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Fun
for kids
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Ecole Pine Grove
s UMMER Middle School
Fun for Kids receives
Recycling Award
submitted Edson and District Recycling Society
We would like to congratulate Ecole Pine Pine Grove students Addison Krueh, Gracie Baker, and Anna Peyton along with Pine Grove staff
Grove Middle School on their recent Award of members Helen Payette and Roger Redman.
Excellence from the Recycling Council of
Alberta. the amount of waste they produced every week second year, the program has been largely turned
In 2018, Ecole Pine Grove Middle School from about 200 kg to around 20 kg – a reduction over to the school, with the Edson Recycling
contacted the Edson and District Recycling of 90% in just one year! Society still offering support by picking up
Society as they were keen to do better in waste Pine Grove students Gracie Baker, Addison recycling each week. Two staff members, Roger
reduction and diversion. Kreuh, and Anna Peyton, spoke to the audience Redman and Tina Kruse-Taylor, are heading up
The EDRS assisted Pine Grove in developing about their schools recycling initiative, and their the Pine Grove Green Team, a group of students
challenging, yet achievable goals to create a quest in becoming a waste-free school. who deal with recycle items each week. As the
proactive waste reduction/diversion program that We would also like to extend a special thanks year progresses, the Green Team is also going to
would bring pride of ownership to the staff and to Russ Keating and Janai Redman, who worked be planning events which further student
students. A baseline study provided alongside Pine Grove Middle School and, aiding education surrounding waste, it's impact on the
recommendations to help to determine what type in the success of Pine Grove's recycling environment and our role in reducing waste and
of programming would be needed. A second initiatives. reusing items.
waste audit in 2019 showed the school reduced Note: Pine Grove School added, Now in its
IT’S BACK
TO SCHOOL
WATCH FOR
SCHOOL
ZONES!
Six GYPSD teachers attended a great professional development workshop Tina Morrison, a Grade 4/5 educator at Evansview School, is the catalyst
DELF Renouvellement that was offered in partnership with the Edmonton behind a character development board crafted by her students. Each student
Regional Learning Consortium and was open to teachers across the chose a character trait that best described them, or was one they would like to
province. This re-training workshop was for current French teachers to be develop. Students researched some quotes for their trait. Ms. Morrison then
officially certified again as DELF examiner-correctors for French Immersion crafted a framed picture of each student with their quote and the end result
students in the coming years. One teacher from NW Alberta also participated. was amazing! Ms. Morrison noted, "The students were pretty excited about
submitted the final product and they had fun talking about the quotes and what they
mean." submitted
On Friday,
September 27 a
group of Holy
Redeemer
students had a
tour of the Red
Brick's historical
schoolroom as
part of the Red
Brick's Alberta
Culture Days
2019 celebrations.
photo Lara
Felsing.
UMMER
THE WEEKLY ANCHOR
PAGE 20 MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 2019
Fun
for kids
THE WEEKLY ANCHOR MONDAY OCTOBER 14, 2019 PAGE 23
s CHOOL
Times
Ecole Pine Grove
s UMMER Middle School
Fun for Kids receives
Recycling Award
submitted Edson and District Recycling Society
We would like to congratulate Ecole Pine Pine Grove students Addison Krueh, Gracie Baker, and Anna Peyton along with Pine Grove staff
Grove Middle School on their recent Award of members Helen Payette and Roger Redman.
Excellence from the Recycling Council of
Alberta. the amount of waste they produced every week second year, the program has been largely turned
In 2018, Ecole Pine Grove Middle School from about 200 kg to around 20 kg – a reduction over to the school, with the Edson Recycling
contacted the Edson and District Recycling of 90% in just one year! Society still offering support by picking up
Society as they were keen to do better in waste Pine Grove students Gracie Baker, Addison recycling each week. Two staff members, Roger
reduction and diversion. Kreuh, and Anna Peyton, spoke to the audience Redman and Tina Kruse-Taylor, are heading up
The EDRS assisted Pine Grove in developing about their schools recycling initiative, and their the Pine Grove Green Team, a group of students
challenging, yet achievable goals to create a quest in becoming a waste-free school. who deal with recycle items each week. As the
proactive waste reduction/diversion program that We would also like to extend a special thanks year progresses, the Green Team is also going to
would bring pride of ownership to the staff and to Russ Keating and Janai Redman, who worked be planning events which further student
students. A baseline study provided alongside Pine Grove Middle School and, aiding education surrounding waste, it's impact on the
recommendations to help to determine what type in the success of Pine Grove's recycling environment and our role in reducing waste and
of programming would be needed. A second initiatives. reusing items.
waste audit in 2019 showed the school reduced Note: Pine Grove School added, Now in its
IT’S BACK
TO SCHOOL
WATCH FOR
SCHOOL
ZONES!
Six GYPSD teachers attended a great professional development workshop Tina Morrison, a Grade 4/5 educator at Evansview School, is the catalyst
DELF Renouvellement that was offered in partnership with the Edmonton behind a character development board crafted by her students. Each student
Regional Learning Consortium and was open to teachers across the chose a character trait that best described them, or was one they would like to
province. This re-training workshop was for current French teachers to be develop. Students researched some quotes for their trait. Ms. Morrison then
officially certified again as DELF examiner-correctors for French Immersion crafted a framed picture of each student with their quote and the end result
students in the coming years. One teacher from NW Alberta also participated. was amazing! Ms. Morrison noted, "The students were pretty excited about
submitted the final product and they had fun talking about the quotes and what they
mean." submitted
On Friday,
September 27 a
group of Holy
Redeemer
students had a
tour of the Red
Brick's historical
schoolroom as
part of the Red
Brick's Alberta
Culture Days
2019 celebrations.
photo Lara
Felsing.
