SD&D
There will be a session tonight in room 235. Grab your late taxi ticket if needed
DELF
For those in grade 12 taking either Core French or French Immersion, there will be a DELF meeting during lunch TOMORROW in room 212. We may even start practicing tomorrow, so come on by and try!
Guitar Club
Listen to the strings. They jangle and dangle. While the old guitar rings.
Guitar club resumes tomorrow at lunch in the music room. Remember to bring your guitar tomorrow.
Band
St Mary’s Concert Band meets after school until 5pm. Sign up for late taxi if need be. Please let Mr. Reitzel know if you are unable to make it.
Schedule Changes
Tomorrow is Day 8 of the second semester. It will soon be too late to add new classes for Semester 2 .
If you still need a schedule change, go to the guidance office today. Make sure that you bring a note giving you permission to change your schedule or have your parent / guardian email your guidance counsellor.
Junior Girls Volleyball
Practice today after school from 3:15-4:30pm. See you there!
Boys Basketball
Junior and senior boys basketball practice after school Wednesday until 5pm for those that can make it!
Student Council:
There is an SAC meeting today at 3:30 in Rm 209. New members are welcome!
Mental Health Champions Committee:
Are you interested in creating activities and initiatives that promote positive mental health at SMHS? Come see our Youth Worker, Ms.Baker, at the beginning of lunch today inside the sliding glass doors if you would like to be part of our Mental Health Champions Committee. Anyone is welcome!
This year’s theme for Black History Month - February and Forever:
Celebrating Black History today and every day – reminds us to recognize and reflect on the remarkable accomplishments, experiences, and challenges of Black communities all year long.
Through nearly 4 centuries in what is now Canada, Black women have shaped their own identities while taking decisive actions to advance the survival, preservation, and growth of countless families and communities across the country. As advocates and catalysts for change, Black women have created many important organizations that have advanced equity and human rights.
Today we acknowledge the Midwives in African Nova Scotian Communities
People of African descent have been in Nova Scotia since the early 1600s. Larger migrations came during the late 1700s to the early 1900s. Through the early days of struggle, Black communities had to be self-reliant. As such, Black midwives were an essential part of the African-Nova Scotian existence, as they helped to bring new generations of babies into the world.
Midwives left their home at any hour of the night under many conditions to aid in the safe arrival of babies. Arriving with satchel in hand, their tools were clean cloths, scissors, and usually something to assist in making a meal. These women came not only to help with labour, they also helped maintain the family home and often stayed until the mothers were back on their feet.
Their experience, courage, and ultimately their faith guided them through regular deliveries and challenging birth situations. Their goals were to ensure babies took their first breath, and to keep hope even when the Doctor present had given up on a baby. Midwives went where they were required, which sometimes took them into the surrounding white communities to assist with deliveries when the Doctor could not make it. Within Black communities in Nova Scotia, midwives delivered generations of babies well into the 1960s.