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Forum For Young Canadians

by Wendy Cartwright

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Around the School

SECONDARY ACCREDITATION WELCOME
The school would like to thank the many parents and stud-
dents of the community who co-operated with the “external team”
of experienced educators who visited the school during the week
of March 22- 26. During their visit, the team (appointed by the.
Ministry of Education)met and talked with various groups of par-
ents, students and staff to help determine the strengths and needs
of the secondary school. We are presently awaiting a written re-

port from this team on the-results of their visit, and will inform
you of the results. Present indications are that the team was favor-
ably impressed with the school’s operation and programmes, More

To our student teachers from the University of Victoria, who
will be completing a-five week practicum in the school. This fs the
first time that student teachers from any university have been able
to do any of their “internship” in this district. All of the student
teachers are in their last or second last year at university. This
practicum will be a period which will_not only benefit them as
future teachers, but will also benefit the elementary students with
whom they are working, and the secondary students who will be
considering the University of Victoria in their plans. The student
teachers are with the following classes and sponsor ‘teachers:

news in future issues. © Class Sponsor Teacher
SS OO OO OO Miss Mary Ann Clarkson Grade 1 Mrs. Evans
Two important areas where parents and teachers can work to-  /Vfiss Robyn Smith Grade3 Vs. Dale
gether. . Miss Irene LaPrairie Grade4—- Mrs. Millar
ENCOURAGING CHILD'S WORK HABITS Wr. Keefer Pollard Grade 5/6 Mr. Hamilton
a__ listening to others Miss Julie Kucher Grade6_ Mrs. Vickery
On March 19th, | left Cassiar for Ottawa to attend Forum. b. — following directions Miss Elizabeth Strebel Grade 7 ~~ Mr. Prier
There were one hundred students chosen from throughout Canada ¢ _ using time effectively
We stayed at Ashbury College, which is approximately one hun- q completing assignments NOTES & QUOTES

dred years old.

When | arrived in Ottawa, there was no luggage and no one to
meet me. Fortunately, there was another Forum student named
Kathy from Hazelton, British Columbia, who was in the same sit-

e. _ taking pride in work

Comment overheard from a very original student in an English —4

ENCOURAGING CHILD'S CITIZENSHIP class, “Here is my theme, sir. I’ve left a few intentional mistakes in

hate it. | hope you'll be able to find them.”

uation, She said her relatives were picking her up and | could tour x cave ting self-control :

F . , . wing good sportsmanship

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the city with iste ae uur’ o'clock we went to the oe ea c. respecting rights and property of others Is it true that literacy tests are heavily weighted in favor of those
our luggage still.hadn’t arrived. We found out that the airlines had Meera neluaatiers iho Caio ee
left it in Vancouver. At six o’clock our luggage arrived.

Sunday was the beginning of our working week. One of the | NTE RMEDIATE A ¢ TIVIT y
most important events of the day was the talk given by James
Hurly on the Constitution. Over the past winter Cassiar Elementary-Secondary School ent rates for the arena and skihill,

held four intermediate activity afternoons for all students in Grade
4, 5, 6 and 7. The purpose of the program is to provide students
with an opportunity to participate in a worthwhile activity that
they otherwise might not be able to do. Each student was able to
select an activity in their area of interest for a total of 8 hours of
instruction and participation.

This year the following 9 activities were offered:

Snowshoeing - Miss Linsay

Cooking - Mrs. Millar & Mrs. Jones

Computers - Mr. Millar

Crocheting - Ms, Park & Mrs. Borsato

Curling - Mr. Prier, Mrs. Coran, Mrs. Carin & Mrs. Elhorn

Downhill Skiing - Mr. Lamphear

Skating - Mrs. Vickery

Cross Country Skiing - Mr. Waldera

Woodcraft - Mr. Hamilton

We are grateful for the parental help from Mrs. K. Jones, Mrs.
On Tuesday it was off to the House of Commons, where we! P. Borsato, Mrs. L. Coran, Mrs. N. Carin, Mrs. M Elhorn and Ms.

listened to Marcel Pelletier and Lloyd Francis talk on the func- AM Park. The teachers and students both appreciated your ef-
tions of the House of Commons. The members in the House of forts We are also indebted to the Curling Club for donating the

Commons don’t pound their desks. They do, however, clap. curling rink and the Cassiar Community Club for their special stud-
Wednesday we went to question period. | was quite surprised Zz j

Canada has had five different constitutions before the one
which has gone through the House of Lords. The last constitution
was called the British North American Act. Others have been pro-
posed since 1864, but were never aed on fully by the people of
Canada.

After this the students piled into two buses and went for a
tour around the different embassies. All of them looked beautiful
on the outside. Next we. passed Trudeau’s house, with its three
hundred thousand dollar swimming pool and underground pas-
sageway leading into it (so we can’t see the Prime Minister in his
bathing suit).

