Announcements

School Theme for 2026/2027: “Good Overcomes Evil”

Theme Verse: Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Spiritual Life @ TBCS

This past Wednesday was another Bible Study Buddies/High School Discipleship Training afternoon at TBCS.  The K-8 students studied scripture together and did activities illustrating how practicing kindness is one way that we can overcome evil with good.

              In the High School DTS, we spent the majority of our time together doing group work and presenting our findings to one another.  We are currently using the New City Catechism, as well as our Bibles, to dig into the truth of God’s word, and discussing practical ways to apply these truths to our lives.  The questions we looked at this week were: “What is our only hope in life and death?”  “What is God?”  “How many persons are there in God and where do we see them all together in the Bible?”  “How and why did God create us?” and “What else did God create besides humans?” 

Membership Meeting: The Fall membership meeting is planned for November 2^nd at 8pm in the school gymnasium. All members (this includes all tuition-paying parents) are encouraged to attend this meeting to vote in our new board members for the year. Meeting packages were emailed out Friday and paper copies were placed in church mailboxes Sunday. If you are a member and have not received a copy, please reach out to the school office. Paper copies will also be available at the meeting Monday.

TBCS Cookbook: Recipes needed! If you have a family-favourite recipe you would like to share with the school community, please submit it to Karly Huitsing at karlyhdesign@gmail.com. We will be putting together a school cookbook just in time for Christmas dinner!

Bazaar News: The Bazaar is underway! Some exciting things coming are the cake walk, the chili cook-off and the market room!

Cake Walk: each class from grades 1-8 will receive three cakes approximately 8” round. The cake must be decorated during the live time slot on Thursday (times will be determined by committee and shared with classes). Each class will nominate two students to participate in this event. Cakes will then be displayed for judging and votes cast :) The cake with the most votes wins a class pizza party! Cakes will then later be auctioned off in a silent auction. 

Chili cook-off: nominations came in and we are very excited for the following participants to share their chili in a live taste test and vote! Flights will be sold at the bazaar for $5 per flight. A flight consists of one 1/2 cup per chili and a vote card for best chili. The winner will receive 15lbs of beef! Participants for 2026:

- Sarah Mol

- Sabrina Bolt

- Jason Buitenhuis

- Gary Hoogsteen

- Leah Oberle

- Joanne Schep

The market room: It’s back! Bring in your home-made goods to sell in the market room! All proceeds go to the bazaar fund which is directly donated back to the school. A variety of items are needed for the market including canned goods, art, crocheting, knits, sewing items, and handmade soaps or jewelry. We encourage a variety so please don’t be shy! 

The entrepreneur area: will also be live for the kids. This area will be available for those seeking to try and promote their product and gain exposure to sell their items free of charge in a designated space. We encourage kids to partake including those seeking credit for their high school classes. 

The Auction: as always, the auction is a huge hit! We will have both online and live events this year! details on both to come.

Twice As Nice News: Did you know the store generates $2000.00 a day on average? That’s a huge financial benefit to the school and it is not possible without volunteers. The pile of donations that needs to be sorted is huge! Please consider signing up for a shift and seeing what Twice as Nice is all about! Click the link below, or head to the school website and click “volunteer” to sign up. If you have any questions, please reach out to twiceasnicevolunteers@gmail.com or call/text Erika Mol at 807-708-0697.

Link to sign up: https://signup.com/go/qWoBBcg

Twice As Nice Scholarships: The Twice As Nice is offering two scholarships for our TCH graduating high school students. One is for “Academic Excellence”, and the second is for “Community Stewardship”. Don’t miss this opportunity to be the recipient of one of these scholarships! For more information please contact the school office.

Flag Football: The grade 7 & 8 Boys and Girls competed at the SSSAA Flag Football tournament this past week and did great! The girls’ team was undefeated! Congratulations girls!! The boys won all but one game and also represented TBCS so well! We heard that some of the players were asked “what John 3:16 meant”, and they had an opportunity to spread the good news! Well done, Eagles!!

Intermediate Volleyball: Once again, the school has an opportunity to compete in the SSSAA Volleyball tournament on November 24^th/25^th (date to be determined). Practices for the girls will take place October 27^th and November 3^rd after school until 4:15. Please ensure your child has a ride home.

Mom’s Pantry Fundraiser: We will be accepting orders until Monday morning at 9am sharp, at which point the fundraiser will be closed. Please submit your online orders by Sunday night or paper orders by Monday morning. If you would like to contribute to a specific student’s earnings, please contact that student for a form, or order online at www.momspantry.ca by searching for the school’s name, or using the order number 420249 and group passcode 24823. Please also be sure to enter the student’s name you’d like to support. All proceeds sold by each student will go towards reducing their own total cost of the trip. Orders will be delivered the beginning of December. The office has many extra forms!

School Supplies Payment: A reminder that $25.00/student must be submitted via email to cash@tbcs.school, cash or cheque made payable to TBCS Student Fund. This payment helps cover costs of classroom supplies such as pencils, erasers, white-out, etc.

PICK UP & DROP OFF ROUTINE

Morning: When driving your children to school, please either drop them off at the walkway from the parking lot (next to the flagpole) and have them walk to the door and buzz in, or park in the parking lot and walk them to the door (Park on the driveway, past the pavement, please do not park on the pavement the busses turn around on) But we ask that you walk them to the main door/foyer where a staff member will greet you and the staff member will walk them to their classroom.

Afternoon: When picking up your children everyone must call or email the school by 2:45 pm, so that we can let the teachers know and have the students come down to the main foyer when the bell rings.

Parents/guardians of students in Grade 1-4 must come to the main entrance door to meet your children. Parents/guardians of students in Grade 5 – 8, if you park on the driveway and we can visibly see you we will dismiss the older children that way, from the main foyer. We are trying to eliminate students walking across the driveway/parking lot with cars coming and going.

Thank you for your cooperation on this. As we grow in numbers, our main concern is to keep everyone safe and accounted for.

Please call or email the school officeif there are any changes to the daily bus schedule for your children. The office needs to be aware of who is going where or being picked up, even if your child has his/her own phone. This is a liability issue. So please ALWAYS call the office. In the mornings, if your child(ren) is/are not attending please email or call the office to confirm. In the afternoon if your child(ren) is/are not on the bus please call the office to confirm. The office has a communication routine so that the teachers, bus drivers and administration are all on the same page and every child is safely accounted for. Thank you.

Payment Reminder:

Lost and Found: Hoodies! We have MANY hoodies in our lost and found right now! Please have your children take a look and take what belongs to them! Items not claimed will be donated to Twice As Nice following the membership meeting November 2^nd .

Water Bottles: Each child needs to have a labelled water bottle sent to school each day. We have multiple Sasi Water filling stations where students can refill them when needed. We do NOT stock disposable cups.