life@NFSBMAY 2018

New Frontiers School Board

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New Frontiers School Board | Success for all students

The Community Learning Centre (CLC) approach is the creation and promotion of partnerships which provide a range of services and activities, during and after the school day, to help meet the needs of our learners, their families and the wider

community. The aim is to support the holistic development of our students, families and communities.

Interesting activity or event to add to next month’s report? CONTACT YOUR SCHOOL’S CLC REPRESENTATIVE!

CPS, Harmony, MGS, St. Willibrord, HSB, Nova - Anthony SpadaccinoGault Institute - Brooke Wilson

CVR, CVCEC - Kim WilsonHeritage, HAECC - Heidi Niven

Franklin, Hemmingford, Howick, OES - Lianne Finnie

On the cover

NFSB Director General Rob Buttars was happy to be one of Franklin Elementary’s Mystery Readers!

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As part of HAECC’s Options class, students must participate in a “work stage” to com-plete their program. Thanks to the support of our technician Ms. McKenzie, our stu-dents were able to visit and explore two local businesses. Two of our students, Sha-nia and Marcil spent a day with La Fabrique Jositos in St-Louis de Gonzague, this small family business, operating since 2017 spe-cializes in making all natural fruit based popsicles and other sweet treats! https://www.facebook.com/lafabriquejosito/The options class also had the opportunity to visit, EBSU a local cabinet making busi-ness in St-Louis, from the visit, one of our students will complete their stage with EBSU. A huge thank you to Ms. McKenzie for setting up these fun work experiences. http://www.ebsu.ca/en

Laurie’s SIS class and partner Melissa’s Sunshine Camp had a fun day making bath bombs for Mother’s day, with local artisan and shop owner Mary Sullivan. Students were able to pick their own scents and create bath bombs for their moms! All the products are ethically sourced, and are made without harmful chemicals. For more information about Mary’s shop and her products, visit her website or swig by Serenplic-ity in Ormstown. https://www.facebook.com/mysoap-shoppe/?ref=br_rs

HAECC held their semi annual Plant Sale on May 18 & 19. The sale has grown significantly over the years and it was no surprise to see people lined up into the parking lot waiting for the doors to open Friday morn-ing. The Horticulture students were hard at work helping and advising community members on the best plants and flowers for their gardens. A big thank you to the Horticulture team for making this event such a success!

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HAECC Graduation We held our Ceremony of Success on May 31st. Sixteen of our adult education students graduated with a DES for completing their secondary studies. We also had several students who obtained the qualifications to move on to vocational training programs. Several other students will be returning next fall to continue their studies after a very successful school year.We also celebrated the achievements of our SFIS/Options students and those attending Melissa’s Sunshine Camp. These students have been working hard on developing their autonomy, preparing for volunteering or entering the workforce but most importantly, they have been developing their skills to become great citizens. Our guest speaker was a former HAECC student and Nova graduate in Welding. Mitchell Thurston stole the show with the story of his struggles with academics, anxiety and getting through school. He credited his amazing educators at HAECC and Nova for his success today since he has a lovely family and a career that he enjoys and can be proud of.Our valedictorian was Jessica Deslauriers who told her story of perseverance since she attended school in French all her life – including adult education. Since she was having very limited success in school, a friend told her to try HAECC in English even though she had very limited English skills. She obtained her qualifications at HAECC to be able to enter the nursing LPN program at CVCEC. Jessica just completed her stage at HAECC with our Sunshine Class and will soon graduate from the LPN program and thus will have obtained two diplomas from our centres.

Our Horticulture students just returned from their two-week stage placement.

Our students loved the places where they worked and are highly motivated to get into the workforce or start their own business.

The Huntingdon students will be completing their program at the end of June and

our horticulture students in Listuguj will complete their program at the end of July.

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HeritageMadame Julie, Ms. Erskine and Ms. Jennifer’s classes attended the Droulers/Tsiionhiakwatha Archeological site on a class trip. Students learned about native living conditions in the 15th century. Around the year of 1450, 400 indigenous people established a village along the La Guerre River (now the municipality of Saint-Anicet) and 500 years later, archaeological excavations have unearthed 15,000 artifacts. The site includes an interpretation centre with permanent exhibits, as well as a life-size reconstruction of part of the Iroquoian village.

Ms. Jennifer’s Grade 3 and 4 classes were busy at work making healthy brownies for Mother’s Day. Thanks to the Green Apple Grant, students had the opportunity to get their hands dirty in the kitchen. The class selected a brownie recipe with a secret healthy ingredient of zucchini. This project not only was a chance to learn outside of the class, it also allowed students to apply their math fraction skills. Each student took a brownie home for his or her mom!

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Heritage continues to work on their Character Pillars, this month highlighting Responsibility! This pillar is represented by the colour green and pertains to

the following traits: Do what you are supposed to do • Plan ahead • Be diligent • Persevere • Do your best • Use self-control • Be self-disciplined • Think before you act • Be accountable for your words, actions and attitudes • Set a good example

for others. Selected students from each grade were presented with responsibility certificates for their hard work and excellence in responsibility.

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Community Wednesday… The Heart of the CommunityÉcole Saint Jean-Baptiste held the final Community Wednesday event of 2017-2018. The school opened their doors to several community members, families and organizations on May 2. Community organizations presented their services, student karate demonstrations, face painting, parent child-cooking classes, a mini petting zoo and a $2 spaghetti dinner.

Buddy’s Ice Cream store challenge For the past few years, Buddy’s Ice Cream in Chateauguay has hosted school challenge nights throughout the month of May. The goal is for

each school to sell as many items as possible; the school that serves the most participants (percentage per enrollment) receives an ice cream

party for the whole school. Good luck everyone!

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Howard S. Billings turns 50! Thank you to all the alumni who came to celebrate HSB’s 50 years of existence! The weekend kicked off on Friday with entertainment from alumni bands “The Cranes” & “The Duomatics”. On Saturday, there was flashback tours of HSB & Nova including a family BBQ with fun and games during the day and in the evening HSB hosted an adult dance party. To wrap everything up on Sunday, the Alumni foundation put on a $10 breakfast with 100% of the proceeds going to supporting students activities. Congratulations to the organising committee for putting on a fantastic event! Thank you to BLVD Bar and Grill & Ye Olde Orchard Pub in Chateauguay for supporting our event and being part of HSB’s 50th!

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HSB Hatch Day Grade 6 students were invited to HSB to par-ticipate in hatch day. This day allowed stu-dents to visit the school and learn about what to expect when they start high school next year. A big thank you to Vice Principal David Reddick and the staff and students for hosting this incredible day.

Harmony Centre de Formation en Entreprise et Récupération Harmony’s Grade 2 class had a special visit from the Centre de Formation en En-treprise et Récupération (CFER) program from Heritage High School. Their program believes in helping young men and women to be productive autonomous members of society, who are conscious of increas-ing sustainable development awareness and training them to enter the work force through recycling enterprises. They teach young adults that they have the power to make a change to encourage sustainable development and promote recycling, ener-gy efficiency, and water conservation.

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Congratulations to the Grade 6 students who represented MGS in Quebec City for Parlement Écoliers.

Thank you to Mme. Caouette and Ms. Williams for accompanying them.

MGS

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On May 9, St. Will’s PPO held a craft fair fundraiser.

CPS

St.Willibrord

Kindergarten Open House 2018-2019 kindergarten students were welcomed into the school on May 10. These future students had the opportunity to meet the staff, participate in activities, go on a bus ride and enjoy a healthy snack.

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Parent engagement Mr. Dave’s Grade 5 class had a special parent visitor this month! M. Adams came in and educated the children about prosthetics and orthopedics. Bringing parents into the classroom opens up a wide range of alternative learning experiences for the students!

Community Learning- Field Trips! Grades 3, 4, and 5 visited the Beauharnois Generating Station to support their classroom learning on electricity. Students learned about the history of Hydro-Québec, the different energy sources and hydropower generation. In addition, both grades visited Nos Amis les Oiseux in Ile St. Bernard. The classes had a full day of hands-on, interactive activities, and outside learning!

Gault

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La Grande Fête de l’Entraide A yearlong community project came to end on May 25. Cycle 3 students participated in le Projet Les Entraidants, learning all about respect, empathy and helping others. All the students who collected a “Geste d’entraide” throughout the year got an invitation to a La Grande Fete de l’Entraide. The special event was filled with games and fun including, bubble soccer, bouncy rides, a magician and many more activities!

Snack ArtApril showers, brings May flowers! Thanks to Jardins Nitro, students built healthy, eatable flowers this month. They used green grapes for the flower’s stem, cucumbers for the leaves, and watermelon & blueberries for the flower’s head.

The Gift of Reading Thanks to the Literacy Foundation, student’s in Cycle 2 & 3 each received a brand new book to bring home and kick off spring reading!

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Howick students are thrilled with their playground’s new

structure!

Howick Elementary

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Howick Elementary School’s building will be in an episode of CBC’s The Detectives. The episode will also feature other local buildings such as the curling club, the old CIBC building, and more! Filming occurred on

May 18; stay tuned for the airing date!

Students from the 1/2 class at Howick Elementary School completed the “Ice Cream Challenge” by reading all their Power Words!

We truly have the greatest community members; we would like to thank Donnie & Veronique Chisholm, Nancy Rennie, her kids, Ashley Stacey, Ella, and Marjorie Reddick for the beautiful hosta plants and ferns in our front yard!

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Franklin Elementary is participating in the “Energy Cube” challenge as part of “Le Grand Defi Pierre Lavoie”. Over the past few years the school has enormously benefited directly from the “Le Grand Defi Pierre Lavoie” and received a significant amount of sports equipment thanks to funds raised by Janick Tétreault-Moïse and Équipe Vie en Forme / GDPL1000km. Let’s continue the momentum and earn lots of cubes for the Franklin community in 2018!

