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May 9
CTV visited St. Clement Elementary/Junior High this afternoon to take footage of this year's Excellence in Teaching Award finalist Jeff Boddez as he taught Language Arts to his Grade 9 students. The story will be on tonight's 6 p.m. CTV news. Jeff will receive his Excellence in Teaching Award tomorrow night in Calgary at a special ceremony.
Today's Edmonton Journal has a photo of the District's fourth annual Junior High Iron Chef Competition which was held at Louis St. Laurent Junior/Senior High School yesterday. The picture is on the front of today's City Section. Congratulations to the winning team from Sir John Thompson Junior High!
On page B3 of today's Edmonton Journal there is a story on the new Italian pre-school pilot program at St. Matthew Elementary School! Interviews include Manuela Ninassi, our District's International Languages Consultant.
May 6
Today, Louis St. Laurent Junior/Senior High School was the site for a provincial government announcement. Doug Horner, Minister of Advanced Education and Technology met media in the Senior High Art Studio to announce that the Rutherford Scholarship will now enable students in Grades 10 to 12 to earn up to $1,500 towards post-secondary studies with an average between 75 and 79.9 per cent. The current Alexander Rutherford Scholarship, which provides up to $2,500 over three years to students achieving 80 per cent, or better, remains unchanged. The deadline has been extended to June 1st this year. For the complete announcement, log on to the home page of the Alberta Government web site at: www.gov.ab.ca and click on 'News.'
Watch for the story on the 6 p.m. CTV, City TV and CBC TV newscasts tonight. The story will also be on CHED Radio throughout the day. Interviews include Louis St. Laurent Principal Kathie Tourangeau, Louis St. Laurent Art Teacher Janice Fehr, and several students.
May 2
Monday's City TV Breakfast Television with Bridget Ryan will feature students from St. Kevin Junior High. The students will be at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village working with artist Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn on a workshop about “how to illustrate a folk story” which is part of the Ukrainian Bilingual Program of Studies.
The Grade 5 class from St. Jerome is featured in a new 60 second commercial on Global TV (that will be shown throughout Alberta as well as B.C. and Ontario). The commercial is part of a series for the A+ for Energy Education Program. The students of the St. Jerome Science Academy as well as Assistant Principal Walter Kowalchyk have been working on a project that allows their Microwave to run on wind power that they generate at the school!
Two of three students that won a Canada Day Poster Competition are from Edmonton Catholic Schools! The Canada Day Committee of the Mill Woods Presidents’ Council approached schools asking for entries. The theme was 'Celebrate Canada Day in Mill Woods' and was open to any school located in Mill Woods or The Meadows. The two students who won from our District are: Alicia C, a Grade 5 student from St. Richard Elementary, and Joslyn V, a Grade 6 student from John Paul 1 Elementary. The posters should start appearing around Mill Woods and The Meadows in late May.
April 29
St. Joseph High School was the site of a provincial government announcement this morning. Premier Ed Stelmach and Education Minister Dave Hancock announced $79 million in funding support for Career and Technology Studies programming in Alberta. They made the announcement in the St. Joseph Communication Technology Lab. Following the announcement, the media also interviewed students who were working in the lab as well as St. Joseph High School Principal Leo Turcotte, CTS Department Head Lyle Cruise and Board Chairperson Cindy Olsen.
Watch for the story on tonight's 6 p.m. newscast on CTV, Global TV, City TV and CBC TV. In addition, the story will be on CHED Radio throughout the day as well as CBC Radio - French and English.
The complete announcement is available here: http://education.alberta.ca/department/news/2008/april/20080429.aspx
April 28
This morning, the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta launched the APPLE (Alberta Project Promoting active Living and healthy Eating) at Holy Cross Elementary! The APPLE project places health facilitators in a number of schools and helps children make healthy food choices. A number of school Districts in the Edmonton area were also involved and students provided some great footage for media as they created healthy snacks. The story will be onthe 6 p.m. news tonight on CBC TV, Global TV, and CTV. Interviews include Holy Cross Principal Dan Haley and Blessed Kateri Principal Palma Covelli. City TV also visited Blessed Kateri Elementary this afternoon to get some footage of students doing 'Chair Aerobics.' That story will also be on tonight during the City TV 6 p.m. news.
April 25
This morning Archbishop Joseph MacNeil Elementary/Junior High School conducted an experiment regarding the viable use of the Nintendo Wii and other physically active video games as a way to motivate Jr. High students to lead a more active lifestyle. The students used heart rate monitors during a regular Phys. Ed. Fitness class and compared those numbers to ones that they took during the "Wii fitness" classes! Watch for the story on the 6 p.m. news tonight on Global TV, CTV and City TV.
On Wednesday, about 60 International Baccalaureate students from Holy Trinity High School and students participated in the World’s Largest Lesson along with teachers and students from all over the world as they attempted to break the record for the largest simultaneous lesson. The 30-minute lesson on the importance of quality education for all took place in over 100 countries as part of a campaign aimed at providing every child in the world with the opportunity to receive a quality education by 2015. The event , recorded in Guiness World Records, is intended to draw attention to Global Action Week, April 21-27. The story was in Thursday's Metro newspaper and a story is scheduled for the next ATA News.
