Monday February 29, 2016

                     Daily Announcements

Monday February 29, 2016                  Cafeteria – Calzones and salads

APPLES TODAY – Send a runner from your advisory – under the social staircase for your apples!

DUKE OF EDINBURG PARTICIPANTS – there will be a meeting this Wednesday March 2nd. at lunch in room 304 (Taggart) Bring your questions and get the answers you need.

CRAIGFLOWER PROJECT – is collecting used or new books suitable for K – grade 5. Please hand in any suitable books to the boxes located on the first floor – Library and the Dance Studio. On the Second floor outside room 217 (Roberts).   Ends Friday March 11th. Thank you for providing books to our small friends.

JELLY BEAN COUNT – Fundraiser for the SPCA. Starts today -Monday Feb. 29 – March 4th. in the Student Plaza at lunch. .50 cents a guess. (Community Leadership)

 

JUNIOR GIRLS SOCCER –  TRY OUTS will be tomorrow-Tueday March 1 and Thurs. March 3 at Carnarvon Park.

Oak Bay Ski Team Update- The girls’ ski team are crowned ISLAND CHAMPIONS with more than DOUBLE the amount of points of the 2nd place team.  We had two girls on the podium for ISLANDS…Patricia Horwood in 2nd place & Henrike Heintmann in 3rd.  The boys’ ski team are also ISLAND CHAMPIONS.  Oak Bay had two boys on the podium for ISLANDS…Logan Rampton in 2nd place and Liam Morgan in 3rd.     Awesome job to ALL TEAM MEMBERS!  What an awesome season!

LOST – Camera – Cannon with a pink and purple ribbon on it. If found please hand in to the office.

CAREER CENTRE – Volunteer Opportunity – Margaret Jenkins is looking for 6-8 volunteers to do some child-minding on Monday, April 11th.  You need to be at the school by 6:15pm and would be finished by 8:45pm. The ages of the children are 3 -10yrs. You will be playing games, reading and colouring with them in the library while the parents listen to the speaker in the gym.  Please see Mrs. Giesbrecht in the Career Centre if you are interested.

*Two grads will be in the Career Centre on Tuesday March 1st at lunch to talk about their Lattitude volunteer abroad experience.  If you are headed off to volunteer with Lattitude next year or would just like more information at this point please come and hear the presentation.

*WORK BC “FIND YOUR FIT” TOUR

Work BC Find Your Fit Tour is taking place at Esquimalt High School this Monday, February 29th. This tour is an interactive event where students can try the skills they’ll need for different careers in demand in our province.

Please go to www.findyourfittour.ca  for more information. Parents and families are welcome to attend between 3:15 – 7:00 pm.

WHERE’S NUTTY – Congrats to Reed Jones for finding Nutty last week! This week’s clue is-“Of all the rich places that I could be, behind the source of all evil is where you’ll find me!”

MARINE BIO TRIP – to Mexico “Sea of Cortez” meeting tomorrow – Tuesday March 1st. 7:00 pm in room 231. For information, talk to Mr. Atkinson or Mr. Shrubsole up in Science.