Our final four days for the 2024-2025 school year have arrived. What a year it has been!

This week will be spent finishing our final projects of the year in our various classes, cleaning out our lockers and learning spaces, signing yearbooks and celebrating all our successes from the past 10 months.

On Wednesday evening, we will pay special tribute to our Grade 9 class with our annual closing ceremony beginning at 6:30pm in the MPR. We will then have some fun in the gym as we light up the dance floor during our semi-formal dance.

On Thursday, we will celebrate our Grade 9 students and many others during our Celebration of Learning and then in the afternoon participate in the final Gulf Shore Games for the school year, ending with crowning our shark champions.

Reports will be given to Grade 9 students during the closing and will be sent home with students in K-8 at the end of the day on Thursday. If your child is not in school on that day, their report will be in the office.

Finally, I’d like to thank you all for an amazing year. Students returning to Gulf Shore will have school supplies purchased for them, but will need to bring their own calculator, headphones and indoor shoes with them when classes resume on Thursday, September 4.

Have a safe and fun summer vacation!

Mme MacNevin

Our final full week of school for the 2024-2025 school year is now here. Wow! It is very hard to believe how fast this school year flew by!

We have a few busy days before students in Grades 7-9 take off to Magic Mountain on Friday for our year-end trip. If your child hasn’t already done so, please make sure they hand in their permission form as soon as possible.

On Friday, students should bring lots of sunscreen, a towel and swimsuit (if they are wanting to go into the Splash Zone) and some snacks and/or some money for lunch and supper.

Now let’s look at what else will be happening in the days leading up to our exciting trip…

Grade 7 Science- Over the next few classes, students will finish up and then analyze the maps they began creating last week showing the locations of many earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain ranges on an interactive map. They will learn more about tectonic plates and how their movement shapes the Earth’s surface. We will also experiment in the lab, creating some small-scale replicas to help illustrate and better understand these phenomena and how they occur naturally.

Grade 7 Core French-As we get into the final rounds of our “Manie Musicale Gulf Shore” we will continue listening to the music, creating reveal videos and expressing our ideas and opinions on what we hear. We will also complete our menu projects and use the menus to “order” from those our classmates’ menus as continue discussing the foods we like to eat.

Grade 8 Science-Over the next few classes will learn all about human body systems. Working in small groups, students will create a presentation to share with their peers about one of the many body systems that work to keep us alive.

Grade 9 Science- As they study the carbon cycle and review their knowledge of the design process, this week students will work on creating their own wind turbines, which we will test out next week.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-This week students will wrap up their look at the Earth and move their attention to Space. Working in small groups, they will complete a series of interactive learning stations where they will explore concepts such as eclipses, day/night and the seasons, and the phases of the moon.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- As they study the design process, this week students will work on creating their own wind turbines, which we will test out next week.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-We will continue over the next few classes exploring biotechnology. Students will summarize their learning and brainstorm some possible biotech that they would like to see come to life in the future.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-In our final leadership classes, we will finish up the décor for the semi dance next week. Planning will also continue for our final Gulf Shore Games field day that will take place on the last day of school.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Mme MacNevin

The countdown is on until the end of this school year. Only 14 school days to go!

This will be another busy week with our school talent show, a trip to visit Bluefield for our Grade 9s and lots of other exciting year-end activities!

While we love the beautiful sunshine we’ve been having during the week, it can get very warm in our classrooms. Students are reminded to dress for the weather and to not forget their water bottles so that they are able to stay hydrated. Sunscreen for recess is also very important.

Now let’s peek into that learning that will be taking place over this next week….

Grade 7 Science-Today, students will work on creating a 3D model of the Earth, showcasing the different layers on and below the surface. Students will also create a short story showcasing a fictional journey to the center of the Earth and highlighting what they might see once they got there. With our models complete, later in the week, we will shift our focus to learning about Pangea, continental drift and tectonic plates.

Grade 7 Core French-I am very proud of my class and all their hard work as we continue “Manie Musicale Gulf Shore.” Students have been participating in creating the reveal videos after each match and we are having a lot of fun doing so. This week we will also continue our look at the vocabulary related to food we like to eat.

Grade 8 Science-This week we will prepare for and then write our quiz on the characteristics of living things, cells and their organelles. Students will also begin to look at cells under the microscope and study the parts of the microscopes we use here in the lab.

