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The Kodiak Express December 2018 Edition

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Principals Message

Welcome to the readers of the Kodiak Express. I hope you enjoy this wonderful work from our grade 11 and 12 ELA students. They have been working hard on this, learning the ins and outs of interviewing and then piecing together a story. I am very proud of them!

Each school year every school completes a school plan indicating the focus of the school and how it plans to get better at a few aspects of educating. This year we have focused on 3 aspects that we feel will help improve learning or our students.

The first is to continue to become better at focusing all the work done at the school on the outcomes that students need to learn. This means that teachers are working at making all learning (activities, assignments, test, projects) linked to outcomes. You will hear teach-ers and students talking about learning in terms of out-comes and not about marks or assignments.

The second is to get better at increasing the ability to help students get better at reading and improve their reading comprehension. We are using the Read Live and Word Work programs to improve the reading comprehension abilities of students reading un-der a grade 9 level. We have had success with this and want to build on this so all Lundar School stu-dents are functionally literate.

The third is to re-establish the culture at the school and to continue to raise expectations around the learning that goes on at Lundar School. We want our students to be resilient and never give up, even when the learning is hard. To be responsible and respectful of people and property, taking ownership of the learning environment.

I am proud of the students and staff at Lundar School. Everyday I see the good things that happen at the school; from inclusive classrooms, to bulletin boards displaying quality student research, to kids making the food and running the school cafeteria. I hope you are proud of your child. Please ask them what they are learning and engage in a conversation about what happens at school.

By Lawrence Grzenda

The Kodiak Express


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Girls Volleyball By: Jesse Le Strat

Every year Lundar High School has a small contingent of golf-ers. This year was no different. Through rain, shine, sleet or snow, our golfers golf. The high school qualifying tournament called zones is a tournament to see who goes to provincials. Lundar took four players to zones, the top three scores from each team get compared to see who goes to provincials. I spoke with team member Connor Bindle about his performance at zones. “I’ll admit I let the boys down that day” he said. He was not one of the top three scorers on the team that day, Jared Olafson was though. I asked Bindle about Olafson’s performance he said, “didn’t surprise me at all, he is a great golfer, amazing to watch. It’s not every day you shoot an 88 in Hecla”. Olafson shot the lowest score at zones and qualified for pro-vincials.

Jared has been golfing since he was five years old and had an instant love for the game. His Dad works at the golf course in the summer and is also an excellent golfer, which has allowed Jared to become the golfer he is today. When talking to coach Rory Tycoles he shared how much the weather impacted the tournament, it was an extremely cold day for early fall. He said, “it was so cold and I almost got hypother-mia”. He also went on to say “despite the weather he (Jared) golfed great”. Jared shot a ninety-five at pro-vincials and had an excellent performance for Lundar.

For the Love of Golf By: Nolan Smith

What a season for the girls volleyball team! Unpre-dictable downsizing in staff at Lundar school, lead to no Junior Varsity team but left Lundar School with a more well-rounded Varsity team. Volleyball is the most anticipated sport of the school year. It has the most participants of any sport here at Lundar School, we have a full boys team and a girls’ team. The girls team had a reasonably good season ending it with a .500 record. In a re-cent interview with the girl’s coach Amy Ty-coles I asked her some questions about her team and this is what she had to say.When asked what was differ-ent between this year and last year’s Varsity team, coach Amy stat-ed; “We had most of the same players so we had more experience and won more games because of it.” I then asked coach Amy how her team did this year, “we finished with an 8-8 record a highlight was making it to the final in our tournament, we also only lost by 5 points in the game against the zone champions. Next was how do you think next

year’s team will stack up to this year’s. “we have a large portion of our team graduating so next year’s team will look very different, we will only have 4 returning players but they will be good leaders for other students next year” And for a final question I asked, did not having a Junior Varsity team change the dynamic of this team. “our Varsity team would

have looked the same even if we had a Junior Varsity team. The grade 10 students who played gained a tre-mendous amount of skill and were important parts of the team, not having a Jun-ior Varsity team hurts the skill development of the younger athletes but unfor-tunately we don’t have the coaching staff this year”. In conclusion this was a very interesting and well played

season for our girls’ Varsity volleyball team and even with major setbacks like the loss of our Junior Varsity team. Because of the guidance of coach Amy Tycoles and the team’s great composition the Lundar girls Varsity team pulled off an impressive season.


