A Snowy Monday, 2 Km Run with Staff, Parents, and Students

13/12/2021 24 min Temporada 1 Episodio 15

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Episode Synopsis

For Friday, December 10th, 2021
Welcome back to our Middle School Matters podcast!

My name is Tim Cavey, and I’m the VCS Middle School vice-principal
My name is Mary DeBoer, and I’m the VCS Middle School principal

Here were some highlights from the week:

Collecting food for the GVFB:
Steal the Bacon with Grade 8s, Breakout games with the 6s and 7s
Winning class 7C collected 119 kgs 
Total weight collected across the MS 498 kg
Running club race

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday, December 15 - Christmas activity day (Rotating stations for the middle school, Creating cards for our community)
Thursday, December 16 - Last Day of School, Christmas celebrations
January 4, 2022 - Professional Learning Day
January 5, 2022 - First Day Back to School

Other Items
Coming up in 2022: Teacher Interviews Have Been Scheduled!
We’re looking at off-campus privileges for Grade 8s in 2022
Mary: We’d like to share a shoutout to our listeners!
This week’s shoutout goes to … Tina Chiao. 
She writes “Dear Mary and Tim, I enjoyed another MS Podcast - listened to it this afternoon while I was working. Great to hear the athletics teams are having fun, the food drive is going well and that the school is gearing up for all the excitement of the Christmas holidays. Always fun to hear your voices! Please enter me for the fun prize draw! Thank you.”
Today is the day for out second "spin to win" Christmas themed prize pack which includes:  

A large container of caramel popcorn
Family Charades card game
Scrabble, the chocolate edition so you can eat the pieces after you play the game.
Christmas Trivia game, to make it a Christmas themed gift pack. 

Don't forget that your feedback about the show qualifies you for entry to the next draw which will include a $50 gift card donated by Boston Pizza, so keep those comments coming.
Final Words
Bits & Bytes This Week: pre-race comments, reactions to our snowy Monday