{"id":277,"date":"2025-06-30T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/?p=277"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:55:20","slug":"june-30-2025-principals-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/2025\/06\/30\/june-30-2025-principals-message\/","title":{"rendered":"June 30, 2025 Principal&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The following message was sent by email to EGMS families on June 26, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear EGMS families,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations&nbsp;to our students on the official completion of the 2024-2025 school year! This is an incredible accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the below homeroom teacher&nbsp;list for the 2025-2026 school year; we look forward to sharing more detailed information around September start-up in late August.&nbsp;<strong>Please note that this is only a general list of teachers in no particular order;&nbsp;students will not find out their specific homeroom and teacher until their first day of school.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Rafter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Hong<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms. Haberl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms. Mennie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Thornton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs. Lioce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs. Porter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs. Larkin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Whitmell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms. Seto<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Alvaro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mrs. Trott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mrs. Brothers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Lewis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Rexin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Sadr<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Konjin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Mark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. LaForest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms. Leong<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Salvant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Heykoop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme. Webster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Martimbault<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On the first day of school, September 2nd, Grade 8 students will attend school from 8:41 am to 2:00 pm, and grade 6 and 7 students will attend school for one hour at a designated time specific to their team.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Information will be emailed to families in August about whether your grade 6 or 7 child will attend from 9:30-10:30 am or 10:45-11:45 am.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, September 3rd,\u00a0will be a regular full day of instruction for all students from 8:41 am to 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, we wish our current grade 8 students all the best at NWSS, and warmly welcome our incoming grade 6 students to the EGMS school community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For any students looking for additional support over the summer regarding mental health &amp; wellness, relationships and boundary-setting, substance use and harm reduction, and more, the wonderful Manya Edwardson will be offering sessions at the NWSS Wellness Centre from 9 am to 3pm on Mondays and Thursdays, or by appointment.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the attached flyer for further info and her contact information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/Health-Promotion-Substance-Use-Prevention-Summer-Support.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/Health-Promotion-Substance-Use-Prevention-Summer-Support.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health Promotion &amp; Substance Use Prevention Summer Support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a wonderful summer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. J. Davis, Principal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The following message was sent by email to EGMS families on June 26, 2025. Dear EGMS families,&nbsp; Congratulations&nbsp;to our students on the official completion of the 2024-2025 school year! This is an incredible accomplishment. Please see the below homeroom teacher&nbsp;list for the 2025-2026 school year; we look forward to sharing more detailed information around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-page-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/EGMS-Principals-Message-News-Banner.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mike Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/author\/mvlee\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/egms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}