Grades 4 and 5 students Keisha, Braydan, Cameron, Hunter, Aaron, Dylan, Skyler, and Colby, together with their collaborators from NBCC-Miramichi, will launch their video game Defenders of Middle Island on Wednesday, June 12 at 10:00 am. Ms. Caroline Daley, Middle Island Curator, will make a presentation to the students. Parents are welcome!
The 5th Annual Miramichi Fusion Festival will be held this year on Saturday June 8th at the Golden Hawk in Chatham. Please click the attachment below for more details.
The Drama Club is in need of green Christmas trees to use as background for their production of Sleeping Beauty. In the recent memo to Drama and Choir students, they were asked to return the bottom of the form if they had any trees that could be used in the play. We have not received any trees to date, so we are appealing to the Gretna Green community. If you have a green Christmas tree, big or small, that you could lend us, please contact Ms.
Drama students are reminded to study their cues, lines, and directions each and every night! You must have your lines memorized... you must know when to say them... you must know your actions! Our performance is two weeks away so we must have our cues, lines, and directions perfected. Students are to review these nightly.
Congratulations to Catherine Austen, winner of this year's Hackmatack Award (English Fiction) for children's literature. Ms. Austen read selections from her award-winning novel during her presentation to our Grade 4 students last week. Our students are very fortunate to have met an award-winning author! Her winning novel, 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6, is highly recommended by our Hackmatack members. Check it out!
Mango Mania is back again this month with Go for 42. For the next 5 weeks there will be posts on this website giving you information about being physically active, nourishing your body to enable it to keep active and encouraging students to participate in the Go for 42 challenge at school. Won’t you join us for the Mango Kids Fun Run on Sunday June 23rd, 2013 at the Lindon Recreation Center, Miramichi? Did you know that being physically active for at least 60 minutes a day will: Help you grow stronger, improve your health and fitness, and Help you do better in school.
Coach, Mr. Ryan, led our school floor hockey team to a championship finish as they defeated Croft 6-3 to claim the Allison Cup! We are all very proud of this year's team and their effort in bringing home the cup to Gretna Green once again this year.
Catherine Austen: Catherine Austen, a Canadian author whose book 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6, recently visited Gretna Green.On Tuesday, May 7, Canadian author Catherine Austen visited Gretna Green. The reading was attended was by 4B and 4D students, many of whom were participants in the Hackmatack Club. Ms. Austen's book 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6 is nominated for the Hackmatack Book Award this year for English fiction. During her presentation, Ms.
The Miramichi Kinsmen and Anglophone North School District are pleased to accept film entries for the Third Annual Kin Film Festival. All students in ASD-N are invited to participate. Students may submit films in one or both of the two categories.
The first category is the Kin Category. Films in this category will address the theme “Doing the Right Thing”.
The second category is the Open Category. Films of any genre or subject matter can be submitted to this category.
The top films selected in each category will be screened.
All parents are please reminded to complete the survey on our homepage. The action button for this survey can be found on the left hand side of this page. If you want your voice to be heard take this opportunity to complete the survey and click on the button. Many of you have expressed a desire to have our school become a K-8 school in the future. You will notice it is not an option in the survey. Please make this comment in the comment section of the survey!
