The Lynx Lowdown

Learning is exciting at Forest Grove!

All this week we had incredible learning happening across classrooms and grade levels. Some highlights were:

French Immersion students started Think Fast Comedy improv lessons to support building high quality French vocabulary with Mat Mailandt. This residency will continue for the next two weeks. All K-9 French Immersion students will participate. What fun!

Our Grade 4 students buddied up with the Grade 8 foods class to bake fresh apple crisp. It was inspiring to watch the older students patiently teach the younger students how to peel apples, measure ingredients and read recipes.

Our Grade 7 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) option class were testing their DIY balloon powered cars in the Atrium this afternoon. There were some interesting designs!

Finally, our Grade 8 band students joined our kindergarten music class to help them learn how to keep a beat and drummed the 7 Nation Army song on buckets together.

We are so proud of the culture that is growing at our new school where we help each other and learn together. Go, Lynx!

Mme Helene Hewitt, Mr. Greg Probert, Mr. Kristian Basaraba, Mrs. Angela Sonnenberg

Your Forest Grove Leadership Team

Where learning takes root and success grows.

Enraciné dans l'apprentissage, nous cultivons le succès.

The "Association pour la recherche en neuroéducation" (ARN) recently published an interesting article about Artificial Intelligence and why we are still smarter than machines.

"From writing songs to giving investment advice to explaining complex physical concepts, artificial intelligence seems capable of doing it all. But do these feats mean that computers have surpassed human capabilities?

In this short video, Ori Ossmy, a neuroscientist at Birkbeck, University of London, invites us to reconsider this idea. He explains that the human brain learns by interacting with a rich and changing environment starting in early childhood. This ability to adapt, fueled by diverse experiences and interactions with the world, gives humans a significant advantage over current artificial intelligence systems." Thus, we should continue what we are doing: meaningful interactions, learning, using our senses and cognitive abilities to problem-solve. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fc9tlx/watch

Nous vous souhaitons une excellente fin de semaine.

Mme Katharina Staub and Mme Natalie Pathirana

Forest Grove School Counsellors

Parent/Teacher/Student conferences are on October 21 and 22. It isn't too late to sign up for your spot!

Grades 1 to 6

Conferences are 10 minutes each and take place in your child's classroom. To ensure every family has an opportunity to meet with the teacher, we kindly ask that families only book one interview slot per family for each student. If your child has another teacher for ELA or FLA, please book your interview with your homeroom teacher. Please reach out directly to the other ELA/FLA teacher to arrange a separate time to meet or chat over the phone.

Book your elementary interview here: https://mybookit.app/book/ae3pbvg.

Grades 7 to 9

Junior High conferences are 7 minutes each and take place in our large gymnasium. To ensure every family has an opportunity to meet with the teacher, we kindly ask that families only book one interview slot per family for each student. Please refrain from booking back-to-back appointments.

Book your junior high interviews here: https://mybookit.app/book/e4830qh.

Registration Closes: October 22, 2026, at 9:00 AM

Kindergarten

Our kindergarten students have not had enough time yet at school for a conference. Our kinder conferences will take place in November and a sign up link will be sent out at that time.

Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns general.fgr@eips.ca or 587-882-0800.

If you want to stay in the loop regarding what is happening around our school, join Forest Grove School Council Community on Facebook! This is a private group for parents/guardians at Forest Grove to use for sharing important updates, reminders and other relevant information for our school community. https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1cyZBWqMuC/?mibextid=wwXlfr

If you have some extra time on Oct 21 or 22 while attending parent-student-teacher interviews, please sign up here to lend a hand with pizza sales: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D44ACAB29ABF9C25-66614565-pizza

Save-On Foods Wye Road is AMAZING in their support of local schools! We receive a portion of the amount on each receipt from the Wye Road location as fundraising money, so please save your receipts and hand them in at the office!

There will be a Ho-Ho-Holiday Book Sale happening this year in December and we will begin collecting donations of used books in November. More info to come soon!

Bring a bag of bottles when you come to parent/teacher/student conferences and toss them in the bottle depot trailer parked near the Forest Grove sea can. Proceeds will go to supporting our school with our outdoor spaces.

We will also be selling pizza by the slice in the small gym throughout the evening. Pizza will be sold cash only so bring your wallets!

Come have a slice and connect with other families while attending your child's conference. Then visit the Scholastic Book Fair in the library to make the evening a complete success!

Students across all grade levels are welcome to wear costumes. As we are home to students aged 5 to 15, we need to ensure that costumes are appropriate for a G-rated audience. We ask that you help us in the following ways:

• avoid gory or grotesque costumes (remember we have 5 year olds on site!)
• do not wear overly sexual or drug-related costumes
• leave weapons at home (they can scare others or result in dangerous playfighting)
• avoid masks that cover the entire face (for security reasons, we need to be able to identify all students)

Also, please remember we are a nut aware facility so we ask that you keep all nut products at home.

We will send information about the Halloween parade on October 30 in the afternoon in next week's Lowdown. Save the date!

With the theme “Different Perspective, Shared Direction,” Take Our Kids to Work Day 2026 recognizes the importance of expanding horizons and embracing diverse career paths. Take our Kids to Work Day provides Grade 9 students with an opportunity to be exposed to the world of work, an important aspect of career planning. Students will participate by job shadowing someone at work for the day, or participating in activities planned at the school. Families are responsible for connecting their student with a job shadow opportunity; often this is with a family member or family friend. Grade 9 families will be sent information on how to participate in the coming weeks. Now is a great time to start looking for a job shadow opportunity! Learn more

Parent Portal is your key to finding information on your child's progress at school! Not sure how to login? Here's a quick video tutorial.

EIPS is piloting new achievement standards that you will see on your child's report card and online gradebook assessments. Learn about the new draft elementary achievement standards by clicking here.