Our very own Mr. Ryan was recognized for teaching excellence in the area of Physical Education during this week's Remember When conference. He was bestowed this special honor in recognition of his numerous contributions towards physical fitness and healthy lifestyles at Gretna Green and throughout ASD-N. Well done Mr. Ryan, we are all so proud of you!
Students and parents are all reminded that there will be no school on October 9th and 10th due to professional development days for teachers and support staff. Monday, October 13th will also be a holiday for students in recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday. Enjoy the extended weekend boys and girls!
Gretna Green had a new principal and vice prinicipal for the day today. Mr. Ryan Dunn was our principal and Mr Caden Sullivan was our vice principal. They both did a fantastic job and awarded all students at Gretna Green an extended recess! Well done gentlemen, Mr. Comeau and Ms. Bransfield enjoyed their day off!
Auditions have wrapped up and practices for this year's Christmas production, A Snow White Christmas, are underway! Check out the schedule in the School Documents section for practice information.
Mrs. Simmons' grade 4 class lead our entire school in this year's spare change fundraiser in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. After one week of donations and a morning walk over $350.00 was donated by our students. Well done Gretna Green you donations are contributing to an excellent cause!
Our Breakfast Program fundraiser proved to be the best ever. Over 350 items were donated in addition to $490.00 in donations. The support received from our entire learning community was fantastic! These sizeable donations will allow our Home & School to continue to offer our daily breakfast program for all students well into the new year. The top fundraising class for K-2 was Mrs. Girouard's class and Mme Lockerbie's grade 3 class won for 3-5. Both classes will receive a pizza party, congratulations!
Thanks again to all the teachers, students, parents and grand parents who joined us today for our annual Walking School Bus walk. We had an excellent turn out. Thanks again to all of you for all of your support!
Gretna Green students went to the polls today to vote for this year's Student Council. Ivy was selected as secretary and Max will be our new vice president. Eden received the nod from the majority of voters as our new Student Council president! Class reps for this year are as follows, Ryan, Cole, Charles, Riley, Ava, Erica, Evan, Michael and Drayden. What an awesome team! Thanks to Ms. Morehouse for organizing this year's election and overseeing our student council throughout the year.
All we can say is ... wow! Entering our final week of our breakfast program fundraiser we have already filled our shopping cart twice and Mrs Clark's desk is full. It is so refreshing to see the amount of support Gretna Green receives from its many awesome families! Our fundraiser will end on Friday, September 26th. The winning pizza party winners will be announced on Monday.
The students and staff of Gretna Green would like to thank the Humphreys' family for their kind donation once again this year of smiley cookies! They were a wonderful treat and a great way to finish off the week.
