| Mon. Oct. 26- Fri. Oct. 30 | Spirit Week |
| Tues. Oct. 27 | Grade 10 Financial Literacy Test |
| Thurs. Oct. 29 | Canadian Open Math Challenge |
| Mon. Nov. 2- Fri. Nov. 6 | Traffic Safety Week |
| Wed. Nov. 4 | Take Our Kids to Work Day (Grade 9) |
Medical and Start Up Forms
Reminder that students with allergies and/or medical conditions need to complete the necessary forms each year and submit them to the main office.
Start up Forms also need to be completed every year. All forms can be found on the YRDSB Family Dashboard.
Halloween
Students who choose to wear costumes on October 30th are reminded that their costumes must be respectful of others. Symbols or objects representative of a person’s race, culture, ethnicity, or religious beliefs should not be worn as another person’s costume, nor should costumes that caricature social identities through stereotyping. Students may not wear masks or headgear. Replica weapons are not allowed.
Thornlea Secondary School’s EcoTeam Council Starts off the School Year with Biodiversity Practices.
The EcoTeam Council began to create their annual GOOS (good on one side) boxes that were distributed throughout the school to spread awareness about the importance of conservation. These boxes are decorated to attract attention and filled with scrap paper to highlight the significance and impact of the three R’s, which stand for Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. More specifically, we are reducing the amount of paper being wasted, reusing paper that wasn’t used to its full potential, and recycling to give the paper a new life.
Then, our EcoTeam began preparing for the school’s club fair and performed the Great Gulp. The Great Gulp is an environmental campaign where students and staff take a simultaneous drink of water from their reusable water bottles. The event’s purpose is mainly to raise awareness about access to safe water and reducing single-use plastics. Additionally, the Great Gulp also promotes community and unity with a shared appreciation for clean water and synchronization of action.
We also participated in a biodiversity inventory adventure which helped us discover plant life on school grounds. For this activity, we used a plant identification app to help identify the plants, and recorded our observations through photographs, measurements, and written descriptions. We tried taking this investigation further by finding out which species are native and which are invasive. Native plants can support local wildlife by providing food and habitat, while invasive plants can threaten biodiversity by competing with native species for space, water, and sunlight.