We are in the home stretch before the holiday! Life continues to be very busy at "The Ridge." Winter sports are up and running,; clubs and organizations are planning for many special activities and events in the next few weeks ensuring that all members of our school community will be fully engaged until 1:15 pm on December 19th! Of course, that is the official dismissal time for our launch into the holiday break.
Today we hosted our Semester 1 - Luncheon of Champions where we celebrated 24 of our "Ridge Champions. It is always a pleasure to host such an event like this where we open our doors to our Ridge Family Members while also being inspired by the student stories that our "nominating" staff share.
This is an event sponsored by our Personal Career Counselling Team (Nancy Anstett, Melanie Spelman, Rachel Stecca, Kris Reeve, Elaine Fung and Georgina Cook) which promotes and celebrates students who have made contributions inside and/or outside of their classrooms in a very unique and sigificant way. Many of the Champions have demonstrated personal growth, perseverance or have overcome challenges to succeed...which makes this event very, very important and special. Some times it takes only one acknowledgement like this from ourselves...."significant adults" in our student's lives that can bolster a sense of confidence in our students and I am always inspired and touched by what our staff say on behalf of our kids. With family and other supporters attending this luncheon...the words spoken are genuine and heartfelt with the attendees clearly impacted by the accolades...sometimes the tears follow on hearing so many positive comments and reflections about our resilient teens! A wonderful event that continues to promote and sustain relationships with all members of our Ridge Family! Thanks to Nancy and her PCC Team for continuing to plan, organize and host this tribute to our "Ridge Champions!"
In the spirit of our holiday season, we are hoping to see many of you out this evening for our Winter Holiday
Concert to be held in our "Street." We are looking forward to listening to our musicians and choir under Kevin MCConvey and Caitlin Belanger's leadership. The concert begins at 7 pm...hope to see you there!
In addition, our One Act Plays are happening on Wednesday December 11th at 7pm in our theatre. The plays are directed by our students and they are looking forward to an evening of very interesting and entertaining performances. Please come out and support our kids...they will appreciate that greatly!
Just a reminder that there will be an early dismissal for our students on Thursday December 19th as noted above in my opening remarks.
On behalf of all of us here at "The Ridge" we hope that you will join us prior to the holiday break in celebrating the holiday season. We wish everyone a safe, relaxing and rejuvenating break as we ready ourselves for 2014!
Happy Holiday Season everyone!
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