I am busy updating the blog and my class Christmas Concert pages! So stay tuned as I will soon have up links to songs the kids are working on as well as costume requests for each class:) As always, if you are able to help out in any way, please let me know at the school! Thanks!

Happy New Year and welcome back! Lots of fun Music and Art learning happening in our Fine Arts classes this term: Check out the "Crazy Hair" art display in the library featuring the artwork of Ms. Steffenson's Grade 5 class. Meanwhile, the African drums are back and starting this week, students will be getting a chance to make some fun rhythms! The primary classes are learning all about beat and rhythm, the grade 3/4 classes are starting recorders in a month (check it out here), and the intermediates are working on a drawing unit in art.

The Christmas Concert is coming up in less than a month and classes are already working hard on their performance pieces! The Concert this year will be Wednesday, December 16th with an afternoon concert at 1pm and an evening concert at 6pm.  The Dress Rehearsal will be on Tuesday, December 15th at 1pm. Check out the Concert Page for more information on each class' song and costume needs. Keep checking back for more information and for requests for help! Thank you!

Our Remembrance Day ceremony this year will be occurring on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:45 in the gym. Students from Mr. Wielgoz's grade 6 class will be performing a short play, and students from Ms. Weber, Mr. Hummel, and Ms. Sauka's classes will be performing a song. Click here for more information on those two performances.

On Tuesday, October 13, Bert Edwards Science and Technology School made history, participating in the largest ever recording of O Canada! The project, part of an initiative by Heritage Canada to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our national flag, sent a recording group across Canada to record the voices of students in schools across our nation. Only two schools in Kamloops were chosen, ourselves and St. Ann's.
The students have spent the last few weeks rehearsing the words to O Canada, creating artwork, and learning about the history of our Maple Leaf flag. Recording was done Tuesday morning in groups of 2-3 classes at a time, where students also learned more about the history of our flag.
It was a great experience that the students really seemed to enjoy! I'm so glad we were able to take part!
Keep an eye out at www.flagofcanada.ca in the new year (or possibly as early as December) for the final recording to be posted.

Another year has begun, and with it an exciting opportunity for our school and our students! We have been selected to take part in a special commemorative Recording of O Canada, one that is hoping to create a new world record! Only two schools in Kamloops were chosen to take part in this special 50th Anniversary celebration of the Flag of Canada, and we were one of those schools! On October 13th, a special recording crew will be coming to our school to record the voices of our students, which will then be combined with the voices of students from all over Canada to create one massive recording of our National anthem, which will then be delivered to every major library from coast to coast.  More information about this exciting event can be found at: www.flagofcanada.ca

As part of this initiative, we are practicing singing O Canada, and are learning about the history of the flag of Canada and about what makes us Canadian.

You can support your child at home by talking to them about your families history in Canada and what it means to you to be Canadian. Also, you can go to this link to practice the singing of O Canada with your child (It is important that we use this recording as this will be the one the main recording is based off