Computer Accounts: At the start of the year all students must reset their accounts. Log in with your student number/Hello0179. (The first O is a letter; the second is a number) Log into Teams with that same combination. You will be prompted to change your password. Change the password to something you will remember, and…
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Gleanings
The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with “captivating…thrilling” ( School Library Journal ) stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge! There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to…
We’re Moving!
Hey everyone, If you’re in grade 10 or 11, get ready to move to the new school for September 2024!
In the Shadow of the Red Brick Building
In the Shadow of the Red Brick Building by Raymond Tony Charlie Raymond Tony Charlie is one of 150,000 Indigenous children who attended the residential schools that operated in Canada for more than a century. He lives in the Cowichan Valley. In this powerful book, he relates his personal story of survival.
Weaving our future
Our school weaving project is on a short hiatus. Cheryl Joe, a renowned Quw’utsun weaver, has been teaching students and staff how to weave. One class at a time, we will all contribute to the project by weaving on the giant loom in the library. We’ll take the blankets to display at our new school…
Hearts Unbroken
When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the…
Punching the air
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day…
Weaving Our School Culture
Thanks to our Indigenous Education Department, Ms. Cizeron, and Quw’utsun’ weaver Cheryl Joe, our school has started a school-wide Coast Salish weaving project. Ms. Joe will be coming around to every class to teach students and staff about weaving. By the end of the project, everyone in the school will have made a small woven…
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
“A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let…
DEAR – Drop Everything And Read
DEAR is happening on Monday, October 26th! At 9:30 a.m. (or anytime in the morning) join us in the library or from anywhere you are to read for 20+ minutes. When you’re done, take a book selfie (booksie? bookie?) and post it to Instagram with hashtags #CSSReads #DEAR2020. Your post will be your entry for…