Our staff have engaged in self-directed PLCs this year, aligned with the HDSB MYP goals. One group focused on student engagement and have designed a grade 5 through 8 ‘Choose your own Adventure’ activity cycle. Today is day one and students are excited!!!

Students in Mrs Florio’s grade 2 class are hard at work adding suffixes to words as part of their Fundations structured reading lesson for today.

Talking about numbers and how to balance equations in Mrs Zuzek’s grade 2 classroom this morning. Such great answers from these students, thinking flexibly about numbers.

Pretty perfect day for our in-school Junior Track and Field Day.

It’s dance season in the grade 8 hall EthelGardinerPS

So many amazing invitations and provocations for students in EthelGardinerPS’s KF3 class.

The garden beds in our EthelGardinerPS kindie pens and learning garden areas are coming to life. Excited for all the pollinators they will attract this summer.

There are a lot of challenging parts of the job of school administrator but then you get a tasty samosa that the Intermediate Cooking Club makes and it is just what you need.

Ontario’s principals and vice-principals continue to struggle with new gov't initiatives, staff shortages, violence in schools & mental wellness. We need fair & adequate compensation, support, respect & efforts to address work intensification. Full stmt: bit.ly/4bBC2ml

The kids learned to play Euchre this summer. 🙌

So proud of the work our EthelGardinerPS community, both staff and students, have put into our pollinator garden. One of our staff just sent me this picture and 😍😍😍😍. It looks so amazing. All the time and efforts pays off.

My children have watched Official Bluey TV Episode 'The Sign' at least half a dozen times and each time they cry during the last segment. The emotions that can be conveyed, and evoked, with just a song and images are amazing. This show is just brilliant.

Please do not use Teachers Pay Teachers for ANYTHING to do with #OrangeShirtDay. Not only is TPT NOT audited for equity and cultural appropriation, creators are literally making money off of Indigenous trauma. I will continue to share free vetted resources this month! 🧡🪶