Monday there were more speeches, one on the Privy Coun-
cil Office. Later that day we visited the Senate. | sat in Mr. P. H.
Lucier’s place. Mr. Broadbent thinks that the Senate doesn’t ex-
ercise its power and should be turned into a tennis court or lawn
bowing green. The Senators don’t agree with him, of course.

Once again the activities were a success and provided much
enjoyment for students and instructors alike.

that this bunch was our government. Some of the comments |
heard were :

“GO get AitM.....0+++:
“Order, Order”
Thursday was ‘a very full day. We had speeches on North —
South Relations from 9 — 11:45 am At 1 — 3:30 p.m. we lis-
tened to a talk on the constitution and women’s rights. Then it $

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TWO STUDENTS FROM MR. WALDERA’S CROSS-COUNTRY
SKI CLASS COMING IN FROM THE SLOPES

At the final cooking class an easter bonnet competition was
held, Winners of the competition were: 1st - Garred Huber, 2nd -
Sian Jones, 3rd - Debbie Hardy & Alexia Jones.

Unfortunately Mrs. Jones’ hat fell over her eyes and the
photographs she took were dreadful, so we can’t show the winnii ng.
entries.

Thank you to Mrs. P. Borsato and Ricki Billodeau for judging
the hats. It was certainly a difficult job as the entries were quite ™

was off to see the Supreme Court of Canada (unfortunately not in
session).
On Friday the work started to taper down, which | was thank= ~

ful for. Then on Saturday it was off to the airport for home. |

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WELCOME BACK
To all students and teachers after a well-deserved break. The

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1 /ong winter is over (?), the snow has (almost) gone, and the field s
a has been cleared in anticipation of more spring-like outdoor activ- ‘ =
= ities. It’s the time to make the renewed effort to finish the year on Sorry about your poem, Mary. It fell off on the way to the print- =
© ahigh note in June. Go to it! ers last month. b
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2 The third term at the school ended on Friday, April 16, and ay oo Lays by the fire and Naps roam the night, =
a ror Pak Wend cenit fiotne Fn phe? STUDENTS DOING “STRING ART” IN MR, HAMILTON'S I clean fin and scrub hiro ail hes flurly and clean, 3
WOODWORKING CLASS And he thanks me not once for he’s nasty and mean. et

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Cassiar Courier May 1982 Page 7

WEWS PROW SenoOoL DUSTRICY Bz _

Highlights of Schoolboard Meetings for Feb. & March Kindergarten Workshop

The Board approved the appointment of G.. Millar as Principal of
te new Cassiar Elementary School and Keith Lanphear as Prin-
dpal of the Secondary School.

Janitorial contracts approved to June 1982 were:
Cassiar School — Mr. Dhillon for $15,300.00
Arts & Crafts Centre — Mrs. Steadman for $2,000.00
Atlin School — R. Merril for $3,000.00
Dease Lake School —J. Voss for $5,200.00

Lisa Spetch was appointed as acting secretary-treasurer, effective
March 1, 1982, until a secretary-treasurer is hired.

The School. Board has made an offer of $35,000 each for 2 trailers
“from Piedmont, and $9,000 each for two serviced lots, provided
te Ministry approves these in the capital expenditures program.

Superintendent’ $ Report —

$80,808 must be cut from the A eter biswes will be
the baseline for all future budgets: 60% provincial government

share comes from industrial tax, 40% from direct grant or residlen-
tial tax. Fram this 40%.31% is equalization and 9% from residen-
tal;

Although $80,808 must be cut from the budget, the School Dis
trict will: :
endeavour ‘not to cut educational programs
have no reduction instaff
have no reduction in maintenance
have no cutbacks in two computers in the DRC or to the
Xerox machines for the other schools

There will be six student teachers coming after Easter break and
the cost will be $4200.00 (airfare return to Victoria, transport-
ation, food allowance, free accommodation). This is to entice
teachers into the region and show them what it’s like. An ad-
ditional spin-off is that our teachers become more conscious of
every facet of teaching because they must model these for the
student teachers.

New School Update

As a result of strong representations by the then Official
Trustee and Superirtendent of Schools in January 1981, the

Schools Facilities Branch (Ministry of Education) gave verbal ap-

proval for an additional $500,000.00 to be allocated to the Cas-
gar project.. This money would have been provided in the 1982
Qapital Expenditure Program budget and meant that S.D. No. 87
could build the size of school it felt suited Cassiar’s future needs.

Then came the year of restraint.

A by-product of the provincial restraint measures was the
elimination of the additional $500,000.00 from the 1982 C.E.P.
Indget The District had now to build the same size school but
wth the smaller budget.

erin ne PLAT near to AO the Lorre of.

school buildings other than the traditional standard type “brick
and Mortar” school, The decision has been made to construct a
modular type of school.

The projected structure will have the same classroom, gym
nasium, library and essential space functions as the original pro-
fection and will be monitored carefully to assure a quality ed-
ucation facility. In this monitoring, the District will be assisted by
CM. Projects Ltd, — a constriction management organization.

