BCP Family Weekly Updates: Monday, November 27th 2023 (DAY 1)

 Dear Families, 

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. December is fast approaching. Please note that there was not an update last week. Catch up on all this week's action here! Thank-you in advance for taking the time to review updates and important reminders! Any questions or concerns let me know. If I have missed anything please reply-all to this email. 

                                         Updates and Important Information

1) Student Leadership Food Drive: The student leadership group will be having a food drive. As an incentive to promote this fundraiser, the leadership will have a basket of goodies done up to draw for on the night of the Christmas concert.  For every item a student brings in they will have thier name put into the basket for the draw. 

Also, the students are going to be doing a raffle for a basket to fundraise for local charities.  If anyone has anything they would like to donate to the basket, the leadership group would really appreciate it! Items like decorative things, candles, knitted items, chocolates, etc.  

2)  Cash Lottery Draw: Time is running low! Sell your tickets and pass them in to secure an upcoming payout and give your homeroom an idea where they stand in the party race. Who will win the $5000? Anyone's chance! Do not leave any tickets on the table. If you will not sell your tickets please bring them in and we'll re-distribute to someone who will!

3) Splash Centre Grow-up Program: Career Education students will be participating in the GROW-UP PROGRAM's first day offering Tuesday, November 28th 2023. We're excited to have our students and program partnering up with the Splash Centre for this enhanced programming that helps our youth learn real-world skills and answers youths real-world questions. Furthermore, we are especially excited that this programming hits most/all of the Career Education learning targets and all of this hands-on learning will be assessed for the course. 

The program for Tuesday includes: 

1. Introduction to the program, SPLASH Centre, and YPDC, 

2. CBDC - Banking Basics, 

3. CBDC - Youth Ventures and entrepreneurship, 

4. VolunTeens - Volunteerism , 

5. VolunTeens - Interview Skills & Self Care. 

Money Management presentation will discuss student short- and long-term goals, obtaining and the importance of a Social Insurance Number, Life Skills, paystubs, opening a bank account, credit reports, credit score and monitoring and much more. Youth Ventures/CBDC Programs presentation will touch on the YV program and chat about other programs geared towards youth wanting to start their own business. Volunteerism  will discuss the VolunTeens program and how they can help youth find volunteer opportunities and the personal and community benefits of volunteering. Interview Skills & Self Care will discuss tips and how to prepare for an interview. They will also discuss ways to help take care of yourself before and after an interview to help relieve nerves and anxiety. 

4) Family/Teacher Conferences: Teachers will be available to meet with families regarding Term 1 reports on Thursday, November 30th 2023 from 1-4pm and 5-7pm in the gymnasium. Families with students struggling either academically, socially, or behaviourally should find the time to visit and discuss solutions with teachers. Guidance and administration will also be available to meet. 

5) Senior Girls Volleyball: This weekend (December 1st) our Senior Girls Volleyball squad head to 3A Provincials on their quest to hold the Provincial banner and hold it high! Stay tuned for schedule and location to be posted so fans can organize a hometown cheer for our students and coaches!

6) Senior Boys Basketball: This weekend our Senior Boys Basketball team head into their first tournament play at Holy Trinity Tigers in Torbay. Check the www.baccalieucollegiate.ca calendar and click on the event for schedule! Come out and cheer them on if you're in town. 

7) CDLI Virtual Family-Teacher interviews: will take place on Thursday, December 7th 2023. As a result, there will not be any live classes after 11:35 am on that day. Family-Teacher Conferences will be scheduled using Optis.  We will also be sharing this message with the families of CDLI students, provided that parent/guardian email addresses have been entered into the student CDLI account. Please click the link to schedule your meetings with CDLI teachers:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tr1QMkutcb2V-Ac2DO9kkYWwkocF9E9WUzLR9jKU3hE/edit?usp=sharing

8) Skilled Trades Volunteers: Still looking, spread the word. Any persons in our community who would like to volunteer to help mentor our students in the shop please reach out to baccalieucoll@nlesd.ca and/or call the school 709 587-3211. Skilled trade modules include: plumbing, electrical, flooring, framing, etc. Members of the community who are interested in positively influencing our students' work please reach out to find out more information. 

9) Tutor Hall: We have a Tutors for Tuition who can now work with students directly after school. Families should reach out and assign their youth to the study hall for a consistent, quiet, and learner friendly environment to stay on top of their learning. The Study Hall takes place every Tuesday and Wednesday afterschool 3-4pm. Tutoring for Tution students are available by request. 

10) Check the Calendar: Check the Calendar (www.baccaliecollegiate.ca) for further and future updates including extra-curricular activity practice times. 

Good News Report (In no particular order)

• Senior Girls Volleyball: Congratulations to our Senior Volleyball squad who are Provincial bound after winning Regionals!!!
  

• Term 1 End: Congrats to most and all students, staff, and families for successfully completing Term 1 of 3 in the school year 2023-24. 
  

• SDT: Thank-you to our hard working Service Delivery Team and thank-you for a great meeting last week. 

• CONA Field Trip: Big thanks to Ms. LeShane and Ms. Doyle for organizing a field trip to CONA Carb for our Career Education students. It's time now to explore. 
  

• Jr. Girls Volleyball: Congrats to our Junior Girls Volleyball squad who competed in the SSNL Jr. Girls Volleyball Regional at St. Peter's Upper Island Cove. 
  

• Jr. Boys Basketball: Congrats to the Grade 9 Junior Boys team who travelled to Paradise Intermediate for tournament play a couple of weeks ago. 
  

• Staff Meeting: Thank-you to our awesome teachers!
  

• Cash Lottery: Congrats to Marcus Delaney for winning our Cash Lottery early seller draw! Thank-you to all of our students selling tickets. Keep up the great work! Also, thank-you to everyone buying and supporting our school.
  

• Doorways: Thank-you Doorways for being in our school for a students mental health and well being. 

• Cash Lottery Kick-off: Big thanks to all for a successful Cash Lottery launch! Please see the following INFO Sheet with information regarding Homeroom teachers role and further information to ensure a successful fundraising initiative. 

• Chess Club: Great work chess club! Thanks Mr. Holloway for leading this for our students. 

• Music with Ms. Sequeira: Great job students in music! Thank-you students and Ms. Sequeira! 

• Girls Basketball: Way to go Coach Regev and the girls basketball!! Trust the process!

• Check Facebook/Twitter: For more updates on good news and information check out our Baccalieu Collegiate facebook/twitter page. 
• Did I miss something? If I missed anything please be sure to reply-all. There are so many amazing things going on at Baccalieu already, so chances are I might miss something. Celebrate whenever you can!