Elmer S. Gish School
75 Akins Drive T8N 3A5 Saint Albert, AB, Canada

It’s easier to social distance when you have poles strapped to your feet! The grade sixes enjoyed staying active by cross country skiing today!

Yoga in the snow. We call it snowga.

Dear St. Albert Public families: Our priority during this pandemic has been to do everything possible to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our students and sta...ff. To continue to do so, we need your help. Alberta Health Services (AHS) is overwhelmed with the rising numbers of positive COVID-19 cases, and as a result they can take several days to contact a school in the case of a student’s positive test result. This can have serious implications regarding possible spread within the school and community. We ask, then, that you contact your child's school as soon as possible if your child receives a positive COVID-19 test result. This critical step will allow the school to develop close contact and isolation lists immediately and to begin taking steps to inform other families and prevent further spread. Even if it is outside of normal school hours, we ask that you email or phone your principal as soon as you can. Please be assured that we will never share you child’s private health information or identify your child in any way. Thank you for working with us to help keep all our students and staff safe.

Some offsite outdoor fun in 3Z! And soccer, fort building, and sledding at lunch recess for 3W! The Grade 3 students know how to have lots of fun even when it’s cold outside.

Today is #WorldKindnessDay and we encourage you to check out the great website resource that is www.randomactsofkindness.org. How will you be kind today?

Tower building with the grade nine cohort!

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success. -Henry Ford The kindergartens learned that their efforts can make a difference through our cooperation challenge today. We can always learn a lot from our kindergarten friends! During these challenging times, the impact of communities coming together to follow new guidelines and protocols is evident. We hope you have a safe weekend at home with your family!

The kindergartens know how to have fun, while social distancing! Snow angels in our fluffy white field this morning brought lots of giggles and smiling, rosey cheeks!