The Week Ahead- Jan 7-11

Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

My apologies for the late “Week Ahead” as we return to school but our student management system was taken off-line on Friday afternoon and not restored until this morning. I am going to try something slightly different for January and provide 2 weeks of information with each weekly email.

Purdy's Gift Basket Raffle

We are raffling off a Purdy’s Gift Basket to help raise funds for the Grade 6 Barkerville trip. Tickets are one for $2 or 3 for $5 and can be purchased at the office. The draw for the basket will be at our Christmas Concert on December 18.

Owl Pellet Fun

Hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo… who knows what the grade ones did on Monday, Dec. 10th? Mrs. Holloway’s class dissected owl pellets! Over the past month we have been learning a lot about owls. We have looked into their characteristics,

Sandra Northrup- One Woman Circus


Sandra Northrup was here to visit our school today to perform her One Woman Circus. She held workshops with Mrs. London’s, Mrs.

Student Vote

Classes from Mrs. London, Mrs. Barr, Mrs. Louie, Mrs. Lavoie and Mrs. Lee’s class participated in the municipal election on Thursday. Ambrose cast 718 votes for City Councillors and 269 votes for the School trustees.
The student results for Councillors were:
Trevor Bolin
Becky Grimsrud
Tony Zabinsky
Larry Evans
Lilia Hansen
Chuck Fowler
For Trustee’s the results were:
Bill Snow
Erin Evans
Helen Gilbert
Mrs.

Terry Fox Run Fundraising Event

Bert Ambrose Elementary hosted a school community Terry Fox Run event on September 28th.  We set our fundraising goal at $2000.  The students were given the incentives of  “Duct taping” Mrs. Watchel to the wall if we raised $1500,