The big yellow school busses arrived in droves at New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) this week marking the first day of the new school year, Tuesday, September 6 for the majority of students in The Speaker’s circulation area . (French-language Roman Catholic students went back last week.) This is
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HPS closing June 30
Board approves students’ transfer to NLPSDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Haileybury Public School will close at the end of June, and its students will head to New Liskeard in September.The accommodation review process looking at the future of the Haileybury elementary school ended March
LET THEM EAT CAKE
The 15th annual New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) Cake Contest is a delicious fundraiser with over 85 cakes being created in some very unique ways. Parents purchase the cakes for $10 each and then students get to taste the cake creations, says NLPS Principal Gavin Date. Proceeds from the
NLPS filling buckets with kindness
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – How do you fill a metaphorical bucket?Giving a compliment, helping someone clean up a classroom, or simply holding the door for someone – such acts fill the “bucket” that represents one’s mental and emotional self, says Kelly Howard, child and youth worker at District
NLPS taking wings
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – New Liskeard Public School is undergoing a slight name modification.The elementary school once had three buildings known, fittingly, as the East Block, Centre Block and West Block.In 1998, the aging red brick East Block built in 1921 was demolished.That left the West
Cubs fans adding up
New Liskeard Cub team members were at New Liskeard Public School Friday, February 6 to hand out free tickets to 30 lucky students for the hockey game that evening in New Liskeard. A math challenge was created to help select the winners of the 30 tickets. Cubs from left
Date remains firm
Stepping Stones move proceedingDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The relocation of a child care centre to New Liskeard Public School is to proceed in less than a month.Stepping Stones Day Care, currently located at Temiskaming Hospital, is slated to move to the elementary school February
FUTURE ENTREPRENEURS
New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) students in Lindsay Hodgson’s Grade 4 and 5 class recently took part in the Northern Ontario Youth Entrepreneurship Create a Logo program targeting elementary students in Grades 3-6. Students participated in a competition identifying and naming a business opportunity they believe could work in
BANNER TOURNEY
Kevin Mikovitch from Englehart Pubic School (left), glances over his shoulder to see if Damian Wilkinson from New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) will get the ball back over the net on this play. New Liskeard won the close contest 25-23. NLPS hosted their eight-school Ontario North East Elementary Athletic
Teaching teachers
NLPS teacher goes to Haiti with Project OverseasTEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) — Heading to an impoverished country struggling to recuperate from a serious natural disaster might not be everyone’s view of professional development, but it was for New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) teacher Bruno Dallaire.