Students Attend Romeo & Juliet

Eastdale's grade 9 English class had a lot of fun on their trip to see the play Romeo and Juliet on November 21 at the Elgin Winter Garden Theatre. Students were surprised by how much humour there is in the play.

Students had a great time afterward creating tableaux to mark important points in the story.  Thanks to Matt Drappel from the Classical Theatre Project for his energy and patience in working with everyone during the workshop.

Bullying Awareness & Student Recognition Assembly

On Tuesday, November 22nd, the school assembly highlighted the fact that it’s National Bullying Awareness and Prevention week. The theme this year is Stand Up!

As well, we recognized students for demonstrating character traits aligned with the 'Seven Grandfather Teachings' (Love, Respect, Humility, Honesty, Courage, Truth, Wisdom). The teachings are also qualities that help to interrupt bullying and link to the notion both of 'Standing Up', and helping to build each other up.

According to our student school renewal survey, students told us that 80% of students felt they belonged to Eastdale. Let’s keep helping build each other up!

The first part of the assembly started with L.O.V.E. or Leave Out Violence Everywhere speakers, who addressed bullying awareness and ways to prevent. L.O.V.E.'s mission is to end the cycle of violence by giving young people opportunities to become leaders in their communities through positive engagement, skill based learning and self expression. Beginning semester two, the L.O.V.E. program will work with our students teaching them skills for positive expression and how to make a positive impact in the community.

Eastdale Girls Basketball Team Tournament!

We the Eastdale girls basketball team, came together as a family playing at a basketball tournament at Sir William Osler (Nov. 1) and came out on top. We gave it our best and we all feel like winners. We are very proud of what we accomplished and the women we are becoming in our society. Ms. Greenglass our coach really believes in us and we all thank her. She is not only our coach she is a best friend and a mom, she cares! by anonymous student.

STaR Project Oct 25th to 27th

At the Ontario Education Leadership Camp, approximately two hours north of Toronto,  Mr. Perry, Staff sponsor)and three Eastdale students: James C., RuthAnn P., and Josh M., attended a 2.5 day, "Students as Researcher" a student voice Ministry of Education opportunity. The focus of the conference was on student engagement and provided:

• An opportunity for a team of students and educators to work collaboratively to become ‘change agents’ and create/share research-based knowledge by raising and exploring their own questions of student engagement, student needs and school climate
• Students with the opportunity to learn how to ethically conduct action research and produce data of quality, depth and scope; and,
• A great way for students to learn how to carry out a research project that can inform policy and program changes at the school, board and Ministry.

Hallowe'en Party & Activities!

Students and staff celebrated Hallowe'en all day. Period 4 was 'thrilling' with students and staff attending the Hallowe'en Dance and participating in three fun filled rooms of activities as shown below: