Daily Announcements – Thursday November 7, 2019 (Day 1)

What’s coming up?

• November 2019 – Indigenous Education Month at the TDSB
• Monday November 4 – Friday November 8th – Treaties Recognition Week
• Monday November 11th – 1020am- Remembrance Day Assembly in the gymnasium- All are welcome to attend
• Thursday November 14th from 330-6pm- Special Family Event- Scholastic Book Fair.  Volunteers needed from 330-6pm  http://bit.ly/scholastic18
• Thursday November 14th – Thursday Nov 21st – Scholastic Book Fair in the school library.  Volunteers needed from 830-1140am  http://bit.ly/scholastic18
• Thursday November 14th- Progress Report Cards go home
• Friday November 15th – Last day to buy Marlies tickets
• Friday November 15th – PA DAY
• Thursday November 21st 6-730pm- Parent Council Mtg in school library.  All are welcome.  Child care and pizza will be provided
• Friday November 22nd – Movie Night at Gledhill in the gym- “Rise of the Guardians”.  Doors open at 6pm and movie starts at 630pm.  If you are interested in volunteering to make this might a success, please sign up at https://signup.com/go/RGzhQUX
• Saturday November 30th @ 130pm – Marlies Game at Scotiabank arena.

Highlights from today’s announcements:

• Good morning!  Please stand for the Land Acknowledgement and our National Anthem.
• We acknowledge we are hosted on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe , the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat.  We also recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples.
• O Canada
• Please be seated.  Make sure you are listening to anything that is relevant to you.
• Today is Thursday November 7th and it is Day 1 in our schedule.  Our character theme for November is Empathy and here is something to think about.  “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them fell.” – Bonnie Jean Wasmund
• Book Fair crew, please come to the library ta last recess for an important meeting.
• Techie Teacher Thursday is on today.  See you in the library at 11:35am!
• November 7th is “International Inuit Day”.  It was declared a day of significance at the 2006 Inuit Circumpolar Council general assembly in Barrow, Alaska, as a day when Inuit honour the memory of Inuit Circumpolar Council’s late founding president Eben Hopson, who was born on Nov 7, 1922.  In 1976, Hopson rallied the Inuit leaders of Greenland, Canada, the United States and Russia to form an international organization(then called the Inuit Circumpolar Conference).  The North Slope borough mayor hosted the first ICC assembly in 1977 in Barrow where delegates passed 17 resolutions on Inuit land claims, Arctic environmental protection, Arctic health and technology and Inuit culture and education.  “The single most important issue facing all Inuit, regardless of where they live, is preservation of a unique culture, identity and way of life before they are destroyed by large-scale industrial development and the intrusions of southern society,”  Hopson said at the time.  Today is also an opportunity for all Canadians to reflect on the important relationship and history we share with the Inuit of Canada, as we move forward in our journey of reconciliation and a renewed Canada and Indigenous peoples.

Note: These announcements are typed up daily and posted by a parent volunteer on the Gledhill School Council’s Communications Committee. Edits or omissions are made occasionally to protect the privacy of student identities.  Some days part of the announcements are read by the students in French.  For the purposes of these posts, announcements will be in English