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FUNDINg FOR PAgC EDUCATION

In the 2012-2013 Federal Budget announcement in March 2012, there was a commitment of 275 million for First Na-tions Education. The federal government allocated 100 million to early literacy and 175 million for school capital. The PAGC received $728,011 additional funding this past year for the delivery of early literacy initiatives. The funding came in during the last quarter of the fiscal year in which we were able to capitalize on the PAGC’s Understanding The Early Years Project recommendations

In total, the resources for PAGC schools through RMO, New Paths and FNSSP and some other smaller programs for 2012-2013 was $19, 463,204.00. These resources provided a multitude of support and services for the 28 schools within the PAGC region.

The Prince Albert Grand Council has successfully com-pleted another year of activities with its member First Na-tions. As we continue to provide second-level services to our First Nations schools, our role will remain steadfast in the delivery of teacher support, special education, infor-mation technology and language development. The twen-ty-eight schools across our region have utilized a variety of our services and resources and the demand is growing.

As Director of Education for the PAGC, it has been a pleasure and honor in working in various capacities for the organization and member First Nations. This year has included some new funding sources for our schools and consequently, improved learning opportunities for the 6500-plus students. As an educator and ‘agent of change’, I too am called to service to ensure students have the same quality of education that is extended to every child across Canada.

POLITICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTSEd Mirasty

As First Nations gather across Canada in the ‘Idle No More’ movement, our leaders fought against imposed education legislation and appealed for equal opportunity. For instance, there was an Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Canada meeting in February in which the PAGC Chiefs interrupted the meeting claiming there was a failure of ‘duty to consult and accommodate’ in develop-ing a First Nations Education Act. This political move was instrumental in sending the message that there needs to be continued consultation with First Nations peoples.

Another example of this year’s political successes was fighting for equal opportunity for SGI and the Provincial government to pay for driver training for on-reserve high school students. In March 2012, Alfred Craine (Owner/Op-erator/Instructor for A.C. First Nations Driving Academy) and VC Brian Hardlotte, raised the issue of driver train-ing funding to the Chiefs. After PAGC sent a letter to the provincial government regarding that concern, SGI and the Provincial government extended their driver-ed fund-ing to include First Nations students. A great victory for all First Nations across the province as students will get the same support as provincial students which costs as high as $600.00 per student.

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We carry many good memories with us from this school year and I want to acknowledge the staff that will not be returning and/or have left our very best: Michelle Danczak, Don Dore, Joseph Belheumer and Bea Fisher.

BLACk LAkE CULTURE CAMPRosalie Tsanie-Burseth

I arrived at the Culture Camp in the afternoon. The first day I just socialized, observed and familiarized myself with my surroundings. I greeted the people, Elders, students and teachers. I was offered caribou stew, fish and bannock. I ate with women Elders and they asked 101 questions with lots of laughter. I told them I would video-tape the cultural teachings and I will be participating in most of the things the students will be doing.

The culture camp was well organized and the working sta-tions were cleaned and ready for students. There were beading and craft station, fish preparation, station, dry meat making station, animal skinning station, Moose hide preparation station, story-telling station, domestic house-work station, hand washing laundry station, Smoke house station, traditional miniature crafts making station, such as canoe, bow and arrow, etc.

The next day, I have video-taped most of the cultural teach-ing. However, the most important ones are the traditional Moose hide preparation, Traditional cooking in the caribou stomach sac and dry-meat making. The traditional cooking took a little over an hour of documentation. I was so hot and thirsty but my persistence paid off and I recorded the whole procedure. I think it will be interesting and an impor-tant teaching tools for our teachers.

The Elders I have interviewed are; Simon Robillard, Lou-ie Martin John, Mary Jane Yooya, Pierre Robillard, Billy Sandypoint, Adolphus Mercredi, Billy Joe Mercredi, Annie Bigeye, Debbie Mercredi, Joe Rennie, Louie Disain. Some of these Elders went on and on about other issues, but I respect them and let them talk to their hearts content.

c. Regional Management Organization-Direct ($8,613,894)- To administer the funding allocation and monitor student tracking for students with special needs in our 28 PAGC schools, through the RMO.

d. New Paths ($2,578,055)- To provide a broad range of professional development activities and program sup-ports to the education programs in our 12 First Nations, in accordance with the Draft Strategic Education Plan as set out in spring 2008.

