March

10: Daylight Savings

11: Report Card Distribution

14: PAC Meeting

13 & 14: P/S/T Drop-in (7-9

PM)

15: No SCHOOL

16: Spring Break

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April

2: First day back from Spring

Break

10-13: Broadway Nights

18: School Assembly

19-20: HS Fun Soccer Tourney

22: Earth Day

24: Admin Assistant Day

After a very cold winter it is certainly nice to see that Spring is finally making

it’s way back!

I would like to congratulate the Sir John basketball teams for a great Cager

weekend held February 21st—24th. Sir John entered five teams in total and all

teams worked very hard and played with great sportsmanship and school

pride. Congratulations to the Senior Boys and Junior Girls for winning the first

place banners and also to the Junior Boys Gold and Senior Girls for placing se-

cond in the tournament.

Soccer practices have already begun. It is important to check the gym bulletin

board for practice times if you are interested in playing on a school team.

Please note that the school will be closed on Friday, March 15th, 2013. We

encourage all students and families to make their way down to the Long John

Jamboree on that day to show support for this wonderful community event.

Due to this change, the Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews will now be held on

Wednesday, March 13th and Thursday, March 14th from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM.

All interviews will be drop-in only. Please plan to attend.

Over the Spring Break our Provence/Paris/Barcelona group will be travelling

abroad, as well as, a few students will be travelling to Ottawa for the Encoun-

ters with Canada Youth Forum. We wish our students and staff safe travels.

The highly anticipated Broadway Nights drama production will be playing April

10th—13th. The drama students have been working very hard and have been

putting in many hours of practice. Be sure to get your tickets early as this show

is sure to sell out quickly.

We hope you are able to get outside and enjoy these warmer temperatures. If

you are travelling over the Spring Break we wish you a safe and relaxing trip.

Ed Lippert

P R I N C I P A L ’ S M E S S A G E

S C H O O L N E W S L E T T E R

I M P O R T A N T D A T E S :

MARCH 2013

P.O.Box 1200. 4701-52nd Avenue. Yellowknife, NT. X1A 2N8

Ph: (867) 669-0773 . Fax: (867) 873-3630

www.sjf.yk1.nt.ca

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Encounters with Canada (EWC) is our Country’s largest and foremost youth forum! Every week of the

school year, 120 to 148 teens from across Canada (ages 14 to 17) travel to Ottawa. There they discover

their country through each other, learn about Canadian institutions, meet famous and accomplished Ca-

nadians, explore exciting new career options, develop their civic leadership skills and live an extraordinary

bilingual experience. Over 92, 000 youth have lived the EWC experience, to date!

This school year, École Sir John Franklin High School sent seven students to take part in this incredible

opportunity. Each student chose a date and took part in a specific theme. In total there are 12 different

themes to choose from. For more information on this program go to www.ewc-rdc.ca.

Two of our students, Etienne Pasini and Gavin Dwyer have already gone to their respective week-long fo-

rums. This month we look forward to sending Brandon Pellerin, Taylor Rein, Rana Jalil Aga, Trisa Ngo and

Kathleen Gordon. Sir John is happy to offer this great opportunity to our students annually. The amount of

students that can be sent differs from year to year. This year’s group is one of the largest thus far.

Student: Gavin Dwyer, Grade 9 Theme: Sports & Fitness Date: January 27th - February 2nd, 2013

Student: Etienne Pasini, Grade 12 Theme: Law

Date: November 25th - December 1st, 2013

Gavin and his friends (that he met at En-

counters) snowboarding in Quebec.

The week I went down to Encounters was probably the best week I have ever had. It’s incredible how just one week made such an im-pact on my life. Encounters with Canada is a great opportunity to meet new people from across the Country. Every day was a new ad-venture. I had the opportunity to go the Parliament Building, numer-ous formal events, as well as, a day of snowboarding in Quebec. I am extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity to be a part of such a great program. I highly recommend the Encounters with Cana-da Youth Forum experience in the Sports & Fitness theme. It truly was an experience of a lifetime.

