Northeast Kings Education Centre
Northeast Kings Education Centre would like to thank the Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia for their generous $3000 donation toward our Hot Lunch Program. With matching funds from the Rotary Club of Kentville, this generous donation will feed several of our students a hot meal while at school.
Day 2
Friday, December 13th, 2024
Announcements
Sr. Boys Hockey
The sr. boys hockey team plays the Central Kings Gators this evening at 7:30 pm in Canning. The team will be wearing their Diversity, Inclusion & Equality jerseys this evening to celebrate diversity in sport. This should be a great game against a strong D2 rival so please come out and show your school pride.
Candy Grams
The Fundraising Committee is selling candy cane candy grams for just $2 during the first twenty minutes of high school lunch this week outside of the library! Be sure to stop by and send a special treat to a friend or teacher.
Winter Spirit Week
Next week is our last spirit week before winter break. First day is Monday December 16th and it’s Blizzard day, so make sure you wear all white. Tuesday the 17th is Grinch vs. Santa day, either wear red or green. Wednesday the 18th is holiday sweater day. Thursday the 19th is Jersey Day and the Senior Girls and Boys Hockey teams will join forces to form co-ed teams for an exciting game after school to fundraise for our 2025 Prom. Get ready to cozy up! Friday is Holiday Pajamas Day. Wear your favorite festive PJs as we wrap up the week and head into winter break. We encourage everyone to participate, let’s make this a good one!
Fun fact of the day
Did you know that scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different scents?
Coffee House
To all coffee house participants, auditions will be Friday, December 13th, in the Music room during 4th period. Bring your best selves and we'll see you there. Reminder that the coffee house itself will be on Monday the 16th, during 4th period.
Prom Committee’s Mixed Hockey Game Fundraiser
The NKEC Sr. Girls and Boys Hockey Teams are mixed and split into two teams: Team Wood versus Team Duncan to play an exciting game and an epic showdown!
This will be on December 19th at 3:45 pm, so you can just walk over to the Canning Rink right after school! This is your chance to come out and cheer on both teams, show your school spirit, and support the NKEC Prom fundraiser.
Admission is $3 per student and $5 per adult and all proceeds go towards making Prom 2025 unforgettable. The team lineups have been posted and you can check it out on our official Instagram account, @nkectitans.
Sr. Girls Hockey
The Sr. Girls Hockey team plays Bridgetown on Monday, right after school here in Canning. Come out and support your Titans!
Next week the NKEC Sr. Hockey Girls will be holding a fundraiser - selling popcorn at lunch from Mr. Wood’s room, Monday to Friday.
JV Boys Basketball
The JV Boys' basketball team played against the Horton Cohort team yesterday and earned a great team win! Mylo Johnson-Lenihan had an impressive performance in his first-ever basketball game, grabbing 5 rebounds. Meanwhile, Dawson Roberts was a force to be reckoned with, pulling down 5 rebounds and adding 5 steals. Excellent effort from all players!
The boys' next game is Wednesday, the 19th, at Avon View!
Spirit Squad
There will be Candy Grams sold at recess and lunch today. Could the following people please meet Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Fougere in the lobby
Recess: Mya and Felicity and Grayci
Lunch : Roz and Summer
Listen up for Spirit Days next week to participate!
NKEC Spirit Week
Hey titans! Next week is our December spirit week. Monday will be blizzard day so where as much white as possible, Tuesday is Santa vs Grinch day, if you are on team Santa, where red and white and if you are on team grinch, wear as much green as you can. Wednesday will be Holiday sweater day, Thursday is jersey day, and finally, Friday is the night before Christmas, so wear your comfiest Christmas themed pjs.
Varsity Boys Basketball
The Varsity Boys Basketball team hosted its first regular season game last night against rival Central Kings. The Team came away with a 90 - 70 victory. Leading the way for your Titans was Ben Croteau with 18 points and 9 Rebounds. Nolan Kerfont had 14 points. Dylan Porter added 11 points and Chris Pollock added 9 points. Congratulations on the win Titans. The next home game for the Varsity Boys will be next Thursday for a 7:45 PM start.
JV Girls Basketball
The JV girls basketball team travelled to Parkview for their first league game. Although they did not win the game, they showed a lot of grit and growth against an older and stronger team. The team was led by the guard play of Emma Osmond. The Heart and Hustle award winner was Yehyun Seo.
Welcome back to another report from the library.
We would like to thank everyone who helped out with the book fair last week, and I'd also like to proudly announce the winners of the poster contest draw. Participating students answered the question: "How many books total books in the NKEC library collection?" We had ten posters to give away so we had ten winners, each winner had the closest guess to the real answer. Congratulations to Fletcher Smiley for winning the NBA stars poster with a guess of 8754, Gemma Croft for winning the poster of Auston Matthews with a guess of 7821, Dalian Jarrett for winning the Hello Kitty poster with a guess of 9040, Casjen Carnell for winning the Pokemon poster with a guess of 8000, Machias Toney-Morrell for winning the green race car poster with a guess of 6052, Jazon Leefe for winning the NHL stars poster with a guess of 8108, Valen Baltzer for winning the minecraft poster with a guess of 4892, Phoebe Banks for winning the Pusheen poster with a guess of 9271. Ella Keizer for winning the haikyuu poster with a guess of 7530. A big congratulations to our grand winner with only 63 books off, Phoebe Banks! The correct answer was... 9334! Winners can come to the library on Wednesday to pick up their posters + the grand prize (a free book!). Thanks and see you next week.