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Lundar Ice-Plex By: Connor Bindle

Bump, Set, Spike By: Morrigan Miller

It has been a long time in the making but the Lundar rink’s upgrade is coming to an end. It started with tearing down the old rink in the summer of 2017 and now with the renovations the makeover is almost finished. The new sports complex will be completed and with an ice surface by late November or early De-cember 2018. As a fellow hockey player, it has been a very excruciating wait but also a very exciting one. (One that is most certainly worth it.) To be able to play in front of one’s home town again is surely an experi-ence that has been missing and will certainly be wel-comed back into this community. I know that the sen-iors will be happy that they can go across the street to watch the games again. I will still miss playing in the old Lundar barn. The smell of rink burgies, the diesel smell from the Zamboni and the cold air grab-bing at your lungs. I don’t think there was anywhere else anyone would rather play hockey.

The rink itself looks quite impressive. A very sophisticated looking design with multiple amenities. Including a walking track, a small Noventis outlet and an elevator for those who need it. With a larger ice surface, benches and a brand new score board, it also caters to the needs of the hockey players. With the brand new dressing for the Jr. B team that will be shared with the midget team, there won’t be any more traffic jams waiting for an open dressing room.

I talked to one of the workers who was on site during construction, and this was his take on how it is looking and please remember, I’m quoting him. “Rink is looking pretty dope. I’d play in it.” From what we can see from the outside, I’d have to agree with him.

The boys’ volleyball team had an overall successful season, making it to the semi-finals in the annual zone tourna-ment. After an interview with the boys’ volley-ball coach Mr. Tycoles, I gained a better un-derstanding of the season they had this year. Mr. Tycoles shared that, “had some ups and downs throughout the year, but we picked up our socks and ended up playing very well at the zone tournament.” One of the teams’ better performances was played against Ashern in the quarterfinals in the zone tournament. This victory allowed the team to move on to the semi-finals where they faced Arborg for a spot in the banner-game. Arborg’s team was one of the

boy’s hardest competition, along with Riverton. Next year, these are the teams they will strive to beat. Mr. Tycoles believes that the team will need to work on their net play such as hitting and to continue to work on their blocking to achieve this feat.

Though three of the players on the team’s starting lineup are graduating, Mr. Tycoles has confidence

that there will be players with the ability to take their place. Many of the grade 11’s that are returning next year already have plenty of experience on the court which will also benefit the team next year. Great job this season, we look forward to watching you play next year!


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The Lunch Rush By: Hailey Thorgilsson

Although it started off slow the Kodiak Cafete-ria has big plans in the works. As of now sand-wiches and wraps are being made every day and soup once a week, as well as another hot meal. We have had spa-ghetti and meat sauce as our first hot meal, which has decreased in cost from last year. They have also offered some delicious dessert creations, like butter tarts and bread pudding with ice cream and caramel sauce. The Kodiak Cafeteria is being run by Ms. Dubowits and Susy Brown with the help of students. Although sales are down due to the decrease of the student population every-thing is going smoothly. Be prepared to see this running all year. Being students, we need to help support the Kodiak Cafeteria by getting involved and giving ideas about what we like or would want to see. Their plan is to add more hot meals through the year, and if everything goes well we should see those soon.

The Kodiak Cafeteria is one of our skills options where students can learn what it takes to work in the food industry. They are involved in the order-ing, inventory, preparation, baking and cooking. They rotate every two weeks with the rest of the school so there is a growing group of students who know the ins and outs of our canteen and caf-

eteria offerings. Walking by the other day, it was obvious that everyone knew their jobs and they were busy completing them. Little to no supervi-sion was even required.

The Kodiak Cafeteria works to bring people to-gether whether it be working as a team or enjoying sharing a meal. The Kodiak Cafeteria has been something everyone has enjoyed, and we would like to keep it that way. One of the best sellers of the Kodiak Cafeteria is the hot meal, things like the pizza and other quick and easy meals were good sellers last year. Everything is going well as far as teamwork and functionality while working to pre-pare everything. So, with the help of all students the Kodiak Cafeteria should grow and grow throughout this year.


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The Hip and Happenings of Lundar School By: Austin Hanslip

Lundar School Upcoming Events and Activities

From now until the end of January, Lundar school will be an extremely busy place. From Christmas feasts to the final exams of this semester, there is no doubt that everyone will be well

occupied in the upcoming months.

