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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 6, 1998 - 7 Pines Senior Public School News The Pines, Senior Public school, has not only been busy the last couple weeks but very anxious and very proud. The grade 7's have been working on their Global Education projects, and many students are settling down from the science fair, as well plans are well under- way for the annual Ottawa trip. In March, the grade seven's started a unit called Global Education. The unit was designed to cover many topics including health and nutrition, child labor, huriger and water. It is also about co- operative learning, team work, as well as role-playing. The teachers would like the students to be aware of world problems and help them understand how ordinary people i developmng nations live compared to Canada. Before this unit, most stu- dents neyer realized what it would be like to live ia, developing country. It reaily made the students realize how lucky they are to live i a developed country, such as Canada. Just before the Global Education Project started, the students were busy makîng any last changes they could before the regional science fair projects. On April 3, 1998, 35 students from the, Pines Senior Public school went to the Regional Science fair. These students were Kienan Wlliams, Enika Schroeder, Hallie Mckinrion, Jessica Nichols, Laura Greer, Nathan Wright, Josh Westerink, Shawn Rypstra, Mike Muizelaar, Ricky Morrison, Adam Preece, Stephanie Cameron, Heather Bangay, Pam Hurvid, Jerinifer Cox, Lisa Welch, Jennifer Stewart, Shawna Peddar, Yvonne Verkuyl, Liz Dewell, Kirstie Kay, Trevor Baker, Josh Rutledge, Laura Tutkoluk, Ashlynn Ostrander, Dale Lemay, Brenda Burt, John Stafford, Dylan Cuil, and Chris Bugelli. After the May long week- enid, the grade 7's of The Pines Senior Public School will be taking their arinual educational trip to Ottawa. Some of the places that they will be vîsiting are The Canadian Museum of Nature, The War Museum, The Aviation Mus eum, The Museum of Science and, Technology, Rideau Hall and, many more. There are approimately 105 studerits going on this trip. Everyone who is participatiri s looking forward to going. These upcon-dng, and past activities are only a few that The Piries staff and students have enj oyed. Orono Public School News PRINCIPLE'S MESSAGE May 4th - 8th is Education Week. Each year the first week i May Is set aside as an opportunity to celebrate our schools. Certainly, Orono School lias reason to cele- brate its programme and peo-, pIe resources. When we look at the growth of initiatives like the "Good Cholces" pro- gramme, the leaderslhip role our staff and students'-con- tinue to take ti the impie- mentation of the First Steps Reading programmes, our workshops ti mathematics and assessment for teachers ti our Board, our community involvement for things sucli as tree lightlng at town hall, Grandfrlends, and town dlean-up. It is clear that- together we are creating the eriviroriment necessary for the students to develop the knowledge, skllls, and atti- tudes necessary to become life long leamners. Cathy Montreuil Principal GRADE # ASSESSMENT The grade 3 class will be working on the Provincial Math, Reading and Wrtinig Assessment the last week of May. Parents are asked to con- tact the school if their child will be away., JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION We continue to accept reg- istrations, for the JK pro- gramme for September. Registrations are accepted at the school between 9:00 and 4:00 daily. Please bring the child's birth certificate, immunization record, and a copy of. your most recent health card. EARTH DAY Thank you to the school community for the support on this important day. We were able to alinost eliminate al garbage for the school. We continue to encourage garbageless lunches every- day. INFORMATION CENTRE NEWS! The students who are Silver Bircli readers will be voting for their favourite authors Ii the non-fiction or fiction category. Students have been busy readmng five books from a llst for each of the two categorles. Students from ail over Canada are par- ticipating and the authors will have their books designated- 'Silver Bircli Award winners" after the voting on May l5th. BOOK PAIR We will be holding a Book Fair June l5th - 22nd. In order to -promote summer readmng and to say thank you for ail your previous Book Fair support, we have arranged a 2 for the price of 1 sale! Watch your "Monday Envelope- for more informa- tion! BROOMBALL Orono sent 2 teams to the Clarke Family of School's Broombal Tournament on April 24th. Both teams rep- resented our school well by showing good athietie ability and great team spirit. Kirby won the A champlonship and Orono won the B champi- onship. Our teams should be prou d of their efforts and level of skill development. Clarke High School News INTRAMURAL PROGRAM AT CLARKE Here at Clarke, lunch hour is much more than rushing to the