William Grayson Elementary School

The students at William Grayson are excited to make a difference sharing in the movement to make positive choices and help others in our community and the world.  We are embarking on projects which will help make life changes for children and animals. We need your help. Our first project: Feed the Animals will help the Moose Jaw Humane Society.

We will be hosting a garage sale with the proceeds and supplies to be given to the Moose Jaw Humane Society. Feed the Animals Garage sale will be hosted  @ William Grayson School Gym and parking lot on: Thursday, May 30^th  4:00-7:00 p.m./Friday, May 31^st  4:00-7:00 p.m. /Saturday, June 1^st  8:00-11:00 a.m.

We need your support through donations of items to sell: anything from A-Z.  Blankets or towels, as well as bags of dog food can be donated.  Pop cans (rinsed out please) can be donated.

Please drop off the garage sell items at William Grayson School between May 27-29.  Also spread the word about our Feed The Animals garage sale project.If you are able to help out with the garage sale contact Mrs Pavier at 306 692 4659.

Please be reminded of this year's school year calendar (http://www.prairiesouth.ca/division/division-calendar.html ) and that the Teacher's PD days will be done in a format in which all PSS 210 will have 15 early dismissal days (@ 2:30 PM). Dates remaining are May 27 & June 10.

Once again this year our school's Learning Improvement Plan's (LIP) academic goal will focus on reading and improving each student's reading ability. Our grades 1-8 will once again make use of the Fountas & Pinnell (F & P) Reading Assessment tool in benchmarking reading levels for students. This data is the starting point also for our Teacher's Leaning Improvement Teams (LITs) as they work together to support our reading LIP goal. Grades 1-2-3/4 staff are using the F & P data to guide work in the area of vocabulary and reading comprehension improvement, while the grades 4/5- 7/8 staff's LIT is introducing another reading assessment tool called Whole Class Reading Assessment (WCRA). This will support the F & P data collected already last year on each student. From this areas that are identified as weaknesses in reading will be the focus of their LIT as they strive to incorporate new instructional strategies with the class and students!! Here is a few photos of WG students in guided reading groups.

You’re being rewarded for a---Random Act of Kindness for being a good citizen of William Grayson School!!

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After the reading at an assembly of the book “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” WG School staff chose to reward more good deeds by students for other students and/or staff. So we continue with RAK (Random Act of Kindness) rewards being given out at assemblies and also at the spur of the moments. THANKS to the Frozen Noodle Smoothies Bar in the Hammond Block Building downtown (on Fairford St. East across the street from City Hall) for partnering with us in giving out smoothies as a reward for RAK for the last few School years....