e. School Evaluation ($38,100) - In consultation with our schools that are up for evaluation, PAGC received funding to provide financial resources for the recruitment of their own designated evaluator.

f. First Nations School Success Plan ($4,100,000)- The FNSSP program have been successful in providing support in three target areas; literacy, numeracy and stu-dent retention. The three components of the FNSSP that was delivered from our office have been Performance Measurement (Dadavan), Assessment and School Suc-cess Plans.

g. FNSSP-Northern Factor ($1,200,000) – The PAGC received funding in the last quarter to purchase re-sources for the three Athabasca communities. The cost of products, tools and materials were ordered and delivered to Hatchett Lake, Black Lake and Fond Du Lac schools.

In total, the resources for PAGC schools through RMO, New Paths and FNSSP and other smaller programs for 2012-2013 totaled $19, 463,204.00. These resources provided a multitude of support and resources for the 28 schools within the PAGC region.

FAREwELL TO STAFF

As we bring another school year to a close, I want to ex-press my appreciation for the education staff Who have worked so hard throughout the year. Their energy and commitment is a testimony to the aspirations and dreams our early leaders envisioned when they developed the de-partment in 1977. What started out as a department con-sisting of only three people, has now grown to over 25 staff members.

For the other PAGC Education programs, I have made a list below of programs/services that have been delivered from our office for this past fiscal year;

a. Second-level services ($877,776)- comprehen-sive second-level service support in the areas of teacher and program evaluations and certification, and curriculum advice and in-service. This source of funding is based on 2.5% of tuition dollars from each of the schools.

b. Regional Management Organization-Indirect ($1,327,368)- To provide a broad range of special educa-tion services to our schools through the Grand Council’s Regional Management Organization (RMO) program. The RMO provides direct services and advice to students, edu-cators, administrators, and parents.

“As First Nations gather across

Canada in the ‘Idle No More’

movement, our leaders fought

against imposed education

legislation and appealed for

equal opportunity. ”

The Teachers I have interviewed are; Eileen Bruno and Elaine Hay. They spoke about the importance of the tradi-tional cultural teachings, cultural preservation and Dene-suline language orthography and syllabics.

Visit to Fond du Lac 2013

It was good to see Cheryl Thunder again, although we didn’t get a chance to meet with the Elders, the trip was well worth it in that we participated with the healing workshop with Fond du Lac members and Black Lake members. It is good to see the communities are working together, healing together and I found it very touching and emotional. I keep thinking about my late sister in law Martha Toutsaint and my brother Pierre Toutsaint. They were the pioneers for this type of gatherings and I became very emotional every time someone spoke of their lost ones. This workshop was a blessing and it made me aware of many things that can be gone in seconds before we know it and life is too short. Marsi chogh!

BEA FISHER

As usual, this school year was busy, exciting in many ways, and of course, challenging.

I managed to get to a lot of our communities, doing a va-riety of tasks and even had time to attend to some profes-sional development.

I was able to provide Teaching Assistant training to staff from White Buffalo, Sturgeon Lake, Wahpeton, Little Red, and Wacihk Schools.

In the first part of the school year. I met with Autism Servic-es in Prince Albert to determine what services they might offer to some of our school; gave a half day workshop at the LLRIB Education Conference in the Fall and as well gave a half day workshop on Best Practices in Teaching to Senior Year Education students at U of S.

The second half of the year saw filling requests for obser-vation of students and making recommendations for pro-gramming in LLRIB schools, Sturgeon Lake and Little Red Schools; delivering sessions at the Early Learning Work-shops during which I was fortunate to renew acquaintance with and get to know better many of the K4-Gr.4 teachers. This is always a delightful experience. I was asked once again to judge at the PAGC Fine Arts Festival, something I also enjoy. It is always good to see students performing in areas outside their usual academic forum.

This last month has been catching up on report writing and making a difficult decision to retire once and for all. Well,

that is how it looks at the moment. My last working day will be June 28 and I would like to thank all of the PAGC Education staff within the office and in our communities for your wisdom, kindnesses and the opportunity to work with you. Wishing you all well and a very happy Summer!

