​Thank you to Gimli Tim Hortons for your generous donation of 50 $5 gift cards to SSES students. Our Kiwanis Terrific Kids noon hour club received these as surprise gifts for the holidays for all of their efforts to make our school and world a better place! Spreading acts of kindness is the best gift ever!

​SSES enjoyed our recent session with the Rocks & Rings program which helps students learn how to curl and develop curling skills. Curling is such a great Canadian sport and it is a wonderful way to get exercise, learn a new game, and spend time with others. All of the classes that participated had a blast! Thank you Rocks & Rings!

​Learning vocabulary is an important tool for understanding curricular concepts. Sometimes our spelling words of the week focus on some of these  useful curricular concepts to help us develop a deeper understanding of what we are learning at SSES. Developing excellent printing and handwriting skills are also part of our everyday learning. Another important life skill that is emphasized at SSES is utilizing an agenda to improve organization, develop responsibility, and to communicate effectively with our parents/caregivers regarding learning and end of day home schedules.

​Hats off to this team for their wonderful idea to visit residents of our local personal care home to visit and play games with our community members. B shared this great experience with his Grade 1/2 classmates during a morning meeting and all of the students were so interested in this special visit. We are very proud of our students for spreading kindness and thinking of others, which is an important part of being on a team.

​We are very proud of our students on the Gimli Minor Hockey Novice Black Team who chose to collect donations for the animals in our local shelter. The team is going to visit the shelter again soon to walk the dogs, play with the cats, and help feed the animals as part of their Good Deed Submission with Minor Hockey. Way to go!!