Recognition of Student|Success
Student
School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha)
extends congratulations to the following students|groups
for these outstanding examples of success
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 67
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DECEMBER 15
Madame Haddow’s Division 6-5
CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
performed A Charlie Brown Christmas
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to audiences including Grade 6 aand 7
English Track and Grade 7 and 8 French
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Immersion students. Bravo to the
young actors who have become
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speakers and readers of French
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3 short months. Thank you to
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Haddow for her work on thiss terrific
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production.
What is Success?
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“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration,
desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”
Author: Evan Esar
DECEMBER
SUCCESS 2014
S UMMERLAND MIDDLE
Success Stories for the Board of Education
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Meet
Meeting
Januaryy 12, 20
2015
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UMMERLAND MIDDLE
Bannermania
On Friday, December 12, SMS students participated in the
annual Bannermania event. Each division presented their
banner after the performance of creative and entertaining
productions. This longstanding tradition is integral to their
pro-active work around building inclusion and community.
Special thanks to Ms. Steves for coordinating this event.
SU M M E R L A N D M I D
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DLE
Gym Opening
December 1, the staff re-opened the gym for a special
assembly. The new paint and colours caught many staff and
students by surprise (including Ms. Arcuri). Following a few
recognitions, Mr. Lemire ran the finale of Survivor, and the SMS
Survivor Champions were crowned. Thanks to Mr. Lemire for
the energy and creativity throughout the Survivor challenge!
Survivor Finals
PARKWAY ELEMENTARY
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Parkway’s Breakfast Club was excellent! Thank you to Shelene for all of her hard work!
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The new after school gym club for grade 4 and 5’s met on Thursday and had a super third session!
Thank you Mrs. Silvius!
PARKWAY ELEMENTARY
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Thank you to the paper and juice recycling teams, they did another super job!
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Cheerleading practice went very well. Everyone is very organized and looking and
sounding great! Thanks Ms. Cook!
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Parkway’s Choir performed at Canadian Tire and they really sounded great!! Thank you
Ms. Cole!
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The School Multicultural Club met for a very positive meeting .
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The Senior readers from the Concorde were with Parkway staff and students once again
on Thursday afternoon but this time they brought Santa and Mrs. Claus with them and
presents for all of the children and staff. What a special treat!
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The Christmas concert was a huge success and the students sure sounded great! Thank
you to everyone for coming out to the concert!!! A special thank you to Ms. Cole and
the rest of the staff for all of the work and time that was put into the concert. It
certainly paid off with a great show!
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
The last day before the holidays is Columbia’s
annual PAC Pancake Breakfast. Many wonderful,
helpful, hard-working parents came bright and early
and turn the gym into Penticton’s finest pancake
house! Feeding a whole school of hungry children
takes thousands of pancakes. The older students help
out their little buddies with cutting and pouring
duties, all while the parent volunteers keep the
yummy pancakes coming. The parent group ends the
pancake day with special pancakes, berries, whipped
cream for the staff. It really is a wonderful tradition
at Columbia School.
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY
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KALEDEN ELEMENTARY
T
he students at Kaleden Elementary spent the first
three weeks of December focusing on the themes of
“Taking Care of Each Other”, “Doing Your Best for a
Better World” and “The Spirit of Giving”. With these themes
in mind, the school came together once again to collect
and donate items to “Kaleden Cares” food donation initiative.
B
eing a school of 100 students, the school set a goal
each week to try to donate 100 food items. They kept
track of the growing food donations and tally in their
foyer and watched the donations grow. Each week the students reached and surpassed their goal feeling a sense of
pride and accomplishment. The Kaleden School students
clearly took their caring December themes to heart!