Grade 8 students at Blackville School have had a chance in recent weeks to tie in some industrial arts, math, science, art and physical education in an integrated curriculum project called CreateASkate. Through support from the Blackville Valufoods store and the ArtSmarts program teacher Tim Gratton, over a three week period had the students design, measure, cut, paint and assemble their own skateboards. Darren Goodfellow of River Signs helped students with the graphic design aspects of the project.
Attached below is information regarding summer camps for
French Immersion students on the Magdalen Islands for mid-July this summer.
These camps are co-ordinated through the Canadian Parents for French – NB (www.cpfnb.com
) . A registration form is also
available below.
The Rexton Area ASD-N Science Fair was held at Eleanor W. Graham Middle School on Wednesday April 3rd with participants from Rexton Elementary, Harcourt School, Elsipogtog First Nation School and of course E.W.G. High school students from Bonar Law Memorial School provided science demonstrations for the elementary school participants while judges convened to deliberate after having viewed the presentations. Although no awards were given fair participants had the opportunity to communicate their knowledge, understanding and insights with a knowledgeable and interested audience.
The Anglophone North School District Oratory and Spoken Word Poetry competition will be held on Saturday April 20th at Bathurst High School. Registration is at 9:00 am. Middle school speeches and high school Spoken Word Poetry sessions will start at 9:30 am. Starting at 12:45 pm, the program switches to high school students presenting their speeches and middle school students will have their Spoken Word Poetry sessions. Medal presentations are scheduled for 3:00 pm.
A science fair for the Anglophone North School District middle and high school students living in the Miramichi area was held on Thursday March 28th. Forty middle school participants, selected at the school level, represented Blackville School, Miramichi Rural, North and South Esk Regional and Elementary Schools, Nelson Rural School, Dr. Losier and Harkins Middle Schools. There was only one high school entry, Damilka Ranasinghe, of James M. Hill High. While the judges were deliberating students were given an opportunity to spend time with biology teacher Ms. S. Moran and physics teacher Mr.
Miramichi Valley High School was the venue for the ASD-N
2013 Culinary Technology competition on Wednesday March 27th. Seven
students from James M. Hill and Miramichi Valley High Schools worked diligently
to prepare a meal consisting of salad, chicken and apple cake. It was a hectic
and pressure filled three hours for the
young chefs as they peeled,
sliced, diced, measured and mixed then boiled, steamed, fried and baked their
way through their recipes to produce the delicious looking three course meal. Their
efforts were then judged on taste and presentation with additional points being
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; these areas of study comprise the acronym STEM. A "STEM Fair" is replacing the concept of a "Science Fair" in ASD-N and such a fair was held March 26th for district elementary schools in the Miramichi area. The concept of STEM allows for a broader consideration of research topics and highlights the components’ interdependency. As well students are encouraged to think critically about bigger issues in society related to the STEM areas.
Anglophone North School District
Superintendent Nancy Boucher, in her welcoming remarks at the CUTE Awards
Thursday evening, took great pleasure in presenting the logo for the recently
amalgamated school district. Last fall the ASD-N Education Council opened a
logo design competition to all students in the district. More than 120 entries
were received from schools across the district. Careful consideration was given
to all and three finalists were selected. It turned out by chance that these finalists
represented the three school levels; elementary, middle and high. Of the three,
