November 29: Citadel Trip for Elementary

December 1: French Fries Hot Lunch

December 7: Locco Burro Hot Lunch

December 14: Booster Juice and Hot Dogs Hot Lunch

December 21: Christmas Concert - Innisfree Islanders present Survival Santa

December 23- January 7: Winter Break

January 29: Grade 9 Science PAT

January 31- February 4: Semester Break

In Innisfree School, I am currently programming with every grade from 1-9 and will continue to do so year round. In mygrade 1/2/3 class, we are wrapping up with our “Worry Woos” program, where the students have enjoyed getting to meet new characters every week. In my grade 4/5/6 class, we are wrapping up with our “Merrell Strong Kids” grade 4 program

where the students just finished creating Goal Setting Vision Boards and we will be starting a new program on December 1st. In my grade 7 class, we just finished our “Random Acts of Kindness” program and will be starting a new program on December 1st as well. Lastly, in my grade 9 class we are wrapping up with our “I’ve Got This” program and the students just completed an Egg Drop activity in our last lesson, which was a huge hit with them, and they learned about risk and protective factors, after this program, they will continue on with the “Discovering Your Future” program. Overall, I have very close relationships with the staff and students in Innisfree and VIBE is very appreciated and loved by the students. Even in the last few months, there have been noticeable improvements in several of the students' behaviors, work ethic and use of positive coping skills.- Brooklyn, VIBE Coach

We will be having our annual Christmas Concert on December 21 at 7:00 pm. Students have started practicing singing and we've organized roles for the concert!

An opportunity that may be of interest to some families!

Here are some upcoming opportunities for parents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pFX9Ap7120JIzi3BlTyCIdeRKCgh3wQV/view

With the help of the A+ for energy grant our students will work on passion projects every Friday in periods ⅞. They will apply learning from ELA, Math, and Science to develop project ideas, make project proposals, and enact their project ideas. Our secondary groups have started already. Elementary is still planning what this will look like for them.

Our sewing group is underway, making a variety of bags. Stay tuned for information in regards to purchasing. Thank-you Mrs. Foyster for sharing your time and knowledge with our students!

Another group is looking at whether high-efficiency irons and hair dryers are saving us energy. This group has begun to do hair and measure energy consumption.

A few groups have expressed interest in 3-D printing. One group has worked with Mrs. Huppertz and Mr. Wasylciw to plan and design a watering system for the greenhouse. We have received our 3D printers and printed a few items on them as a learning curve. The group has printed one of their fittings. Students are using tinkercad to design their products.

Another group is investigating efficiencies in our school building and the impacts of people's behavior on our energy consumption. This group is working on writing their letter to Buffalo Trail maintenance on what they believe could have the most significant impact on our school building being more energy efficient in regards to drafts.

Our two other groups are actively working on building e-bikes and energy-producing bikes for charging a phone. Another group has built a solar panel cell phone charger in the servery area.

Each group has been tasked with creating a presentation on their passion project to be able to share their results with the entire school and community.

Thank you to our community for the donations towards all of these projects, making our hopes of reusing old materials to engage in energy projects a reality.

Our next School Council meeting is December 5th (DATE CHANGE). Be sure to join us! We meet at 7:00 pm in the school gymnasium.

All of the minutes from our School Council meetings and the Principal Report are posted here soon after our meetings: https://delnorte.btps.ca/parents/school-council/meeting-minutes

There is still time to join us. The information for signing up is below!

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202.7AP Student Code of Conduct

Please read and review

Please see the most recent Newsletter from the board of trustees:

https://www.btps.ca/download/429578

Our administrative procedure for volunteers has been updated and volunteers now need a criminal record check. Volunteers will also need a vulnerable sector check if working with students alone or driving students as they will be alone together. The letter in support of your no-cost criminal record check can be found here: Letter

Check out our school website parent page for our new School Handbook. Please provide any feedback to Ms. Miller (rachel.miller@btps.ca): https://delnorte.btps.ca/parents

Make sure to continue to check out our school calendar here: https://delnorte.btps.ca/calendar

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