April 23
This morning, St. Francis Xavier High School began its 3rd annual 60 hour Canadian Cancer Society Stationary Bike-a-thon. There are 53 teams of 8-10 riders (close to half of the school's population) and they hope to meet or exceed last year's total raised of $43,000! Global TV, CTV and City TV were also there and the story will be on tonight's 6 p.m. newscast for all three stations. Interviews include Duncan Buchanan, the Student Council Advisor for St. Francis Xavier.
April 18
St. Matthew Elementary held an event this afternoon in support of Crohns Disease. Spencer Nesselbeck, a student at the school, has Crohns Disease and this year has been chosen to be the poster child for the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of Alberta. St Matthew School embarked on a school wide fundraising activity to support Spencer and held a Learn-a-thon and raised over $9,400 for the Crohns and Colitis Foundation. Today, Edmonton Oiler, Fernando Pisani, also diagnosed with Crohns, came to St. Matthew to support Spencer and the school's efforts. The story will be on the 6 p.m. Global TV news tonight, and is scheduled to run at approximately 6:25 p.m. It will run again in the late Global news at 11 p.m.
A total of 37 students from the St. Mark Junior High Leadership group, held a read-in morning at Our Lady of Peace Elementary today. The Junior High students read to children in Kindergarten to Grade 2. This project was chosen as the St. Mark Social Justice Project for April; to promote literacy to younger children and have teenagers be the ones who read to them. The story will be on the CBC TV news tonight at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. because of the hockey playoffs!
April 17
Starting at 4 p.m. this afternoon, Shaw TV will be airing a story on the 2008 Provincial Excellence in Teaching Award candidates in Edmonton! As part of their story they interviewed Excellence in Teaching Semi-Finalist Brad Ostopowich, a teacher at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary/Junior High School! The recipients will be announced in May. The story will run on Shaw TV every half-hour from 4 p.m. today until 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon!
April 16
Annunciation Elementary held a special event this morning! Students have spent the past few weeks trying to raise money to buy a rickshaw for a destitute family in India. And, today, a Rickshaw Race was held at the school in order to raise funds for the rickshaw. Principal Troy Davies and four student teachers took turns racing around the perimeter of the gym on a makeshift rickshaw (a tiny toddler’s tricycle with a hitched carriage)! The story will be on Global TV on both their 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts tonight!
St. Joseph High School is the first high school in Alberta (with regular programming) to offer students hands-on technical training in both Carpentry and Automotives. The program started at St. Joseph this February and there are 22 students in the program - 12 in Carpentry (including two females) and 10 in Automotives. Once these students have successfully completed the program, they will write the first year Alberta Apprenticeship exam and graduate from Grade 12 with a post secondary level certificate. The media and parents were invited today and the story will be on Global TV on their 5 p.m. news and also on CTV during their 6 p.m. newscast tonight!
This morning the 'Invention Convention' was held at City Hall. Schools from throughout Edmonton demonstrated their prototypes for inventions! In our District, we had four schools involved! Students from St. Clement Elementary/Junior High, St. Nicholas Junior High, St. Mark Junior High and St. Basil Elementary. Watch for the story on tonight's 6 p.m. Global TV, CTV, CBC TV and City TV newscasts!
April 15
A St. Francis Xavier High School Hockey Academy student- Kathryn Stack - has been named the Global TV "Athlete of the Week." The interview will be shown tonight on the sports segment of the 6 p.m. Global TV news!
April 14
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, between 7:45 and 9 a.m., Breakfast Television on City TV will interview a St. Clement Elementary/ Junior High teacher about the 'Invention Convention.' Teacher Matt Gunderson will be interviewed about the 'I-cubed Science Project' that the school has been involved in with The Learning Partnership. The other schools who have been taking part in this project are St. Nicholas, St. Mark and St. Basil. All four schools will be taking part in the 'Invention Convention' at City Hall this Wednesday.
Congratulations to Improv Coach and J.H. Picard teacher Jonathan Shields as well as the J.H. Picard students on the Improv team - Les Flaming Escargots, as they placed fourth this weekend out of 20 finalists in the Canadian Improv Games in Ottawa! To watch the competition, go to improv.ca/webcast.html
April 10
The Austin O'Brien High School Crusader Cheer Team placed third at the U.S. Spirit Nationals! They competed against 117 high school teams and returned earlier this week!
The event took place at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida April 5th and 6th. Global TV interviewed Austin O'Brien Assistant Principal Brad Koshka today as well as a member of the Cheer team. The story will be at the end of tonight's 5 p.m. Global news!
April 8
This afternoon our Superintendent, Joan Carr, and over 100 Principals, Directors and Administrators volunteered at various Catholic Social Services agencies in the city, as a way to give back to the community. They also learned about the scope of the various programs at Catholic Social Services. All of our schools also participate in Social Justice activities throughout the school year. Watch for the story on tonight's 6 p.m. CTV news.
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