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On Thursday, May 17, the students and staff of Franklin Elementary School joined millions of others across the world to celebrate “Outdoor Classroom Day”. Everyone spent the day outside, participating in Amazing Race challenges of planting seeds in our garden boxes, designing a structure to protect an egg, creating a parachute for a marshmallow, a chal-lenge from la Caisse Desjardins, and so much more!

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Thank you to the parents, grandparents, school staff and DG Rob Buttars, who shared their love of reading with our Pre-K and Kindergarten students as “Mystery Readers.” Merci!

Mystery Readers

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Grade 6 students from Hemmingford Elementary School had fun taking graduation photos in the playground for this year’s yearbook.

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Kindergarten students from Hemmingford Elementary School received a visit from Grandma Hébert, who made fireflies with everyone. They learned all about the insects, constructed their own firefly and made them fly in the dark! Thanks grandma Hébert!

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Congratulations to Hemmingford’s stars this week! Good job everyone and keep shining!

Life@NFSB will be back in the Fall, sharing all the great stuff happening at New Frontiers!Have a great summer everyone

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Gala Jeunesse Rural Rural Youth Gala The 9th edition of the Rural Youth Gala took place on Wednesday, May 16, in Saint-Anicet. One hundred and four candidates between the ages of 6 and 24 years-old were nominated in the following categories: School/Social Perseverance, Cultural Action, Citizenship/Volunteering, Environment, and Healthy Lifestyle. We are especially proud of CVR’s Jamy Lee Poole, who won the Petit JR award and congratulations to Mr. David Brisebois, who was awarded Mentor of the Year.

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Improving the environment, one drying rack at a time! CVR Grade 8 science students are constructing clothes drying racks in partnership with CVCEC. It all started with a class discussion on how a drying rack can reduce their home energy consumption, which reduces their environmental footprint. CVCEC carpentry teacher, John Hodges is guiding the students throughout the process of building drying racks and at the same time informing them of all the possible future trade opportunities available to them upon their graduation.

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Where Preparation Sparks Opportunity Grade 11 Ignite Conference CVR Grade 11 students participated in a one-day conference with the goals of empowering them to feel ready and confident to handle their independence and freedom post-CVR. The keynote speaker, Dr. James Christie spoke about his journey from the Chateauguay Valley to the Global Village. Community members and alumni offered several workshops throughout the day on specific themes. For a more in-depth look at the day, check out www.cvrhighschool.com

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Silver Screen Cabaret Under the direction of music and dance teachers Lynn Harper and Joyce Rudisel, the evening of May 11 at CVR was filled with the celebration of music, dance and scenes of the Silver Screen. Students and staff put in many long hours of practice to make this evening a great success. Congratulations on the great performance!

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Ocoa 2018For eight years, we have given the staff and students of CVCEC the opportunity to broaden their horizons, to learn in a new unique environment by travelling to San Jose de Ocoa in the Dominican Republic for one of their place-ments. We partner with Georgian College in Ontario for this experience. This community in the mountains is our base as we travel to remote villages to offer health care clinics in the local

schools. These communities do not have any medical services and often have illnesses common to the region such as parasitic intestinal illnesses, fungal skin infections, hypertension, workplace injuries and inadequate diets.Our teaching team have common professional and personal values, as we encourage our stu-dents to embrace a new perspective on health. Many places in the world do not have the same standard of health as Canada. People struggle with illnesses that no longer exist in Canada be-cause we have clean water, access to health services and preventative health teaching. - It is a very humbling experience, it takes you out of your usual comfort zone and it does leave you in

awe. It’s a life-changing experience and you make lots of new friends and lasting memories.”-“A very good experience that everyone should have.”

- “(It’s) the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done, the most eye-opening experience I’ve ever had and it changed my way of thinking.”

Grow and HealThrough a grant from the (CHSSN) Community Health & Social Services Network, the Grow & Heal initiative came to life. Grow & Heal is an opportu-nity to improve mental health in individuals through working together in nurturing, planting and caring for plants while connecting the life of a plant to the student’s own lives. Students became more aware and understood the need to also nurture, give time

and care towards themselves in order to promote a healthy mind and body. “Participating in this project really gave me a new perspective on mental health and how to deal with it.”

CVCEC

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Graduation 2018The CVCEC grad-uation was held at CVR, and again was a great event, much attended by students, parents and friends.

Nova Career Centre partnership with HSBThe staff of Auto, Welding, Interior Decorating and SVIS of Nova collaborated with the HSB team in creating artwork for the Butterflyway Landing Zone Project. We will continue to contribute to this exceptional project funded by the David Suzuki Foundation as the year progresses. “A Butterflyway is a highway of habitat for butterflies, bees and beneficial bugs.”

Open House at the NOVA Career CentreOn Saturday, May 19, we held a Nova open house for the Alumni who were going to the HSB 50th anniversary weekend festivities. Not only were they blown away by the facilities at Nova – but the over 200 hundred people that went through were impressed by the pro-grams we offer, the amazing professionalism of our staff and the state of the art facilities. Three administrators and seven teachers escorted visitors on personal tours of our fabu-lous Centre. Many visitors reminisced of the old Adult Centre and marveled at how much it has changed over the years.

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