Congratulations to Fern's grade 8 girls volleyball team for an amazing season this year! Our team players committed to three months of practices with an energy and skill progression that was contagious. By the time we played our first tournament, our team had become really skilled with an amazing set-up and return volleyball game. We had a string of 12 consecutive wins in exhibitions and TDSB tournaments and playoffs games. Our team played at a very high level of volleyball throughout and was well prepared for the south Toronto final against Deer Park. The game went to a third set that was closely contested with many lead changes. The ending was exciting but did not fall in our favour, with a 3 point loss margin. Deer Park, a very good team, went on to win the TDSB Toronto city championship. It is bittersweet knowing that Fern team came that close to winning the City championship, however we feel very proud for our season and bringing back to Fern Avenue the south city finalist
Our annual Dance-A-Thon is coming up on Thursday, March 7th and we're so excited! Students in JK-Grade 6 will be dancing throughout the day, and are encouraged to dress up in their 90s finest - the theme is Saved By The Bell! When's the last time you were at a school dance?! Now's your chance for a throwback - we still need parent volunteers to help us decorate & clean up, collect donations, hand out snacks and keep up the energy on the dance floor. Sign up here : https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084DAAAE23A4FECE9-48006795-2024#/ The schedule is below, in case you want to volunteer during your student's dance period. Most importantly: We are raising funds for the school! The top 3 classes that raise the most money win a pizza party! There are 2 ways to donate: 1. Complete the pledge form that was sent home, and send cash with your child on March 7 . A parent volunteer will collect it and make sure your child’s class gets credit. 2. Donate on School Cash
If you happened to hear a lot of talk about superheroes in the past two months it was quickly brought to your attention that it had to do with the superhero teams battling it out in one of the many dodgeball games at the school’s gym. The dodgeball house league has been a huge annual sporting event at Fern Avenue public school with over 90 of our junior students playing this year. It was a great extracurricular for our students to exercise, practice their skills of throwing, catching, and dodging, and most importantly to have fun and socialize with friends and other students at school! Raising the gold cup with teammates in a commemorative picture was the prize in the final game between the superheroes teams. And yet, this was as big of a prize as it gets for our heroes in the final dodgeball game played between the Avengers and Titans teams. The game itself was one of the most memorable ones ever as the lead changed many times and a tiebreaker was needed to finally have the Avengers n