The Cassiar Parents Advisory and the School staff have been
party to. the preliminary meetings with the construction company.
A further meeting is planned for Monday, April 26, 1982. If all
the suggested modifications, specifications and price consider-

- dions are considered satisfactory the Board will issue a Letter of

Intent to initiate the preliminary building stages.

= RHERS. CORNER

SEASONS
/t came with the sun
and blossomed with the flowers;
It seemed like it would
last forever.

Fall came and the days grew cold

: and so did he.

The days were dark
much like our relationship.

In the winter, everything died
and our love along with it;
Everything was silent and peaceful
Everything but my heart.
by Clare McKiernan

THE PIANO
by Gennifer Tooke, Grade 5

A polished, wood Robin with teeth black and white,
Sits at my fingertips all ready to delight,

/ push on his keys and the sound that he makes,

Is possible to hear clear across the lake.

THE VACUUM
by Erika Nancy Gricnik, Grade 5

A long-nosed Eater with colours like rust,
Sits in my bedroom and picks up the dust,
| give hima hand and then a clap,

All he gives me is a nice, big slap.

THE OVEN
by Chris Giesbrecht, Grade 5

A reddish orange Firefly with a belly lighting up,
Squats at my campsite and helps me to Sup,

| hand him large pots and then like a maid,

He hands them back when he sees meals are made.

THE SNOW .
by Emma Crawford

A snavy bed,
Floating,
Falling,

Gliding,
Holding the North in its white hands.

SKIING
by Donna Taylor

The winds blow readily
on my numb white cheeks
as snow, fine and hard, pelts
against my forehead, stinging
with each contact.
My vision is blurred from
the speed of the wind hitting
my eyes. | squint in-hopes of
mapping my way as | quickly proceed.

My destination is in view.
Approaching nearer, | slow down
and come to a halt. Resting, | —
wipe my wetted face with my
chilled hands. My vision now regained,
! slowly make my way

through the crispy snow and quickly
grab a seat that will take me back

up to the top of the mountain
sparkling brilliantly with each
reflection of the large illuminated
lights.

We really enjoy the work. contributed by the students. Un-
fortunately we do not always have space to print them all .

However we'll do our best to fit in as many as possible so keep
on sending them in.

by Karen Clark

On March 24th the Stikine School District’s kindergarten
teachers and the kindergarten teachers’ aides met in Cassiar for an

all day workshop presented by Karen Clark and Claire Redmond.

It was the first kindergarten workshop to ever pe held in this
School District.

Assistant Reece Dick Chambers ie the teach-
ers and aides and discussed district policy pari the use of
aides in the classroom,

The focus of the workshop: was on the development of lan-
guage and cognitive skills in young children: Assessing the indiv-
idual child's needs in these areas and successfully implementing a
program to meet the child's needs. To assist the teachers in this
responsibility is an exciting new kit for each school, purchased by
the school district — “The Santa Clara Inventory of Development:
al Tasks”. The kits have two major components

1) The observation guide which provides guidelines for

assessing children’s S developmental skills. —

2) The instructional activities which are found in both a

manual and on cards called the. “recipes”. }

The performance skills of the Inventory Of Basic Skills are
considered by most authorities to be prerequisites to more advanc~
ed cognitive tasks, Children who exhibit difficulty in learning the
basic skills of reading, mathematics, oral and written communic-
ation, generally exhibit deficiencies in some of these development-
al skills. There are 72 identified tasks on the inventory profile. The
tasks have been chosen because they represent milestones in chil-
dren’s development. The activities or “recipes” presented to help
the children become adept at these skills are fun and at the same
time usually require that the child think about the task. Most chil-
dren look forward to these activities because they are challenging,
and yet there is no sense of “failure” for these little children be-
cause the activities are presented in a game-like atmosphere.

In addition to the introduction to the Inventory of Basic
Skills, Ms..Redmond and Mrs. Clark jpresented other language and
cognitive development skills for children through activities that
emphasized children’s literature, brainstorming, classifying, com

paring, describing, following directions, imagining, matching, pro-

blem solving, reasoning, remembering, and sequencing.

The workshop was considerea to be successful and many tea-
chers expressed an eagemess to use the new Santa Clara kit and try
the new ideas that had been presented.

This workshop. will be presented again in the fall for the
benefit of those kindergarten teachers who will be new to our
school district.

NORTHERN
LIGHTS
COLLEGE

PHOTOGRAPHY — May 29 and 30. Instructor is Susan Swibold
from Calgary.

by Ellen Corcoran

STRESS & RELAXATION WORKSHOP — To develop methods
to reduce personal stress. Instructor Jan Dale. This course will be
held on two evenings — May 3 and 4, from 7:30— 9:30 p.m. Reg-
istration is limited to 12 people.

LAMPSHADE WORKSHOP — Mrs. Leslie Saunders of Watson
Lake is willing to give a Lampshade Workshop — possibly the week-
end of June 4 & 5. Anyone interested may contact Ellen Corcoran
at 778-7638. A minimum of 7 participants is required. Examples
of the lampshades can be seen at Pedlar’s Comer, Watson Lake.

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