Month: October 2020

Thanksgiving Food Drive Update

A huge THANK YOU to all students/families who donated items to the MDJH Thanksgiving Food Drive. We collected a record 2045 food items! The competition between classes for Food Drive Donation Supremacy (and the coveted ice cream treats)  was extra fierce this year. The winning classes were Ms. Kelly’s 7-1s, Mr. Sharpe’s 8-7s, Mme Parsons’s 7-9s, and Mme Quann’s 7-7s. Congratulations!

The top three students who wrangled the most donations were Elsa W., with 33 items, Salma H. with 35 items, and Ali A. who brought in a whopping 60 items! Thanks once again for all your support!

We would like to wish you all a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. 

MDJH Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive

Macdonald Drive Junior High has had a long tradition of taking part in the annual Thanksgiving food drive.  This year our school community felt it was important that we take part.  Every student is asked to help out by bringing in a non-perishable food item. Items will be counted and the top 3 Homerooms with the most items collected will receive an ice cream prize.  Food items will be accepted Wednesday and Thursday! 

Math Problem of the Week Returns!

The Macdonald Drive Junior High Math Department is proud to present the first of this year’s Math Problem of the Week questions today. Your teachers will present them to you in homeroom, or by request, and submissions should be done electronically (that is, emailed to Mr. Shane Lambert).

Please, write your final answer to the question, your name, and your homeroom, in the body of your email submission and pass it along to Mr. Lambert by the due date located on the bottom right of the problem.

The names of participants with correct responses are entered into a draw and the winner receives a free extra value meal from McDonald’s.    

MDJH Virtual Curriculum Night

Our Virtual Curriculum Night will be on the evening of October 7th from 7 to 8pm. You should have already received an email from your child’s Homeroom teacher giving you the details. If you have not, please reach out to them before October 7th.

In other years, our administration of Ms. Pike, Ms. Hardy, and Ms. Riggs would present a slideshow to start the evening. We can’t do that this year, but here is the slideshow for you to view before you meet with the teachers.

Go ENG Girl – Saturday, November 21

Go ENG Girl is a engineering free workshop for girls in grades 7-10. This event will be virtual this year, and will take place on Saturday, November 21. The participants will take part in some live, virtual sessions, as well as work on independent activities at home to report back to the group. The commitment would be from 9:00am – 2:30pm, with some of this time being online.

Given that the event is virtual, access to a device, the internet and the ability to take part in the live calls will be required. Kits are being prepared for participants that will include most of what will be needed to complete the activities. Some household items may be required.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet some inspiring mentors, learn about the vast career opportunities that engineering can offer, try out some coding and have fun solving some interesting design challenges.

Registration will launch on Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00am. You will be able to access the registration through the link below.

https://www.mun.ca/engineering/community/outreach/upcomingevents.php

Spaces are limited for this event. If you have any questions, please contact:

Kathryn Hong | Coordinator for Outreach Activities

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Memorial University of Newfoundland

T 709 864-3108

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Bus Update

MDJH along with NLESD are very pleased to announce that we have received 3 additional buses to help with our student transportation. All homes with students that are eligible (according to Government policy) for busing have been contacted. This will start effective Monday morning, October 5th.

For a summary of how eligibility is determined, as well as how bus routes and bus stops are developed, please see the District’s Bus Route & Stop Design Guidelines. Seating plans will be developed for the updated routes at a later date once the courtesy seating process has concluded. However, we ask that students continue to follow the general loading procedures as follows:

Load from back to front;

Siblings sitting together

Please go to the District’s website and select the school bus icon on the far right that is associated with your school to locate the student’s bus route, bus stop, and pickup/dropoff schedule.

IMPORTANT:

Even if a student was eligible for transportation on the first day of school and assigned a bus route, please review the updated routes on the website because the student’s bus route and/or pickup/dropoff times may have changed with the redesign of bus routes and extra buses.

We ask for your patience as there may be delays to the pickup/dropoff times as we work out any issues that typically arise when new routes are implemented at the beginning of the school year.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.