Electives in Grade 6
This term KCS launched of a pilot for grade 6 students to participate in an elective of their choosing. The electives focus on developing the students’ Habits of Mind, Body and Action and provide enriched learning in at least one of our Four Doors to Learning: academics, arts, athletics and citizenship. The students are pursuing one of the six following electives:
1. Where in the World Is It? (Geocaching)
2. Cooking for a Cause (Culinary Arts)
3. Enriched Drama
4. Renaissance Painting
5. Media Mash-Up
6. Modern Languages
Every Friday morning in the lobby five grade 7 girls give out hugs and high fives to anyone who wants them when they come to school. So, far they have given 347 hugs and 1,320 high fives!
On Tuesday, January 24th KCS presented "Encouraging Dialogue: Mental Health and Our Children". The house was packed! We listened to presentations by our panelists who are experts in this field and included:
Dr. David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor, Education and Public Affairs at CAMH; Taylor Armstrong, Staff Psychiatrist at the The George Hull Centre; Shannon Stach, student at the University of Guelph and a participant in "The New Mentality"; Sarah Cannon, Executive Director, Parents for Children’s Mental Health.
All attendees left the event feeling empowered and inspired to discuss and embrace this important topic.
Thank you to the KCS community for working on inspiring acts of service, which filled our wall of service for the first time this year! To celebrate, we have earned a dress down day.
There were many outstanding projects that students completed outside of school time. Some of them were:
• Cleaning up local parks
• Participating in charity walks & runs, such as climbing the CN Tower for the United Way
• Getting a hair cut and donating the hair to Locks of Love, a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer
• Planting trees
• Volunteering at gift basket wrapping for women’s shelters
We continue to be impressed and inspired by all of the wonderful things our students and teachers do to make a difference. What will you do?
Everyone at KCS agrees on one thing. Every year our grade 8 students conduct a moving, inspiring Remembrance Day assembly. This year was no different.
The students presented short iMovies, a dramatic presentation and poems related to World War I and II. They honoured the fallen from St. George’s on-the-Hill parish, presented highlights of the 95th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, presented the story of Juno Beach, gave a snapshot of their memories from their European Battlefied Trip and acted a scene from the play “War Horse”.
To complete the tone of the morning, the Chamber and Intermediate Choirs performed a moving rendition of “Un Canadien Errant” and the Grade 7 Band performed "Canon of Peace".
Father Myles concluded the Remembrance Day assembly by reminding all the students of KCS to not forget those who fought and died and to remember that, in war, no one wins.