Celebrating the heart of our school this World Teachers’ Day 🌍 Every SJS teacher, from JK to Grade 12, plants seeds of knowledge that grow into lifelong passions for our students. Thank you to all teachers for your endless inspiration and dedication 📚
#WorldTeachersDay #AppreciationPost
We came together as a community today, following the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, wearing our orange shirts to show solidarity.
We have had a diverse array of Indigenous guests at SJS over the years, and today we welcomed sɬə́məxʷ (Rain) Pierre from Katzie First Nation.
Rain held our whole school assembly this morning, sharing stories of his journey from academia to his spiritual awakening where he discovered his gift for art. In his words, “It was up to our grandparents’ generation to survive attempted genocide, so it is up to my generation to show everyone why.”
Rain also held a session ahead of the assembly for Grade 12, where he went into more detail about his family`s history, culture and experience in residential schools and his inspirational story of resilience, rising from a life where he was deeply unhappy to living a life he now enjoys to the full!
Thank you @rainawakens for joining us today and for sharing your story!
Every year we put on our running shoes and house t-shirts and take to Connaught Park in honour of Terry Fox’s legacy and his mission to fight cancer!
This year we smashed our $15,000 target with more than $16,325 raised by SJS families and from snack sales hosted by our Student Council. This places us in the top 10 schools in Canada for the amount raised this year for this important cause, which is an incredible achievement!
There is still time to donate on the link in our bio if you would like to take our total even higher! Well done to all our runners and thank you to the whole community—students, parents, siblings, faculty and staff—for joining in, cheering on the sidelines and donating in support! #TerryFox #TerryFoxFoundation #CharityRun #NoMatterWhat
We had a blast at our annual Back to School BBQ 🌭
Despite the rainy weather, it was fantastic to see so many SJS families flood the campus as we came together to mark the start of a new school year!
With crazy golf and air hockey on offer in the Senior Lounge and inflatables galore for the Junior School students, there really was something for everyone to enjoy!
A huge thank you to our parent chefs—Garry, Ted, Sadiq and Mehrdad—for the delicious food, and to all of our parents who volunteered on the day and in the run-up to make this event such a success!
Here`s to a fantastic school year!
We had another fantastic Summer to Discover with our fun themed camps!
Cannot wait to do it all again next year! 🎨 🌳 🏖
