Girls鈥� Group is starting at the high school. What is Girls Group? Girls鈥� Group is a facilitated peer-to-peer group mentoring program that offers positive weekly meetings, girls- only events and field trips, community service projects, friendship and confidence building activities and much more over the course of the school year. The Girls鈥� Group format begins in the fall with all mentors and mentees together in a large group participating in guided activities with our facilitators. Towards December the facilitators will begin to divide this large group into smaller peer-led mentoring groups. By January, these smaller peer groups will meet weekly until June with the oversight of the facilitator. Why join Girls鈥� Group? Girls鈥� Group is designed to help build peer support and self-confidence among girls age 10-13. Studies have shown that peer building activities outside of school hours have been an effective approach to building these assets. The addition of peer mentors age 14-17 strengthens that approach by giving our girls someone within their school social network to look up to. When do we meet? Girls鈥� Group meetings will take place weekly after school from 3:30-4:45 on Mondays at CES for gr 5-6 and their gr 9-10 mentors, and Tuesdays at GFK for grades 7-8 and their mentors gr 11-12 mentors. These meetings will begin October 26 th and 27 th and continue regularly until June. Detailed calendars will go home later on. What鈥檚 in it for me? You can use the hours toward your required volunteer hours in school. You will receive training and experience that is valuable on your resume and university/college grants. You will learn skills that will increase your chances of employment. You will be doing all these things while having fun, hanging out with friends, making art, playing games, going on field trips and eating food鈥ot so bad.听Students should listen for announcements and/or see Mrs. Fehrenbach if they are interested.
Wishing all the best to our Student Leadership Team members who are currently in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Canadian Student Leadership Conference.听Under the direction of Janelle Scherle, we wish all the students the best.Have fun Makenna Morrison, Shayna Nicolay, Mackenzie Valentine and Gracie Schutz.
The Cross Country team has practices every weekday after school. Athletes are expected to make 2 of these group practices a week. The junior Cross Country District Meet is Wed. Oct. 14 in Weyburn and the senior Cross Country District Meet is Wed. Oct. 7 in Oxbow.
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Rookie Boys (Gr. 7鈥檚) will be practicing every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 鈥� 5:00.
Rookie Girls Volleyball practices are every Monday and Wednesday right after school.听
Junior boys鈥� volleyball practices are Monday and Wednesday from 5:00 鈥� 6:30. Exhibition games and tournament schedule to come. District playoffs are Thursday, November 12.
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The Homework Hall of Fame awards will continue this year acknowledging those students who work hard to get work completed on time. Thanks to the local businesses who support this program.
The School Community Council Annual General Meeting is Wed. Oct. 7 at 7:00PM at the high school. All parents are welcome.
There is no school on Monday, October 5 (Staff Development Day). There is also no school on October 12 (Thanksgiving).
GFK provides an amazing lunch program put together by David and Shelley Slykhuis. Various nutritional foods including hot meal of the day, taco in the bag, pizza by the slice, and an assortment of snacks are available to purchase every day. Students can pay per day, or purchase a lunch card.听Please view the school website for the daily specials in September.鈥�
Parents are encouraged to use the Home Logic Parent Portal to keep up with their children鈥檚 grades and attendance. Parents can contact the school for information about how to set up access.
The 鈥淏eat the Bells鈥� blog will no longer be used by the school. Instead, the new GF Kells website can be found on the 麻豆视频east Cornerstone School Division website under the 鈥渟chools鈥� tab. () All your school news can be found there. Please check it out.
