September News
September we welcomed all our Eagles back to the school! It was amazing to see our halls filled with students who were eager to visit with their friends and meet their new teachers. The staff were elated to be back in the classroom teaching and learning with their students. Overall it has been a great start to the year. September brought some changes prompted by the Covid-19 re-entry to schools on how to keep staff and students safe in school. We have implemented many safety procedures and guidelines to make return to school as safe as possible. We have organized our students into larger cohorts, modified our daily timetable to stagger the numbers on our playground, and added plenty of signage and visual supports to help maintain social distancing.
Our students have been amazing at mask wearing during transition times and in common spaces. We are so proud of how our Eagles have adapted to all these changes and continually remember to wash their hands. Another big change is the self screening for symptoms and the isolation periods. We appreciate the challenges our families are facing with these requirements for when our students have symptoms. We thank you for all that our parents/guardians are doing at home to monitor the health of the child(ren) and keeping them at home when ill. We will continue to work hard to support our students learning at home when they are sick to ensure that they keep pace with the learning in the classroom. Home and school are working as a team and we will continue to support one another throughout the school year.
While there have been many changes, we have also tried to keep some things consistent. We have started our kindness challenges by being the “i” in kind, held a virtual welcome back assembly, celebrated Terry Fox with our run/walk and wore orange to show that #everychildmatters. Eddie the Eagle (school mascot) has made his come back to school handing out the prizes for our Fun-day Friday trivia challenges. Our students have been learning the school expectations through our code of conduct and practicing their WITS to solve social conflicts. Mrs. Shihinski has started up her mobile library and the students are so excited to see all the new books she got in over the summer.
As September comes to an end, we wanted to remind all our families how to keep up to date with our school events and important dates. In an effort to cut down on paper use and handling
this school year, we will not be sending home paper calendars. Instead, all our events and important dates will be listed on our school webpage calendar located at https://egw.hpsd.ca/. Another place that we post all our events and important dates is on our School Facebook Page. Please follow us and enjoy all the pictures/videos celebrating our students and staff!
It has been a great start and we look forward to another year of learning and growing here at EGW. As Eagles, we SUCCEED!