North East School Division

On Sunday January 10^th Porcupine Plain’s Kelsey Bohachewski ran 300 metres down Regina’s Dewdney Avenue with the Olympic Torch. Kelsey a grade 12 student at PPCHS entered a contest on the Coke.ca web site and won the chance to carry the torch by writing an essay about how being active is important to her.  Kelsey is involved in many sporting activities including being a Provincial Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist in Track and Field. In fact the staff in charge of the relay had to ask Kelsey to slow down several times during her run. Congratulations Kelsey we are proud of you!

The Kelsey Trail Health Region has named Porcupine Plain Elementary School as the Grand Prize Winner in the Walk-To-School Month Challenge.

Students and Staff walked a total of nearly 6500kms in 21 school days in a Walk-Across-Canada Challenge.  Daily progress was charted on a large wall map of Canada.  Students walked before school, at recess and in Phys. Ed. classes.

The $250.00 prize money will be used to purchase equipment or resources to support the physical education program at PPES.

Way to be active PPES!

On November 24 and 26, 2009, Mrs. Batiuk's English Language Arts 20 class from MUCC visited Mrs. Kellington's  grade 1 and 2 students at Brunswick School.  As part of their recollections unit in ELA, the grade 11 students are focusing on the literature that was read to them as children.  The grade 11 students are concentrating on the themes apparent in children's literature and are thinking about the influence that children's literature has had on their development and about whether or not children's literature continues to influence young people.  The grade 11 students are doing a case study to determine if reading to children is pleasurable experience for the reader and for the listener and tested their theory at Brunswick School.  The grade eleven students choose a book to read aloud to several children during each of the sessions and noted their partners' responses.  The grade 11 students also completed a self-assessment of their own speaking and reading aloud skills after each story.  Mrs. Kellington's class presented Mrs. Batiuk's class with a poster full of digital pictures to say thank-you. This was a fabulous experience for both the highschool and elementary students!