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Sports Day looked very different this year!

Our grade 6/7 classes created names for each house team based on the theme “The Future”.  Our teams are called:

• Red Lasers
• Golden Energy
• Blue Lightsabers
• Green Glitches

Our grade 7s planned stations for primaries and intermediates.  Mr. Kelsey took these and organized bins with the needed equipment for each station.  The bins were rotated through the cohorts and teachers sent the scores to Mr. Kelsey each week.  The final totals will be announced soon!

Thank you to Mr. Kelsey and to our 6/7 students for helping to make Sports Days happen in a new and creative way.

Yesterday we had an online workshop with the Burnaby Art Gallery.  We looked at artwork depicting architecture and different types of structures.  Each student received a collection of building materials to build individual projects. Some students pooled their resources to collaborate on bigger projects. Today we finished our structures and the students ingenuity and creativity was on full display!

Click the link to see the gallery of our projects:  Structures and Cities

We have plants growing in a tower garden which we are sharing with Division 1!  We have lettuce, basil, and cucumbers growing.  There is water with nutrients in the bottom, and the water cycles through at regular watering intervals.  The lights are on a timer as well.  We are hoping to have some veggies to harvest before the end of June.

Dear Families,

This week, we began a career research project.  Students have chosen a job or career they are interested in learning more about.  We will continue to work on this project over the next 2 weeks. As a part of this project, students are challenged to find a person working in their field of interest and find a way to interview them (phone, email, or Zoom/Facetime) to learn more about the benefits and challenges of their work.  Please ask your child about this project and, if necessary, help them to connect with someone to interview.  I am also happy to connect the students with an interviewee if I’m able!

The subcategories for their research are:

• I am interested in this career because…
• Education and Training
• Job Duties
• History
• Income
• Interesting Facts
• Tools of the Trade
• Special Career Traits
• Vocabulary

Some suggested interview questions are:

1. Why are you passionate about your job/ role?
2. What obstacles have you faced to get where you are today?
3. What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?
4. What parts of your job make you motivated to work and perform your best in this job/role?
5. What skills besides education do you think are required for this job?

Thanks for your support with this project!

-Mrs. Millar

Hi Skilled Sharks and families!

The grad committee has organized photo challenges for our grade 7 students.  The photos will be used in the yearbook!  There will be a new challenge each week which I will start posting here as well as Teams.  The first challenge ends today (reposted here from Teams)

This week, each student in our class wrote a reflection on how they are doing with their physical, emotional, and mental health.  We brainstormed lists for ourselves of what we need more of and less of to feel better. It was really interesting to read the students’ responses.  I think we can all relate to needing some of these!  We will try to work more of what we need into our days at school and home. Here is our compiled data!