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October 2016 www.tjshs.blackgold.ca

PH: 780 789 3983

Fax: 780 789 3024

Thorsby Junior Senior High

Principal’s Message — Ganton Gazette It’s 3 a.m. as I write part of this. For some reason I woke up at this terrible hour and decided that I couldn’t sleep. So naturally I picked up my phone and noticed that since I went to sleep around 11, I have received 2 school related emails and 1 text message.

So what should be the natural thing to do?

In a simpler time in my life it would have been to go back to sleep, but instead, here I am on my phone because I have the option too.

I think that this is the reality for our children now. At THS this year we have seen students coming in and complaining about being tired. Yes I know that some of our students have been helping with harvest and that could contribute, but, many of them talk about playing games, or receiving snapchats or text messages late at night. This is our reality. We are so plugged into our devices that we need to have days (like Family Day) where we are supposed to unplug from the world. Our children are not getting the recommended amounts of sleep because they have a device that can be connected at all times.

When you look at the recommended amount of sleep for students at THS is goes as follows:

Our grades 7-9 students should be getting 9-10 hours of sleep a night and our grades 10-12 students should be getting 8-10 hours of sleep. This is uninter-rupted sleep.

I often wonder how many of our students actually get this amount of sleep on a consistent basis. When you read research from Harvard Medical school to re-place your sleep debt of 10 hours in any given week it takes up to two weeks to get your body back to normal. When students are experiencing sleep debt their bodies overproduce hormones such as cortisol which can mess up metabolism and increase the likelihood of diabetes and obesity. A lack of the proper amount of sleep can also help to degrade the immune system and immune re-sponse in general. All of this can contribute to poorer performance in their clas-ses at school and their mental states outside of school.

After reading up on some of the research on sleep debt I have made the effort to leave my phone in a location that I can’t access it if I wake up at 3 a.m. I don’t have to worry about this type of behaviour from my children yet, but, when they are old enough to have cell phones or iPods I will be making the effort to make sure that they don’t fall into the same trap that I did and their devices will not be with them for those 3 a.m. wake ups.

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November Report Cards and Interviews

Marks will be available on Powerschool November 7th and Parent Teacher interviews November 9th

Watch in late October for information to book Parent Teacher Conferences with your desired teachers online. We

piloted this program last year and have decided to continue using this application. If you have trouble accessing

this system, call into the office and have them book appointments for you. Teachers can also be emailed directly

as they can schedule appointments as well.

ELAA Career Fair

The ELAA Career Fair is taking place in the High School Gym from 7:00

pm-8:30 pm on Tuesday, October 18. ELAA is the recruiting liaison for

Alberta’s public post-secondary institutions, representing 28 universities,

colleges, and polytechnics. This career fair brings Alberta’s higher education

offerings to our school and we encourage all students and parents to attend,

gather resources and information and ask lots of questions.

ELAA events are directly applicable to the learner out-

comes in Alberta’s CALM curriculum, helping high school

learners to:

Develop strategies to transition from high school to higher educa-

tion

Investigate higher education and apprenticeship training pro-

grams; and

Inventory the skills and knowledge necessary to getting

employment

Students interested in participating in Work Experience or the RAP program should contact Mrs. Van Steenis


We are happy to announce that we are serving breakfast EVERY DAY!!

Breakfast is available to ALL students at no cost. We have lots of student

volunteer and work experience students that make it possible for the pro-

gram to run!

We will gladly take donations of *jam *peanut butter

*margarine *cheez whiz *100 % fruit juices *granola

bars *cheese strings *breads

Breakfast Program

Lunch Concession

Art Program News

Check out the works of art that our amazing students create! You can check them out

in the foyer/office & library as well as on Instagram; follow us ths_artprogram.

Any parents or senior art students who are interested in demonstrating how to do an

art project or craft with their child’s Art Class at THS, contact Mrs.

Sauer. (780 789 3893

Congratulations to Angel Nevocshonoff on her art achieve-ments last year --she was given the Art Award :)

One of the beautiful

tables in our Library!

Music Club meets Mondays

after school: 3:30-4:30 pm.

Bring your instruments and

enjoy the fun!!

We will be bringing back a lunch concession as of Monday, October 17. It will be

available Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30-12:00. It will offer lunch

items, drinks, and snacks. Menus are posted around the school. First come, first

serve and cash only.


Student Union News

Congratulations to Sammy Hormazabal & Rachel Morton on their election

to President & Vice-President. We are still interested in having new members

join; also for seniors with heavy course loads you can always join us at the

start of SEMESTER 2.