Upcoming Events

• Annual Food Drive Dec. 3rd to 14th

• Spirit Week December 16th to 21st

• Christmas Feast – December 21st

• Last day of classes before Christmas break – December 21st

• Classes resume – January 7th

• Provincial ELA standards test (grade 12) – January 8th-11th

• The Grade 11’s will be writing their ELA test as well

• Final assessment week – January 28th-31st

In the next few months, Lundar School will be bustling as anticipation and excite-ment is building for the upcoming holidays and Christmas break. Along with the cold weath-er, comes the start of school curling season in the beginning of December.

The month of December will start off with us showcasing our school and sharing our progress from the first quarter with parent night. Last mi-nute projects will be completed, with all assign-ments being handed in before the break. Christmas celebrations will take place

throughout the final week of classes, being wrapped up on Friday with a Christmas feast and an afternoon of games and activities! As we enter into January we will be right back at it as the grade 12s will be writing their provin-cial ELA exam during the first week back. Some serious studying will be taking place as we round out the month of January with final exams of this semester.

Good luck to all the students on the upcoming exams, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year!!


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Honing Their Skills By: Ethan Spalding

Lundar School is currently offering a class for students to develop different abilities. Running from 11:20-11:55 am every day, Skills period provides those who are behind on their assign-ments a chance to catch up, and those who are already caught up, a chance to learn about something of their choice. It also provides stu-dents who may be struggling with certain out-comes more time with their teachers to develop a better understanding.

Students from grade 9 to 11 get to select topics of their interest to participate in. Grade 12 stu-dents aren’t required to participate, as many have spare periods in the afternoon, and don’t stay at school after period 2 (11:15 am). Those who do want to take part in Skills are more than welcome to. There is a wide variety of class options for stu-dents to choose from, providing many interests for everyone. These options include: improving at sports (volleyball, badminton), improving fitness, boat building, Kodiak Cafeteria, and building CO2 racecars, among many others. Many staff mem-bers from all over the school have dedicated time, and energy to making Skills period a positive learning experience for everyone.

Principal Lawrence Grzenda adds that Wellness

period was originally implemented to reward stu-dents for their hard work. However, the parame-ters of the class had to be altered due to unfore-seen complications, and he feels that the transi-tion to Skills period has been a great success. Grzenda indicates the amount of growth shown by students in all areas is excellent, and he says that there are plans for Skills period to continue in the future. This is a comforting thought, as the development of students’ skills should be the top priority for all educators. The fact Lundar School is supporting this initiative in such a unique way, further exemplifies that there are many ways to learn new things.

High School Students Learning New Things

Spikeball, a new addition Lundar’s sports

Axis and Allies — a WW2 game

Crossword Answers 1. Teacher 2. Books 3. Science 4. Pen 5. Gym 6. Basketball 7. Classroom 8. Kodiak 9. ELA 10. Intramurals 11. Math 12. Volleyball 13. Education 14. Pencil 15. Golf 16. Principal 17. Binder


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Making a Difference By: Caitlyn Marshall

Small acts can change the world. Students from Lundar School, from grades 9-12, have got-ten on board to try and make a difference in the world. The WE ACT group is currently working on planning Christmas activities, a food drive to sup-port our local communities, volunteering at Toy Mountain in Winnipeg, and are organizing a vol-leyball tournament to raise money for mental health awareness. As of right now the group is un-sure as to where the rest of the money they raise this year is going. So far this year they have held a bake sale, planned Halloween activities to build

community spirit, and have been selling Rafiki and Minga bracelets to support different global issues.

The WE ACT group was formed in 2014, since then the group has organized Day of Pink to speak against bullying, promoted gender equity in pay through a bake sale, raised money for goats to support families in Africa and much more. I asked Sage Tozeland, the leader of the group, what she thinks the students who partake in the group take away from it, she said, “It is my hope they devel-op a spirit of giving and see how rewarding it is. It is my hope that they see how taking action, no matter how small can change the world.” She believes the best thing they have accom-plished is the progress they’ve made towards building a culture of acceptance and understand-ing. I talked to a couple students who are in WE ACT. Cara Martilla said she joined the group for a chance to help people and that her favourite thing she has done with the group so far has been helping at Toy Mountain. Courtney Burke said that doing good can be a lot of work but it’s worth it in the end. Even though their acts are small they are still making a difference in the world.

