February 13

Happy PALentine’s Day, everyone!  Today and tomorrow are times to let your friends know how much you appreciate their care and support.  Enjoy your PALentine’s Day being especially kind to each other.

Lead the Change club was able to stuff 91 pairs of warm socks with toiletry items to donate to Our Place Society thanks to the generous donations from our Colquitz community and our local London Drugs. Thank you to everyone who helped make this a big success!

Pizza, pizza, pizza –  Advisory teachers, please let your students know who has ordered.  A list was emailed out yesterday by Ms Cass. Students, please be ready at your classroom door with a paper towel in hand in alphabetical order and wait for a runner to take you to the pizza serving tables. Students in divisions 1-14, will go to the foyer and students in divisions 15-23 will go to the blue pod table. Students who have a lunch time activity can go straight to their table when the bell rings.

Robotics club meets today at lunch in the library. We are two weeks away from our competition. Please arrive promptly and be ready to build right away.

Congratulations to the Colquitz Lahal teams and drumming supporters who competed in the district Lahal tournament yesterday!  Colquitz placed first and sixth out of 32 teams!!  

From Ms. Goldman: Colquitz Family Hockey Night is here! Game night tonight! Warm up at 6:30 and puck drop at 7:00. Please note this is a family event, so all students need to come with an adult. Admission is free for all Colquitz families. Go Cougars!

Volleyball News:

-Congratulations to the girls 7 comp and to the girls 8 comp who played last night at home.  It was exciting competition!

-congratulations to the ⅞ girls recreation team.  They had two hard fought victories!  Special shout out to Misha, Kathryn and Avery.

-Thank you to our amazing scorekeepers Marcel, Aryan, Carter, Seth and Ira.  Your help putting everything away was much appreciated.

-To all volleyball players attending the Spectrum Tournament.  Your online payment is ready to go.  If you are paying in cash or cheque please bring it to Mrs. C.

-Boys ⅞- Mrs C will open the gym at lunch today for a scrimmage between white and blue.  This is because you had no practice time this week.  If you are getting pizza, get it right away before your class is called.  We would like to start as close to 12:00 as possible. 

-Grade 6 boys and girls have intramural volleyball games after school today from 3-4pm. Meet Ms. Albach in the gym right after school! Any grade 6 volleyball girls who want to play are welcome!  If anyone wants to help set up or scorekeep, see Mrs C.

Fine Arts

* 8:54am Band 6 (amber)

*10:33am Band 7

*Lunch Jazz Band

*Lunch: Dancers

*After school 3:00 – 4:15pm Lina and Chorus Girls (not dancers)

You know what day it is?  It’s THURS-YAY *(because of the ProD Day tomorrow).  The winners this week are…

IT IS TUESDAY TRIVIA ANSWER TIME! Here were this week’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter themed questions and their answers – a day early because there is NO SCHOOL for students tomorrow!

The Student Question was: What item of clothing does Harry give Dobby?

Answer: A sock. A lot of correct answers, but Mr. Arnott could only choose 3 winners.

Winners: Jude in Div.4, Rainbow in Div.11, and Max in Div.23

The Staff Question was: What is Albus Dumbledore’s full name?

Answer: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. There were several right answers but only 1 spelled correctly!

Winner: Mrs. T – another one of our smart EA’s

 

The “Guess How Many Candies” ballots have been counted!  All jars had different amounts in them but all were between 585 and 650.  Thank you to Lead the Change Club for creating this game and counting the ballots!

The grade 6 winner is Penny in Division 3 with a guess of 576

The grade 7 winner is Grace in Division 10 with a guess of 627 

The grade 8 winner is Joanna in Division 14 with a guess of 600

Congratulations!  Your estimation skills are awesome!