PLS Thunder Bolt June 3rd - 7th - Peter Lougheed School (2024)

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June 3^rd – 7^th

Grade 8 Field Trip – Calgary Zoo

The grade 8 team is excited to be taking our students on a field trip to the zoo. Field trip fees have been added to MyCBE accounts, so please ensure that payment is completed.

Dates of field trip:

8-1 and 8-2 – Monday, June 3^rd

8-3 and 8-4 – Tuesday, June 4^th

8-5 and 8-6 – Wednesday, June 5^th

8-7 – Monday, June 10^th

Please ensure that students come prepared for the weather on the date of the field trip (appropriate clothing, footwear, sunscreen) and that they have a non-microwaveable lunch or money to purchase food from the zoo cafeteria. Please note, we will not be allowing students to visit the gift shops, so please do not send money for this purpose.

Grade 8 Team

Athletics:

Any parents of athletes from our teams this year can you please ensure that you have paid your fees on PowerSchool

Thermopylae:

Thermopylae practices have been running for the last week and will continue next week. The Thermopylae OCR is a large-scale fitness challenge, which is meant to be fun and foster an interest in personal fitness. This event is a 5 km run with approximately 20 obstacles/fitness stations set up along the way. The course for the Thermopylae race has been approved by CBE offsite activities and abides by all regulations. Thermopylae is set up as a “timed race”, but is more about being able to complete this fitness challenge and trying to meet personal fitness goals. The race will take place June 4^th from 4:00-6:00pm at Valley Creek School. All students are welcome to participate in the race and any students still wanting to join can see Mr. Choi and Mr. Masson for more information. Practices are in the mornings before school starts.

Track and Field:

Congratulations to all of our athletes that tried out for track and field. We had some great competitions for spots and still have some spots open if students are interested in being a part of the team. Track and field practices will be happening next week on Monday and Wednesday after school with the meet being held at Foothills Athletic Park on June 11^th from 8:30am-4:00 pm. Students that make the team are responsible for getting to and from the event but can carpool or take public transit to get there if they would like.

Badminton:

We will be having our wrap up parties for our badminton teams on June 12^th for grade 6 & 7 and June 13^th for grades 8 & 9.

Diversity Cup Soccer:

Our Diversity Cup Soccer teams have been made and have been practicing together. We will have another practice next week to get ready for the tournament which will happen the weekend of June 8^th and 9^th. We are still awaiting the schedule for the games and will let parents know as soon as we find out. Students can pick up their acknowledgement of risk forms from Mr. van Vugt at the school and need them filled out by June 7^th.

Athletics Schedule:

Physical Education

All students were asked to fill out a google forms survey off of D2L for our upcoming choice modules that will end the year off. Any student that has not done so yet needs to fill it out immediately to ensure they get choice in what they are doing in the last few weeks of Physical Education.

A reminder for all of our students to be wearing appropriate clothing for Physical Education class and appropriate footwear. We have a lot of students coming to school wearing crocs footwear and flip flops which are not suitable shoes to be participating in sports and there is potential for one of these students to sprain or break their ankles as they offer no support and very little grip. If student’s are wearing these shoes to school please have them bring an additional pair of running shoes to change into at school.

Provincial Achievement Test Schedule for Grades 6 and 9

Please note there are no ELAL or Mathematics PATs for Grade 6 this year per Alberta Education.

Wednesday, June 12

Grade 9 ELA B (am)

Thursday, June 13

Grade 9 Math Part A (am)

Tuesday, June 18:

Grade 9 Math B (am)

Wednesday, June 19:

Grade 6 Social Studies (pm)

Grade 9 Social Studies (am)

Thursday, June 20

Grade 6 Science (pm)

Grade 9 Science (am)