• Attention to students who write Mathematics Contests today. Contests begin after the announcement. 

Grade 9 students should be in Mr. Chan’s room 224. Grade 10 and 11 students should be in Mrs. Zhuravlev room 229. Good Luck!!! 

• Due to extreme temperatures, The Hugh Boyd Ultimate Frisbee Team tryouts will start tomorrow instead of today and continue Friday. Meet us out on the turf field! If you can catch a disc 7 ft off the ground at full sprint: Show us! If you've never thrown a frisbee before: We can teach you! Players of all levels are welcome!

• Any Grade-9 boys interested in playing volleyball this spring, tryout is today right after school from 3-4:30! Come find Tai, Eddie or Elymar for any questions. 

• Any Grade-8 boys wanting to play volleyball, tryouts are Today and tomorrow, 3-4:30 in the old gym! Find Zach or Andrei for any questions.

• Lego Club is today! We have Lego sets ready to be played with! Meet you at the MakerSpace room at Lunch!

• February is Black History Month!  There are profiles of Black Canadians all around the school who have made significant contributions to Canadian history and society.  After you read and learn, come down to the library and tell us about one fact about them, and you will receive a sweet treat.  While Black History Month runs for the month of February, we should be learning all year.

• The Boyd Book Challenge is happening now!  From now until April 5th, take out a book labelled Boyd BC, read it, fill out a ballot, pop it into the ballot jar in the library, and voila! You can win a pizza lunch for you block C class, or win lots of draw prizes and grand prizes of gift certificates.  Our draw prize winners for the last two weeks are Vicky from Ms Moss’s class, and Egan from Mr Joseph’s class.  The winners for most books read the last two weeks are Tianchi from Mr Van Vught’s class and Danica from Mr Joseph’s class. Great job everyone! Come down to the library to pick up your gift cards to Seafair!  You too can win and participate!  Follow @hughboydlibrary on Instagram, or go to the library website for more details.  

• February 20th to the 26th is Freedom to Read Week.  Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom that is guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With the movement in certain countries to ban and censor books from libraries and classes due to issues that anyone views as controversial, it is more important than ever to be free to read what you want. The upstairs and downstairs bulletins near the student bathrooms have displays of books that have been challenged and/or censored, and QR codes linking to articles about the importance of intellectual freedom and attempts to limit it.  Go to FreedomtoRead.ca or follow  the library’s Instagram for more info.

• Richmond Virtual School is now open for their summer school registration. There are Gr.10 – Gr. 12 courses available. Check RVS website for more details.

• What’s up trojans, your Hugh Boyd marketing class is putting on a marketing expo! We have a wide variety of products including snacks, bracelets, socks, phone chains, and bubble tea! Come down to the lounge all this week and visit us! We can’t wait to see you!

• Attention basketball players, your uniforms are OVERDUE! Grade 8 boys, Junior Girls, please hand in your uniforms into the office ASAP. Mrs. Hayden will find you.

• Today is pink shirt day! Join us in the lounge at lunch to see your student council execs get pied in the face.