Congratulations to Tennyson students who participated in the Little Mountain Baseball championships this past weekend.




In Mini-Minors A:
- Dryden Fuocco's team (coached by his Mom, Wendy McDermid) won the championship
- Remy Q's team took second place

In Minors:
- Sam Coderre's team, the Farmers, won the division championship

Parents: 
- If we missed you child or their team, please send us details (and a photo if possible) to blog@lordtennyson.ca
- If your kids are in another sport or league, please send their news to blog@lordtennyson.ca. We would love to trumpet the news and successes of Tennyson kids outside of school as well as within.

Three Tennyson Grade 4 girls cut their ponytails off this weekend in order to donate their hair for use in creating wigs for children cancer patients here in BC.   
A Grade 2 Tennyson girl, Reina, donated her hair back in March.

For more information on this program, visit Eva & Co. Wigs Hair Donation Program information page.

Way to go Ava, Maria, Jay, and Reina!  Thank you for caring.

Parents: We'd love to feature out-of-school news and successes of Tennyson students. Please send us info and photos to blog@lordtennyson.ca

Congratulations to the many Tennyson students who played in Jericho Baseball's championship games this past Saturday.

Majors A Division
   1st place: Blue Jays - Sean White
   2nd place: Yankees - Angus Pegg

Majors B Division
   2nd place: Expos - Ethan Plesko, Ben Cook, Caillou Tseng, Sammy Batson, Max Botham, Benjy Kraft (call-up)

Majors C Division
    1st place: Fletchers - Benjy Kraft, Auguste Turner

Minors B Division
   Prostock Blue Lightning - Jeffrey Lundell, Oliver Reed, Jacob Knoblauch, Sidney Howey, Jonah Lazar, Kai Zeller, Oliver Kraft

Also, Maddi Cook sang the national anthem before the Majors B game, as did Mark Donnelly (of Canucks fame) before the Majors A game.

Parents: 
- If we missed you child or their team, please send us details (and a photo if possible) to blog@lordtennyson.ca
- If your kids are in another sport or league, please send their news to blog@lordtennyson.ca. We would love to trumpet the news and successes of Tennyson kids outside of school as well as within.

After months of effort, Tennyson's Stream of Dreams was completed today -- come check out the fence in front of the school to see this school-wide art project. The over 400 fish were painted by Tennyson students over the past week.

Thank you to the Jo-Ann Gordon and the Tennyson Fine Arts committee, the Kitsilano Secondary Shop Program, General Paint, Pacific Salmon Foundation, Louise and Coral from the Stream of Dreams Mural Society, the many parent volunteers, and to the students of Lord Tennyson for their amazing artwork. This project was sponsored and funded by the Tennyson PAC.

The Stream of Dreams is a community art program with a goal of helping people understand their connections to water and fish habitat and how to make behavioural changes to protect streams, rivers, lakes and our one ocean. Stream of Dreams is a program of the Stream of Dreams Mural Society. Founded in the Lower Mainland, Stream of Dream murals have been created and installed across the country. For more information, visit the Stream of Dreams website.

Thanks to the generous cash donations for the staff appreciation lunch a couple weeks ago, we had a few extra dollars and were able to drop off a surprise treat for the Tennyson staff today at recess. Thank you to Fabrice from Plaisir Sucré (on Arbutus) for giving us a great deal.

Thanks again Tennyson Staff for a great year!  

 A Vancouver Board of Education program directed by the John Oliver Community Schools Team in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Vancouver, Sunsational Summer Daycamp is a day camp program for children between 6-12 years of age. The daycamp meets daily from Monday- Friday throughout July & August, from 9:00 – 3:00 pm.

Parents who volunteered this year (practically everyone!) were treated to a lovely breakfast this morning.  Highlights included visiting with each other and also with the teachers, listening to the Gr 1 classes sing songs and to the Gr 4 Strings students perform, and the heartfelt thank you from Mme Lavoie.
To quote Mme Lavoie: "Tennyson is great because of the parents."


Thank you for the great way to start the day!

The Tennyson SPCA Club had a great visit with Krystal Brennan of the Wildlife Rescue Association a couple of weeks ago.  She shared with the club the kind of work they do and some tips on what to do if kids see a wild animal or bird needing help.  The kids had a chance to hold some of her wing specimens (see photos below).  A huge thank you to Anne-Marie Johnston (Astrid's Mom) who sponsored this presentation.

The club has wrapped up for the year but hopes to get together in some form again next year!


Thank you to Beth Elliott for submitting this blog post.