BRIAN ZIMMERMANSpecial Education Consultant

This past school year has been a very busy, yet rewarding year for me as a special education consultant. My travels and work took me to most of our schools this past year. Some of the more notable visits and work included sup-porting our teacher assistants with continued professional development. All of the teacher assistants in Wollaston Lake, Red Earth and schools with the LLRIB received training in all of the teacher assistant modules. Working di-rectly with students and staff is an important part of special education programming. My travels to Fond du Lac, Stur-geon Lake, Pelican Narrows, and Stanley Mission focused on providing IEP support and program planning for new and identified students referred to our office.

Work with Rick Closs and other RMO staff on the Grade K-4 Early Literacy workshops was a great learning oppor-tunity and a chance to network with K-4 teachers from our schools. In December I was re-certified as a Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Instructor and this important training was provided for school staff in Shoal Lake, Little Red, Wahpeton and staff from Valley Hill Youth Treatment Cen-tre.

It is always enjoyable to work in the schools supporting our students with special needs and the staff who work with them. I look forward to working with the students, school staff and Education staff in the upcoming school year. Have a great summer!

FIRST NATION LANgUAgEOtto Fietz

Organized and facilitated Cree Language Curriculum de-velopment meeting with PBCN Cree Language and Cul-ture Teachers with support and input from PBCN Elders. We were able to develop Cree Language Curriculum guides for Grades one to four. These guides are in draft form and need to be reviewed by the Cree Language and Culture teachers and Elders

Organized and facilitated Cree Language Curriculum de-velopment meetings with Swampy Cree Sector.

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Provided Cree Language teachers with Web site Links from which Cree Language teaching resources can be or-der.

Attended and assisted in two meetings for the develop-ment of a Dene Dictionary.

Attended seven meetings as a member of the PAGC Vir-tual Museum Committee and was part of the development of:

1. Collection Plan ( What to be collected)2. Plan for the collection ( How will we collect)3. Collections Policy (guidelines and rules as to how to

collect)4. Creation of Vision and Mission statements

I was also interviewed in Cree to let the Cree speaker know of the plans of the Virtual Museum.

Attended six advisory board meetings as the Cree speaker representative, that advised Pearson Publishing of Cana-da in the development of two new Social Studies Books. These books are to be used by grade 4 and 5 students attending Saskatchewan School. These two text books will be in Saskatchewan School this fall.

Attended 6 meetings hosted by the Saskatoon Public School Division and sat as an advisor on their “Developing Cultural Responsive School” initiative. This initiative is part of their planning to improve First Nations student retention.

Presented at the “Language Keepers Conference” hosted by SICC on the topic of “Elders in the Classroom”. Con-ducted a workshop for Sturgeon Lake Central High School on the topic of “How to support Cree Language in the School”.

SPECIAL EDUCATIONGlenda brass

This past year has been one filled with excitement and enthusiasm. It is always a pleasure to work within all the PAGC Schools. My trips have taken me to most of them this past year.

I have continued to provide itinerant support services to special education staff on an on-going basis throughout this year. I have also continued to work closely with indi-vidual staff members and parents at the school level to de-sign and implement programming for children with special needs. This has been very satisfying.

PAGC has reinstated the Life Space Crisis Intervention

Program and I have had the privilege of becoming a certi-fied senior trainer. I am looking forward to assisting with this in the near future as well as the many other profes-sional development opportunities that the RMO provides.

I have been involved this past year with the delivery of the Early Literacy Workshops which took place from Nursery to Grade 4. This gave the presenters an excellent oppor-tunity to meet teachers from these grades, network and develop a better understanding of each school.

Overall, it has been a busy year. I am grateful for the opportunity to work within the many communities within P.A.G.C. and I have enjoyed doing so. I wish everyone a restful summer and look forward to seeing you in the new school year.

NEw PATHS FOR EDUCATION PROgRAMBob Magee

The PAGC New Paths for Education program addressed five key Strategic Priorities: Eliminating School Violence, Creating More Innovative & Engaging Schools, Closing the Achievement Gap, Retaining the Language & Culture and Increasing Elder & Parent Involvement.

Furthermore, each PAGC school developed their own community-driven initiative that addressed one or more of the five Strategic Priorities. Our office has noticed many positive results from the community driven and PAGC Ed-ucation initiatives.

