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Robot Rumble
On Thursday, March 23, Alaric E. and Tarah T. made the long trek to Sask Polytechnic in Saskatoon for the Robot Rumble competition. This was attended by students from around the province. Although their bot came victorious in a limited number of competitive bouts, it was exciting to see the problem solving throughout the day and to watch the competitions as they unfolded.
Hopefully this will lead to a larger student robotics group in the future!
Francofièvre 2017
Les élèves de 8B-12B ont assisté à la Francofièvre à l’Université de Regina le 22 mars – un rassemblement de presque mille élèves de la province inscrits dans un programme français quelconque. Les élèves ont participé à une gamme d’activités lors de leur arrivée. Ensuite, ils ont assisté à une présentation divertissante d’improvisation et ensuite à la performance du groupe musical québécois Automat. Quel talent! Les élèves ont profité de cette expérience pour se divertir en français.
Read More»Lots of Socks- World Down Syndrome Day
Many ÉGS students and staff members
wore “lots of socks”March 21st to help raise awareness on World Down Syndrome Day.
Students wore mismatched socks, brightly colored socks, long socks, 3 socks (or EXTRA socks) for 3 chromosomes.
Geochallenge
Recently, students from grades 7 to 10 wrote the Canadian GeoChallenge quiz, which tests knowledge of geography, national resources and events such as past Olympics. The school’s overall winner turned out to be Alaric E. Alaric competed online against students across the country, but the results of the online competition are not yet known.
Mr. Simonsen
Félicitations Alaric!
2017-2018 School Year Calendar Feedback
Prairie South’s Calendar Committee has developed two calendars for the 2017-2018 school year, and we are now asking for feedback from parents and school-based staff who follow the school calendar.
As a school operating on an alternative calendar year, we want you to know that a draft alternative calendar will be provided once the main school year calendar is set.
Please click here to complete the survey,
Read More»Read Aloud Day at ÉGS
We would like to extend a huge thank you to the École Gravelbourg School Community Council for purchasing flashlights for the students to use during our Family Literacy Day reading event. It made reading together in the gym fun for students and gave it a very magical, calm atmosphere!
The “Smores” treats were also quickly devoured and much appreciated!
ÉGS Students and Staff
Community Support for Aaron
Aaron C., grade 3B student, is seriously ill. The students, staff and ÉGS parents have been keeping Aaron in our thoughts and working together to help Aaron and his family. Currently the family is away from work and home taking Aaron to and from his cancer treatments in Saskatoon. Student were encouraged to bring donations for two “Hats on for Aaron” hat day fundraisers. Parents from 3B also organized a fundraiser before the holidays.
Nutrition Program Receives Funding
Thank you to DuPont Pioneer for their donation of $1000 to help fund our Nutrition Program. On Wednesday, December the 7th, Mr. Cory Ells from DuPont Pioneer presented the cheque to our Nutrition Co-ordinators, Mme Anderson and Mrs. Lagassé.
Read More»Gift Card Fundraiser Success
Thank you to all who sold and/or purchased gift cards in November. A total of 866 cards were sold, for a total of $35350.00 in sales. As a result, $1689.84 was made by ÉGS. 20% of our student body participated. (Imagine if 50% of our student body participated!) Thank you so much to these students and their families!
Our top seller Callie H., who sold over $8000 in cards, received a $25 gift card as a small token of thanks.
Read More»Christmas Meal
A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who made our 4th Annual Christmas Lunch such a success! Your donations of time, food and money are greatly appreciated. I know the staff and students look forward to the Christmas lunch, and it couldn’t have been done without such dedicated volunteers. A special SHOUT OUT! to the 8/9 PAA class for peeling the potatoes, and setting up the chairs and tables, and to grade 10A Math class for taking them down.
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