Stelly's Daily Buzz - April 1, 2025
STELLY’S DAILY BUZZ
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
GENERAL SCHOOL NEWS
On April 16th, Stelly’s will be hosting our annual “Fill the Hive Food Drive.” This is a food drive for our community, where we collect non-perishable food items and/or monetary donations from houses around the Brentwood Bay, Keating, and Saanichton area. All of the donations and proceeds go to the Saanich Peninsula Lions Food Bank which distributes more than $410,000 in food each year. We will be distributing leaflets to houses in the Brentwood Bay, Keating, and Saanichton areas about a week before the date of the food drive, in order to give households advance notice of our collection date. If your home doesn't receive a leaflet, don't worry! There will be donation drop-off locations from 4-6pm on April 16th, at Brentwood Elementary, Keating Elementary, and the Central Saanich Municipal Hall. There will also be a drop-off location at Stelly’s Secondary for donations any time between 4-7pm. If your home does receive a leaflet, this means that Stelly’s students will be coming by your house on Wednesday, April 16th to collect non-perishable food or monetary donations for this food drive. Please leave any donations on your front steps in the bags provided by 4pm, or at the drop off locations.
ATHLETICS
There will be a Track Meet on Wednesday at 4:00 at UVic - students interested in competing need to come to a meeting today at lunch in room 19.
To keep up to date on all things athletics, please see the Stelly’s Athletics webpage (https://sites.google.com/saanichschools.ca/stellys-athletics/home) or follow us on Instagram (@sd63stellys and @stellys_athletics)
IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP
April 7 - Green Shirt Day
April 7 - Copernican Schedule (block 1 - AM, block 3 - PM) > Assessments: Literacy 10 & 12; Numeracy 10
April 8 - Copernican Schedule (block 2 - AM, block 4 - PM) > Assessments: Literacy 10 & 12; Numeracy 10
April 8 - PAC Meeting at 6:30pm
April 11 - Pro-D Day (school not in session)
April 16 - Fill the Hive Food Drive
April 18 - Statutory Holiday (school not in session)
April 21 - Statutory Holiday (school not in session)
April 24 - Early Dismissal at 2:05pm
April 24 - Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences
GRAD 2025
Calling any Grad 2026 parents! Yes, you read that right! The 2025 Parent Grad Committee would like to know if any parents of students graduating in 2026 are interested in joining us on June 26th to participate in setting up and supervising the After Grad event at UVic. This would be an opportunity to see how the evening runs and acquire information for the 2026 After Grad event. If this is something you may be interested in, please email stellysdrygrad@gmail.com and let us know!
SCRAP METAL RECYCLING: There’s a large blue metal recycling bin in the upper parking lot by the street that is awaiting your scrap metal donations. If you have any metal stuff at home, in your yard or in the shed that you want to get rid of, it’s accessible 24/7 for drop-off and proceeds go towards the 2025 Stelly’s Dry Grad.
CAREER CENTRE
Berry Up! is looking for students to work this weekend (April 5th& 6th) putting up fencing at their organic berry plantation. The pay is $20/hour if you bring your own shovel and spade or $18/hour without your own tools. You may work between 2-6 hours each day. Please see the career board or come to the Career Centre for contact info.
For all things careers, check the Career Board or the Career Ed website linked HERE! There are lots of job and volunteer opportunities available - go check it out!
SISP INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM STUDENTS
There is a mandatory meeting for all international students participating in the Rocky Mountain Trip today during lunch block in the International Office. We look forward to seeing you there!
Stay Golden . . . and Maroon!