PAGC Education ran fifteen initiatives that helped each PAGC school / community address issues in their own community. PAGC New Paths for Education Initiatives:

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■ Administrators Professional Development ■ Better Beginnings: Early Learning Initiative ■ Career& Guidance Counselor Capacity Building ■ Classroom Learning Consultants ■ Effective Learning Environments ■ Language and Cultural Teachers Professional Devel-

opment ■ New Paths Administration ■ New Paths Consultant ■ Physical Activity for Life ■ PAGC Indicators ■ Library Services Consultant ■ Special Education Development ■ Supporting Effective Early Years Programming ■ Teacher Associate Training ■ Technology & Education

There were 24 Community Driven projects dealing around these topics:

■ Cultural Camps ■ Sports Programs ■ Community Literacy projects ■ Language programs ■ Math Initiatives ■ Elder in Residence programs ■ Transition to Work programs ■ Full time Kindergarten program ■ Community Engagement projects ■ Policy Reviews & Development ■ School / Parent Liaison workers

We are hopeful that the AANAC – Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada, will continue with this valuable program providing services & funding for our communities.

DENESULINE LANgUAgE/CULTURE CONSULTANTAnne Toutsaint-Gordon

Edlanet’e! As the Prince Albert Grand Council Education Denesuline Language Consultant I work closely with the northern Athabasca Denesuline First Nations schools. The teachers are updated on the up-coming language and cul-ture activities and events at the annual PAGC First Nations language conferences. The topics generally discussed at conferences are the First Nations language projects, re-sources, workshops, cultural activities, cultural teachings, cultural camps, etc.

The Treaty Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Denesuline Dictionary major project was approved last year in March 2012 and it is in the process of development for printing and publication. I oversee the Denesuline dictionary proj-ect and ensure accurate documentation of words is en-tered in the dictionary. The language teachers and Elders from each northern Athabasca Denesuline communities are assisting with word collection in the Denesuline dic-tionary. The goal is to preserve and retain the importance of the Denesuline language for future generations. This last year has been focused on word collection, sorting and entering the words into the dictionary. To ensure accura-cy and consistency, it has taken many hours per page to change fonts back and forth between languages, ensuring consistency in grammar, word segmentation, pronuncia-tion and clarity of meanings.

In addition, I attended cultural camps to participate and re-cord cultural teachings. The recorded cultural documents are later used as a curriculum based cultural resource for teachers. I made three visits to each of the northern Atha-basca schools to assist language teachers with year plans, unit plans, culture teaching programs, student evaluation plans, etc. As well, I provided translation service for Elders at meetings, conferences and other special Denesuline gatherings within the Prince Albert Grand Council.

I produced, coordinated and edited the video on Denesu-line Drum Making in 2012 and the next project will be on snowshoe making. These video documentations are valu-able teaching tools for teaching, learning and preserving the traditional and intricate Denesuline skills. Marsi Chogh!

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22ND ANNUAL FINE ARTS FESTIvALShona Stapleton

The Festival was held on April 22nd to 26th, 2013 at the Senator Allan Bird Memorial Centre Gymnasium. This year we had record registration numbers of well over 1600 students and chaperones for the week. During the plan-ning of the festival the committee decided that we would use themes especially in the group creative dance catego-ry. This would bring the groups together and they would have to work together. We decided that we would use the 1960’s as a theme. The idea was that the groups would choose a song from the 1960’s; they would then have to research the style of clothes, hair styles, makeup and dances that they would have used in those days.

Overall it turned out very well; next year we will incorpo-rate the theme into the entire festival so that everything is based on a decade.

It was another successful year – the students all had a wonderful time and their creativity shone through. What talent we have in our schools – we are so lucky. We also had visits from some special guests. Violet and Joseph Naytowhow were there to see our younger students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 with some traditional storytell-ing. We also had a special guest for the Grades 7 to 12 students. We had a visit from Justin Rain (Twilight). He spoke with the students about dreaming and how hard it can be to make your dream a reality but to keep on trying, and that failing is a part of succeeding. The students really loved his presentation and kept him busy for at least 3 or 4 hours signing autographs.

The week ended with our teen dance to let the students wind down after a long week of competition. It was a good week. The committee that was in attendance throughout the week was wonderful. Thank you to all the commit-tee members who put in all those extra hours. Without you this event would not be possible; and of course to the students, thank you for all your preparation and your hard work throughout the year, and of course the chaperones and the behind the scenes volunteers who very rarely get recognized – you are appreciated.

