Announcements
| Nov 14, 2025 |
Friday’s flex is Day 2 – G H E Lunch F FLEX |
Student government is still looking for grade 8 and 9 representatives as well as any club elective representatives. Please see Mr. St. Pierre or Mrs. Roberts for more information as soon as possible.
Senior Boys Volleyball Island Championships are this weekend at Highland starting at noon today.
The Highland Jr. Boys Volleyball team has successfully earned an invitation to the BC Provincial Volleyball tournament in Burnaby/New Westminster this month, and they are very excited!
The team has organized a bottle drive for this Saturday/Sunday to help support the costs of travels and accommodation. If you would like to donate anything, please email event organizers at s.mckenzie18@yahoo.ca with your address and day this weekend for pick up. Sponsors who may want to donate to the cause can send e-transfers with a memo for the Jr. Boys V-ball Provincials to highland@sd71.bc.ca Thank you! Your support is much appreciated!
Congratulations to October’s Library Learning Commons reading challenge winners – Edward Walton, Nathan Le Bourdais, and Juliet Becklumb who each won $10 Tim Hortons gift card. Be sure to enter the contest in the library every month when you finish reading a book. Prizes will be awarded to three
students every month.
Highland EDAS Collection Drive: We’re collecting new or gently used wool socks, toques, and scarves to donate to unhoused people in our community. Please
drop off your donations in the collection box in the front foyer. We are accepting donations until December 10th. Thank you so much for your kindness and support! About Everybody Deserves A Smile (EDAS): Everybody Deserves A Smile is where education meets compassion to create a community of belonging.
EDAS is dedicated to rehumanizing individuals who are unhoused, disadvantaged, and marginalized through a holistic, K–12 approach that extends to the entire
community.
Positive Eco News: Twenty-one Indigenous governments and organizations now steward up to 380,000 square kilometers of land and inland water in the Northwest Territories – this is nearly 30% of the territory. The project aims to protect over 2% of Canada’s total landmass in new terrestrial and freshwater areas
(read more at www.happyeconews.com). Brought to you by HEAT – we meet Thursdays at lunch in room 205. New members welcome.
Desperately in need of volunteers for FIESTA this weekend! Need to collect those necessary 30 hours then this event is for you! FIESTA is 33 this year and the feel-good FIESTA WORLD CRAFT FAIR is needed now more than ever. High School students in the Valley have played a major role
in the success of FIESTA by volunteering at this event. FIESTA happens on Nov 15th and 16th and the time slots to available are Saturday 9:30 to 12:30 or 12:30 to 4 pm Sunday 9:30 to 1 pm or 1 to 5 pm. Please sign up with Mrs. Jerome in the library this week.
UBC Women in Engineering (WiE) is launching it’s 2025-2026 Engineering Online Workshop Series! WiE Online Workshop Series strives to increase female* high school students’ access to engineering and help students explore what engineering is and has to offer. There will be at least three workshops in this online
series, which runs from November through March. Past workshops have included an application workshop, an introduction to coding, and an introduction to computer aided design (CAD). The first workshop is on Thurs. Nov. 20th at 7pm, you must sign up by Wed. Nov. 19th through the following
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