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*Parents, we look forward to seeing you this week for Conferences! If you haven't booked your Conference yet, please do so!
*No school Friday (due to Conferences)
*Power Hour starts tomorrow!
We Day - We discussed We Day with the class today. We Day is an opportunity provided to our Grade 6 students who promote/feel strongly towards social change. Students, please feel free to browse the We Day website. We will be asking students who wish to attend WE Day to write a persuasive letter as means of an application. The expectations and format for this will be discussed in class. This will be an in-class activity, so please refrain from writing at home! Thank you!
W/H
Please see below for a note from Mrs.McKay regarding patrols:
Dear Parents of Patrollers,
As this is my first year doing patrols, I am learning what the process is and what the expectations are with the AMA school patrol program.
We want all students interested to have the opportunity to be patrollers and all grade 6 students that were interested in being lieutenant to write a letter explaining why they want to have that role.
We had a visit from the AMA patrol coordinator that informed us our teams were far too large and needed to be a maximum of 4 students per team.
Also patrollers were required to write the patrol test. This was my fault in not knowing this was a requirement.
We then had a meeting with all the patrollers to let them know that we needed to change up the teams, making three teams A,B,C that would each have a 2 1/2 months rotation. Also, patrollers needed to complete the patrol test with a 90% on it (18/20) to pass, so again my mistake that I didn't realize this. The patrollers that passed were put into the first team and others would have the ability to rewrite at any time and be on team B and C. The questions on the test were all about things covered in the patrol training with the police officer we had, patrol handbook and patrol video we watched.
I hope this provides some clarity in regards to patrols.
If you have any other questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact me.
Thank you
Natasha McKay
Learning Leader, Grade 5/6 Teacher
Prince of Wales School