Tis the season day on Friday Dec 16

Leadership students are running lots of TA challenges this week for a bit of Seasonal fun over the lunch hour.  This Friday is Tis the season day and students and staff are encouraged to dress festive!

The Cup at MidSun

On Friday and Saturday, MidSun was host to 50 debate teams from across Canada

In the semi finals, debaters from MidSun, Vivian and Brad defeated a team from Regina
and in the Grand Final, in front of a crowd of 250, Vivian and Brad won an epic debate and brought the cup home!

Mark updates & Ends Reporting

Teachers have been busy working with students to target certain areas of the Calgary Board of Education Ends Statements and to create personal goals.  Recently, students have been working with teachers to evaluate their progress in the pursuit of their goals and to modify their goals if necessary.  Today a report card will come home with students that gives you an update on their progress.  English Language Learners will also receive their report cards that will indicate their progress on Alberta Education’s new English Language Learner Benchmarks.

You should also receive an email today from each student’s teacher that will show their marks in every assignment to date.  Please let the office know on Monday if you do not receive mark updates.  We will track down what the problem might be.  We will be holding parent teacher interviews by appointment only on December 22^nd from 1:45-3:30PM.  Please contact the teacher directly if you have any concerns.

Discovery Education is Now Here!

Midsun School has subscribed to Discoveyy Education Streaming. Discovery Education Streaming is a comprehensive K-12 library of digital resources that enables seamless integration of standards-based videos into classroom lessons.

Discovery Education streaming offers videos and resources from award-winning producers such as Discovery Education, Discovery School, Standard Deviants, Weston Woods and more!  This is a great resource to supplement learning in class. 

The login credentials will be sent via an email Synervoice.

Purdy's Pick Up!

Thank you to everyone who supported our Purdy's Christmas Sweets for Smartboards fundraiser.  Our school raised  $1869.29 towards our smartboard goal!  You may pick up your sweets today and tomorrow at the end of the school day. A BIG thank you to Pam and all of her volunteers who made this fundraiser a great success!

Band Concert tonight at 7PM

Everyone is invited to attend our band concert tonight, December 6th, 2011 at 7PM. Our students have been working hard and sounding great!  Everyone is welcome.

Basketball tryouts are here!

	Mon. Dec 5th	Tues. Dec. 6th	Wed. Dec. 7th	Thurs. Dec. 8th	Fri. Dec. 9th
7:45-            bb8:45am	Organizational Day No School	Grade 8 Boys	Grade 8 Girls	Grade 8 Girls	Grade 9 Girls (7:15am)
3:45-      bb5:00pm		Christmas Concert 7-9	Grade 9 Girls	Grade 9 Boys	Grade 8 Boys (1:35-3:00)
5:00-     bb6:00pm			Grade 9 Boys

	Mon. Dec. 12th	Tues. Dec. 13th	Wed. Dec. 14th	Thurs. Dec. 15th	Fri. Dec. 16th
7:45-      bb8:45am	Grade 8 Boys	Grade 9 Girls (7:15 am)	Grade 8 Girls
3:45-5:00pm	Grade 8 Girls	Grade 9 Boys	Grade 8 Boys	Grade 9 Girls
5:00-6:00pm				Grade 9 Boys

	Mon. Dec. 19th	Tues. Dec. 20th	Wed. Dec. 21st	Thurs. Dec. 22nd	Fri. Dec. 23rd
7:45- bb8:45am	Grade 8 Boys	Grade 9 Girls (7:15 am)	Grade 8 Girls		No School Christmas Break Begins!!