cafeteria, or finishing up the homework that should have been done last night; it cari be an hour of action packed, adrenaline pumpirig intramurals! Intramurals can be generally summarized as sport activities that involve competition between Clarke students. These are recre- ational and usually take place duririg the lunch hours. Information about each intra- mural is posted or anriounced as it becomes available. Right now, the floor hockey intramurals are in progress as the junior and senior boy's teains compete in the play- offs, as each team vies for the number one spot. These play- offs will continue for the next few weeks and will be foilowed by the highly ariticipated bas- ketball sea son. There are two types of intramurals. The first is the prograni which is coordinated by the Grade 12 Physical Education class, ini which the organizing of the activities is incorporated as part of their course. This gives the stu- dents an opportuity to con- tribute to the school and the student body, as they take the initiative and demonstrate their leadership skills, to develop a fun, worthwhile program for ariyone -Who wants to come on out and participate. The second-type Is teacher driven, i which the Physical E ducation Department runs it, but is assisted by an OAC student, as part of his or lier course also. What, is the student reac- tion to intrainurals? Nothing short of a huge success. On the topic of school spirit, Physical Education teadher Mr. Willems sald "many extra curricular sports are avallable through the schools sports team and intramurals, ail you have to do is come out and tiy. It's a great way to get stu- dents lnvolved In activities to have some fun, but as far as that goes, the school spirit is up to the individual." Clarke lias an excellent program available to stu- dents, which doesn't cost anything more than effort and guarantees a great time! Rosanna Yankanah ACADEMIC DECATHLON IN EDMONTON The question Is "what is the Canadian National Academic Decathlon?" The answer is "a competi- tion where on April 25th, teams of nine pupils from schools across Canada com- peted i ten events." "Correct." Despite the size of the com- petition and the vast amount of time and effort that each student invests into it, the Acadmeic Decathlon's anonyniity in the communi- ty, province and country is fairly promînent. Whenever I mention to anyone that I am a proud decathlete, the most common response is "a proud what?" However, after having been i the competition for four years, I'm a dab-hand at explaînling what the Academic Decathlon is. It's a competi- tion that consists of 10 events: 6 in the form of mul- tiple-choice-question exams wlth another event being to write an essay. Two other events require the competi- tors to participate i a mock interview and give two speeches while the last event is a team event where the members from each school are presented with multiple choice questions based on a 150 page bookiet of varlous readlngs about a certain sub- ject. Clarke High School's Academie Decathlon teamn consists of 8 senior students, 5 OACs and 3 Grade 12s with 2 junior students from grade 10, and all but one of these students are Decathlon Veterans having been involved in the competition for 1-4 years. The team con- sîsts of Ian Crookshank, Jane Easton, Andrea Etmanskie, Ceri Evanis, Julie Harper, Ben Koslik, Iain MeOustra, Aneisha Mohanmmed, Richard Perry and Christina Reed. This year the competition was held in Edmonton, Aberta and the students were given the opportuniity to travel and slghtsee. The team spent 2 days in Calgary visîtlng the zoo and Olympic Centre before sittlng i a van for 13 1/2 hours driving through the Rocky Mountains - a trip which had beautiful scenery but resulted in some rather sore denrieres. The team fared qui te well. in the competition, garnering 13 medals ti total, 3 or which were gold! The trip concluded with the final 3 days spent in Edmo nton with a full day donated to the com- petition. The Academic Decathlon coach, Mr. J. Gale, Is currently looking for new recruits and the preparation fornext year's competition will commence i October -Cen Evans HISTORY COMES ALrVE History is the study of real people involved i real events and the Grade 10 History stu- dents are trying to simulate the real thing. On April 3, the students staged a mock Vimy Ridge battle at the Ganaraska Forest Cçntre whee they spied, made baffle plans, cap- tured prisoners, decoded (continued page 8) Celebrate the opening'of NEW SUREiICAL SUITES at Memorial Hospital Bowmanville 47 Liberty St. S., Bawmnanville by joining us for an OPEN HOUSE Tuesday, May 12, 1998 - 9 a. m. to 4 p.rm. *Operating Room Staff xiii be providing tours of the new area throughout the day *Sec new equiprnent purchased.through doniationis * Refreshments wiii be provided For information, contact the Public Relations Department of Memorial Hospital at: (905) 623-3331, ext. 1881 1 Please note: Eiic'Tgeicv çuTgal services iWl/Il beprffluded