During the skills period there are many different opportunities and choices the students can choose from, one of these op-tions being boat building. Jeremy Campbell got the idea from a project he had taken on in col-lege. During the two week Skills block, the students learn about two different types of boat hulls, after which they get to use their knowledge of it and construct a miniature one of their own. Once the students have built the boats they then vacuum seal it with plastic and put it to the test in the water. The students test their

boat’s drag ability by putting them in a current simulation de-vice, with various amounts of weights, the simulation was built by Campbell himself. This was Campbell’s first time doing this project with a class, and he feels it was a success.

This was a great experience for the students as they got to put their knowledge to the test with hands on experience. Campbell believes it was good because not only was it fun, it was education-al. The students also got to do it and figure it out by themselves,

which makes it easier for them to retain the things they learned. This is good for many students because they had to engage in their learning which might not happen in other classes. Ethan Spalding, one of the students in the class said, “I am hopeful that every student has the opportuni-ty to engage in similar learning activities”. Sadly, Ethan didn’t get to finish his boat and put it to the test in the simulation device, he still believes it was a great op-portunity and that he learned a lot about the different types of boat hulls.

Sailing Away By: Emily Weatherburn


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Across

2 You read it

4 A writing utensil without lead

7 Where you learn

8 Lundar high school mascot

10 KHL

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14 A writing utensil that you can erase

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Grad 2019 By Payton Law

Only 7 months left until grad! Throughout the school year the graduation class does many differ-ent fundraisers to help cover the costs of grad, dinner, hall rental, gown rental and so forth. So far the staff at Lundar School have noticed that the Mom’s Pan-try has been the most successful fundraiser they have done so far, getting back 30% to 40% return. “We do the Mom’s Pantry fundrais-

er because it tends to raise a lot and provides people with a variety of different ordering options from baking supplies to frozen foods,” said Ms. Tycoles and Ms. Thorgils-son. This year’s graduating class also hosted the fall supper in Lundar, which took place at the Legion. The students were busy calling around to find food and money donations. The day of the fall supper the students were busy delivering orders to those who couldn’t leave their home, they set up, cleaned up and served food.

Thank you to Tara Law and Cyn-thia Wirgau for helping the grads take on this fundraiser.

Ms. Tycoles has been involved with grad for 7 years now, she is in-volved in many different ways, she started MCing the grad supper, as she is now Vice Principal she will be MCing the ceremony as well. She is also involved with decorat-ing and playing music at the cere-mony and she makes sure all stu-

dents have the requirements need-ed to be able to graduate. Ms. Thorgilsson was asked by Ms. Dupre when she was principal here if she would help out with grad and she has been involved ever since. Ms. Thorgilsson runs all the student and parent meetings and helps the grads with their decision making with things such as, clothing, mu-sic choices, and who they would like to have as guest speakers. In the last few years, Sharon booked the facilities, ordered the grad gowns, arranged the caterer, and ordered the flowers. The grad ceremony for 2019 will be in the Curling Rink Friday June 21st, 2019 at 2pm. Ms. Thorgilsson and Ms. Tycoles would like to thank all of the community organizations for offering sponsorship for scholar-ships for our graduates. They would also like to thank everyone who supports the grad fundraisers. The graduating class would like to say a special Thank you to Ms. Thorgilsson and Ms. Tycoles for all they do for the graduating class!


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Lambert assigned “The Secret Path” written by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire, in order for them “to learn more about Indigenous children in res-idential schools”, said a student. The book rep-resents a young Anishinaabe  boy named Cha-nie Wenjack, who died while trying to escape a residential school. Chanie’s troubling story, along with Phyllis Webstad’s, have encouraged people from many different backgrounds to show recognition and acknowledgement of their hardships. One of Lambert’s students cre-ated a tattoo, which she said represents how before his death, Chanie persisted on, even with limited items. I believe the tattoo symbolizes how terribly treated Indigenous children were, and how they would risk injury, even death just to experience happiness and freedom.

“Orange shirt day was designed to educate peo-ple and promote awareness about the Indian residential school system and the impact this system had on Indigenous communities for more than a century in Canada”, Lambert says. We at Lundar School hope to continue to support reconciliation for Indigenous people.

