📅 Upcoming Operations
- May 25 Pro D Day — headquarters closed, no agents on site
- May 29 Spring Showcase — 1:00 pm in the gym. All agents report for duty
- June 3 Book Character Day — come dressed as your favourite literary operative
- June 5 Grade 6 Graduation Ceremony — graduates arrive by 5:50 pm, ceremony begins at 6:00 pm. The bus to Castle Fun Park departs at 7:30 pm and returns at 10:30 pm
🎵 Chapel Briefing — May 27
Chapel crew, assemble.
Every agent has a post. Know your role and be ready.
🌍 Case File — Social Studies
Cracking the cycle of discrimination and poverty
Our agents are deep undercover, investigating how discrimination and poverty feed each other in a repeating loop. Like any good mystery, each clue leads to the next: poverty limits access to education and civic participation, which makes communities vulnerable to authoritarian leaders making empty promises. This fuels unrest, conflict, and displacement — and when newcomers compete over scarce resources in a broken system, scapegoating takes hold, which only deepens the poverty that started the whole cycle.
Debrief your agent: Ask them to explain the cause-and-effect chain. What breaks the cycle? Who gets blamed — and who gets ignored?
🔬 Lab Report — Science Fair
Science fair preparations underway
Grade 6 agents are designing experiments and demonstrations based on Newton’s three laws of motion. Grade 5 operatives are building Rube Goldberg machines — elaborate chain-reaction contraptions where every step triggers the next. Students are currently in the planning phase and will begin collecting the materials they need. Keep an eye out for household items that may be recruited for science.
Mission for families: Ask your agent what their project is about and what supplies they are hunting for.
📚 Surveillance Log — Book Clubs
Agents are on missions in groups.
Each book club group is reading a different novel and has a nightly reading and note-taking assignment. Falling behind on the schedule can make it hard to catch up — please help your agent stay on track by checking their Reading duotang each evening for that night’s assignment.
Field tip: A quick “how far did you read tonight?” goes a long way in keeping young agents on mission.
✍️ Story Files — Writing
A hero who has to learn when to use their strength
Agents are writing stories featuring the dominator archetype — a powerful but rough hero whose strength impresses everyone at first, but whose aggression ends up frightening and hurting the very people they care about. The real growth comes when a bigger threat shows up and our hero must choose: fight for themselves, or fight for others. It’s a story about learning that true strength means protecting the vulnerable — not just proving you’re the toughest one around.
Ask your agent: Who is their hero? What did they do wrong — and what did they do right in the end?