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Thorsby Junior Senior High

Principal’s Message — Ganton Gazette

We are going to take a quick break from the review of Michelle Borba’s book on empa-thetic students to focus on a topic that has been creeping up more and more with our students this year. The idea between ‘fair’, ‘equal’ and equitable’. When looking at the OurSchool survey results a couple of answers stand out to me: “we need teachers to treat everyone equally”; “the school needs to be more equal in handling discipline is-sues”’; “everyone needs to be treated equally”; etc. When I read these results I think of two things that my parents always told me while I was growing up: 1. Life’s not fair; 2. Sometimes fair isn’t equal and equal isn’t always fair. Instead of always being fair or equal, THS and the teachers here strive to be equita-ble. Believing that everyone needs to be treated equally in education or life, I believe, is a fallacy. With equal treatment education there would be no: Instructional Support Plans; extra time on exams/assignments; availability of readers/scribes; or the ability to use context in discipline issues, just to name a few. In life I also believe that people shouldn’t necessarily be treated equally as well. I should pay more taxes on my income then a working single mother. I should be willing to help support charities when I have the chance. I should volunteer to coach my son in soccer. I should treat every student differently based on their own needs and background. Why should I do these things? Well for starters, because I can and that is being equi-table, not equal. I’m happy to know that my tax dollars are going to provide services like Cancer treatments to someone that is less fortunate or to support some-one on Employment Insurance. It’s not fair that the global price of oil went down and now we have more families that are relying on the foodbank more heavily than ever. It’s not fair that, had I not volunteered to coach Jack, 11 kids from my community would have been sent to neighbouring communities to play U8 soccer.

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Finally, not all students have an equal upbringing, we have students that have lost important family members, have been brought up in violent situations, have learning difficulties, and many that have been brought up without these challenges. It’s not fair that some live in pov-erty, while others are being fed with the silver spoon. What ties all these students and situ-ations together though is that for roughly 6 hours a day, 182 days of the year they are our children and they deserve to be treated with care and respect. Does this mean that sometimes we hold certain people to higher standards? Yes it does. But, does that mean that we expect less of anyone? No it does not. The end goal is for every sin-gle student to be successful in their own way. Sometimes this means being on the honour roll, while to others it means giving a student a safe and caring place and for some it means both or anything inbetween. My goal is, has, and always will be to treat each of our students equitably, not equally. Until next month, here is a picture of Jack and Ruby at the Muttart Conservatory.

Ganton Gazette continued


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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]

We will include them in the daily slide show and in that month’s newsletter.

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

Breakfast Program

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 program to run!

We will gladly take donations of *jam *peanut butter *margarine *cheez whiz *100 % fruit

juices *granola bars *cheese strings *breads

Music Club meets Mondays after school! Bring

your instruments!


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Congratulations Class of 2017!


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Some snaps from

the dday!

Our Valedictorian, Tori Walls


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Drama Pictures

Being

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Prepping for “Lord of the Pies” production—thanks to Mrs. Sauer’s Art class for their help!


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English 20 Skits

Miss Ormberg’s Grade 11’s performing

Shakespeare’s Macbeth


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Band Concert

Make sure you mark your calendars for our Annual Band Concert which will be held on Friday, June 9 at 7:00 pm. Our theme will be A Night In Thorsby-Final Music Concert"

Spirit Days

May’s Spirit Day theme was Western. Congratulations to our winners. Special Honorable Mention to Isaac Scheetz who came as a Best Western employee!

Pancake Breakfast

You are invited to a pancake breakfast at Thorsby Jr/Sr High School on May 18th! Pancakes, sausages and fruit skewers, as well as coffee and juice, will be served from 7:30am to 10:00am.

The cost of the breakfast is by donation and all proceeds are going to THS’s Breakfast Program! The program provides a healthy breakfast to all of our students every morning, free of cost, and we would like to be able to continue to do so.


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Rural Discovery at University of Alberta

Work Experience

On Friday, May 5th, 19 grade 11 students travelled to

the University of Alberta to take part in Rural Discovery

Day. This special day, created for rural students only,

allowed the class to tour the campus, take part in vari-

ous program specific activities, and learn about life in

residence at the U of A. All of the grade 11's who at-

tended enjoyed their day, learned a lot and represent-

Scholarships

Grade 12’s, have you applied for the Rutherford Scholarship? You can do that online now. Go to alis.alberta.ca and click on the scholarships and bursaries link

Any high school students looking to sign up for summer Work Experience please see Mrs. van Steenis right away. You must have your HCS3000 com-pleted as a prerequisite to sign up in the program. Also, you need to get your job lined up. If you need help with getting your resume ready or ideas for plac-es of employment please come in to chat about it. Please remember that there are limited spots-so first come first served. All enrollment forms and em-ployment agreements must be in by June 23 at the latest for participation in the program.


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PhysEd Activities

Team building activities in

the Grade 9 Phys Ed classes


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Grade 7 Science


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Grade 7 Science

Student Union News

We still have Spirit Wear for sale; however select items and sizes. Contact Ms. Ormberg or Mrs. Sauer for more details. We hope to sell Spirit Wear at the band concert. Our June Theme Day will be Formal Day. Thank you to everyone who partici-pated in Western Day on May 3rd. We look forward to planning another Movie & Food night later in June; which will hopefully feature chicken nuggets and fries.


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What is a Learning Commons?

Learning Commons are learning spaces, similar to libraries and class-rooms, that share space for information technology, remote or online education, collaboration, content creation, meetings, and reading or study spaces; which are designed to be arranged by users according to their individual needs. They may also have tools, equipment, or mak-erspaces available.

Thorsby Junior Senior High School will be adapting our current Library space to be more flexible and adaptive to our students’ needs! We are excited about this shift and all of the new learning opportunities that it will give our students.

These are areas that we aim to improve upon with our new LLC


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New Picnic Tables! There are new picnic tables out front for you to sit and enjoy your breaks and lunch. We will put on the umbrellas on sunny days! Please use this new area re-spectfully...which means...no stand-ing on the tables or throwing rocks or mulch please. This area is for you...so please take care of it!

Oilers Spirit Day


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3rd Quarter Honor Roll

Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9

Alex Mudry Amanda deBoer Andrew Jacob

Calla Pederson Ash Johnston Anna Lysgaard

Chase Marquardt Ashley Gunsch Austyn Petracek

Christine Baumann Britt Scholten Avery Pharis

Colby Borys Calli Blanchette Brayden O’Reilly

Riley Jacob Connor Hayman Connor Crow

Isaac Scheetz Emily Thorne Emma Boyes

Kennedy Crow Ethan Chung Emma Kavanagh

Kristina Wurban Ethen Knopp Hayden Rhody

MacKenzie Denschikoff Jason Stern Jaeden deBoer

Sophia Antle Joshua Borys James Nobert

Tiki Stefure Lindsey Powlik Keira Slusarczyk

McKinlee Coles Kurt Baumann

Grade 10 Megan Gitzel Sarah Mitchell

Ciera Yawney Rachel Sanders Wyatt Abel

Jenny Lange Rhys Primus

Jessica Gunsch Grade 12

Viola Antle Grade 11 Alex Lauer

Yvonne Schmidt Hope Thorne Brent Sereda

Jennifer Gu Joshuha Steele-Edlund

Jordan Johnson Paula Hernandez Barajas

Kyra Jubinville Samantha Hormazabal

Makayla Abel Taylor Shaw-Dufault

Michael Wurban Tori Walls

Natasha Hryniewiecka

Rebecca Mudry

Riley Taylor


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