Report Cards/No school tomorrow

Report cards will be sent home today. Please ensure that envelopes are signed by guardians and returned to the school next week.

There is no school tomorrow, Friday, February 1.

Cell Phones

All grade 6 teachers met at the start of term 2 and have come to a consensus on a new cell phone policy for all grade 6 classrooms. Students will be asked to leave their cell phones at home, in their lockers or hand them in to the teacher at the start of class. If a teacher spots a student phone, it will be taken and returned at the end of the day. If there is a second offense the phone will be taken again and the parents/guardians will be contacted to come and retrieve the phone. This is in the continuing effort to make a welcoming and productive learning environment for all!

Your cooperation is appreciated. Please contact the school with any questions.

Ancient Greece

Today we began our new social studies unit on Ancient Greece! We learned our first three vocabulary words, Assembly, Ancient and Agora. Students were asked to answer the following questions in their journals:

How did men who were citizens participate in the democratic government in Athens?
What are the beliefs and values that shaped democracy in Athens?
What role did citizens play in Athenian democracy?
Why did each city in Ancient Greece have it's own style of government?
What is a city-state?

Quiz Monday!

We will have a quiz on Monday January 21, 2019. The quiz will be on the provincial government vocabulary words we have focused on this week in class. Below is a crossword puzzle that includes all the words and their definitions.

Referendum
Subsidy
Bill
Act
Political Party
Constituent
Constituency
Lieutenant Governor
Premier
Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)
Cabinet Minister
Constitutional Monarchy
Speech from the Throne


After the quiz next week we will begin out unit on Ancient Greece.