LITERACY CONSULTANT: FNSSPSuzie Carriere

Under the direction of the FNSSP Program Manager, Di-rector of Education and the PAGC Education Board of Di-rectors, the Literacy Consultant, made community visits at the request of the Director or principal to attend to various literacy activities including the CTBS (Canadian Test of Basic Skills) administration procedure, PAGC Aggregate CTBS results for Grade 3, 6, and 9 in PAGCS schools, Lit-eracy strategies and coaching, professional development such as curriculum and literacy goals planning. A general call for Literacy Consultant services and community visits is given to the schools in August - September and January of each school year.

This year there were many developments within the Liter-acy/Language Arts areas. School staffs are more involved with the literacy goals, teaching strategies and assess-ment practices for the gaining of strength with literacy de-velopment. Currently the resources that are available for schools and staff are increasing and along with the Librari-an Consultant, the Literacy Consultant has been collecting a wide variety of curriculum resources, unit plans, theme kits and literature and improving technological literacy and resources for classroom instruction and Smart board/I pad integration in the classroom.

CTBS – Canadian Test of Basic Skills for grades 3, 6, and 9

The primary purpose of assessment is to improve stu-dent learning. To support success for all Students, effec-tive teachers monitor student literacy progress and use this assessment information to make ongoing decisions regarding the success of their instructional methods and resources. Based on this ongoing assessment information teachers make informed decisions about future Instruction that will promote increased student literacy achievement.

Ongoing classroom assessment is an integral part of day-to-day instruction and provides evidence of achievement

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SPORT, CULTURE & RECREATIONKorey Diehl, Fenton Favel, Chelsea Naytowhow

NATIONAL ABORIgINAL HOCkEY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships was host-ed in Montreal, Quebec from April 22-27, 2013. The NAHC provides a National forum for elite Bantam/Midget age Ab-original hockey players, which attracts participation from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis within each of the thirteen Provinces and Territories of Canada.

Current updates include:

The Boys this time around did not have the showcasing they hoped for. With finishing 5th and being hit with injuries and losing their number one goalie the boys were unable to compete with the other teams. The Girls team however did really well just coming up short in the final to lose by only one goal. As one of the PAGC coordinators I would like to Thank, all the volunteers and Chaperons that took these young Athletes to Montreal and for allowing our Ath-letes to develop in the game they love. I look forward to more NAHC championships and to see our young Athletes make strides at becoming the best they possibly can be.

SUMMER gAMES

2013 Summer Games will be hosted in Muskoday First Nations. The event will be held over the course of July 15th to July 19th/ 2013, A lot of the venue will also take place in Prince Albert. PAGC final Rosters have been selected and submitted on June 14th/2013 to FSIN and have been finalized. Chelsea and I will be going into the communities to congratulate our Athletes on being selected and also to go over any questions or concerns theses young ath-letes may have. We also will be taking pictures of these Athletes so this is complete prior to the games. Coaches and Mission staff have yet not been completed but hope to have this done within this week. After that it will be up to the coaches to make sure our Athletes are ready for the upcoming summer games.

2011 Saskatchewan First Nations Summer Games Overall Standings Unofficial Results

TEAM TOTAL POINTS

Meadow Lake Tribal Council 929.75Agency Chiefs Tribal Council 927.50Saskatoon Tribal Council 749.75Touchwood Agency Tribal Council 711.50Team Woodland 676.25Onion Lake Cree Nation 408.00Prince Albert Grand Council 396.50File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council 360.25Battleford Agency Tribal Council 283.25South East Treaty 4 Tribal Council 267.75Team Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation 251.00Yorkton Tribal Council 192.75Battlefords Tribal Council 191.75

ATHABASCA SECTOR

Committee Members:

Fond Du Lac: Georgie Mcdonald Black Lake: John Tout-saint Hatchet Lake: Madeline Denechezhe Community In-put Meetings and Consultation: I have been up in the communities lots meeting with students and Board Mem-bers to listen to any ideas or plans with SCR that can be implemented in the community. We have also discussed best ways of practice for communication and getting infor-mation across that is important. Fond Du lac has opened up a new arena in which I MC the opening ceremonies and participated in the Carnival for the entire week. I will be going up to the communities to give thanks to all the Ath-letes who made it and for coming out to participate in the try-outs. Also will be going over any questions the Athletes May have in regards to the try-outs.

relative to the expectations outlined in the Saskatchewan Curriculum or to the student’s Individual Education Plan.

