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This year, Sandy Hill students and staff are working on increasing student connectedness to school. One of the ways we are doing this is by having monthly assemblies where we focus on a character trait and then the following month, we recognize those students who have been nominated by their teacher for demonstrating that character trait in the last month. During the month of October we focused on Kindness and in November we will focus on Empathy. All students will have an opportunity to earn at least one brag tag during the school year.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Prime Minister's Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates exceptional educators across Canada. Since 1994, these awards have acknowledged over 1,800 outstanding educators who have gone above and beyond to create safe spaces for their students, continue to work hard to make learning fun and inspire the next generation to be bold innovators and creators.

So much fun was had at school on Halloween. First there was a school wide parade followed by a recess dance party  in the gym for the primary students! The weather held out and we hope everyone had a fantastic day!

Next is Funky Friday Dance Party - PAC fundraiser!

Respiratory season and fall immunizations guide brought to you by Fraser Health.

On Tuesday October 24th and Wednesday October 25th, Grade 5 students (and Grade 4's in Divisions 2 and 3) participated in a hands on presentation from Yukon Dan. Yukon Dan is a professional gold panner who taught the students how to pan for gold and separate minerals with magnets.  He also brought with him his extensive collection of gold related items and treated students to engaging and educational interactive discussion about "gold fever" in British Columbia.

The students thoroughly enjoyed his presentation and even got to take home a small souvenir from Yukon Dan. 

With Halloween around the corner, the Abbotsford School District would like to share some trick-or-treating tips and remind families and students about the importance of safety during this fun-filled day on October 31st.

Students are enjoying the sunny fall weather at recess playing in the leaves. Their goal today was to fill the hockey net with leaves but the wind presented them with a challenge.

Please remember to dress for the weather as not all days are bright and sunny and students will still go outside in the rain. 

The absolute best game in the universe especially when teaching noble minded player concepts. We are running some extra intramural dodgeball blocks for the older grades but all students have been playing during this gym unit. Next is volleyball!

The Abbotsford Board of Education regularly meets throughout the school year. Agendas and minutes from the public Board Meetings can be accessed through the District's Electronic School Board. Below is a summary of highlights from the meeting. 

Students shared a beautiful conversation about kindness and created their own kindness rock for our KINDNESS ROCKS garden. The rocks were placed by the trees by the bus look. We stretched that kindness muscle by leaving behind something for someone else - even though we wanted to take our rocks home.

Students were encouraged to: 

1. add to the garden if they could
2. take a rock if they were having a crummy day and needed some kindness
3. share a rock with someone they they recognized as upset or needing some kindness in their day