Week Ahead: April 30-May 4

Thank you all for taking care of the division while I was away at the soccer tournament.  It is always so reassuring to know that I work with such talented colleagues!  Enjoy the 4 day weekend – you’ve all earned it!

FYI – the all school photo has been changed to 2:30 on Friday.  This is because of the ES Sports Day … happy splashing to ES … and hopefully we will get into the formation of the “20” quickly so we don’t all melt in the afternoon sun.

Here is what’s up next week:

Monday, April 30
No School

Tuesday, May 1 
No School

Wednesday, May 2
Day 3, BCDA (Special Schedule)

3:15-4:30 Divisional Mtg (CTP, iPad Apps; library)

Thursday, May 3
Day 4, FGHE (CTP Tutorial during Advisory)

Friday, May 4
Day 5, CDAB (CTP Testing Special Schedule)
*Chris Anderson and family return to HCMC – possible baby sighting

• Check the CTP Testing Plan doc for the schedule (I couldn’t get the formatting to work – and have given up … add “learn how to make a table in WordPress” to my to do list)

Saturday, May 5
Faculty Follies

Upcoming (on the radar)

• May 8, 9, 15 – CTP Testing
• May 8-10 – Book Fair
• May 10 (special schedule with 4th block right after lunch and advisory at the end of the day) – Gr 5 Transition Activity (Gr 6 students miss last block); MS StuCo Elections
• May 11 – Special Schedule to support PE Dance Extravaganza (basically run Early Dismissal schedule, lunch, DEAR, then rehearsal from 1:30-3:00); PE Dance Extravaganza from  6-8pm
• May 16 – Art Party 3:15-5:30
• May 21 – Student Film Festival
• May 26 – Graduation
• May 30 – Drama rehearsal: Gr 7 and 8 drama students will be off timetable block A; Drama Production that night, 6-7:30
• May 31 – MS Talent Show (moved from May 3rd)
• June 1 – Music Concert, 6pm; Grade 7 and 8 music students will be off timetable block A
• June 4 – Grade 6 Field Trip

CTP Updates:  David Rynne is working out how to resolve the issues surrounding administering the CTP.  His is testing it out with a few groups of students (one group today; one group tomorrow).  We are also looking to see how administration goes with Grade 4 and 5, we will know if there are any other issues we need to address.  Here are the next steps:

• David will share the directions for what the students need to do to their laptops.  We will attempt to have all the students do this on Wednesday next week.  See special schedule above for Wednesday.
• On Thursday, we are going to try to do a 2nd attempt at the tutorial to ensure that the fix worked.  We will not administer the first test on Thursday as previously scheduled.  We will do the tutorial during Advisory.
• We will adjust the testing schedule to start on Friday, and then add May 15th for the final section.  I’ve updated the CTP Testing Plan doc.