Timeline for the Annual Assessment:

March:Ordering/Distribution of CTBS Assessment Materials

April-Early June:Administration of Grades 3, 6, and 9 in all schools.

Mid-June:Scoring of the PAGC AFL’s in Prince Albert – PAGC Edu-cation

End of June:School Data compilation and PAGC CTBS Aggregate data compilation for both Math and Language Arts.

NUMERACY CONSULTANT: FNSSPJoseph Belhumuer

The Numeracy Consultant began the year by reviewing the AFL results from the previous year. Based upon the AFL results the Numeracy Consultant established several math goals to assist PAGC schools with for the 2012-13 school years. The Numeracy Consultant also provided support to each individual school based on their individual goals and programs. The Numeracy Consultant hosted a Numeracy Focus Group where two presenters shared skills and strategies with participants on how to improve teaching and learning mathematics.

The Numeracy Consultant met with almost every teacher within the PAGC to offer support on math related topics with most being in the area of assessment and use of technology in the classroom such as smart boards. The Numeracy Consultant arranged and provided professional development to schools as per request.

Beginning in March through to May the Numeracy Con-sultant administered the math CTBS tests at the PAGC school s. In June the Numeracy Consultant collated the data from the CTBS test to provide individual school re-sults as well as a PAGC aggregated result.

The Numeracy Consultant has resigned from his position to take on new challenges in Alberta and as a result wish-es the PAGC and the Schools with the PAGC a productive and successful future.

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: FNSSPS. Longjohn

Over the duration of the 2012-2013 school years, Perfor-mance measurement has added a lot of new upgrades to the DADAVAN Outcomes system. These upgrades were added to the system to better serve our clients, PAGC Schools.

The new features that were added were as follows:

■ Upgrades to report cards ■ Upgrades to the registration sheet ■ Upgrades to the transfer button ■ Upgrades to the PAGC logo ■ Upgrades to the Highschool courses ■ Upgrades to the early warning tracking system. ■ Sask Learning outcomes and indicators will be added

this fall

Upgrades added by DADAVAN for the 2013-2014 school years are as follows:

■ PM Benchmark Input form ■ Input forms and reporting ■ Honor Roll report ■ Mark book upgrade ■ File Manager ■ Non Band Site-data Input ■ Report wizard upgrade

A full training session was held this year with another ses-sion set for September 25th, 26th and 27th, 2013. This ses-sion will cover all the aspects of setting up the school year along with the new features on the system. The Dadavan Outcomes training will take place at the PAGC boardroom. All DATA collected on the DADAVAN is system is shared with individual First Nation communities and then is ag-gregated in an annual report to the PAGC schools. This re-port covers: Monthly attendance rates, number of teaching days, graduation rates, retention rates and dropout rates.

I have also taken on the Newsletter “The Raven”. This edu-cation Newsletter goes out every quarter or 3 times a year. The newsletter covers education news along with commu-nity events and stories related to First Nations people. The newsletter “The Raven” goes out to all our schools within the PAGC system.

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In Jan 2013 PAGC Sports hosted the 3rd annual senior men and women volleyball tournament.

The tournament was hosted at the Alfred Jenkins Field House due to the heat not working at the Senator Allen Bird Memorial Gym.

Jan 2013 PAGC hosted the 1st annual” All Reserve “full contact hockey tournament at Dave Stuart, Kinsmen and Art Hauser Arenas.

An open female division was also included and a total of 8 teams entered. All finals were at The Art Hauser Arena.

Coaching Clinics, April 19-20, 2013

Soccer Coaching Clinic, Alfred Jenkins Field House

1. Fundamentals2. Making Ethical Decisions

The soccer coaching clinic will be with PAYSA. Bring ap-propriate wear and shoes.

Judy Eninew (Deschambault Lake), May 4-5, 2013

■ Softball Coaching Clinic, JRMCC Softball Diamonds ■ Softball Update ■ Team Woodland recently had a softball coaching clinic

May 4-5 in Laronge. ■ 4 coaches completed the course ■ Naomi Roberts ■ Genine Ratt ■ May Roberts ■ David Corrigal ■ Congratulations to the 4 Coaches

Athletic Technical Clinic. Harry Jerome Track (Carlton High School)) May 4th Only

Ming Pu Wu and Katelyn Lehnner were assisting with Team Woodland at the Athletic Tryouts.