Reconciliation for Canadians By: Halli Monkman

Self worth is important, and so is representing the survivors who lost theirs due to residential schools. Heather Lambert, the teacher of Lundar School’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies class (FNMI), discusses truth and reconcili-ation with her class. “Residential schools were church-run schools where approximately 150,000 First Nation, Inuit and Metis children were sent between the 1860s and the 1990s. The schools harmed Indigenous children by removing them from their families, forcing them to speak English or French instead of their ancestral languages, disconnecting them from their culture and tradi-tions and forcing them to adopt Christianity in order to assimilate into Canadian society. The government has since acknowledged that this ap-proach was wrong, cruel and ineffective, and of-fered an official apology to the Indigenous people of Canada in 2008” (CBC.com). On September 28th, the FNMI class lead the school in Orange Shirt Day. September 30th, the actual date of Or-ange Shirt Day landed on a Sunday, so we participated the Friday before. Students and staff at Lundar School wore orange shirts to rep-resent reconciliation for residential school survi-vors.

This date signifies the day the children were taken from their homes to attend the residential schools. Orange Shirt Day and Reconciliation for FNMI both represent our need for recognition of the horrors that were imposed upon Indigenous people. We wear orange shirts to represent the orange shirt that Phyllis Webstad wore to her first day to a residential school, which was confiscated from her and replaced with a uniform. We are starting to make an attempt to heal the damage that has been done. In solidarity, Orange Shirt Day is acknowledged and participated in, in com-munities all throughout Canada.

Students and staff participate in Orange Shirt Day

Tattoo by grade 12 student


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Our Twenty-Eight-Thousand-Dollar Project By: Kalysta Ketler

Loss for Lundar By Callie Farthling

When Mr. Campbell started at Lundar School, the first thing he wanted to see was a CNC ma-chine. CNC stands for Computer Numerical Con-trol, it’s a process where a computer is used to control what the machine will do. When he no-ticed we don’t have many high tech machines, he made it his top priority to make it happen. In spring 2018 Mr. Campbell’s hard work paid off and we got the CNC machine. At first there were a lot of complications, the repair guy came in three times so far. The process with setting it

up wasn’t easy, there were difficulties with the whole set up as far as making it write forward not backward, but with the assistance from one of the students, (Dawson Torgerson) it was soon ready to go. Even though we have had all these complications, Campbell strongly recommends other schools invest in this ma-chine. Some of the projects using the CNC machine are making signs to put up around the school, per-sonalizing the previous projects such as the festi-val chair and the jewelry box, and it is currently being used to make a trebuchet for the Topics in Science class. He is also looking into getting a grant for a laser cutter for the shops class to fur-ther the students’ understanding in the high tech industry we are living in. My personal experi-ence working with the CNC machine was a lot of fun and a good learning experience for me. In Mr. Campbell’s own words, “everything is com-puterized these days, and it is our job to give the skills required to be employable”. All in all, the CNC machine was a great addition to the shops class and we are looking forward to seeing more machines in the near future.

At the end of last school year, we found out that there was a huge change coming to Lundar School, one that no one expected. The staff and students of Lundar found out that Lake Manito-ba First Nations students would no longer be attend-ing Lundar School. Lake Manitoba students had a huge im-pact on Lundar School. “Not only did they bring up our numbers to benefit our school and sports programs, they also created a diverse climate that allows all students to learn how to live and deal

with the differences in the cultures that are present at the school” says Rory Tycoles. Lundar and Lake Manitoba students made many friendships over the years. They both taught each other different cultures and even language. Their leaving has been a great loss.

Finding out the news, that Lake Manitoba students were leaving Lundar to attend school closer to home, was hard on everyone. Lawrence Grzenda, principal of Lundar School said “It was a shock to me. We had planned the next school year based on factors that included Lake Manitoba.  Making a change so late in the year made it hard for both students and staff to comprehend all of the changes that were to take place.” Losing Lake Manitoba was hard but having a school closer to home seemed like the right move to make, so that is what their community decided. We wish them all the best and hope that they come and visit of-ten.


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My name is Emily Sigfusson, I had recently broken my phone. I had to go 3 days with-out my daily necessity. At first, I thought this was the worst thing that could ever happen right now. Shortly I began to realize how lucky I was to experience this so called “tragedy”. Who knew that there was so much time in the day, how interesting my parents are, how lonely my dogs have been, but most importantly, how good it feels to be living in the present. We spend so much time in our day with our heads down look-ing at technology, some by choice, and some are forced to due to work. We all think it’s annoying when someone tells us to put our phones away and have a conversa-tion for once, but nobody realizes how good it feels to actually have that good connec-tion. Of course, technology has improved our lives, but they shouldn’t be taking our lives over. So, I’m challenging you to put your phone down for just 5 minutes, that’s all.

