Band Performances

The Concert Band, Performing Arts group and Jazz Band treated students and staff to a noon hour concert.  Excellent performances!

Thank you to Student Council for providing hot chocolate and cookies to snack on!

Gingerbread Houses 2016

Thank you to our student council who arranged for the annual Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.  Students have been voting over lunch for their favorite house!

Click on the link to check out the houses!

Gingerbread House pics

Congratulations to Mr. Pardoski's class on getting the most votes!

Junior Varsity Exhibition Basketball and Tournament

On Friday night, both Junior Varsity teams will be playing Flin Flon in an exhibition game.  

5:30 pm - Tigers JV boys vs Flin Flon

following the boys game (approx. 7:15 pm) - Tigers JV girls vs Flin Flon

There will be a Junior Varsity Basketball Tournament this Saturday, December 17, 2016 at the SVRSS.

The schedule for Saturday is as follows:

9:00 am Tigers JV girls vs Flin Flon

10:45 am Tigers JV boys vs Flin Flon

4:00 pm Tigers  JV girls vs MBCI

5:45 pm Tigers JV boys vs MBCI

Have a great weekend of basketball!

Varsity Girls Basketball Results

The Varsity Girls Basketball team participated in the Crocus Plains Early Bird Basketball Tournament this past weekend.  

The girls were really on their game, placing first in their Pool with wins against Neepawa (79-41) and Elton (72-55).  To advance, the girls had to face the AAAA team from Vincent Massey where they won 77-63.  Now they faced the home team, Crocus Plains, also a AAAA team, for a battle for first place.  They fought hard, but came up short at 61-71.  

It was a fantastic weekend of basketball!  The girls were incredibly happy with their performance throughout the weekend!  

Congratulations go out to Hannah Kitch and Sara Henkleman who were named Tournament All Stars.  Great job, ladies!

Annual Band Concert

I'd like to invite everyone to join the SVRSS bands for our annual Christmas Concert at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in the SVRSS cafeteria.

Come and get in the spirit of the season with old favorites such Sleigh Ride and Rudolph and new tunes that will quickly become favorites as well!

Christmas Feast 2016!

On Tuesday, December 6 the AAA/BSSAP Christmas Feast was held at our school.  It was awesome to see all the families enjoy a wonderful evening.  There were over 300 people in attendance!

The evening started with a welcome from Lorna Munro who shared about some of the leadership opportunities for our students.  She also introduced  Kailey Chief, a grade 11 student, who was our master of ceremonies for the evening.  This was Kailey's first time public speaking and did an excellent job!

Henry Barkowski opened the evening with a prayer.  Opening remarks and a welcome were shared by Tim Mendel (SVSD Superintendent), Kelli Riehl (SVSD Board of Trustess Chair) and myself.

Mr. Chapman and a hard working group of students provided an amazing meal.  The effort was appreciated by all who attended.  THANK YOU!

The evening was concluded by special guests, the D'Town Steppers, who performed several dance numbers.  Some audience members even took part in the performance.

A huge thank you to Lorna Munro and Sarah Campbell for organizing this event!

Student Council Activities for December

SVRSS Student Council Activities for December

Friday, December 9

All Christmas Cheer donations will be picked up.   The class with the highest number of items will win an advantage in the gingerbread house competition.

Friday, December 16

Block 1 classes will compete in the Gingerbread house decorating.  Students will be invited to vote for their favourite house until the end of lunch.

Performing arts and senior jazz band will be performing at noon hour in the cafeteria, where we will have cookies and hot chocolate compliments of student council.

Monday, December 19

Pajama Day!!  Come to school in your comfy pj’s!  Pics with santa in the cafeteria at noon.

Tuesday, December 20

Block 1 decorate your classroom door, best door wins a tim horton’s gift card for the class!

Scavenger hunt clues to be handed out at lunch, prizes for the first 20 to finish.

Wednesday, December 21

Ugly Christmas sweater day and “ho ho ho” contest throughout the day

Thursday, December 22

Student council sponsored free brunch for everyone in the cafeteria at 11:30.  Christmas gym riot in the afternoon, who will be on the trophy this time???

Merry Christmas to all staff and students

Christmas Cheer Board

Once again, we will be collecting items for the Christmas Cheer Board.  The deadline is this Friday, December 9.

History and Mission of the Christmas Cheer Board

The original idea of the Christmas Cheer Board was to provide Christmas Hampers and toys for the widows and orphans of the soldiers lost during World War One. The Cheer Board was started by Winnipeg churches in 1919.

The churches operated alone for many years and realized there were many other families in the community that also needed help at Christmas. As the project grew, the churches decided to world together and coordinate the Christmas giving. The 1940’s brought the people to realize that everyone should be brought into one big organization to continue helping out families in need. More than half of all food and toys are donated by people like us, to not only families receiving Employment Income, but also many of the working poor. The packing and delivering of all these items involve almost 5000 people.

The total items that our school collects will go towards local families here in Swan River. When all communities, companies and schools help out, everyone can have a merry Christmas!

http://www.christmascheerboard.ca/

What Can You Donate??

The Christmas Cheer Board accepts donations of non-perishable food, toys or money.  They are also looking for homemade knitted mitts, toques and scarves. Teen gifts such as Stampeder tickets, gift cards or gift certificates for the theatre.

Food suggestions:

Juice

Canned Soup

Canned Vegetables

Jelly powder

Macaroni and cheese

Pasta and Sauce

Rice

Oatmeal

Tuna

Peanut Butter

Pancake mix

Stuffing mix

Cookies

Cake mix

Sugar

Tea

Coffee