Global Issues Earth Week

             Global Issues Earth Week

     Earth week is coming up this week for  Sulli and Global Issues will be busy busy busy with preparations for the four days! Teusday and wednesday will be offering a an environmental talk with a guest speaker in the library at lunch. Teusday will also include an energy conservation day for the school with prizes in the library at lunch. The day after will be walk to school wednesday and there will be raffles given out. Prizes will be given out at lunch. Thursday will be the famous litterless ice cream lunch where the students bring their lunch in a plastic reusable container and receive a free ice cream! A video on a beach clean-up will be shown in the library as well. On the final day this week there will a plastic bottle display in the hub to show how much plastic we use. During the entire week however there will be a photo challenge for students to take pictures of you or your friends acting for Earth Week.  The photos can be tweeted out using #sulliacts with a sweet treat given to the winners in period 4. It will be a fun week for sure!

Costa Rica

                       Costa Rica

  In a recent article, it was mentioned that some students from Sulli had gone on an extravagant trip to Costa Rica over the break! During my last post I only mentioned a small adventure they had but here are some photos of many more!

A monkey carrying her child on her back.

         Ziplining through the jungles!

                Chillin' at the falls!

  Single file everybody, we're going on an adventure!     

This was one picture they took at the airport.

This was the waterfall that they all went swimming at.

They had a lot of fun camping out as well!

             Time to feed the gators!

     This trip definetly looked worth the plane ride, beacuse we all know how exausting those are! Everyone had a lot of fun and if course, they would love to do it again.

Report Cards

                                                                                               Report Cards

         It is time for report cards once again and the teachers and students are getting prepared to hand in missing assignments, prepare final marks, and test the student like crazy! It's because the report cards will be issued on April 30th, that there are going to be a few busy weeks at school. A lot of the students are studying and prepping themselves for the tests and final marks which will either give them a boost in their allowance, or get them a grounded for a week. The teachers however will be much busier with marking the students papers, assignments, and tests, only to have to add it all up and decide their grade. For students, it's a lot easier to just study and memorize for their upcoming tests and maybe work a little more to hand assignments in, but the pressure can be a bit difficult. I mean, it's only report right? No, actually this report card can affect your final grade in the course your taking so it's time to grab some texbooks and start now. Better late, than never! For classes such as physical education where you can grade yourself for your efforts and learning level, it can be easier on some students but many of them can tend to forget that the teachers can still disagree with what you choose. Those classes mostly teach you how to take leadership and try to be proactive in many different ways. They teach you how to learn and how to take responsibility. So no, it doesn't make it easier when you grade yourself. Report cards are really not that stressful to deal with though, and  I think after this we can take a small breather.

Earth Week at Sulli!

  Earth Week at Sulli!

     Coming up this month, the Global Issues has organized a fun week for the students here at Sulli to help pitch in and help out the environment for Earth Day! Earth week will be a fun active week full of different events the student can participate in. Starting on Tuesday, April 22nd, each day of the week will be dedicated to a specific event that will inform the students about the problems in our environment. Tuesday will start off with a guest speaker in the library at lunch for the first and second day, as well as a bottled water campaign introduced with a 10 minute video which will be shown to the students. Wednesday, will promote an Energy Conservation Day, where the school will shut off as many lights as possible to conserve energy. On the third day, students will be informed on Animal Issues and endangered species as well as a new hunting licence that has been passed by the government. Thursday will also host a fun event in the cafeteria for the students to participate in. Each student will be encouraged to bring in a water bottle and a litterless lunch and recieve a cone if free ice cream from the Global Issues Members. Finally, Friday will be focused mainly on weekly contests and prizes to ve given out as well as the three R's and compost! Throughout the week, students will be given raffle tickets if they are seen walking to school, ecery day of the week. There will be a draw and prizes will be dustributes to the lucky students. There is also a photo contest to enter. Students can take pictures of each other or themselves recycling, composting, or reusing materials throughout the week to create a mural. It will be a fun week for sure! This post will be updated as soon as new changes are made or if new information is recieved.

Spring Breakers!

       Spring Breakers!

