What a Difference a Week makes

What a difference a week makes...

What a difference a week makes to friends who used to live in High Level but moved to Fort McMurray. They left with their baby and two dogs and that's all they have...

What a difference a week makes to thousands who had employment and don't this week...

Let's not just think about the fire... What a difference a week makes to a student who had a home in High Level and this week lives at Safe Home...

What a difference a week makes to a High School boy whose Mom passed away and his girlfriend dumped him...

What a difference you can make in touching base with your friends or your students in getting them through whatever they are going through...contacting them and letting them know you are, we are, here for them is freeing and consoling.  

What a difference a week makes, what a difference you can make. 



Thank yous

Thanks to Mark and Nicole for turning their classroom into a life cycles movie set. They have eggs hatching, ,tadpoles evolving and soon butterflies emerging. 

Thanks to Jenine for assisting Dillan in his Rig simulator work. It is a hands on program through ADLC, we would like to do more of this in the future. 

Thanks to Holly who is keeping our plants alive despite my black thumb wanting to kill them all. 

Thanks to Petra and Eric who went out to do parent teacher interviews this week. They saw many families we haven't seen in a while.

Thanks to Paul for shopping for food for our High level students. They come hungry and we feed them.  

Thanks to Neil Martens from High Level Public who will be leading our construction project in High level next week. 

Thanks to Alex, Eva and Petra for getting the grad letters out. Students and families know where they stand for graduation. 

Thanks to Alex for doing the Photography session. We did get $1500 for more equipment from priority funding. 

Thanks to all who wore hat for Hats on for Mental Health and thanks to all who walked in support of mental wellness. Huge thanks to Gail for organizing us it was a lovely thing to see the school communities unite! So cool! 



Staffing 

Alex is out Thursday and Friday. 

So far that's all I have for this week. 

Anne- Monday - High Level- Google session- meeting with student wellness pm.

Anne - Tuesday- 

Anne Wednesday- Zama

Anne Thursday- La Crete morning- Fort PM.

Anne Friday- Indigenous literacy celebration HLPS afternoon. 



Events/Programming

Students in Zama are preparing for explorations. Including working on a farm, experimenting with different media and having community members teach skills. 

Priority funding- The division funded a lot of Archery equipment this year. We didn't ask for archery equipment. 

Zama got $2000 to make a library.

Learning Stores got $1500 worth of photography equipment. 

We people asked for over $220,000 in project funding. All that was available was $100,000. We got $3500 of that money. We will use it well! 

Google session in la Crete on Thursday morning. Julie I'd like you to go to that please. 

Friday pm has High level Public hosting an Indigenous Literacy event for High School Students. 2 authors will be speaking. We have one or two of their books at our school. Please invite any students you believe would benefit from this. 

Tuesday morning at 9:30 in High Level we are reviewing routines and procedures. 

Please note the scheduling changes next week. High level teachers are going to La Crete on 17th to work on courses. May 17th is a pd day in La Crete due to Mennonite holiday. May 20th is a Pd day for High Level. May 19th is an early dismissal we will use google hang out to go over just a couple of things. On Wednesday,  I will arrange with Mark what his schedule is for next week. 

Landscaping, construction, projects taking place next week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in High Level. 

Here is a video that will be helpful to each of us. Only 3 minutes and you will be smarter after watching!!! Its not what you think! 

Have a great week seeing things from a different perspective!!!