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Thank you to the students and staff who prepared a song or poem for our school wide assembly. Our trustee liaison, Stan Peterson, was so impressed with the performances, student behaviour and the whole assembly. Also thank you to Mrs. Phillips for organizing the lovely assembly. 

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. 

Presentations

Yale Secondary - Student Voice Inquiry

Students from Yale Secondary speak to trustees about their Student Voice inquiry journey over the last few years and their ideas for this school year.

All classes have been covering some very basic volleyball skills and Grade 5's had a chance to try games during the lunch hours. I think our record was six times over the net in one rally!

Coach Smith

Welcome to Kindergarten - Learn Through Play Issue 6 is now available. 

You may access all the WTK Family Resources on their website  www.welcome-to-kindergarten.ca

Here are some other resources that families might enjoy together:

We are always proud of our Sandy Hill students. This past month our students earned some wonderful compliments from the Mountain West photographer. When he came to take retake photos, he told us that the other Mountain West photographers were envious he was assigned to Sandy Hill because the students are so polite and kind. As well, Yukon Dan was a guest in our school for 2 days, presenting on gold mining to our Grade 5 students. Yukon Dan told us that Sandy Hill students are amazing and awesome and  he loves coming to Sandy Hill as a result.

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!

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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.