Grade 9 Science-As we continue moving through our unit on biodiversity, this week students will look at how living things are classified. We will use jelly beans to learn about dichotomous keys that help us to identify different organisms based on their characteristics and we will also learn how random sampling works through an experiment outdoors.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-Over the next few classes, students will analyze the maps they created last week showing the locations of many earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain ranges on an interactive map. They will learn more about tectonic plates and how their movement shapes the Earth’s surface. We will also experiment in the lab, creating some small-scale replicas to help illustrate and better understand these phenomena and how they occur naturally.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- As students finish up their look at the solar system, they will put the final touches on their learning center duotangs before handing them in and writing their evaluation on these topics.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-This week we will shift our focus from body systems over to biotechnology, as we explore some different types of biotechnology used today.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-The décor for the semi dance at the end of June is starting to take shape. We will continue working on these creations during our class this week and next. Planning will also continue for our final Gulf Shore Games field day.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin

The final month of the school year has arrived and so has the warmer weather. Be sure to apply sunscreen!

The month of June is always a very busy one. Let’s take a look into what will be taking place this week..

Grade 7 Science-This week students will prepare for and then write their assessment on rocks and minerals. Study materials can be found in the Google Classroom. Later on in the week, we will begin to look at what is below the surface of our planet as we study the layers of the Earth.

Grade 7 Core French-The brackets have been finalized and “Manie Musicale Gulf Shore” kicks off today. Students will listen to, express their opinions about, and then vote for their favourite songs for the first three matches this week. We will also continue our work learning vocabulary related to the things we like to eat.

Grade 8 Science-The cell and its organelles will be top of mind this week, as students learn the characteristics and functions of both plant and animal cells. We will also begin some creative projects where students will create cells of their own and if time permits, we will begin to look at cells under the microscope.

Grade 9 Science-Today, students will finish reflecting on their electric car projects before we officially kick off our last unit of the year on biodiversity. We will begin by discussing what biodiversity is and its importance to ecosystems before heading outside to take a closer look at some biodiversity here on Prince Edward Island.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-With our quiz on the Earth’s layers and spheres now complete, we will begin looking at the plates of our planet and how their movement impacts what we see here on the surface. Students will begin by looking at continental drift theory before diving deeper into how shifting plates shape the landscape as they plot out the locations of many earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain ranges on an interactive map.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- Students will finish up their learning stations the solar system over the next few classes and begin preparing for their assessment on these concepts.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-We will spend the next few classes working on our human body system presentations before presenting them to the class later on in the week.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-The décor for the semi dance at the end of June is starting to take shape. We will continue working on these creations during our class this week. Planning will also continue for our final Gulf Shore Games field day.

Have a marvelous Monday and a great week ahead!

Mme MacNevin

How is it even possible that this is the final week in the month of May! I cannot believe it! The next few weeks will fly by as we begin to wrap up our 2024-2025 school year. That being said, there is still a lot of learning left, so please continue to remind your children to stay focused just a little while longer, as we look forward to sunny summer days ahead.

On Thursday, May 29th, our band students will show off all their hard work from these past few months as they present their annual spring concert. There will be a dress rehearsal for the school at 1:50pm, with the concert for the public happening later that evening. Please reach out to Ms. Grant if you have any questions about this.

Now here is a snapshot into what will be taking place in our classroom over the next few days..

Grade 7 Science-As we continue our look into the rock cycle, this week students will consolidate their knowledge of how the rock cycle proceeds through a “craftivity” and a colour by number assignment, where they will show the processes of rocks changing from one form to another. We will also set the date and begin preparations for our assessment of the outcomes covered in this section. Study materials and notes can be found in our Google Classroom.

Grade 7 Core French-Moving along in our unit on food and snacks, this week we will continue learning new vocabulary related to expressing their likes and dislikes when it comes to healthy foods and discuss different types of cuisine served around the world. The bracket for Manie Gulf Shore will also be revealed later in the week.

Grade 8 Science-Today we will officially kick off our new unit on cells and body systems. We will begin by discussing the characteristics of living things before moving into discussions around the cell and its organelles later in the week.

