Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Pickets Today

Due to the picketing today we have had to postpone locker sign-up and timetable distribution.  We will ensure that students are given ample opportunities to get this organized once the strike is over.

Grade 8 students, in particular, will be provided with a thorough orientation since these students missed out on this activity in June.

Hang in there everyone.

I am hoping that there will be some productive dialogue between Education Minister, Peter Fassbender, and BCTF President, Jim Iker, today.

We are trying to stay hopeful and optimistic!

All the best.

Mr. H

Monday, August 25, 2014

Locker Day-- Grade 12s & More

We had our Grade 12 Locker Day and timetable distribution today. Things went very efficiently so we contacted Grade 10 students to come in and we had a good turnout.

Tomorrow, the plan is to have our Grade 11s in-- hopefully we can get most done in the morning. We are inviting our Grade 9 and 10 students to come in the afternoon.  We are aware that pickets will be up on Wednesday so we wanted to get most of this organized before then.

We plan on bringing our Grade 8 students in for their orientation and lockers at another time so we can spend some time getting them use to the changes of high school. I will do a synervoice call-out when we set the date and time for this.

Thanks for your patience.

Mr. H


Thursday, August 21, 2014

Thoughts of Staff & Students Returning


I have been back in the office, the pat two days,  preparing for the start-up of the school year.  It was a difficult year-end and I am hopeful that things will get back to normal soon.

I ran into a parent the other day and she indicated that her son was looking at curriculum material that can be found on the BC Ministry of Education website-- a brilliant idea.  This is something others may want to encourage.

I do hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather that we are having.

Hopefully things will get back to normal soon.

I will try to keep parents/guardians and students up to date regarding our school start-up.

We are planning on having locker distribution next week (9:30 am -12 noon & 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm).   The schedule will be as follows:

Monday       Grade 12
Tuesday       Grade 11
Wednesday  Grade 10
Thursday      Grade 9
Friday           Grade 8

For your information, our counselors will not be in so course changes will not be made until the strike is over.

Have a great day and enjoy all that the Sunshine Coast has to offer.

Mr. H