September 30th, 2020
Guidance:
Attention grade 12’s - The Loran Scholar's Foundation is an award valued at approximately $100,000 over 4 years of undergraduate study. If you are interested in being nominated for this scholarship please see your guidance counselor or get an application form on the Student Services bulletin board. Deadline is October 7th.
The University of Toronto National Book Award recognizes and rewards the very best Canadian secondary school students, regardless of which university those students choose to attend. These are students who demonstrate superior academic performance, original and creative thought, and exceptional achievement in a broad context. Each school is able to nominate 1 student. The deadline for applications is Oct 13th. For more information please see the bulletin board in Student Services
Sports:
FOOTBALL: Football conditioning is canceled for today due to weather. Any new players wishing to register may do so tomorrow at 4pm at the field behind Auburn and conditioning will take place from 4 to 6pm. This practice is cleats only.
SOCCER: Soccer tryouts for both girls and boys are on Thursday Oct 1 from 4-5:30pm. Both tryouts will be held at the Cole Harbour All weather turf.
HOCKEY GIRLS: Attention all girls hockey players. There will be a brief meeting in Room 225 at the beginning of lunch on Wednesday, September 30th. We would ask that all interested players attend. There will be open tryouts for the team this year. These tryouts will be on October 6th, 7th and 13th at Cole Harbour place.
School:
Pick up your photo proofs from your A block teacher. If you had off block pick them up from the library. Teachers at the end of A block today please send down any proofs you have left over.
GREEN TEAM: Green Team meeting in Mrs. Olmsteads room 219 Thursday at Lunch space is limited! We will be designing this years New format!
In the caf: Reminder that there is always pizza, garlic fingers, sandwiches and wraps available. Today there is also QUESADIAS!
In 1973 a six year old girl went to school for the very first time. She was so excited to be going to school! She had a brand new orange shirt, one that her grandmother couldn’t really afford but bought anyway, to celebrate this momentous occasion and she was so proud of it! Imagine her shock when she arrived at school to be stripped of her clothes and that orange shirt was taken away. Never to be seen again. This was the beginning of years of abuse and was the story of hundreds of Aboriginal Children in the residential school system.
In May 2013, Chief Fred Robbins of Esk’etemc First Nation brought together Chiefs, Councils, elected officials, RCMP officers, schools, churches as well as Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents of Williams Lake and the Cariboo region as part of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School Commemoration Project. It was his vision for reconciliation, which involved having all people remember and learn about what had happened at this school, to honour and help the Survivors to recover from their experiences, and ultimately reconcile together. To get out the message that the lives of ALL children matter.
That six year old girl grew up and joined Chief Fred Robbins in his search for reconciliation by telling her story. It had been 40 years since she could wear the colour orange -because it represented to her that she didn’t matter, that nobody cared. On the day she first told her story at that first gathering she made a point of wearing a brand new orange sweater. Her story sparked a movement. The orange shirt became a visual symbol of a time we can’t afford to forget. So we wear orange. And we remember. That girl’s name was Phyllis Webstad. And she, along with all children, does matter.