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Student Vote Results

Here is a link to Canada's Student Vote results:  https://studentvote.ca/results/canada2019/ You can follow links to see how BC's students voted, Nanaimo's students, and even Quarterway's students... VERY interesting stuff.

Dictée Tomorrow

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Craft Fair and Raffle Basket Fundraiser

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Just a reminder that our Craft Fair will be Saturday, November 30th. Every year, our PAC puts together a gift basket raffle, and asks all families to please donate to the baskets. Although you may donate to any of the themed baskets, each division has been assigned to focus their donations on a particular basket. Our basket this year is the ARTS AND CRAFTS BASKET. (I can't imagine how I ended up with that one... ;) ) Donations are due by November 1st. Here are some ideas for items to donate: Colouring books (child or adult) Sketch books Crayons, pencil crayons, markers Paints and brushes How-to books (crochet, draw, knit, etc.) Gift certificate to an art class Michael's gift card Crafting supplies (pipe cleaners, felt, pompoms, etc.) You can also donate to the other baskets if you prefer: Christmas basket Kitchen basket Family/entertainment basket Outdoors basket Relaxation basket  You may also choose to get together with some other families to donat

Competency Conferences

We knew them growing up as "parent-teacher interviews." I don't know about you, but they were always this big mystery to me. But the times, they are a-changin'. Please have your child available to join us for your conference. I think it is important that our meetings revolve around your child. They may have insight that neither of us do, and I know it's way easier for us to communicate about your child if we are hearing the exact same story. I may ask your child to step out for the final few minutes of a conference if there are questions or comments that may be sensitive for children. Of course, you may do the same. In the event that there is more to discuss, we can arrange to have another meeting. 15 minutes can go very quickly, and we don't always have the time to get to the meat of the issue. The success of your child (who is quickly starting to look like a grown-up!) depends heavily on communication. If the times I have available are not conven