If your mask is hanging below your nose, you are doing it wrong.
Too many students are walking the halls with masks hanging down too far. Sort it out!
And since we are on the topic, are you vaccinated?
Unless you have medical reasons why you shouldn’t get the shot, or aren’t eligible, why aren’t you vaccinated by now? Get to it.
Buck the Library Duck has a message for you:
“If everyone who could get a Covid vaccine would get one, we would be on our way to getting through this mess. In the meantime, Covid is still enough of a problem that all of us, including the vaccinated, have to wear masks.”
So come down to the school library, enjoy all that we have to offer… just be sure to wear that mask.
The Holocaust is one of the most well documented events in history. Yet despite this, there are some who seek to distort or deny the facts of this terrible blight on human history. We must continue to fight against the evil that the Holocaust represents. To do so we must fight against lies, distortions and ignorance to ensure that the facts are preserved, as horrifying as the facts are, so that future generations know what happened, and what must never happen again.
#ProtectTheFacts is just one of many organizations dedicated to preserving the historical facts of the Holocaust, and fighting against the evil that is Holocaust denial or distortion. See more in the links below.
Come to the school library to find out more about the Holocaust. Check out some of the following resources:
Find out more:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Yad Veshem World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Because today is a good day to enjoy something awesome. Maybe you have seen it before or maybe today is the best day of your life.
source: Parry Gripp
Show solidarity in the fight against racism. Help raise awareness for the ARC and other anti-racist efforts by wearing a black shirt to school tomorrow, Friday, January 15.
Find out more: Anti-Racism Coalition Vancouver
Every now and then it might be helpful to consider where we sit in the big picture.
Our students will leave our school and soon become the adults who will hold the future of democracy in their hands. We must educate and equip our students to recognize the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship. We must help them see the precious nature of the democratic traditions that have been handed to them by previous generations. We must help them see the fragile nature of those institutions and the peril that is represented by those forces that are at work to undermine democracy.
Most pressingly, we must help our students to recognize the rise of fascism, both in the world and in our own backyard. We must equip our students to denounce fascist ideology and to defeat fascist attempts to destroy our democracy.
The politics of fear, division, and hate will fight for the souls of our students. We must counter those dark forces with hope, unity and love. Forces are at work undermining the foundations of democracy, including the rule of law, freedom of the press, public education, respect for science and reason, confidence in free and fair elections, and peaceful transitions of power. We must build up faith in those ideals in our kids, and equip them to demand them as their rightful expectation for a civil society.
Polarizing forces are at work which divide us, resulting in extreme “othering” to the point of dehumanization. We must find ways to help the next generation to reconcile that which divides us, or at least to find respectful and peaceful ways to engage with those divisions. Somehow we must find common ground with our beliefs about truth. We must find some way to agree on “the facts” even if we don’t agree on what do with those facts.
Please check out our display of items related to the struggle between democracy and fascism.
Masks must be worn covering both nose and mouth in all common areas of the school. This includes hallways and washrooms.
Give each other space.
Eat and drink from a seated position so you are not moving through common spaces with your mask down and give each other space while eating.
Today afterschool the GSA hosts a workshop for teachers from our school and around the district on building SOGI-inclusive classrooms. Check out some of our SOGI themed titles, both fiction and non-fiction, in the School Library:
In a controversial decision made over the March Break, the Surrey School Board voted to require that all schools must display, alongside the current portrait of our Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, portraits of the following: US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladmir Putin, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim-Jong-Un and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. All Elementary and Secondary Schools are required to be in compliance with this order by April 5, 2019.
The Surrey School Board is pleased to announce that the District’s first ever Latin Immersion Program is starting this September at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School. All incoming Grade 8 students will receive instruction in Latin for all classes. All Grade 9 students will have Latin instruction in all the core academic classes. Meanwhile students on the Graduation Program will have Latin instruction in subjects chosen at random. In the cases of Provincially examinable courses, the Provincial Exam will also be written in Latin. When interviewed, Lord Tweedsmuir Principal Buggie was very excited about the plan, exclaiming, “vero nihil verius.” Then he added, “quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.”
Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School Library 