Graphic Arts 10-12 took the opportunity to look at the current gallery exhibition at The Reach. They played with the interactive pieces and learned about sports culture and identity intertwined with contemporary art and design.
W. J. Mouat Secondary in Abbotsford has won a national competition in career exploration.
The Let’s Talk Careers event was held by Skills Canada, Let’s Talk Science and ChatterHigh to engage students in career discovery and exploration.
The event ran from April 11 to May 20 on the ChatterHigh platform and gave students the opportunity to learn about careers in the skilled trades, technologies and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Three Grade 12 Abbotsford students have been named recipients of the Beedie Luminaries scholarship of up to $40,000.
Eun Sim and Navjot Garcha of W. J. Mouat Secondary and Nicole Rempel of Yale Secondary are among 157 recipients from 81 high schools in 30 communities across the province.
In 2018, Robert Bateman Secondary offered a unique Art Activism class, which empowered students to become leaders in their community through art. Every year students take on a different social issue and seek to make a difference and promote awareness through community art fundraising events.
As the 2021-22 school year comes to a close, we are congratulating our retirees from the Abbotsford School District. This year, we will see 55 employees retire from our schools and district sites. They have served as teachers, maintenance staff, custodians, clerical, youth workers and principals. And each and every day, they have made a difference in the lives of our students.
The Culinary Arts 11 program, and interested students from Foods 9, had Ullie Krack from Sumas Meats come in and demonstrate how to prepare a small pig into its primary cuts. Meat cutting is a component of the ITA (Youth Explore Trade Skills) program and having a professional butcher come in to demonstrate his trade enhanced the curriculum. Over the next few days, the Culinary Arts 11 students will break down the primary cuts into workable portions for specific, student researched recipes.
As part of Mr. Porth’s Socials 9 class’s unit on mapping and geography, we began our mini-inquiry unit by asking, what good is a map?
As we explored the importance and benefits of maps in general, we also asked some related questions about what kinds of maps there are, and discussed some related skills associated with mapping such as understanding how latitude and longitude work and how we can take the kinds of measurements that could be used to create a topographic map.
Over the last couple of weeks, the junior and senior jazz bands have had the opportunity to work with and learn from Juno nominated and award-winning musicians Jodi Proznick and Shirantha Beddage. They were both fantastic clinicians that taught our students how to improve on what they’re already doing so well.
This week marks the first anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of over 215 children’s remains at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, where the former Kamloops Residential School was located. Since then, Indigenous investigations across the country have found evidence of more than 1,800 confirmed unmarked graves at former residential school sites, with thousands more anticipated to be discovered in the months and years ahead.
