The Westside School - Beatty

We are delighted to participate in the food donation for Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House (https://www.froghollow.bc.ca/) in Vancouver this year. Hope everyone enjoys a wonderful Christmas and happy new year! 🥰

☀️Summer Day Camps for Kindergarten - Grade 6 students by The Westside School☀️

Join us from July 18-22 and July 25-29 for our Summer Camp full of sports, games and learning with Camp Director, Ms. O'Connor! 😄

Contact Anne O'Halloran at [email protected] to register today! 🏫

This morning was a very special morning for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 students at our Beatty campus as they attended their own Graduation Ceremony! 👨‍🎓

Ms. O'Connor and Ms. Greenwell bid farewell to their 2021/22 classes and looked back on slideshows of all the fond memories the students and their teachers shared throughout the school year. ❤️

We wish the future Grade 1 and Grade 2 students the best of luck during the school year of 2022/23! 😄

This morning we had Kindergarten Orientation for our Kindergarten students of 2022/23! 👫

We welcomed our new students and their families at our Beatty Campus where they met their classmates, played games and had story time with Ms. O'Connor before taking a tour of the school. Our current Kindergarten students set a great example for the newcomers by practicing Westside's Core Values throughout Orientation. 😊

Ms. O'Connor and the rest of Westside are so excited to officially welcome all of our new students to our two campuses at the start of the school year in September! 🏫

Some photos of our K-9 students and their work that was showcased at our Art Gala yesterday evening! Our students were full of excitement while showing their families what they and their classmates created. 🎨🖌

It was fantastic to be able to invite Westside families and the public into our school to view the talents our students have to offer and experience an evening of appreciation for Kindergarten to Grade 12's work.

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their day to join us and we hope you enjoyed the evening just as much as we did! 😊

Also, a big congratulations to Jonathan from Grade 9 for winning the Treasure Hunt at the Art Gala!

If you were not able to make it, feel free to drop in today during our Open House, Wednesday the 1st of June, between 9am-3pm, to see our student's creations for yourself! 🏫

We have had a great past two days at BC Place! 😊

On Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, our Grade 2-9 students had the fantastic opportunity to use the field as their own personal playground! 🏃🤸

Our Grade 2-7 students took part in a rotation of activities while our Grade 8 & 9 students played a soccer match using the full field. ⚽️

A big thank you to BC Place from all of us at Westside for giving us this opportunity! Our students and staff thoroughly enjoyed themselves and can now all say they played soccer at BC Place! 😆

From May 10th-18th, our Kindergarten - Grade 7 students took part in workshops run by UBC Geering Up! This organisation are on a mission to educate British Columbia's youth on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through fun workshops. 😄

Kindergarten - Ecosystems Everywhere
Our Kindergarten students learned about the fundamentals of living things through various games and explored the basics of life by building their very own biodome! They also created seed balls from just newspaper, water and seeds to be taken home and planted. 🌱

Grade 1 - Amazing Bots
In this workshop, students learned all about the components of a robot and guided their mini Ozobot robot to complete tasks! They drew a course for their mini robots to follow, with some students getting adventurous and writing their own names or abstract shapes! 🤖

Grades 2 & 3 - Emotion Detector
Technology is a vital part of how we communicate today and in this workshop, students used technology to communicate by programming an online micro-bit simulator to express different emotions, as well as creating musical melodies! 🎼

Grades 4 & 5 - Scratch Dino Run
Programming is all around us and is used to build all the games we love to play! Using Scratch, students learned to use code and their creativity to create their very own interactive game. Starting off with the basics of choosing their character, to then ending up with a playable game! 🎮

Grades 6 & 7 - Manufacturing Pioneers
In this workshop, students explored the world of biomedical engineers and their role in designing prosthetics. Students learned the fundamentals of working organs and applied their creativity to design challenges. They were given time to let their creative freedom flow and create their own 3D designs. 💻

Westside would like to thank Marcus and Anna from UBC's Geering Up for being teachers and mentors to our students during these workshops! 😊

🌱Yesterday's UBC Geering Up Workshop with our Kindergarten students!🌱

In this workshop, students learned about the fundamentals of living things through various games and explored the basics of life by building their very own biodome! 🌿

They also created seed balls using newspaper, water and seeds to take home and plant! These seeds balls will grow and blossom into beautiful flowers 🌹

Our Grade 2 & 3 students taking part in their Emotion Detector UBC Geering Up workshop on Tuesday afternoon! 👨‍💻

Technology is a vital part of how we communicate today. In this workshop, students used technology to communicate by programming an online microbit simulator to express different emotions. 🖱

Stay tuned into next week as UBC Geering Up return to our Beatty Campus for four more workshops! 😀

So much excitement at our Beatty campus for Jeans Day! 😄👖

This annual event is to raise money for the BC Children's Hospital. The purpose is to 'make jeans a symbol of something much bigger - helping kids get out of their hospital gowns and back into their jeans'! By coming together, making donations and wearing our jeans, we can all help to conquer the illnesses that affect our province's kids.

You can still donate to this cause through the link below! 😊

https://secured.bcchf.ca/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?teamID=978215&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.bcchf.ca%252f

🌎International Day at our Miniversity campus on Friday🌎

Here are some great pictures of our students attending our school's International Day last week and learning all about different countries and cultures! 😄

It is incredibly beneficial for children to be taught about different countries and cultures in order for them to appreciate the world around them. Building their knowledge on the history of the world's countries helps them acknowledge, appreciate and understand our diverse and beautiful earth! 🌳