish to try going to the regional fair with judges and awards, students who are able to can show me an in-progress posterboard early next week (Monday or Tuesday ideally).

It’s a great experience, but keep in mind:
The fee for attending is $65 per project plus an additional fee per T-Shirt (optional). Parents will have to bring their child/project to the fair at UBC on Thurs Apr 9 starting at noon.
Parents register their child and input my email address so I can confirm their nomination.

A few students have expressed interest. If your child is nominated this week and you are willing/able, please register at: https://gvrsf.science-ation.ca/

More details can be found at: https://gvrsf.ca/2025-schedule/

Have a great weekend!

Hi Parents,

In the past couple weeks we’ve made some Japanese Daruma clay dolls along with our goals for the new year. The right eye is purposely left unpainted until the goal has been achieved.

Also, we built rockets today as a callback to our chemical reactions unit in term 1. Photos and a video are attached below.

In the next couple weeks our big tasks are speeches and science fair. The science fair project is another one that is primarily done at home. Students should be collecting data at this point and might need some support with this and with obtaining a tri-fold poster. Students should be able to explain the task and they have paper copies / descriptions of the task on Teams. Thank you!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSS2ODtfoqGszDF9goA51nwbNRJhDjvZ/view?usp=sharing

We just wrapped up a fun unit building popsicle bridges. Some of the bridges held over 80 lbs, which is over 100 times its own weight!

I hope everyone had a great winter break!

I have attached a few pictures from the pancake breakfast below

Thank you for the gifts; I hope the kids relayed that message home.

We’ve got another busy term with popsicle stick bridges, a chess tournament, and speeches coming up. I look forward to Term 2!

Hi parents,

We’ve had a busy and great couple weeks with the business fair and our trip to UBC with many parent drivers. A big thank you to them again!

I have attached some photos from both events below. The kids learned a ton and hopefully had lots of fun along the way.

We have one week until the UBC trip to two museums! Thank you for the parents who volunteered to drive. We will have the perfect amount of seats if everyone who indicated they could drive can still come. I will send emails to each of you to confirm tomorrow!

Also, I look forward to meeting many of you tomorrow at our Student Learning Conferences. I have some empty blocks so if our conversations go long we can always continue them during the next open slot or at another date. Please have your child attend with you to help with goal setting as we move into Term 2.

I have attached more photos from our two hikes below. These were taken and edited by students! I may have asked them to find cool mushrooms to photograph.

Thanks!