The Difference 5 Minutes Can Make By: Emily Sigfusson

3rd minute take this time to think, think of something you want to try, an activity you want to do, anything.

4th minute do a quick exercise or stretch, we all know how important it is to do.

5th minute go out and do something you love and enjoy!

Don’t get discouraged, just try it. Everyone says life is short but that’s only because our phones consume so much of it. Make time for those you care about, because you won’t regret it.

1st minute is to just look around, look at how fortu-nate you are, to be living in such a beautiful com-munity, with so many amazing people.

2nd minute to talk to someone, I encourage you to get out of your comfort zone, you’ll nev-er know what you can learn from somebody.

Monday Dec. 3rd and 10th – Hygiene Products Tuesday Dec. 4th and 11th –Canned or Boxed Soups and/or Sauces Wednesday Dec. 5th and 12th – Beverages Thursday Dec. 6th and 13th – Canned Vegetables, Canned Fruit, Deserts Friday Dec. 7th and 14th – Grains

Lundar School Food

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New Boss In the Building By: Taylor Kauppila

This is a brand new year in Lundar School and it is time for brand new administration. Law-rence Grzenda took a big step in his career by transitioning from Vice Principal last year to Principal this year. Amy Tycoles has landed the spot as our new Vice Principal, and has agreed to do an interview with me about her time so far in her new position. She explained how there are count-less great aspects to being Vice Principal, it’s not always just about the work. Ty-coles’ favorite part of her job is “getting to have more interac-tions with all stu-dents and staff on a regular basis.” She loves working here because her home is here in Lundar along with her friends and her brother Rory Tycoles who is also a teacher at Lundar School. She is pleased to have received this oppor-tunity “This has allowed me the chance to see what administration is all about and still con-tinue to have aspects of my old position as a full-time classroom teacher.” Tycoles knows she loves to teach so she wouldn’t want to become a full time administrator at this point in her life, “being Vice Principal is a good chance for me to see what administration is like and learn more about how the whole school runs, but I also really enjoy being a

classroom teacher and I like the way my cur-rent job has a little bit of both.” There are some great learning experiences for her life to come as being a big part of our school, but along with the enjoyable experienc-

es there are an infi-nite amount of de-tails to oversee.

Being Vice Principal does have its

downfalls at times, like trying to keep up with adminis-trator duties while at the same time making sure you are able to teach your students.

Tycoles has learned when you are in ad-ministration “the work never ends. As an administrators students and staff are always asking you to help them out and I love that but it can become a little overwhelm-ing.” She has also

learned that the students and staff of Lundar School need to work as a whole in order for the year to go smoothly, “The school is a very complicated puzzle, there are many pieces that need to fit together and both students and staff need to work together and respect each other to build that puzzle.” Some of these aspects in her job can be quite chal-lenging at times but it has helped her learn a lot about our school and the society within it.


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Let’s get in the holiday spirit!!! Every year since Mrs. Dupre was our principal begin-ning in 2014 we have been having feasts’ at Christmas time. The whole school comes to-gether to have a meal. Even though we have a new principal, Mr. Grzenda, we have con-tinued with this tradition. This year we are having a feast and activities for Christmas on December 21

st, which is also the last day be-

fore Christmas break. The week from the 17th

to the 21

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closer to those days’ posters will be posted around the school for what the dress up days will be. The WE ACT group is planning what activities and what we will be we wear-ing if anyone has any suggestions they can let the WE ACT people know. We will not know until the day of the activities what the activities will be to surprise us. There will also

be a food drive starting at the beginning of December. The food is being donated to our communities, Lundar and Eriksdale. The reason we do things like these activities and feasts’ is to bring the school community to-gether and bring the school spirit up. We also do this just to enjoy one half day with-out having to do work where we can all hang out and have a good time. Even if someone does not celebrate Christmas this is still for them it has nothing to do with Christmas it’s a time to eat, have fun and enjoy everyone’s company. We hope to see everyone there participating and having a good time. Just remember the dressing up and activities will be a part of grade wars so show your grade some love and participate, it will help with the end of the year grade wars winners.

Holiday Spirit Week By: Jo-Lene Spray

Monday – Jersey Day

Tuesday – Celebrity Day

Wednesday – Colour day

Grade 9 – Blue

Grade 10 – White

Grade 11 – Green

Grade 12 – Black and Red

Thursday – Meme or Christmas Character Day

Friday – PJ Day or Ugly Christmas Sweater Day

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