The entire learning community would like to congratulate Sophie as our newest recipient of the District 16 Rotary Turn Around Award. Sophie has experienced many academic accomplishments during her years as a motivated student at Gretna Green Elementary. This award celebrates her academic achievements and we all know her academic success will continue to flourish for many years to come. Bravo Sophie, we are all so proud of you!
Congratulations to our school drama club who did exceptionally well with their play, "E-I-E-I OOPs" in today's District 16 drama festival. They came away with two awards. The first award was for special recognition for ensemble and the second one recognized their coreography. The ajudicators were exeptionally complimentary to the quality of their play and the efforts put forth by director Ms. Hosford. Ms. Hosford along with the assistance of Ms. Morehouse did a superbe job with this year's play! Bravo to all of you!
The staff and students of Gretna Green Elementary played host to a special guest today. Premier of New Brunswick, Mr. David Alward, made a special stop at Gretna Green to meet and greet students today. The students were thoroughly impressed with how receptive he was to their questions. The premier also made himself available to host our morning announcements which proved to be a big hit with our students. Stay tuned for our next GG Times episode highlighting today's memorable visit! Thanks again Mr. Alward for creating so many fond memories for our students!
Ms. Matheson, Mr. Cabel and grade two students are starting to reap the rewards of all their hard work in planting tulips at Gretna Green. The eye catching tuplips can be spotted throughout the front court yard of our school. Many visitors to our school have commented on the great looks of our "school in bloom". Thanks so much to our grade two planters!
Our very own Shane in grade 4 scored big at this year's first Kin Film Festival. Shane came away with top honours in the "Volunteering" category with a first place finish and $500.00 grand prize for his film entitled, "Volunteering At The SPCA". Caleb, Saood and Simone received an Honourable Mention in the open category as well. Their video was entitled, "I Am Here". These two videos will be showcased in our upcoming morning announcements. We are all so proud of you on a job well done!
In partnership with our Home & School the entire
learning community of Gretna Green would like to invite all parents, students,
teachers and Gretna Green Alumni to a night of celebration on May 27th. The evening celebration will begin with a Bar-B-Q
from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at Gretna Green. Hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks will all be provided for one dollar each in support of our Home & School. This
will be followed by a formal address by Mr. Buggie and Mr. Comeau to help celebrate
the 30th Anniversary of Gretna Green Elementary and our progress on
The list of reasons to celebrate at Gretna Green Elementary continues to grow! The students assembled today for a special assembly on behalf of our community and business leaders, Douglastown Sobeys. Our Home & School president, Merle Campbell and Executive, recently approached Sobeys to sponsor the purchase of new uniforms for our soccer and basketball program. Sobeys accepted the offer and took on a leadership role in purchasing all new uniforms for our sporting teams. This charitable act of kindness will leave a positive impact on all of our students for many years to come. On beh
The annual Gretna Green oratory competition was held today and consistent with Gretna Green tradition our speakers were excellent. We would also like to thank our Douglaston Kinsmen for sponsoring this year's event. Our top three finalists were, 3rd- Alicia (5G), 2nd- Mwape (3L) and this year's winner Kaitlyn from 5G. We would also like to thank Mrs. Lynch for organizing this year's event.
Ms. McGuigan and her literacy students from MVHS were our special guests at Gretna Green this morning. Ms. McGuigan's students wrote their own stories and took the opportunity to share them with the students of Gretna Green. It truly was a memorable experience for everyone involved and we can proudly say that we have created a new partnership in literacy. Thank you MVHS! Stay tuned for our next GG Times video that helped capture today's special learning opportunity.
An interesting sidenote to today's construction of the concrete slab for our 30 Year Proud Gazebo unfolded this afternoon. The first principal of Gretna Green Elementary 30 years ago, Mr. Donald Donahue, embedded his hand print along side our youngest Gretna Green student, Chase in Ms. Girouard's kindergarten class today. These two hand prints helped to symbolize the connection with Gretna Green's past and future. Check out the image gallery for some of the highlights.
