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Fun and Learning in December at DAF

December 2

Term 2 starts

New exploratory classes!
Grade 7 eat in the cafeteria
Grade 6 eat in the open area
Grade 8s will be eating in their clasrooms.
New Fox Force Jobs!!

December 2- December 18th

Classroom door decorating contest

December 5

Grade 7 bowling. Each class goes for an hour during the school day

December 6

Report Cards emailed home and sent home with our students

December 10

Grade 6 Math Carnival

December 11

Pizza hot lunch- preordered

December 12

Grade 8 classes go bowling during the school day

December 12

Grade 8 ski trip interest meeting at lunch

December 13

School Dance during last period

December 16-19

Winter themed activities will be planned for this week. Please check back here in a week to see more details that are currently being planned by our TEAMS class.

December 16

DAF Band Christmas Concert at 7pm

December 18

Lethbridge Astronomy Planetarium presentation for grade 6s 12:10-3:20

December 19

Pancake and sausage breakfast in the morning

December 20- January 5

No school for staff or students

January 6

Back to school

Report Card

Our students are doing amazingly and we can not wait to share the news! Our report cards are coming out on December 6th. Due to the postal strike we will be emailing all report cards and sending them home with each child. Please make sure to ask your child for their report card on Friday December 6.

November Pictures

Our Logic and Strategy class went to Lethbridge to a break out rooms

The school purchased new snowshoes for our studnents in Ecology Exploration, Outdoor Education and our Physed classes.

Our grade 6 TEAMS class raised over $800 for Lost Paws

Our Entrepreneurship class trained studnents in budgeting, advertising and purchasing so they could start their own business in our halls at the end of the term.

Some of our students went to a Women in Agriculture presentation at the Lethbridge Polytechnic

Our Remembrance Day winners

Our Ecology class hiking by Helen Schular in Lethbridge

Our grade 7 and 8 Cardboard boat racing teams. They competed against other schools from across Southern Alberta.

DAF Grade 8 Ski Trip

We are excited to announce our second annual Grade 8 ski trip at D. A. Ferguson School! We will be having an unforgettable ski trip to Castle Mountain on January 23rd, 2025. This promises to be a fantastic opportunity for our students to enjoy winter sports, build camaraderie, and create lasting memories.

More detailed information, including the itinerary, packing list, and any required forms, will be sent to you in the coming weeks. Please be on the lookout for additional communications as we finalize the trip details.

Alberta Education Results Report

What a Great Year!!

The Alberta Education Results Report is in and DAF knocked it out of the park. Consistently in almost all categories we scored in the highest category for Student Learning Engagement, Citizenship, Educational Quality, Welcoming and Caring, Access to Supports and Services and Parental Involvement as well as maintaining acceptable standards in PAT scores. Please click on this link if you'd like to see our great results!

Athletic Department

Athletic Calendar

Here is a link to our athletic calendar

This year, we are proud to announce that we have not one, but two girls' teams and two more boy's team competing in Tier 2 as well as our grade 6 teams, demonstrating the growing interest and participation in girls' and boys' basketball at our school. We are also very excited to announce our brand new reversable jerseys!

In our ongoing commitment to providing opportunities for all students, we are excited to share that our grade 6 students are practicing for a new Tier 3 league. This league aims to offer more playtime, a strong focus on developmental programming and foster a love for the game among students who are passionate about basketball. We believe that the inclusion of a Tier 3 league will not only enhance skill development but also contribute to a sense of community and belonging.

We encourage you to come out and support our teams during their games. Your presence in the stands makes a significant difference and boosts the morale of our student-athletes. Together, let's make this basketball season memorable for our students!

Huge thank you goes out to all of our coaches who are supporting our students so we can have teams as well as our Athletic Directors for organizing everything and our parents and community for getting our students to games and cheering on our teams.

DAF Curling Team

Mrs Andrea Makarchuk and Mrs Lori Pickerell take our students down to the curling club on Mondays from 3:30-5:00 for our curling team practices.

Volleyball Champs

Our boys won second place in Southern Alberta Zone play offs at the beginning of the month

Fox Clubs

Mr Fuentes has started up our games club. If you are a gamer and would like to connect with other kids from the school, play our Nintendo Switch on the big screen, VR, join in our chess games, ping pong, foozeball or many other board games come on out on Thursday after school from 3:30-4:30.

Mrs J Wilson has started Art club up again on Mondays from 3:30-4:30. All skill levels are welcome. Stop by Mrs. Judy Wilson's classroom at the end of the day on Monday if you would like to let your creative juices flow.

Mrs Jensen has started cheer club at DAF! Cheer will be meeting on Mondays at lunch and from 3:30-4:30. If you are interested in joining the cheer club please come on out!

Choir

Mr Garner has started a DAF choir! Our choir meets on Tuesdays after school and is getting ready to perform at the Kiwanis Christmas Concert on December 11th at 7pm.

Rubiks Cube Club

Our Rubiks Cube club meets on Thursdays at break time. We have a few faithful club members who meet and compete every week.

Chess Club

We have a chess club that meets on Thursdays at lunch time. Our club members are getting taught how to play chess and having some intense competitions.

Other Important Information

Swag orders

Order here for DAF swag

Snack Shack

Are you tired of making lunches? Have we got a deal for you. The DAF Snack shack offers hot dog, corn dogs, taquito, and submarine sandwich meal deals (main course plus a juice box and a bag of chips) for $5.00 each day. Lunch orders are taken at first break and prepared before lunch time. We also offer bottled drinks, assorted chips, corn nuts and chocolate bars each day. Prices vary between one dollar and two dollars. The prices are set to be as low as possible and the money we make from our snack shack goes into buying the free DAF shirts we offer kids at the beginning of each school year.

Hot Luches

Some of our wonderful moms have grouped together to offer our students hot lunches for our students every other week. Please watch your emails and School Cash Online so you can sign up for hot lunches for your child.

Hot Lunch orders for January and February are now open!

Order Period: December 3rd - December 17th
Payment Method: School Cash Online

Don't forget to place your orders and make payments before the deadline. Late orders will not be accepted.

Thank you for your continued support!

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.