Starting off the new year with a Mug & Muffin

Scores of parents crowded into the Arrow Heights Elementary School gymnasium of Tuesday, September 6, for the annual Mug-&-Muffin event held each year at the start of the school year. Athough usually held outside, rain forced everyone into the gymnasium. Please click on the image to see larger version of this photo. David F. Rooney photo
Hundreds of parents and their children flocked to Revelstoke’s schools for the annual Mug & Muffin event that marks the first day of school, held this year on Tuesday, September 6. Although usually held outside, steady rain forced everyone into the gymnasium at Arrow Heights Elementary. Please click on the image to see a larger version of this photo. David F. Rooney photo

By David F. Rooney

Hundreds of parents and their children flocked to Revelstoke’s schools for the annual Mug & Muffin event that marks the first day of school, held this year on Tuesday, September 6.

Rita Tedesco, the new principal at Arrow Heights Elementary School, addressed parents and students during SD 19's traditional Mug & Muffin glad-to-meet-you event on the first day of school, Tuesday, September 6. A natve-born Revelstokian, Ms. Tedesco is a brand-new principal in the system. In fact, with the esxception of RSS, all three of the city's elementary schools have new principals. Todd Hicks, former principal at AHE, is now in charge of Begbie View Elementary. Meanwhile, Andy Pfeiffer, former Vice-principal at RSS, is now the principal at Columbia Park Elementary. He replaces Ariel McDowell, who is now District Principal for Aboriginal Education. David F. Rooney photo
Rita Tedesco, the new principal at Arrow Heights Elementary School, addressed parents and students during SD 19’s traditional Mug and Muffin glad-to-meet-you event on the first day. A native-born Revelstokian, Ms. Tedesco is a brand-new principal in the system. In fact, with the exception of RSS, all three of the city’s elementary schools have new principals. Please click on the image to see a larger format of this photo. David F. Rooney photo

“After the first day of school, it appears that we are welcoming a number of new families to Revelstoke,” said Superintendent Mike Hooker. “I can get you some detail in the next few days, but I can let you know that all four schools are up from the end of last year in terms of totals, so our overall enrollment will be over then 930 we were expecting.”

He also noted that each of the city’s four schools also welcomed new staff.

“We have a new Speech and Language Pathologist, Monica Penner, new principals at each of the elementary schools, (Todd Hicks at BVE, Andy Pfieffer at CPE and Rita Tedesco at AHE),” Hooker said.  “At RSS, band teacher Tessa Davis came back from Scotland after a two-year leave, a new tech/shop teacher, Jason Ostoforov joined the staff and Jodi Wallach moved from Counsellor to Vice-Principal.

“As always, we had a great turn out of parents at the elementary Mug and Muffin, a first-day-of-school tradition. RSS staff were busy rearranging schedules for Grade 8 students as the enrollment increased beyond what was expected in the last few days leading up to school.”

Teachers and students aren’t the only ones geared up for the first day of school. School trustees are doubtless busy reading their agenda packages in preparation for their first board meeting scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, at 5 pm at the SD 19 bu8lding next to RSS.

 

 

 

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