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September 2009 • Issue 1 • VOL . 7
The Calgary Science School
Principal’s Message What a great (and busy) start to the year! As I write this article, we aren’t even two full weeks into the year and we have had our new parent orientation evening. Our Camp Sweet meetings, were well attended and we have already had our grade sevens paddling on the Glenmore reservoir. The grade fives have had their family picnic at North Glenmore Park, and now we are packing up to begin our fall outdoor education program at Camp Sweet. Our meet the teacher evening and day at the end of August was very successful. We are confident that it will be a dynamic, challenging, fun-filled year at CSS. I wanted to take the opportunity in my first principal’s message of the school year to welcome the 118 new students and six new teachers to CSS. It is a testament to our pro-
gram and the excellent work of our staff that we had only a 3.6% (18 out of 500) turnover from last year to this. I am excited to see what all of these new people, with their fresh ideas and enthusiasm, will add to our already vibrant community. I am sure that most of our new community members have already discovered the roots of our informal school moto – “It’s never just an ordinary day!”
sion and innovation in an active inquiry-based learning community by bringing learning to life and life to learning.” I believe that, with the assistance of our incredibly supportive parent community, we are making that vision come to fruition. Darrell Lonsberry
I also wanted to use this opportunity to remind everyone that this is the first year under our new charter. We have a new vision statement that I think encapsulates very well what we are working toward: The Calgary Science School inspires pas-
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