Great turnout for the Remembrance Day Service today! 100 guests in attendance!

Les Jigeurs Mechif from Lady Grey and Alexander Park performed dancing and fiddling for the Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement Gathering in Invermere this week. Thanks Ms. Nagao and Elders for working with this group!

Amazing day for a Language Arts lesson about Mother Earth!

Please see the newsletter this week for important information about the annual AGM for the Parent Advisory Committee on Monday.

PLEASE COME TO THE AGM ON MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER and participate in electing your new PAC board for 2018/19. APES Library, 3:15pm, childcare provided in the gym, and light snack provided in the gym too. The PAC is the Parent Advisory Council - the place where parents collectively can raise issues with the school and the school can consult with parents. It is also the organisation that raises money through grant applications and fundraising activities for extra curricular activities AND determines how to spend that money. We need new members on the PAC and all parents/guardians of children in APES are entitled to be on the council board, and to vote for members on the council. We need at least 3 council board members to continue to be eligible for BC Gaming grants which has been used to fund skating and swimming activities. Consider volunteering for the PAC. Each role takes only a couple of hours a month. More info about PAC is on the noticeboard in the hallway and on the PAC website at apes.hotlunches.net. Thanks, Sheelagh England PAC President 2017/18

Which direction are you headed in? Check out goal setting in the last newsletter.

Our Terry Fox Run is tomorrow at 11am. Join us! Students can donate at the office. Bring a loonie and drop it in the jar.

Some classes have been reviewing and learning our values! What great demonstration of learning!

Our values shape how we and students identify and learn. It is great to see these displays guiding our first days learning!

Interesting. Check out how it aligns with BC curriculum and core competencies. https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/

This is a great example of a community partnership that benefits our kids! We can't wait!

Big thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Yoga! This is what the kids say! Thanks, Kamia!

This is a great local event put on by great local people raising awareness for youth mental wellness. Check it out!

Today we are luck to have Will Stroet performing at the school!! Thanks to the PAC for bringing this artist to town!

Pink Shirt Day Wednesday, February 28! Everyone Belongs at Alexander Park!

We are gearing up for our our Japanese cuisine day at the school!! We will be trying sushi! Thanks to the PAC for supporting this project!

Golden Ready Set Learn is a collaborative community project supported by the Ministry of Education to improve readiness for learning. If you are a family with young children you may be interested in this interactive community event!

All set for breakfast! Hope the big man in red shows up!! Big thanks to Cam and the IGA team for over 300 oranges.

Joy

Metis week at Alexander Park.

If you want to understand how the brains of your children develop and respond to trauma and build resilience, take this free course. 7700 people have taken this free course on line. We ignore early brain development at our peril. As a leader at the school, I have already begun.

Not for young ears. But important for us parents.