I had another good day today at Cleveland. A bit rainy, but we expect that here in North Vancouver. At least we did not have snow. Looking forward to more sunny days like this past Monday in our courtyard (picutre to the left).

We had our Virtue of the Month Assembly, and two of our grade 6 students (Avin and Iiona) were our MC’s for the event. Our main focus was on forgiveness, but we also spent some time on energy conservation, recycling, composting, fitness and the km club.

Jennifer (grade 7) led off the assembly by playing piano for Oh! Canada!  Thanks Jennifer

Avin, Iiona and David (also grade 6) read out some quotes on forgiveness. One of my favourite forgiveness quotes is:

We had a guest speaker come in to discuss energy conservation, and then our Lights Out crew introduced our Lights Out Lunches. Ask your child about our upcoming Lights Out Lunch. If they can’t remember, we will send something out soon.

Division E04 introduced our compost program which is starting in their class. This may soon grow to include the whole school. A key goal in our school will be to find ways to reduce the amount of garbage that we produce which ends up in the land fill. In their garbage audit, the grade 4 students found items in the garbage cans that could have been recycled. We are challenged to do better.

Mme Bulsara (teacher) and Mrs. Taylor (parent) introduced the km club to the school. The km club starts next Tuesday at 8:15 am on the lower field. Prizes will be involved. They also introduced a Canadian champion runner, Jerry Ziak, to the students. Jeremy shared some inspirational words about running and the benefits of keeping your body healthy. Jeremy will be joining us for the first km club run.

There were a lot of other things to report on that happened today, but I might share them later. I will share one item before I go home. A short poem:

Take care