Le thème que j'avais choisi était "La loi". Ce fut une expérience hors du commun! Des informations pré-cises et intéressantes m'ont permis de mieux apprécier l'aspect juridique de notre société. Quant aux visites, je les qualifierais d'inspirantes! Tout le monde devrait pouvoir participer à une telle aventure. Je remercie particulièrement M. Krause pour sa confiance en moi et pour son aide.

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Student: Brandon Pellerin Theme: Science and Technology Date: February 24th - March 2nd, 2013

Student: Taylor Rein Theme: Journalism and Communications

Date: March 3rd - March 9th, 2013

Students: Trisa Ngo & Kathleen Gordon Theme: International Affairs

Date: March 24th - March 30th, 2013

Student: Rana Jalil Aga Theme: Medicine and Health Date: March 17th - March 23rd, 2013

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Back row (left to right): Kathleen Gordon, Trisa Ngo, Gavin Dwyer, Brandon Pellerin

Front row (left to right): Rana Jalil Aga, Etienne Pasini, Taylor Rein

Upcoming forums:

S C H O O L N E W S L E T T E R

F A L C O N N E W S

Another last for Burly! The BNWT Committee

thanked Burly for all of his years of hard work and dedi-

cation to the sport of basketball and to the NWT Power

Corp Senior Cager Tournament.

Congratulations to the Junior Boys Gold and Senior

Girls for placing second in the weekend’s tournament.

Both finals were hard fought and played with hard

work, determination and class.

Congratulations to the Junior Girls and Senior Boys for

winning the first place banners!

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The Senior Boys, coached by

Christopher Cobbler, Jessie

and Jordan Crosby and man-

aged by Burly, won the 1st

Place Banner! After a lot of

hard work in the pre-season,

the well disciplined team lead

in points throughout the en-

tire weekend and finished the

tournament playing against

St. Pat’s in the finals. The final

score was 85-33. Way to go

Guys!

The Junior Girls, coached by

Evelyne Straker and Jillian

Stewart, finished the tour-

nament strong in the finals

with a 38-16 win against

Hay River’s DJSS Purple

team. The girls worked very

hard in preparation for the

tournament and it showed

throughout the weekend.

Great job Ladies!

Soccer

Soccer Practices have begun. See the gym bulletin for specific practice times.

Sir John wins two banners!!!

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D R A M A D E P A R T M E N T

The SJF Drama Department is proud to present Broadway Nights! This year’s

musical is a creative and unique blend of popular Broadway Musicals. Mr. Lan-

don Peters and the entire cast and crew have been working very hard over the

past few months in the preparation of this highly anticipated show. Be sure to

get your tickets early! To buy tickets online go to http://www.naccnt.ca/events/

calendar/2013/4/ or tickets can be purchased at the NAAC box office.

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B L I S S L A K E

T H A N K Y O U F O R M A K I N G A D I F F E R E N C E

This year’s campaign was a huge success at Sir John. We

received over 100 entries at the school alone! One entry

was selected to go into the big draw held in Fort Smith.

This year’s selected entry was written by our Grade 9

French Immersion student, Gavin Dwyer. His nomination

was for Mr. Bill Burlington.

Gavin wrote:

“Bill Burlington, or as we like to call him, Burly, has made a

huge impact in my life. He is the man I look up to. Because

of Burly I have developed such a positive and strong atti-

tude. After learning all of the amazing things that Bill has

taught me I now want to go out and strive for as much suc-

cess as I can. Thank you Bill Burlington for being such an

amazing teacher.”

For more information on this initiative, please go to:

http://www.nwtta.nt.ca/en/ThankYouforMakingaDifference

On Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 I went to Bliss Lake to take part in the

Bliss Lake Trapper’s Camp, which ran for four days. While I was there I was

very inspired by the two elders that taught us about the land and basic land

survival skills. We took part in many cultural activities, learned how to set a

fish net under the ice, fillet a fish, cut wood to supply heat to our cabins an

how to safely set traps. It was a privilege to be able to set traps on one of

the elders family trap lines that has been in his family for many genera-

tions. I really enjoyed my time at Bliss Lake and was honoured to have

been a part of such a wonderful experience. Thank you Mrs. Cleary and Mr.

