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JUNE 2010 • ISSUE 10 • VOL . 7
THE CALGARY SCIENCE SCHOOL
Principal’s Message Of course, June is a very busy time of year (though I believe I have said that very same thing about every month). There are a number of things I would like to ensure parents are made aware of in the remaining weeks of this school year. The start of June will be the start of Lisa Nelson’s maternity leave. We will be sorry to lose Mrs. Nelson for the year, but we wish her well as she begins the most important work of being a mother. At the same time, we welcome Natalie Down to the staff as she takes over for Mrs. Nelson. June brings PATs and the conclusion of our outdoor education program. The schedule for the grade six and nine provincial achievement tests can be found in the
calendar at the end of this Spectrum. Prior to the PATs, the grade eights will be spending three days and two nights at Camp Sweet, followed by the grade nines who will spending two days and one night in single gender camps. We are having a work bee at Camp Sweet at the end of May to prepare the site for two hundred of our students attending camps in June. June 21st will be a big day at CSS. Not only are we hosting our annual family picnic and volunteer appreciation that day, we will be having our grand opening for the instructional activity centre (IAC) and, in the afternoon, we have our in-school grade nine end of year celebration. I am hoping that we will have a good turnout that day to help us celebrate what has, to this point, been a tremendously successful year.
I won’t have an opportunity to publicly thank our volunteers before our volunteer appreciation day, so I want to take this opportunity to thank the incredible parent volunteers who have been integral to the work of the school. You will read in this Spectrum about some of the ways in which parents have volunteered in the school, including the volunteer development committee. We literally could not maintain the program that we do without the incredible support of our parents. I look forward to the opportunity for the school to say thank you on June 21st to all of our parent volunteers. Darrell Lonsberry
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