So the advertisement for the telephone companies once said, and it is still true, but now with something perhaps Dick Tracy would appreciate.Today’s classrooms are reaching to the far corners of the globe taking advantage of the high tech and low cost of Skype. Grade 6 students of Greg Theriault and Joanne Robichaud at Eleanor W. Graham Middle School in Rexton recently had a ...
School District 16 held its fourth annual CUTE Awards ceremony on Wednesday February 16th at the James M. Hill High School Auditorium. This annual event celebrates the Creative Use of Technology in Education. Students and Teachers had been invited to submit digitally created work produced over the previous 12 months in a variety of categories. Finalists were decided and samples of their work were displayed at the awards gala prior to the award recipient being announced. The entertaining two hour show was ...
The annual District 16 Sport Stacking Championships were held Wednesday February 9th.at the Miramichi Valley High School gymnasium. The event involved 52 participants from kindergarten to grade 12, the age span perhaps making this event unique. A list of the winners is given below.
District 16 has released the list of finalists for the 4th Annual Creative Use of Technology in Education (CUTE) Awards , see below. The names of the recipients of the awards in each of the 12 categories will be announced at a ceremony to be held at ...
Representatives of the international aid organization Free the Children made a presentation recently to students attending Blackville School. The focus of the presentation was drinking water and the issues around the conservation of drinking water and the environmental impact of bottled water. Following the presentation a workshop was ...
The Miramichi Rotary Pond Hockey Tournament takes place this weekend and once again students of District 16 will be involved in video recording games and interviews from the ice surface. This is the third successive pond hockey tournament in which students have had the opportunity to use technology to present the tournament to a broad audience via the internet. This authentic community based involvement gives the students a chance to ...
Gretna Green Elementary School in Douglastown-Miramichi is thrilled to announce a partnership with local Tim Hortons businesses that will help them realize the refurbishment to their Story Land Park. Visit Remarkable Donation at the Gretna Green Elementary School web site.
On Tuesday this week, the students at Rexton Elementary School had reason to jump for joy, and apparently they did. The school’s playground committee announced at an assembly that the school had been awarded $24 000 from the Aviva Community Challenge program. The committee now has a total exceeding $40 000 towards their Dream Playground project.
D16 Students Present at 2010 Regional Science Fair in FrederictonThe March deadline for the annual District 16 science fairs will soon be here. The fair for the elementary grades 3 to 5, will be held at Gretna Green Elementary on March 23, and the fair for middle and high school students will be on March 29, at Dr. Losier Middle School. Both fairs will run from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon. Projects can be entered in one of four categories: 1. Bio-technology, Health and Life Science, 2. Computing and Engineering, ...
