Jonathan Lapierre

We’ve had a busy few weeks with last week’s Ultimate tournament, the play, Science Alive’s return to our class for coding, and sports day tomorrow!

For those not coming to Camp Elphinstone, students will have many fun activities and some work to do with Ms Ng at school next week at Aubrey!

If you are coming to camp, the keys to remember:

Arrive at school for 7:45am on Monday.
Bring a sleeping bag and pillow.
Small towel.
Toothbrush & deodourant.
Weather-appropriate clothes and bathing suit for kayaking & optional swim.
Small bag to take out of larger bag for anything that shouldn’t go into the heat room (medications, camera, deodourant).

Remember – no snacks or phones including smart watches at camp! The other teachers and I will be posting lots of pictures from camp of all the kids!

The first photo below is a scale model of our solar system if the sun were the size of a tennis ball. Pluto would be over 450m away!

Hi Parents,

Just a quick update on the timing for The Little Mermaid.

Students have been asked to arrive at 6pmon Wednesday May 27 which is when doors open for parents. Students should come to the classroom and I’ll supervise them until it’s time for their performance.

Please ensure that all students have their required clothing for the show at school – It should be at school now and remain here until the play. The show begins at 6:30 and is about 70 minutes long.

Don’t forget we’ve got our full day Ultimate tournament the day before on Tuesday May 26th!

Also, some grade 7 parents have purchased hot lunch during our camp dates (June 10th). The best solution seems to be that we’ll put it aside to take home after we return from camp just a few hours later (just before 3pm on June 10th).  Cancelling the order gives you a credit on School Cash, but there aren’t any more orders this year so that’s only useful for those who have younger kids remaining at Aubrey.

Thanks!

JL

Hi Parents,

This list of upcoming activities was emailed out but I did not include the date of our Little Mermaid play. Please see below:

An electricity presentation tomorrow

Ultimate tournament May 26

Debates May 22 and 29

The Little Mermaid (Div 1 is Team Starfish and our evening performance is on Wed May 27th. Stay tuned with times, but expect students to be at school from 6:15 to 8:15pm on that date).

Sports day June 5th (dismissal at 12:30)

Viking for a day (afternoon) June 2nd.

Science Alive Coding June 2nd in the morning

Gr7 Camp June 8-10 (Gr6s come to school as usual)

Heritage Fair (June 17 in our class only this year)

MacMillan trip June 22nd

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