FSIN Championships

PAGC Sports, Culture& Recreation submitted 2 bids for FSIN Youth Volleyball and Senior Golf Championships. Unfortunately PAGC were not awarded FSIN Youth Vol-leyball PAGC.

But were successful in hosting the FSIN Senior Men & La-dies Golf Championships June 21-23 at the Candle Lake Golf & Country Club.

Montreal Lake was awarded the FSIN Youth Soccer Championships Aug 23-24 in the city of Prince Albert

ACTIvE MEASURESTracy Meyers

This was a very busy year as a result of receiving the Ac-tive Measures Funding. In February two new AM Consul-tants were hired and a third was hired in May. We signed a Statement of Understanding with Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Lac La Ronge Indian Band. What this means is they submit receipts for reimbursement of expenses as they relate to Active Measures. So far in the Eastern Sec-tor 228 assessments have been completed. In the South-ern Sector 219 have been completed and in the Athabasca Sector 203 have been completed.

Our goal is to have all assessments completed by the end of June or the early part of July. We will then be focused on assisting La Ronge and Peter Ballantyne with their as-sessments. There has been a lot of challenges in complet-ing the assessments. First, cooperation at the local level has sometimes not been the best. The road conditions are a real problem to get into some communities, Also the lack of identification such as treaty cards, social insurance numbers, etc.

In order to input the assessments into the Training Admin-istration System (TAS) we require this information. The good news about inputting this information into TAS is that there is not a duplication of information in the future. Once clients are referred to training programs the Labour Force Development Coordinators take over with their file using the same system.

2013 Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games (Athabasca)

Tryouts Attended:

Athletics: Hatchet Lake, Fond Du Lac, Black LakeSoccer: Hatchet Lake, Black Lake, Fond Du LacArchery: Hatchet Lake, Black LakeCanoeing: Hatchet LakeSoftball: Fond Du Lac, Black Lake, Hatchet Lake

PAgC SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPSBob Magee

This year we organized 25 PAGC School Championships in 11 sports. This is to give our youth more opportunities to participate within the PAGC region. This valuable ex-perience we hope will lead to athletic development in our youth allowing them to further their skill development to the next level.

Here are the events along with the winning team:

Event (Champion)

Cross Country Running(Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Golf(Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Midget Girls Volleyball(Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Midget Boys Volleyball (Nihithow Awasis School – Grand Mothers Bay)

Junior Girls Volleyball(Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Junior Boys Volleyball (Senator Myles Venne School – Air Ronge)

Senior Girls Volleyball (Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Senior Boys Volleyball(Senator Myles Venne School – Air Ronge)

Overage Girls Volleyball (Sturgeon Lake Central School Sturgeon Lake)

Overage Boys Volleyball (Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Midget Girls Broomball(Senator Allen Bird Memorial School – Montreal Lake)

Junior Girls Broomball(Senator Allen Bird Memorial School – Montreal Lake)

Senior Girls Broomball (Senator Myles Venne School - Air Ronge)

Midget Badminton (Sally Ross School – Hall Lake)

Junior Badminton (Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

Senior Badminton (Sally Ross School – Hall Lake)

Archery (Rhoda Hardlotte Memorial High School - Stanley Mission)

Elementary Boys Wrestling (Little Red River School)

Elementary Girls Wrestling (Little Red River School)

Indoor Soccer (under 14) Girls (Senator Allen Bird Memorial School – Montreal Lake)

Indoor Soccer (under 14) Boys (Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

High School Hockey (Rhoda Hardlotte Memorial High School - Stanley Mission)

Elementary Track & Field (Sturgeon Lake Central School – Sturgeon Lake)

High School Track & Field (Senator Myles Venne School - Air Ronge)

A big Congratulation to all the schools that participated!

A SUPER HUGE THANK YOU to the coaches who have a passion for sports & their students.

TEAM wOODLAND SPORT, CULTURE & RECREATIONFenton Favel

Over the last year the Woodland Sector has preparing for the 2013 Summer Games. Identification camps in different communities.

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