Grade 9 Science-This week students will wrap up their look at electricity, combining their knowledge into the construction of an electric car. Students will complete their builds and tests their designs this week, before completing the final race late this week or early next week.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-Over the next few classes, students will prepare for and then write their assessment on the layers and spheres of the Earth. Study materials and practice questions and games can be found in the Google Classroom.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- As we’ve been doing these past few weeks, students will continue to work through a variety of interactive learning stations to learn about important parts of our solar system including the planets, comets and meteors just to name a few. Most groups have now completed about half of the stations, as we hope to finish them up next week.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-This morning, students will write their assessment on the reproductive system. With that complete, they will take on a new project to explore some of the other important body systems. Working in teams, students will prepare a short presentation to explain their chosen system to their classmates. They will have several classes to work on these presentations, which they will present later on next week.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-Today we will begin working on décor for the semi dance at the end of June and begin planning out the final set of Gulf Shore Games for this school year.

Wishing you all a fantastic week ahead!

Mme MacNevin

I hope that everyone got the chance to enjoy the long weekend. An extra day of rest for everyone is always appreciated I’m sure, especially as we near closer to the end of the school year.

As the next few months are always very busy here at Gulf Shore, please continue to stay tuned to Mrs. Conohan’s weekly updates as well as our Facebook page and school newsletters for important upcoming dates and activities.

Now let’s take a look into what will be happening during our four days together this week..

Grade 7 Science-Our focus this week will be on rocks and the rock cycle. Students will learn about the three main categories of rocks (sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic) and how rocks change from one form to another through the rock cycle. Using starburst candies to demonstrate, students will re-create their own rock cycle and explain what happens to the rock during each change.

Grade 7 Core French-We have just begun our new unit on food and nutrition. Over the next few days, students will start to learn vocabulary related to expressing their likes and dislikes when it comes to healthy foods and discuss different types of cuisine served around the world. We will also keep listening to and talking about new songs to prepare for our Manie Musicale Gulf Shore where students in Grades 7-9 will create their own musical tournament and vote for which songs they prefer most.

Grade 8 Science-Today, students will write their chapter assignment on buoyancy and pressure. We will then spend some time reviewing for their fluids test that they will write during class on Day 5. Study materials, notes for review and some practice games can be found in Google Classroom.

Grade 9 Science-This week week students will prepare for and write their assessment on current electricity, before moving into our final project for our electricity unit, where students will create a small electric toy car. They will begin this project by sketching out their designs and creating a list of possible materials for their builds.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-Our classes this week will focus on learning about the different spheres of our plant including the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. If time permits, we will even create our own “Earth in a Bag” where students will apply their knowledge to create these “spheres” inside a Ziploc bag and explain what is happening in each one.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- As we’ve been doing these past few weeks, students will continue to work through a variety of interactive learning stations to learn about important parts of our solar system including the planets, comets and meteors just to name a few.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-Today, we will film our kinulation activity. During this activity, students will assume the role of different organs and hormones in the reproductive system. This assessment will take place on Monday, May 26th. We will then prepare to write our assessment ton this first human body system of the many we will be covering over these next few weeks. Study materials can be found in the Google Classroom. Students are reminded of the importance of a frequent review, as these biology concepts can be quite challenging.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-As we send our yearbook along to the printer, this week we will debrief on last week’s conference and look forward to planning out the final fun activities of the year. We have also been tasked with making some of the décor for our final dance which will include recreating the famous “Hollywood” sign.

Have an amazing week!
Mme MacNevin

The month of May is going fast and while the nice weather is lovely, it can be challenging for students in the classroom. Please remind your child to dress for the weather, as there may be many hot and humid days in the coming weeks.

We are fortunate that the heat pump provided by Home and School has now been installed in the Multipurpose Room. We will be circulating classes through that room on very hot days in order to give everyone a chance to cool off.

As the next few months are always very busy here at Gulf Shore, please continue to stay tuned to Mrs. Conohan’s weekly updates as well as our Facebook page and school newsletters for important upcoming dates and activities.

Here now is a look into the learning that will be taking place during this upcoming week….

Grade 7 Science-This week we will wrap up our look at minerals through our “mineralogist mystery” lab. Students will then write an assessment on the ways to identify minerals before shifting their focus to rocks and the rock cycle later on in the week.

Grade 7 Core French-Tomorrow we will kick off our new unit on food and nutrition. Students will learn vocabulary related to expressing their likes and dislikes when it comes to healthy foods and discuss different types of cuisine served around the world. We will also keep listening to and talking about new songs to prepare for our Manie Musicale Gulf Shore (more details to follow on this exciting new project which will begin the first of June). We have already found a couple of songs to add to the list 😊

Grade 8 Science-As we draw near to the end of our unit on fluids, this week students will wrap up their boat projects on buoyancy and learn about pressure. We will then begin preparations of our final assessment of this unit which will take place early next week.

