A big congratulations to our two Nelson Catapult teams who competed in the ASDN Annual catapult challenge on Saturday! Both teams did an amazing job! Our elementary team brought home 2nd place after competing against 15 other teams in the district. They also won the optional challenge of recording their process building and data recording of their catapult build. We want to thank all the volunteers, students, teachers and parents for all their help for making this a successful event! Go Raiders! Check out our photo album for the Catapult Challenge!
Our annual Terry Fox Walk took place this Thursday at 1:00. Our event was coordinated by Grade 8 leadership students with the help of Ms. Baldwin. This year we raised the most for the Terry Fox Foundation than we ever had, with about $2000 for this intitiative. The students put forth a challenge that if they reached their goal of $1500 that the teachers would face off in a lip sync battle. Our assembly was enjoyed by all. Great job Nelson Rural.
We had some excited Raiders today! A BIG Thank you to TD bank for sponsoring our school this year with the Miramichi Timberwolves. We will have tickets for each game all year long thanks to TD.
Nelson Rural Garden club would like to thank many people from our community for their generous support. A huge thank you to NBCC - Miramichi for the time and effort they spent building and donating our shed. Thanks also goes to Chris' Towing for delivering it to our school and a lot of thanks goes to the people who showed up all summer to help out with our garden. Every little bit helps and a huge THANK YOU to our committee members for being there to bounce ideas off of and to support them as well.
Welcome to Nelson School! Students are coming back to school on Tuesday, Sept. 3rd (staggered entry in Kindergarten). We would like to welcome back all returning staff and students as well as some new staff members this year: Grade 3/4 French Immersion will be taught by Mrs. Walsh and Grade 7 French Immersion teacher will be Mr. Methot. We also have new EAs: Suzanne Gorman and Shelby Adams. Middle School pictures will be taken on Wendesday, Sept. 4th and K-5 pictures will be taken on Thursday, Sept. 5th. Our first official gathering will be our Meet the Teacher night on Sept.
On Wednesday, August 21st, the Rotary Club of Chatham will be sponsoring a "Back to School Double Bingo" on 99.3 The River. All prize money will be doubled and the winner of Game 7 will get to choose a school who will receive $1000.
Nelson Rural School had their award ceremony on Thursday, June 20th. Coming away with major awards were (from left to right): Evan Bowes (Principal's), Evan Wenzel (Exemplary Student), Henry Duffy (Principal's Award), Logan Hicks (Male Athlete), Karley Whitney (Joy Sullivan), Mckenzie Briggs (Anna McCarthy), Alex Daigle (Middle School Turn-Around), Tyson Robichaud (Thomas Woods), Ashlee Jardine (Principal's), Ashley Adams (Principal's), Brenna Maloney (Michaela MacDonald), Madeline Woods (Female Athlete), Brianna Gallagher (Female Athlete), Kaylee Vickery (Colleen Lynch).
Some of the JMH Boomerang group stopped by to welcome our grade 8 students to high school today. They encouraged our kids to get involved and try new things. And these lucky kids even took away some Tommie swag.
