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The Free Wednesday November 1970 By Mary Ann A Travelogue of Greece This was the topic of an assembly held last Wednesday afternoon Rob treasurer of the Student Council Introduced Mr KenEltlstothestudentbody Mr now employed us English teacher Acton High School and the students enjoyed learning about tin adventures of one of our own staff members The slides showed many of the historical sites In that region One picture which made a hit with the audience was one which Mr Fills entitled The Worlds iJirgtst Belly button In many of the slides we were able to relate the pin and statues to works studied in mythology which Is part of the course After our speaker was thanked Mary Ann the assembly was adjourned Drama Club cast After many weeks of the drama club has been able to select the characters for their play Barefoot in the Park will be presented In the new year characters are as follows Code Corle Maxwell Barb Pratt Understudy Paul Henry Van Bob Krul Understudy Mother Nancy I Marshall Undiritudy Vtlasco Barrj Van Fleet Understudy Telephone Man Bob Wayne Bnrnnby Delivery Man Woodhouse Carol Masnles Understudy Mr head of the Drama Club stated that it a difficult ihokc to Congratulations to who accepted Friday A successful dunce held at lie High School last The music was supplied thrte calling lhemilvs Blitz Creek Many Ihnrtks to Mr Andrews Mr and Mrs and Mrs Burns who devoted thdr time ami as for evening Die next dance is to be held Friday November It Is Sadie Hawkins dance the theme being Sadie Goes Twin Cheshire Cat Will Las Vegas Nlte IA3 Vegas Is coming Nov Plan to spin the wheels and roll the dice that evening Also anyone caring to donate Canadian Tire money Physical to No human hands Sweet field trip to sugar refinery By Bob Smith On November the grade went on a real sweet field trip This trip was to the Sugar Refinery in Toronto wen shown a film on the procedure of processing raw Then we were split Into three groups in order to tour the plant We started our tour by seeing the storage shed for BO tons of row sugar then we saw a few million pounds of processed In storage or In the process of being packaged Look no hands The entire process Is automated no human hands touch the Next we saw the actual refining and purifying processes CNIB boards will merge A merger between Halton and Peel County Boards of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind will become effective Jan It was decided at an inaugural meeting The very complex jS and computers are used because fi Wilson of the complexity Also In the IS ilSS plant arc workshops to maintain equipment The plinl Itself Is self It makes Its own electricity and other necessities to malntiln lar factory imol C There more wish I had more space and to the board from lime to explain the process and County are Mrs the tour Austen Mrs Allan Clements would like to conclude by M that It was a most In tour and a most en and were made by the J Ross Ideas Committee and JJcKlndley J M Mr Black our teacher Thompson ACTON DISTRICT High home economics teacher Sandra Fleischer shows dress making patterns to student teachers Virginia Toppings and Susan Stratton both of Toronto Student teachers are visiting for the first time this year Staff Photo Student teachers gain experience at Dofasco visit for grade By Rosemary Lowe On November Mr May two grade ten geography classes visited and did a brief urban study of Hamilton Mr James Burns the plant tour guide and general relations manager of met us on arrival at 45 and handed out goggles and visitors hard hats Because we had arrived very close to the change of several rollers in the rolling depart we started in the middle later we returned to the beginning of the plant process The point of most In seemed to be the pouring of the hot molten steel into Ingot moulds Afterwards we returned to the bus and Mr Burns answered any I- or the first time student teachers from the Ontario College of are classroom experience Acton District School Stratton and Vlrdrdn Toppings of Toronto both graduates spent last week observing and practice teaching home economics to students from erndes nine to 12 extra questions while we under the eye of teacher removed our safety equipment Sandra Ten weeks reserved Urban study Ten weeks scattered throughout the one year OCE flic urban study in the course are reserved for consisted of lunch on the classroom observation and Niagara Escarpment and a tour teaching the around Hamilton subdivisions first two weeks In September of interest Thanks to all who made our Chores field trip possible Mr Bums plant guide Mrs McGinn who helped Mr May and the bus driver who was most co operative about driving us all around the Hamilton area student teachers observe only but in ensuing weeks they observe I genuine interest in the first day and tench formal home economics rural lessons the other four students because they re in the is evaluated and a report is made kitchen at home so much Susan to the college Benefits of teaching Both Susan and Vlrdnla feel practice teaching is an essential part of their course and cite the sense of accomplishment gained from teaching a lesson them selves as a tremendous benefit We can learn so much from our associate teacher too Virginia added Mrs I- Iclscher s classes are well disciplined and ready to learn according to the two students commented contest Mrs I leischer grade class entered sauce they made in this year Acton I all Fair domestic contest Students and Denny alone wilh