Every year, MDJH celebrates the students with a yearbook that is put together by the student yearbook committee that is headed up by Mme. Quann. If you are interested in ordering the 2021-2022 yearbook, you can do that on-line. Go to ybpay.lifetouch.ca and use the code 11573722.

Happy Friday!

We would like to share some items with you:

• Respect in the community
  • Owners of local restaurants and other businesses close to the school have been reporting that some of our students are using inappropriate language and being disrespectful towards their employees and other members in the community. Please speak to your child about their behaviour when visiting these places. We have advised the vendors to contact the RNC when they are concerned about safety.
• Crosswalks
  • Please remind your child to use the crosswalks during lunch, especially while crossing Macdonald Drive.
• Help for Ukraine
  • We would like to thank everyone who donated money to Ukraine. We have collected a donation of $1000 for the Red Cross!
• Report cards
  • PowerSchool is a great place to access the most up-to-date grades and comments for students. Therefore, we will not be sending home paper copies of report cards for this term. OPTIS will be open on March 18, at 2:30 pm to book a virtual or telephone Parent Teacher Conference. If you need help accessing PowerSchool, please contact the school at macdonalddrivejrh@nlesd.ca.
• PMF Family Survey
  • Thank you to all of those that have completed the survey. To date, 21% of our families have completed the survey. If you have not already done so, please complete the survey by March 25, by clicking on the following link: https://www.research.net/r/SDFAMILY2122EN. This data is very important to our school.
• Mask Wearing
  • As you may have heard, mask wearing is mandatory in schools until at least Easter break. We will keep you posted if there are any changes to this directive from Public Health.
• New Staff Welcome
  • We would like to welcome Ms. Kerri Bungay and Ms. Mina Perham to our school. Ms. Bungay has been hired for the remainder of the school year to replace Ms. Laura Clemens-Brenton, and Ms. Perham will be replacing Ms. Andrea Tilley.

Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful weekend!

A letter is going home with students on behalf of Memorial University. It is concerning a research study on Executive Functioning and Math Ability. Parents who are interested in finding out more information can refer to the letter, or download a PDF copy by clicking here.

The next math league practice will be Monday, March 28th in Ms. Kennedys room (207) at the beginning of lunch. This practice is mandatory if you intend on competing in the competition after school on Tuesday.

The next Math League Competition will take place on Tuesday, March 29th at 3:30 PM NST. The Competition will take place at the school with teams joining via Google Meet. These games will be open to all schools provincially and be hosted by Memorial University. These games usually take 2 – 2.5 hours to run including a short break.

All practices in the gym for this afternoon and tonight (Friday, March 4th) have been cancelled.

This past week (Feb. 25-27), some of our own Grizzlies represented the province at the 2022 National Synchronized Skating Championships in Calgary with the Prince of Wales Skating Club.

The team had two excellent skates and proudly placed 9th overall in Canada!

Way to go, Grizzlies!

A reminder that Monday, March 7th will be a Professional Development Day for teachers. There will be no classes for students on that day. Tuesday, March 8th will be Day 1 on the schedule.

The March Newsletter is now available!

Click here to view it.

This Friday, students and staff are asked to wear blue and/or yellow to show our support for Ukraine. We ask that students and staff bring in a small monetary donation. All donations through the Red Cross are being matched by the Canadian Government up to a maximum of $10 million.

Let’s come together and show our support!

Students, staff, and parents – use the Virtual Kindness Wall to anonymously submit positive messages about one another!

The Kindness Wall is hosted by YouUplift, which is an anonymous, cloud based messaging platform for students, staff, and parents that ONLY displays what the moderators APPROVE!

Positive pictures, quotes, memes, and animated gifs can also be submitted!

Click here to visit the Kindness Wall!