Johnston for the opportunity. And thank you to the volunteers for making

the camp run so smoothly.

Justina Johnson-Black Justina Johnson-Black

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La première étape (niveau territorial) des compétitions au concours d'art oratoire organ-isé chaque année par Canadian Parents for French et l'Université d'Ottawa a eu lieu le mardi 26 février. Trois étudiants de l’École Sir John Franklin y participaient: Kirianne Ashley et Danielle Patzer (9e année Immersion) et Eileen Jones (12e année immersion). Elles avaient écrit puis mémorisé leur texte, pra-tiqué beaucoup et présenté leur discours de-vant un parterre de juges! Voici les résultats: en 9e année, Kirianne a remporté la 1ère place et Danielle la deuxième place. Quant à Eileen, elle a gagné au niveau territorial et ira donc défendre son texte au niveau national, à Ottawa, en mai prochain. Bravo à toutes!

The Concours d’art oratoire’s first level of competition (at the territorial level) is orga-nized every year by the Canadian Parents for French and the University of Ottawa. This year’s competition took place on Tuesday, February 26th where three students from École Sir John Franklin participated. This year’s participants were Kirianne Ashley, Dan-ielle Patzer (grade 9 immersion) and Eileen Jones (grade 12 immersion). The students wrote and memorized their text and after a lot of practice they recited it in front of a panel of judges. Congratulations to all three girls for a job well done! For the grade 9 level, Kirianne placed 1st and Danielle placed 2nd. Great work girls! Eileen won the territorial title and will be competing at the national level in Otta-wa in May. Good luck Eileen!

Danielle Patzer et Kirianne Ashley

Eileen Jones

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A F S I N T E R C U L T U R E C A N A D A

Do you want to study abroad, learn a new language, and discover a new culture?

AFS Interculture Canada is looking for adventurous students between 15 and 18 years old to live and study in another country for a year. As an exchange student, you will live with a family in another country and go to high school. Placements are available in over 40 coun-tries. Financial assistance is available. To apply, you should be a good student (but you do not need straight A’s) with extra-curricular interests, and you should enjoy meeting new people and challenging yourself. For more information, go to www.afscanada.org and click on “Youths Go Abroad,” or contact the Yellowknife sending coordinator, Lorraine Seale, at 766-3009 (evenings) or lorraineseale@hotmail.com. Applications for fall 2012 departures must be completed by the end of March.

Quentin Chabennet, our exchange student from France had an information table set up in February to provide the Sir John

students information on the AFS Program.

L U N C H / S N A C K P R O G R A M

The Sir John Lunch/Snack Program is a program that provides snacks and sandwiches to

students that are unable to bring their own to school. This program is able to run solely

based on donations. We would like to thank our donors and volunteers. This semester we

have three wonderful students making the sandwiches, Hosai Ayoubi, Zara Tehseenah

and Mariam Ullah. Thank you!

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President– Taylor Rein

Vice President - Danielle Ignacio-Pacunayen

Grade 12 Reps - Colton Fyfe

Grade 11 Rep - Henry Kruse

Grade 10 Reps - Tyler Hunter, Andrew Machray

Grade 9 Reps - Laura Hodgins, Clair Littlefair

Student Ambassador - Sharon Hamel

French Immersion Rep - Declan Robinson-Spence

Spirit Reps - Ashley MacLellan, Maggie Guille

Fine Arts Reps - Ian Dayagbil, Laura Gioveneto

SJF STUDENT COUNCIL

S T U D E N T C O U N C I L E V E N T S

The student Council wel-

comes our newest member

Andrew Machray.

Sir John celebrates International Pink Day!

On February 27th Sir John students wore

pink to take a stand against bullying.

Student Council

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Sir John is looking to start up an Inuit and Dene mitt making club that

will take place during the school lunch hours. If you are interested in

joining this club, please contact Mrs. Cleary or Mr. Johnston.

Y W C A P R E S E N T A T I O N