August | 2015 | Greg Kostiuk

We hope everyone has been enjoying summer break. We are pretty excited about school starting soon. Already, on any given day, I find teachers working hard at school.

We have had a staffing change over the summer. Our new Gr. 1/2 teacher, Mrs. Harvey, has taken a new position with Horizon School Division. I am happy to announce our new Gr. 1/2 teacher is Mr. Mark Matsalla.

I asked Mark for some information that I could share, here is what he gave me:

“I come from Invermere, BC. I have been working at Lethbridge College for the past two years in Curriculum and online course design. Before that, I taught in a K-7 school in BC for several years. I have a wife (Jodi) and four children. I feel very blessed to joining Our Lady of the Assumption School. A little know fact about me is I speak fluent Saskatchewan.”

Please join me in welcoming Mark to our learning community.

Here is the listing of our homerooms (class lists will be posted the first day of school):

Only 20 more sleeps until the first day of school!

Greg Kostiuk

During the last week of July and the first week of August we have been building our new playground. The project looks great. There are some special people and groups that we would like to thank:

Travis and Amanda H. – You have been the driving force behind the fundraising and the build. Without your passion this project would not have succeeded;
All our parent volunteers;
All our staff volunteers;
All our neighbour volunteers;
All the extended family members that came out to help;
All the community members;
Paul and his staff from Oliver Irrigation – Your support of this project was unbelievable;
Ron and his staff from ATB Financial;
The two shifts of employees from Pratt & Whitney;
To all our donors including individual parents, federal and provincial government, and the Knights of Columbus;
For everyone that supported our fundraising projects;
Greg from Blue Imp – You did a wonderful job directing all the volunteers;
To everyone else I missed.