The winter season is upon us and with it comes inclement weather. Our district superintendent, Mark Donovan, has sent home a notice for all parents regarding expectations for school closures and the possibility of late school starts due to inclement weather. A memo was sent home this week with your child outlining district procedures regarding school cancellations and late school start up due to inclement weather. A digital copy of this notice can also be found on our school homepage under the documents tab.
There will be a parent meeting tomorrow Thursday 09 Jan at 4:30 for the parents of children involved now with wrestling or wanting to be involved with wrestling. The meeting will be held in the cafeteria.
We would like to wish Happy New Year to our entire learning community! We look forward to making things happen during this new decade. We would also like to remind everyone that our students first day will be Tuesday, Janauary 7th for K-8.
Our school leadership team have an array of Christmas theme activities planned for the week. They are as follows:
Monday: Christmas Hat Day
Tuesday: Red & Green Day
Wednesday: Christmas Socks Day
Thursday: Christmas Sweater Day
Friday: PJ Day and last day of school!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to entire learning community and see you all in the new year! First day back for all students will be on Tuesday, January 7th!
Our annual Christmas Concert will be held on Thursday, December 12th at 10:00 am. Please use gym doors to enter the building. Access to the gym will be open at 9:00 am and not earlier. Parents and guests are permitted to park at the back of the school after 9:15. Good will monetary donations will be accepted at the door in support of our school theatre arts program. Hope to see you all there!
We would like to remind our entire learning community that our elementary drama production of the Nutcracker Prince is coming up on Thursday, December 5th at 6:00 pm in our school gym. Everyone is invited to attend this awesome production. There will be a good will donation box at the door; so please feel free to make a donation and help support our theatre arts program at Gretna Green!
All parents and guardians of grade 8 students are asked to attend an important meeting for our June field trip to Quebec city. It will begin at 6:00 pm sharp in our school library. The meeting will highlight the planned intenerary, schedule and costs. It will also give you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding this planned field trip.
We would like to remind all parents and guardians that progress reports will be going home for all students in K-8 on Monday, November 18th. Parent-Teacher interviews will be held on Thursday from 4:00-6:00 pm and Friday 9:00-11:00 am. There will be no school for all students on Friday.
Basketball is in full swing for many of our Gators! On behalf of our entire learning community we would like to thank all of our coaches who have chosen to volunteer their time as our GG basketball coaches for the season. We could not do it without you!
We would like to remind our entire learning community of our school Remembrance Day ceremony being held on Thursday, November 7th at 10:00 am. Please use our gym door entrance if you are coming to join us. GG parents are invited to submit pictures of family veterans for our slideshow. Photos are to be submitted to keith.comeau@nbed.nb.ca by Sunday, November 3 at noon. Please include the veteran’s name and the relationship to the GG student (ie grandfather of Jane Smith). Previously submitted photos do not need to be re-submitted.
