Tuesday June 24th
Today we attended granddaughter Caitlin’s school year end Awards Ceremonies, always interesting to see all the students that work hard all year to attain their achievements. As usual, the school did an excellent job organizing the affair and as I have mentioned in a previous post the school does an excellent job in rewarding the students for respect, values, academic, music, safety, and athletic abilities. When we arrived, the music teacher was directing the students in a singsong, which kept all entertained until the ceremonies began, promptly at 10:45 am. As is the practice at the Onoway Public School, the Ceremony began with the singing of Oh Canada and the Lord’s Prayer after which the Principal addressed the audience, and then turned the proceedings over to the MC for Award Ceremonies. The students are not aware of awards they may be receiving; their parents are notified that their child will receive an award but not which award, so it is exciting for parents and students. The looks on the faces of the students when their name is announced is priceless, their look of pride as they walk up to receive the award is heart warming, and the sharing of their achievements with classmates and parents after the ceremonies are finished again shows the pride of accomplishment they feel. As a grandparent, I look at all the students and pray that they will always remember the pride they felt this day and continue to live life, working toward their goals and achieving the results they expected of themselves even when at times the road gets rough.
The MC and the teachers waiting to hand out the awards to their students.
Caitlin receiving her Music Award, way to go Caitlin, we are very proud of you.
Caitlin walking on stage to recieve her Honours Award. Students have to achieve 80% or higher in all core subjects to receive this award.
Do you think that she is just a little proud of her accomplishments? Way to go Caitlin!
After the ceremonies which concluded just before lunch we followed Caitlin and Michelle to Caitlin’s classroom, Michelle introduced us the Caitlin’s teacher and while chatting with her Woody mentioned that he had just returned from Africa, we were invited to return the last day of school to do a presentation for the class with his pictures of Africa, he happily accepted the invitation. The last day of school is Thursday, which means I have to get a short DVD made in two days, which I am happy to do.
After bidding farewell to all we proceeded to the Laundromat, now that is a let down after spending such a great morning, but one must have clean clothes eh.
We managed to get a little needed shopping done in between washing and drying the clothes and on the way out of town, we stopped at a little restaurant in Onoway to have an early dinner before we returned home. The restaurant is fairly new, has good food, especially their homemade pies and other deserts, and is decorated nicely with lots of flowers, antique items, and such. We will have to go back one day and just eat desert! Onoway is a little town of about a 1000 people but do serve the surrounding rural community.
Upon arrival home, we put away the laundry, spent some time chatting with friends online in our favourite chatroom, walking Oreo, just enjoying a relaxing evening.
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