October Spirit Points Update:

Grade 11s = 6 points

Grade 7s = 5 points

Grade 8s = 3 points

Thank you everyone for participating in THS Spirit Day & contributing to the

Leduc & District Food Bank

Halloweek Activities

Events Occur at Lunch

Oct 24: Halloween Bake Sale

Oct 25: Drinking Gross Things Oct 26: Blindfold Face Paint Oct 27: Pumpkin Carving Oct 28:Duct Tape

Oct 31: Costume Parade


Shop Updates

There are some amazing projects coming out of our shop this year.

Here are a few pictures.


Golf Club

Congratulations to our Senior Boys Golf Team

who won the 1A banner for best combined score

on Monday, September 19 in Westlock. Team

members include Kolter Pawlick, Justin Lange,

Ethan Bendoritis, and Ryan Chrunik.

Congratulations to our Jr Girl Golfers

who competed in September in Devon.

Team members include Journey Wa-

ters, Avery Pharis, Sarah Mitchell, and

Austyn Petracyk. All four girls played

very well and a bronze medal was

awarded to Austyn. Way to go girls!!

Physical Education Program

The PE program was having fun one day

last week. The kids were playing a clas-sic game with a bit of a twist. The stu-

dents got to play a game of Dodgeball, but the twist was that they had to be at-

tached to a partner by the ankle the en-tire time. Looked like a 3 legged race out

there!

The Grade 7’s were asked to get into groups

of 5 and make their way across the gym us-

ing only 4 feet. This was the end result.


Junior Volleyball

Our Junior Girls team has been doing very well. Thank you to all the

Senior High Students who volunteer to ref, score keep and toss for

triple ball plays!

Team Members:

#2 Hailey Sabyan

#3 Tiki Stefure

#4 Kristina Wurban

#5 Alex Mudry

#6 Emily Thorne

#7 MacKenzie Denschikoff-Johanson

#8 Ashley Gunsch

# 9 Britt Scholten

# 10 McKinlee Coles

# 11 Calla Pederson

# 12 Kennedy Crow

# 13 Ashton Pawlick

# 15 Journey Waters

# 16 Megan Gitzel

Coach: Paige Forster

Senior Volleyball

The girls will be away this weekend

in Ponoka for the Turkey Burner

Classic. The Sr. Girls have been

playing very well all year and we

are coming close to crunch time.

Good luck to the girls for the rest

of the year!


Bio 20 Field Trip


We know our students have lives outside of school and we would love to hear about it!

Let us know about the accomplishments your child has. Did he get first in public

speaking at 4H? Will he be entering an archery contest? How is she doing in sports?

Did she win big at a cheerleading competition? How about those up and coming rodeo

stars? Cadets; when is your annual inspection? Tell us the details!! Email any details

and pictures to:

[email protected]

Guess What My Kid Did?

TJSHS on Social Media

We are trying our very best to keep up to date on our website and calendar. Check us out at

tjshs.blackgold.ca

Newsletters are published monthly and are available for download on the website or through email.

TJSHS is on Snapchat: thorsbyschool

Instagram: ths_studentsunion

THS Art Program: ths_artprogram

THS Foods: thsfoods

Check out this great

community event.


THS Foods

See more pictures like this on Instagram

@ thsfoods


Bell Schedule


October 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Sr Girls Volleyball

in Drayton Valley

2 3 Jr High Cross

Country Meet

4 5 Early Dismissal

Sr High X

Country Zones

Edson

6 7

Awards

Night

8

9 10 Thanksgiving

No School

11 12 Sr Girls Volley-

ball @ Warburg

13 14 Sr Girls Volleyball

in Ponoka

15 Sr Girls Volleyball

in Ponoka

16 17 BBQ Beef on a

Bun

18 ELAA CAREER

FAIR

7-8:30

19 Taco in a Bag

20 Sr Girl Volley-

ball @ home

21 Hamburger

Soup and Bun

22

23 24

Pizza Sub

25 26

Cheeseburger

27 28

BBQ or Buffalo

Chicken Wrap

29

30 31

BBQ Beef on a

Bun

HALLOWEEK

HOT LUNCH

$5.50


November 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

PD day

No School

2

Early

dismissal

Sr Girls Vball

playoffs

3 4

Sr Girls Vball in

Edson

5

Sr Girls Vball in

Edson

6

Daylight

Savings Time

Ends

7

Marks up on

Powerschool

8 9

Parent

Teacher In-

terviews

10

Midterm

Break

No School

11

Remembrance

Day

No School

12

13 14 15

Jr District

Girls Vball

playoffs

16

1J Vball

zones @

Swan Hills

17

Sr District

Girls Vball

playoffs

18

Sr Girls

Vball Zones

@ Boyle

19

Sr Girls

Vball Zones

@ Zones

20 21 22 23 24 25

Free Sr Tour-

ney @ Frank

Maddock

26

Free Sr Tour-

ney @ Frank

Maddock

27 28 29 30

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