      It's back to school after a wonderful spring break which I am sure everybody at Sulli enjoyed, but sadly the relaxing two weeks has finally come to an end. Students had been talking about many of their adventures on some trips during the break and I luckily got the chance to interview some of them. A few teachers at Sulli had been in charge of some school-organised trips. One was to sunny Costa-Rica, and the other to the place everyone loves: England.  I interviewed some students and found out a few interesting things they did on their trip. One student told me about a fun adventure they had to stonehenge during their trip to England. They were able to go inside it and touch the huge stones during a ceremony that was erformed a few thousand years ago to celebrate the earth and peace on it. The ceremony was held during the Spring Equinox as well. Another student, who wen ton the trip to Costa-Rica, told me about a school they had the chance to visit and how they were able to meet and help out the students there. After that they visited a waterfall which they were able to go swimming through. He said that the water was absolutely freezing and how him and his friends would try to see who could last the longest underneath the freezing water! It could be described as somewhat large surrounded by many trees, which were covered in thick, hanging vines. After learning about those amazingly fun trips, I interviewed some other students who had some adventures of their own. One girl talked about her week-long trip to three different states: California, Nevada, and Arizona! She said that the most fun she had, was when she visited the Grand Canyon, but the Hoover Dam and the walk along the Vegas Strip were none-the-less fun. One of my friends had also gone on a trip to Hawaii for two weeks where he had loads of fun. He talked about his favorite adventure, which was boogie-boarding on 11 ft waves at Bellows Beach. Before the trip, he was so excited that he counted down the days. There are many more fun stories where those came from, but many students just relaxed at home sleeping, watching TV, or playing video games. It was overall a fun, relaxing two weeks which everybody enjoyed.

                                                                     

 

                                                                     

Earth Day Brought to You by the Global Issues Club

Earth Day Brought to You by the Global Issues Club

      On Tuesday, April 22nd is Earth Day, and the members of the Global Issues Club have some big events planned for the entire week starting on Earth Day to help out our enevironment. They are planning to dedicate each one of the four days of the week to an evironment issue. On the first day, they will be having a Bottled Water Campaign to show how many plastic bottles are used by us. A 10 minute video will be shown to students that will inform them on how much, plastic water bottles affect our environment. To enevourage students to bring reusable water bottles to school, the members are thinking about setting up a small area in the cafeteria to give out ice cream to whoever has brought a reausable water bottle to school. On Wednesday, the school will try to shut off as many lights as possible for an Energy Conservation Day. Day three, will focus mainly about Animal Issues and endangered species. The students of Sulli will be informed on many different issues based on animals and how some new laws, such as the new hunting license, which have been passed can really harm the enfangered species of animals and how it can harm our environment as well. And last but not least, Friday will be the day to celebrate the three R's: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Another twist has been added to this day though because now the members will bot only try to inform the students about these three important factors but the fourth one as well: compost. There have been some ideas which no one is quite sure of yet but it has been discussed that the members will create a mural using a photo challenge to show pictures of students recycling, or cleaning up. Another idea is that there might a speaker coming in to talk more about these issues but it is not yet confirmed. More information will be given on this upcoming event throughout the following weekly updates.

Spirit Week at Sulli

Spirit Week at Sulli

 

        This week at Sulli, from March 3rd to the 7th, will be Spirit Week! Once again, the students will dress up using a certain theme set for each day of the week. The Grads have also just finished their Grad Spirit Week using various themes for theirs such as Tight and Bright, and Kindergarten Day. This week`s themes will be fun and stylish. On Monday, we will have Plaid Day to celebrate the traditional pattern of plaid. Tuesday will be a more modern look since it`s Shades and Bling Day. Time to get out those Ray Bans and gold watches! Wednesday will be an ever-lasting tradition that will forever be a part of Sulli`s Spirit Week: Formal day. Girls will be slipping on flats or strapping their high-heels while the boys try to dig up their suits and ties. This Thursday, Sulli will also throw out a new theme. Throwback Thursday! I can assure that students will be Instagramming, Tweeting, Snapchatting, and Facebook messaging this day out to everyone. And last but not least, the students will be dressing up in their old Hawaiian t-shirts and shorts on Tacky Tourist Day! Spirit week is a fun time where students at Sulli can have a good laugh.

                                            

 Here is a pic of some students last year on Retro Day!