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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 7, 2014.
McKenna Batsone,
Paige Walsh and Bridgett Sparkes wearing their anti-bullying day t-shirts. The
girls' slogans were featured on the t-shirts.
Benjamin
Bellows-Davis with his mom during our Book Fair family night last week.
This week is Milk Spirit Week. To celebrate
classes made special announcements from the media centre of milk facts, songs,
and skits. Today we are having a Moo Off in the gym!
Last week Father Roche celebrated Mass with us
in our chapel on Thursday and again on Friday at All Hallows. Afterwards he
visited classes to show us some amazing magic tricks!
This week our school is hosting the Grade 5
Girls’ Western Provincial Basketball Tournament. It started on Tuesday with a
game against Sacred Heart and will finish on Sunday. Congratulations to the
girls on winning the first game.
The grade 6 prefects for Mrs. Hodder’s
kindergarten class hosted a bake sale on Tuesday to purchase a fish tank and
fish for the kindergarten students. Thank you to everyone who baked cookies or
purchased them.
Last Friday Ms. Jenny Wadden and Mr. Brian
Hancock presented to our grade 3, 4, and 6 classes on energy conservation as
part of our Spotlight on Savings grant.
We attended Mass this week on Wednesday instead
of Friday to celebrate Ash Wednesday. On Tuesday our school hosted a pancake
breakfast for Shrove Tuesday. It was delicious! Thank you to Mrs. King, Mrs.
George, Mme LaChance, Ms. Park, Mrs. McCarthy, Mme Ryan, Ms. Scott, and Ms.
Victoria White, Western Coordinator for the Kids Eat Smart Breakfast Program,
for helping to make pancakes and serve our students and families.
On Saturday the Junior High students will be
going to the National Geoscience and Engineering Month Bridge Building
Competition to test their Popsicle stick bridges. It will begin at 10 am inside
the mall in front of Target.
This
week our ITV News reporters are: Alessandra LeBlanc, Douglas MacKenzie, Gina
Spencer and Jack Ryan.
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| Stars of The Week |
We would like to congratulate the Junior High
Girls’ basketball team who played against Stephenville Middle School in a very
exciting game on Friday. Maria Reynolds was the top scorer with 21 points. She
led the team in a one point win.
Congratulations to Clare Coleman who was the
player of the game in the opening game of the Grade 5 Girls’ Western Provincial
Basketball Tournament on Tuesday. Congratulations to Makenzy Bishop and Emma
Doman who were the top scorers with 16 and 14 points
We would like to congratulate our Winter
Carnival Spelling Bee participants. In grade four they were Ahmna Ahmad and
Jerico San Jose – they were both amazing! Amna got first in her grade and
Jerico was very close. For the grade five category Samuel Michael and William
Bennett represented our school. They both did splendid. Madison Noel and
William Bruce-Robertson represented our school for the grade six category- they
were spectacular. We would like to say
way to go for putting so much work into the spelling bee.
Special
thank you to Lily Smallwood who made a donation to the breakfast program this
week on Wednesday in Chapel. Lily made robots out of cans and sold them at the
Wonderful Fine Market on Saturday.
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| Class News |
The junior kindergarten classes are learning
about good nutrition and doing activities about lions and lambs. Ms. Perrett
and Ms. Simms class would like to thank Jeff Murphy of Safe Guard for doing a
sanitization and purification of their classroom.
Report cards go home on Monday and parent teacher night will be Tuesday night from 7-8:30 pm.
Mme. Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class
is all decorated for St. Patrick`s Day. They are busy painting rainbows and
singing leprechaun songs. They have started a new unit on objects and
materials.
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is very
excited about getting their new fish. They are learning about rules in social
studies and are learning subtraction in math. They enjoyed the transplanting
session last Friday for their classroom garden with Ms. Karen Kennedy from the Department
of Agriculture.
Ms. Parsons’s Kindergarten English class is starting
some St. Patrick`s Day activities. They are still learning addition and are
starting some new activities in social studies.
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is learning
about St. Patrick`s Day. They really enjoyed the pancake breakfast on Tuesday.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class has
learned about the 17 kinds of penguins and are every excited about doing
research on their favourite kind. They are learning about Lent in religion
class and enjoyed eating pancakes with all their friends on pancake day. They
enjoyed the transplanting session last Friday for their classroom garden with
Ms. Karen Kennedy from the Department of Agriculture.
Ms. Park’s grade two class is doing research to
find a recipe that involves adding or removing heat in science class. They are
learning about long nouns in language arts. This week their student of the week
is Cole.
Mme. LaChance’s grade two and three French
Immersion class wrote a lot of negative sentences this week. Je ne suis pas un elève
(I
am not a student). Ce n’est pas mon école (It is not my school). Je ne suis pas
joyeux (I am not happy). Ce n’était pas une bonne semaine (So it was not a
great week)!
Mrs. Foley’s grade three and four class would
like to congratulate Amna Ahmad and Jericho San Jose on the spelling bee. Their
classroom garden is growing well. They are excited to see the fruits and
vegetables of their labour. They enjoyed the transplanting session last Friday
for their classroom garden with Ms. Karen Kennedy from the Department of
Agriculture.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class enjoyed
the book fair a lot! We would like to thank the people who attended the
spelling bee and also say good job to grade 5 students Samuel Michael and
William Bennett and grade 6 students William Bruce-Robertson and Madison
Noel. Today they are starting the Great
Pencil Challenge!
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class is
starting to learn about probability in math. They are preparing to create their
own probability problems in class. On Saturday they will test their model
bridges at the Corner Brook Plaza.
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| Coming Up |
Report cards go home on Monday and parent teacher night will be Tuesday night from 7-8:30 pm.
School will be closed on Monday, March 17.
