THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES!
BY: NANCY HUMPHRIES It is so hard to believe that 28 years have passed since I first joined the ACS community to teach grade 2. Over the years I have also taught grade 1 and then Kindergarten. Each year brought a new group of children under my wings. Teaching young children is a bit like being a mother hen. I have had the privilege of seeing many of them graduate from ACS and in turn send their children into my class. The children would giggle when I would sometimes call them by their mother or father’s name because they [...]
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FIVE THINGS I LEARNED AS PRINCIPAL AT ACS
Eight years. That’s how long I was principal at ACS Secondary. These eight years have been good years, with many wonderful people and some incredible experiences. I probably could list 50 things that I learned [...]
A BACKPACK FULL OF TWEEN STUFF
BY JUSTIN VERWOERD, EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANT When I started my job at ACS Middle, I thought it was perfect: work starts at 8:00 am, meal breaks at 10:30 [...]
GOING TO ZAMBIA!
“Do you want to go to Zambia?” This was not a message I expected to receive from my wife, Jane, while I was away visiting my mom [...]
REMEMBER WHEN EMAIL WAS EXCITING?
I remember when getting an email was a novelty. I wrote my first email in college to my roommate sitting in the computer lab next to me. [...]
THE MUD PUDDLE
BY CAITLYN CHARLEBOIS, GRADE 12 STUDENT Fourteen years ago, I fell into a puddle during recess. One of my only memories of preschool was from that recess. [...]
To launch the Inside Out blog in 2015, we created this music video to introduce our brave writers. While some of the writers have changed since then, we still feel it celebrates the spirit of who we are and the types of stories we want to share with you. Enjoy!