Grade 9 Science-This week students will learn about voltage, resistance and current as we study Ohm’s law. Later in the week, we will prepare for and write our assessment on current electricity, before moving into our final project for our electricity unit, where students will create a small electric toy car.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-Over our next few classes, students will work to create a 3D model of the Earth’s layers. We will then shift our focus on learning about the different spheres of our plant including the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere.

Grade 8 Immersion Science- Throughout the next few weeks students will continue to work through a variety of interactive learning stations to learn about important parts of our solar system including the planets, comets and meteors just to name a few.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-This week we will learn even more about the reproductive system and the hormones that control it. We will combine our learning later this week in a kinulation activity. During this activity, students will assume the role of different organs and hormones in the reproductive system. We will then prepare to write our assessment ton this first human body system of the many we will be covering over these next few weeks. Study materials can be found in the Google Classroom. Students are reminded of the importance of a frequent review, as these biology concepts can be quite challenging.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-This week we will put the very final touches on the yearbook and revise and edit our work before sending it along to the publisher. We will also travel to Stonepark on Wednesday, May 14 for an exciting leadership conference and finally we will begin to plan out the semi décor and the last Gulf Shore Games for this school year.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin

Welcome to the first full week of May and of our first full week of school in quite some time. It will certainly, as always, be a busy one here at Gulf Shore.

The weather (thankfully) is getting warmer, and the days are getting longer at with that comes lots of excitement for the summer months that lie ahead. That being said, there is still two months of school and lots of learning that remain, so students are reminded to keep their focus on their studies, as we inch closer to the end of the school year.

A note was sent home last week about our year end trip to Moncton in June. Please make sure your child has returned this form as soon as possible, as we are finalizing details on that trip and need to know the number of students who plan on attending.

Now let’s look into the learning that will be taking place this week….

Grade 7 Science-I was impressed with the creativity students showed in putting together their devices to wrap up our unit on heat. Well done! With those projects now behind us, today we will enter into our final unit of the year called “The Earth’s Crust”. We will begin this unit “mining” into some chocolate chip cookies, as we begin to discuss the properties of minerals and learn about ways minerals can be identified.

Grade 7 Core French-This week students will keep working on the letter text form, working on our final project of writing a letter to a friend en français. We will also keep listening to and talking about new songs to prepare for our Manie Musicale Gulf Shore (more details to follow on this exciting new project). We have already found a couple of songs to add to the list 😊

Grade 8 Science-During our classes this week we will look at the final sections of our unit on fluids. Students will learn about buoyancy and pressure and conduct some experiments to prove these principles.

Grade 9 Science-Our look into current electricity continues this week as we further explore the components of electric circuits and begin to make some of our own. All of this will lead up to our final project for our electricity unit, where students will create a small electric toy car.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-This week we will finish up our biology unit, completing a project on the different ways animals carry their young. We will then prepare for and write our final assessment before shifting our focus into our next unit on the Earth’s crust.

Grade 8 Immersion Science-On Day 1 (tomorrow) students will wrap up their look at rocks and minerals by writing their unit assessment on these concepts. We will then begin looking at the “Space” portion of our unit on “Earth and Space”. Throughout the next few weeks students will work through a variety of interactive learning stations to learn about important parts of our solar system including the planets, comets and meteors just to name a few.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-Tomorrow, students will write their assessment on the basics of biology. As always, study materials can be found in Google Classroom. With that assessment complete, we will then shift our focus into the study of various human body systems, beginning with the reproductive system. Students will review the anatomic parts of this system that they learned in Grade 8 and then dive deeper into learning more about the hormones that impact human reproduction.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-As we inch very close to our yearbook deadline, our main focus this week will be on completing and revising our pages to prepare to submit them for publishing.

Have a marvelous Monday and an awesome week ahead!

Mme MacNevin

This week we will turn the calendar over to the month of May and the last two months of the school year. There is, however, still lots of learning to take place over these next months and it is important for students to continue to put into practice the study strategies they have been developing all year.

Yearbooks are still on sale for $20. Money can be sent into Donna in the office or books can also be purchased online at the link sent home a few weeks ago.

