Category Archives: School Sporting Events

Indoor Track Meet Fun!

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson had it’s annual Intramural Track Meet on Friday and the students participated in relays showing off their running, balancing, throwing and agility skills while competing for house points.
Division 8 did an awesome job in all events and were great cheer leaders for their team mates! Click on the smileys to see us in action!!

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Cross Country Intramurals 2019

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 participated in our annual Cross Country competition on Thursday, October 3rd. Students ran around the whole block, ending with a sprint towards the finish line at our playground. Division 8 had lots of fun racing for the 1st time against other grade 3s and all did an awesome job!

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TERRY FOX RUN 2019

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson students participated in our 30th annual Terry Fox Run on Fri. Sept. 20th. After one week of fundraising, bringing in Toonies for Terry & collecting pledges, we raised an incredible amount of money for the Terry Fox Foundation!
Way to go Nelson!! We are the 2nd highest fundraising elementary school in Burnaby with fundraising totals over the last few years being:
2015 ~ $1,967 2016 ~ $2, 200
2017 ~ $2, 802 2018 ~ $2, 023
Nelson students will find out what their fundraising total this year is soon and will be rewarded for all their hard work!

CLICK on the pic above to see runners in action!

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Toonies for Terry

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson’s Terry Fox run will take place Friday at 1:45pm. Please join us at 1:30 for a short assembly to remember Terry, a warm up and then off on our run!
All this week Nelson students and teachers have been challenged to bring in at least one toonie and have the fundraising goal of $2,500, topping last year’s fundraising total of $2, 029.75

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Terry Fox T-shirts!

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Dear Nelson families,
As part of our fundraising for The Terry Fox Foundation, starting next week there is an opportunity for students and their family members to purchase Terry Fox t-shirts in order to have them to wear on our school run day on Friday, September 20th.
The design is shown above and is black with rainbow lettering.
Youth shirts are $15 and adult shirts are $20.
ADULT DRY-FIT OPTION IS SOLD OUT.
SIZING CHART for Dry-Fit t-shirts
There is no shipping or tax and 75% of the price of every shirt sold benefits cancer research.
If you are interested, please have your order submitted to Miss Watt by Monday, September 16^th. CASH ONLY.
Thank you so much for your support!

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Sports Day is Coming…❄️

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

We met with our Grade 6 & 7 buddies this week to put together the Sports Day banners and tally the amount of banner squares each House Team created. Every square equals one point and every point counts on the big day! 3 more days!!

Click HERE for a closer look.

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Sports Day Spirit Days

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Sports Day is next Friday, June 7th! Each day students will have an opportunity to wear a house colour to earn points for their House Team. I can’t wait to see the sea of colours and feel the excitement of Sports Day grow during the week!
Go Megalodons Go!!

Monday ~ GOLD DAY!Tuesday ~ BLUE DAY!
Wednesday ~ RED DAY!Thursday ~ GREEN DAY!

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BOWLERAMA 2019

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Mr. Gurniak & his students put on another fun filled BOWLERAMA!!
After a week of practice we participated in the official event & had a blast knocking down those pins! Click on the bowler below to see pictures of us bowling!

Check out our top scorers!!!

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Speed Demons 2019

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 participated in our annual Speed Demons competition this Thursday afternoon. Division 8 had lots of fun racing against other grade 3s and all did an awesome job! Click on the runner below to see everyone fly!

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Terry Fox Total!!

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Yay Nelson!! I have just received word of our grand total for our Terry Fox Run in September. A big thank you to our top fundraisers this year: Kelsey from Ms. Marino’s class, Rowan from Mrs. Heighton’s class, Tessa from Ms. Gatenby’s class and Dakota from Miss Tsakalos’ class!
As for our school total…Drumroll please…