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Grade 4 Earns Top Scores in Provincial Math Contest

Cathy C. - Gr. 4 Math Contest Winner
Cathy. Gr. 4, with her Byron-Germain math contest medal.

Our Grade 4 students recently participated in a Provincial Math Contest organized by Mathematica Centrum. Cathy C. got the top sore in Grade 4 in all of BC and the whole grade won the Provincial School Award!

Each year students in Grade 4 can choose to take part in the Byron-Germain contest. The contest is a test that covers “above grade” concepts, so the difficulty level is quite high.

Other grades can also participate in the following contests: the Thales (Grade 3), Fibonacci (Grade 5), Pythagoras (Grade 6), Euler (Grade 7), Lagrange (Grade 8), and Newton (Grade 9).

Congratulations to Cathy and the entire Grade 4 class!

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A Little Bit of Egypt

Gr. 7 Egyptian Children's Museum
Click me for a slideshow of our Egyptian Children’s Museum!

As part of their unit on Egypt, the Grade 7’s were tasked with coming up with creative ways to entertain and engage our primary students as they visit an Egyptian museum.

Putting their imaginations to good use, they transformed their classrooms in to a little bit of Egypt.

The “museum” included: bread making, jewelry making, dressing Egyptian paper dolls, pyramids made with Rice Krispie squares, name badges in hieroglyphs, lining eyes with kohl in the style of Cleopatra and more!

Click the Egyptian mummy to the right for a slideshow 🙂