their teacher were interviewed by a radio reporter at the time Next year Virginia hopes to tench in the Toronto area while Susan would like to land a teaching job in Thunder Bay GRADE Geography students toured the Sugar Refinery In Toronto last week along with teacher Keith Black Travelo surprise Three holes thats Troy By Fisher even more excited about their ljist Wednesday the students of own trip HiRh went on a trip but Africa next never left the gym Thursday Nov at English teacher led us through lnvUe to t school the sites and scenes of Turkey to sec Mr Elite s slides of the and by showing us his As an added own pictures of the area His The a slides depicted the climate band from Orangeville High Acton visitors form opinions on free school countryside and way of lite of these countries He told us all about the historical sites of Rome and Alliens Saw Troy Have you ever seen Troy Well we did There are three holes in the ground and that is Troy everybody enjoyed their voyage The students to the Mediterranean next spring were especially interested and became Speaker seeks school changes John Holt whose writings have influenced educators across Canada and the United States came to London Nov to speak to members of the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation John Holt gained prominence in education circles through his books Hon Children How Children Fall and The Underachieving School underlying theme to be found in his works is the need for a more humanistic atmosphere in our school system in which learning is a selfInitiated and self correcting process A learns best what he wants to learn says Holt who would remove such obstacles as examinations fixed curriculum himself as an opportunist who can put his ideas into practice now and make them work A teacher with a varied academic background which Includes elementary and high school teaching and lec turing at teacher training colleges Mr Holt now acts as consultant to the School in Cambridge Mass Attending from were Gil John Gibbons Dave Faulkner Paul Davis Doug Sharpe Wayne Harrison Bill Watt Peter Ray Shier Kennedy Clow Ron and Ron School will be playing See you there By the way don forget your sun hat TEACHER KEN Ellis took high school students on a voyage to Greece and Turkey last week by film Staff Photo By Brad Timbers On Tuesday morning November the first half of the grade eleven Man and Society class travelled to to visit It is a community school just west of Acton In this school students and do not have to attend school regularly there are no com pulsory classes and attendance Is up to the individual school Itself consists of a farm house a barn toyshops and dormitories for boys and yrls The entire community is situated on acres of land Chores are the only compulsory These include feeding and cleaning out the pens milkinj cows and wnshlng dishes Make choices is not an establish ment type of school Students dress the way they want to wear their hair at a length of their own choice and have freedom of There is no curfew except for the younger students who can not leave the property after The of the students attending Everdale ranies from to 19 The students from Acton High School took tour through the various buildings They visited the toy shop where wooden toys are manufactured from scratch They looked at the classrooms in the barn also passed by the pie pens and the auto shop Lacks perfection With a new guide the students looked around the dormitories which in perfect order After back to the house made themselves comfortable in the meeting room and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of After half an hour Acton students divided up into two and toured the entire area questioning several of students They compared Acton Midi School to the free school and talked about Acton in general Accustomed to school When first opened many people were against the free school The health and fire departments were informed about the place in order to stop the school from operating However that was five years By now everyone is more or less used to the idea of a free school When the students of Acton District School were ready to leave a Schneider meat truck came and delayed Students hike on Bruce Trail The highlight of the mile hike the Bruce Trail on Salurda was an opportunity to study the Duffenn Quarry site Exclamations of awe were heard as students peered over the edge the hundred acre pit to see pebbles drop into the pools of water feet below The quarry equipment especial the an steam shovel proved to be fascinating for many of the boys Along the Bruce Trail between and Acton students discovered a stream with a picturesque waterfall as well as two streams that disappeared underground for short distance One student intrigued the limestone caverns intends to return and explore the Speyside area soon in the future The marathon hikers were Mr Ma and Mr Br ears departure for an extra four minutes Die majority of the students who visited liked it even though it was not a very sanitary place My opinion of 1 I liked it also but want to attend it Visit schools School board members visited Acton school Tuesday and then joined meeting to discuss community schools which stress continuity between all grides Good response for Money collected on en in the special boxes all been totalled yet The s Men report the effort was very successful with Acton children sharing their en good fortune with others expect the total might be the highest ever 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