Dear R7A families – 

Hold on to your hats, it looks like November is here !!!!!!!!! (exclamation points in the wind)

Tomorrow and Tuesday, we have a visiting artist who will be working with a number of classes including R7A. They will be integrating visual art with geography. The students will be working on paper topography sculpture reliefs. I am really looking forward to this activity. Here is a neat image I found when searching for examples of paper topography.

There will be a Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday, November 11th and you are all invited. Please e-mail me if you are interested and I can confirm a time for the Junior/Intermediate assembly. I have decided our class will present a brief poem called “First They Came”. It is a poem about reluctance to speak up and is highly related to many of the world’s conflicts, past and present. Please take a look.

https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/

PLEASE return all of the information-verification forms the children brought home last week.

Progress reports will be sent home on Thursday this week. Please take some quiet time with your R7A student to discuss the progress report, particularly the learning skills section. As you know, it is really important that the student reflect on their term and carefully review and talk about what their teachers are saying and recommending. Interviews will happen next week with more information coming.

As for reflections, here are two of the photos I took this weekend before hauling my kayak out of the water until next year. The lake was strangely still after the high winds and storm, and the reflections were magical.

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FINAL FOOD DRIVE ITEMS CAN BE SENT IN TOMORROW AND TUESDAY. THANK YOU.

Ms Swail