Stettler Elementary School was busy as usual this past week.
We had ECS registration for those children entering kindergarten next year on Monday and Tuesday of last week. If you missed this registration, there is still an opportunity to come into the school office and register your child.
Students who were registered have the opportunity to come for an orientation day in June, and we are eagerly awaiting their arrival.
Students from the school were involved in the Stettler Music Festival on Wednesday and Thursday. Elementary school music classes each presented a musical number complete with movement and instruments. The adjudicators were once again impressed with the students performances. Some classrooms also participated in choral speech presentations, and one such number by grade two classes directed by Mrs. Donna Boyd-Stadelmann and Mrs Annette Hunter was recommended to the provincial music festival. Many individual students involved in the choral speech club also made presentations and the show choir had several numbers as well. It was a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talents of our students and their teachers.
If parents missed the opportunity of seeing their child perform on stage, there will be an encore presentation on Friday, April 30, at 10:45 in the Stettler elementary School gymnasium.
Swimming lesson season is once again upon us. Some grade one classes and all of the grade two students are presently taking lessons, and two grade one classes as well as the kindergarten students will be starting their lessons in May.
We also had litterless lunch on Thursday and classrooms participated in Earth Day on April 22 by keeping the lights out as much as possible.
Students are encouraged to continue to bring nutritious and litter free lunches every day, but especially again this Thursday as Mrs. Fox’s lunch inspecotrs will once again be on the lookout to award prizes to those who have a litterless lunch.
Students from Mrs. Jackson’s and Mrs. Sylvester’s grade one classes and Mrs. Geddes’ grade two class were fortunate enough to visit Otis the Owl at the TD Bank on Wednesday, April 21. Otis the Owl lives at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre and he has lived at the centre since he was four days old and was on a visit to Stettler last week. Otis is now seven years old. Carol from the centre talked about owls and informed the students on what they eat, how they hunt and other interesting facts about owls. The students sat inside the bank on the floor and were able to see Otis close up. Students in grade one are learning about habitats in science, so this was a great opportunity for them to see Otis.