Page Primary it im Cower I Greatest Hits For Your Valentine E for enthusiasm education CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL students are en couraged to form their own groups devise their own sounds and compose their own music It la not uncommon to see a scene such as Ink to the long hallways and to hear music wafting through the school In front la second row Rod Norton Pete Milne Lee Nightingale and Mike Milton back row Alfred Barry John Warlock and Don Finnic TOWN COUNTRY ABATTOIR Sreeles Ave W Hornby 8783923 FROZEN SPECIALS THIS WEEK ONLY Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday SIDES OF BEEF 79 PORK SIDES 69 PRICES INCLUDE CUTTING AND WRAPPING RETAIL SPECIALS FRIDAYS ONLY P M STEAKS l Bon Sirloin Porterhouse and Wing ROUND STEAK lb RIB STEAK GROUND BEEF STEWING BEEF PORK CHOPS lb band A child learns by doing and having fun Is a learning experience Work can be ex citing as the pupils at Cen tennial school In Georgetown are finding out Bridging the gap between childhood and adolescence these Grade Six Seven and Eight pupils are experiencing a period of human growth and development that will turn them Into responsible Learning Is no longer a matter of regurgitating the Infallible words of the teacher like In the good old days The modern educational concept Is teaching our children to dig and delve and find out for them selves They learn to think compare and make decisions We have to consider that we are working with children and they don t all have the same academic and artistic ability Don who teaches History and Geography to the three grade levels So we work In platforms Every child must complete the seven platforms or levels to gain a possible percent He said they work as a earn or Individually but they must complete the first seven levels at their own speed The more aggressive and artistic students can go on to the enrichment program working on special projects to bring their mark up to 100 percent The teacher a personality and enthusiasm rubs off onto the children Take History for instance I really keen on nostalgia and I find that showing films or taking field trips leads beautifully Into discussions with the class They are all anxious to get through their seven levels so they can work on the projects And who wouldn want to make oldfashioned dresses or build log cabins and replicas of tools and utensils used by our forefathers to be displayed In the showcase in the front lob by Not only are they enjoying the subject but It sack in their memory for a long time The principal of Centennial Ron stressed The key st the middle school level Is to develop a trust relationship between student and staff to have them work closely together and develop reason sible attitudes It Is Imperative that home and school work closely together if the child Is to receive the best from any educational experience He added that parents are encouraged to visit the school and see for themselves Just what their children are lear lung Naturally the basic language and math skills take top priority in any educational system For this reason students spend so percent of their day In theJiome room learning the three The program is based on the Hal ton region core system That Is four classes and four teachers In one pod If two heads are better than one then four beads are better than two Specialization plays an porlant part In our education system and the children benefit from the knowledge and experience of all four teachers by working on a rotation CONDUCTING the mini orchestra Is Scott Haines Music MARKET PLACE OPTICAL Your Local Opticians Open 6 Days Per Week TO SERVE YOU BETTER j Monday thru Saturday am to 6 pm Thursday Friday Evenings 7 pm to 9 pm All In until doting Saturday Wo Doctors Prescriptions Filled Large Stock New Frames Contact Lenses 8773562 8777036 Located At GEORGETOWN MARKET PLAZA Queen Street West Brampton system within the classroom of worth An extensive music Skiusmmatlmandlariguages program is taught by Howard that were introduced in the weedmark where the students earlier grades are reviewed learn to play an Instrument as and extended Communication well as compose conduct skills include listening viewing perform evaluate arid devise and reading The child Is then their own sounds Recorders encouraged to develop his xylophones band drums ana thinking skills by questioning cymbals are provided remembering comparing Again the students are e contrasting Inferring ana coureged to work In groups predicting Tbey learn to read and it not uncommon to find and follow Instructions and use harem like tone emanating the dictionary and reference rom the hallways s books for locating information miniature orchestras Practice They learn to outline sum up and down the ccrrfdora and interpret graphic Eighty minutes every four material days are devoted to physicist Naturally In any new education and health concept there Is a transition programs working on the period to Iron out the wrinkles theory that sound bodies build Unfortunately there were a few sound minds children who suffered Mrs Flaying with fire and water Pat Ball a Grade Eight teacher can be a real delight and at the pointed out But the system same time the youngster is has been perfected and both learning the value and dangers teachers and students are of fire and water So the benefiting from the core science room Is equipped with programs alcohol burners and The students themselves say microscopes and other they can work much better with equipment to aid In learning environmental sounds around about toe scientific side of them since modern open living concept homes don provide A wide variety of too much quiet and privacy activities Is stressed Mrs Ball added that In most to provide for the range of in Jobs there is a certain amount tenets at this level A of noise pollution and we might library club geography club as well prepare the kids to work camping club gymnastics dub In that environment Lear drama club first aid choirs In complete silence would Bel Canto groups operettas be unreal wrestling pottery art In ber opinion discipline is newspaper yearbook fitness Imperative when working with programs cross country so many children We have to racing folk danclr expect good behaviour or we naturalist clubs are gel chaos of the many choices The other half day la spent In The students are definitely pursuing s number of in getting the emphasised subjects to round out principal Ron but their education on the way to not to the exclusion of other becoming a whole person things We must give the Family studies are stressed adolescent many opportunities such as home economics and for movement their Industrial arts where the need for frequent change in student can create some object physical activity Bianca Bertha earn honors The Nurse family of RBI Georgetown continues to claim records and awards with their winning herd of the latest honors to come to the Nurse farm were released last week by the Holstetn Association of Canada A purebred cow Thames Crest Romeo Bertha owned by Jeffrey Nurse has received the Blue Sea Lifetime Production Award As a seven- yearold in days Bertha yielded lbs milk testing an average percent for 199 lbs butferist thereby winning third Superior Production Award Her lifetime total In five lactations Is now 133 lbs milk testing 3 percent in M5 lbs but terfat Berths classified Excellent for type has been an lm producer and was also honor list leader In 1B70 1972 Duke Bertha a Very Good dam Bianca bred and owned by Fred Nurse has completed an outstanding twoyearold record In dayr which yielded lbs testing an average 3 SI percent forest ibe fat or indices of 1S6 percent for milk and percent for fat went on to complete lactation In days with lbs mint In 1210 lbs of The high producer who was classified Good phis was sired by classified Excellent for type and a Superior Production Sire ay dam Nurse and Belinda was An out standing producer with a five- yearold record of lbs milk En lbs In 90s days Belinda has three of ISO percent for milk and percent for fat Vets annual L Peart of ioi annual convention of the Georgetown and Dr Alan W Ontario Association Young of Terra Cotta were held In Hamilton February 1 tost among veterinarians and their spouses who attended the Sheep club meets The first meeting of the Hal ton Sheep Club was held at the agricultural office Milton on February 4 Leaders for this year Sheep Club are Doug and Don Harris At the meeting officers were elected as follows president Jamie vicepresident Joseph Weed en secretary Leslie Knight and press reporter Scott Harris Also discussed was what the club will be doing during the year A film that described the barm parasites do to sheep was also shown At the club s next meeting March a panel discussion will be held on feeding sheep and a debate entitled Sheep Are Doomed In Canada