SCHOOL NEWS
OPEN HOUSE
The SBS Virtual Open House will include a mix of content that parents can review at their leisure and some opportunities for live virtual interactions with SBS Staff. Our SBS Open House Site is now live. All live events will take place on the evening of Thursday, March 4th between 6:00 - 7:30 pm.
Parents will have the opportunity to attend Google Meets for the Pre Advanced Placement Program, Strategies Program and Opportunity Program. You will also have the chance to meet the other members of our amazing team at SBS. We will provide reference information, including any pertinent links and processes, to all JP Catchment schools via email and also provide information on our school website. For our three feeder elementaries, we will also provide SchoolZone ready information and be in touch with your administration to discuss some virtual visits to help support your students and families with the registration process.
Our Open House website is now live. Please click here to visit and come back Thursday, March 4th starting at 6:00pm for our live Google Meet and Greet.
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Principal's Message
Dear Parents and Students:
Well, as I sit down to write this it is about as beautiful a summer day as you can imagine, and I’m hoping that bodes well for what will be another truly unique year here at SBS and, really, world-wide. By the time you read this document you have already been bombarded with a lot of information about what the coming school year will be like, but my hope is that this document can provide you with a little more specific information and answer most, if not quite all, of your questions.
Now, typically, one of the first things I do when I sit down to write this message is take a look at what I had to say last year and when I did I was somewhat surprised to see that a) I’d been fairly brief and b) despite the radically different circumstances under which we are starting this year, the essence of what I wrote is just as relevant today as it was a year ago. I focused on two words - Connect and Inspire - and I think those two words are equally important this year, as it will be more important than ever that we build meaningful connections and actively seek out opportunities for inspiration. There are two other words that keep running through my head and it is probably because I walk by this sign multiple times every day in our office:
Whether you are walking into SBS for the first time as a new student or you are about to start your third year with us, you are in the process of reconnecting with school after your whole school experience was turned upside down last year. That concept of strive - to make a great effort to achieve - has been a part of our school culture from the outset and in the past few years the word “kind” has increasingly become a regular part of our lexicon. SBS historians will note that our long standing motto has been Strive to Be Your Best and I’d like to suggest that Strive to be Kind is an important distillation of this concept. The essence of kindness is empathy: the ability to fully imagine the lived experience of others. There is no world where being your best you is not deeply infused with finding the best in others. We live in uncertain times, where the cracks in the foundations of some of our most cherished institutions have been laid bare to insistently demand repair. Our response to the global call for social justice and true societal equity, will be forever tied to our response to the pandemic, and while I can’t honestly say that we have everything figured out in this world where the changes and challenges are coming so quickly, I can honestly say that I am looking forward to reengaging with our scorpion spirit and working together to find a better way forward.
I am excited about the year ahead and honored to serve you!
Brent McKeown
Principal