There will be no classes for students on Friday, May 2nd, so that staff can attend their annual union business meetings.

Now here is a snapshot into what will be happening during our classes together this week….

Grade 7 Science-As we wrap up our unit on heat, over the next few days students will finish up their interactive final projects where they are creating devices that will keep a substance either hot or cold. We will also prepare for and then write (on Day 5-Thursday, May 1) our unit test on the concepts we’ve been covering these past few months. A study guide and several review materials can be found in the Google Classroom.

Grade 7 Core French-This week students will continue working on the letter text form, working towards the goal of writing a letter to a friend en français. We will also keep listening to and talking about new songs to prepare for our Manie Musicale Gulf Shore (more details to follow on this exciting new project).

Grade 8 Science-We will spend our classes this week preparing for and then writing our quiz on density. Study guide and review materials can be found in Google Classroom.

Grade 9 Science-With our look into static electricity now complete, this week we will shift our focus over to current electricity. We will begin by exploring the differences between static electric and electricity that flows and then move into learning about the components of an electric circuit.

Grade 7 Immersion Science-Our focus this week will be on finishing up our look at sexual and asexual reproduction in plants and animals. We will then start to prepare for our final assessment for our biology unit.

Grade 8 Immersion Science-Today students will wrap up their energy posters and begin to prepare for their chapter 5 assessment.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-This week we will wrap our first section of biology as we look at the differences between cells, tissues, organs and systems and learn the basics about the most important systems in the human body and begin preparations for our chapter assessment.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-Yearbook pages will occupy our time this week, as we get closer to our final deadline. We will also look ahead to our final months of school and brainstorm some activities to make them memorable.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

Mme MacNevin

It seems like spring has finally sprung! I hope you all had a excellent long weekend and got to enjoy the things you love with family and friends.

Today, our junior high classes will travel to two exciting field trips. Our music students in grades 7-9 will be travelling to Summerside to the College of Piping for the annual PEI Band Days. They will be having lunch at Wendy’s/Tim Horton’s in Summerside. Our non-band students will be travelling to Charlottetown to take part in the UPEI Engineering Expo and will eat lunch at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall (an all-you-can-eat buffet). It should be an awesome day for both groups!

On Wednesday, April 23, we will have a visit from Remi Dean, this year’s Easter Seals Ambassador. We will present Remi with the over $900 that we raised during our “Pie Ms. Roberts” fundraiser.

Here is a look into what else will be happening during these next few days….

Grade 7 Science-This week we will finish up our unit on heat. Students will finish up their study of this topic through an interactive final project where they will create a device that will keep a substance either hot or cold. Our next few classes will be spent brainstorming ideas and drawing some sketches of our devices, before we get started on building them next week.

Grade 7 Core French-Sadly, Manie Musicale has come to an end. Over the next few days, students will finish recording their podcasts on their favourite songs and artists. We will also begin working on the letter text form, as we write short letters to friends explaining what we like to do in our spare time. Finally, we will listen to some new songs en français as we prepare for our Manie Musicale Gulf Shore (more details to follow on this exciting new project).

Grade 8 Science-As we continue our study of density, this week students will complete their experimenting in the lab on this topic, calculating the density of different liquids and creating their own density towers and preparing for an assessment on these concepts.
Grade 9 Science-This week we will wrap up our look into electrostatics and begin preparations for our assessment on this first section of our electricity unit, which will take place on Friday, April 25th (Day 1). All study materials are now in the Google Classroom.

Grade 7 Immersion Science- Over the next few classes, we will discuss sexual and asexual reproduction, first learning the differences between the two and then looking at some examples of how these forms of reproduction are used in plants and animals.

Grade 8 Immersion Science-During their classes this week, students will work on a project researching different forms of energy. Each student has been assigned a different type of energy and following their research, they will create a poster explaining how their type works, how it is used and its advantages and disadvantages.

Grade 9 Immersion Science-This week we will wrap up our look at genetic diversity, as we look at some common physical characteristics such as eye colour and hair colour and explore the genetic diversity present in our classroom. We will then look at the differences between cells, tissues, organs and systems and learn the basics about the most important systems in the human body.

Grades 7-9 Leadership-Yearbook pages will occupy our time this week, as we get closer to our final deadline. We will also debrief on the Gulf Shore Easter Games and look ahead to our final months of school and brainstorming some activities to make them memorable.

Have a marvelous week!

Mme MacNevin