We held our Terry Fox assembly and run this afternoon.  The Grade 7’s put on a wonderful assembly which consisted of: a slide show; a video clip of Terry’s Marathon of Hope; student speeches about Terry; the whole student body singing an inspirational song; and the announcement of the poster contest and which division raised the most money.

Guess what?!?!?  Our division (5) raised the most money of all the other divisions.  We raised $76.00!!!!!!!  We are all very happy and excited to have been able to raise this money in support of cancer research in Terry’s memory.  I send a HUGE THANK YOU to all the parents who helped their child understand and appreciate the importance of charity for such a worthy cause!!!

We are looking forward to a fun – and sunny – day!

This is just a reminder that our class will be visiting McGill Library this Thursday morning.  Please remember to send your child’s library card with them to school on this day.

We have a confirmed time for the assembly tomorrow.  It will be right after Recess (approximately 10:50 a.m.).  Students will be called to the gym for the presentation of the cheque and then to do their performance.  Parents are very welcome to come to see this exciting opportunity that our students have to perform for a television station.  We all look forward to seeing the final clip that they produce and air on their television show.  We will let you know when that date will be so we can all set our TV’s to ‘record’.

This Friday (March 30th) Breakfast Television will be visiting our school to film our Fine Arts assembly, interview a few Grade 7 students, and look at some art samples on the various class bulletin boards.  They will produce a 3 minute video which will be shown on their TV show at a later date.  You will be notified of the date of this airing when we know.

They will also be giving us our ‘winnings’ from the contest that we entered.  This money will be used to further our great Fine Arts programme.

All parents are welcome to attend our assembly on Friday.  I will let you know the exact time when the details are finalized.   This will hopefully be done by tomorrow.

This Wednesday (February 29th) Rosser is participating in this national anti-bullying day.  This campaign began in response to a situation in Nova Scotia a few years ago (2007) when a boy was bullied by some students who targeted him because he was wearing pink.  Two other boys got several other students involved and they all wore pink shirts to school to stand up to the bullies.

The pink shirts that were ordered through the school were sent home with students today.  Don’t forget to wear them (or another pink shirt) on Wednesday to show that bullying is not acceptable.

We are looking forward to a fun event this Friday afternoon!  We will be doing our jump event with our buddies in Division 3.

Please send in your completed donation forms for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.  The deadline is next Wednesday, February 22nd.  If you have chosen the on-line option please indicate this by writing this on the donation form and returning it to school.

The red hearts that were sent home need to be completed and returned by this Friday.

Thank you.