News from our local schools and the community youth.
By Becky Clark On Monday, March 19th members of the Thorndale business community attended the annual I Love Thorndale (ILT) Business Directory meeting. ILT provided a review of the various marketing tactics and community engagement strategies that have been employed over the past year, including but not limited to new A-Frame “Love Local/Featured Business” signs,…
Above, Little Falls Public School got into the Olympic spirit by staging an assembly celebrating the games. Each grade represented a different country, 460 students and teachers took part. Above right is Skylar Fadelle carrying the Little Falls version of the Olympic torch.
By Spencer Seymour Alex Zulu, a student at DCVI, is doing his co-op placement at Little Falls Public School with the Grade Two Forest School Group in Kendra Martin’s class and has fit right in with the energy and enthusiasm filled students. Within a day Alex had chosen his new nature name, Polar Bear, and…
By Spencer Seymour It has been a very busy week for staff and students at St. Marys DCVI and it all started on Monday when the school hosted an inclusion rally. Students in all different grades were placed in groups together and were rotated through many different activities and stops throughout the school. The day’s…
South Perth Centennial School has taught 3 generations of our family! It started with my mother, Heather Benner (Bilyea), who was in the original kindergarten class of 1967. Then myself, Ashley Swarthout (Benner), starting in 1991. Now my two children, Liam and Hayden Swarthout who started in 2010, attend school there. Students, parents and teachers…
By Spencer Seymour Last night, the students in DCVI’s senior drama club took their play “Curious” to the Sears Student Theatre Festival in Listowel. The play is written and directed by grade 11 student Izzy Morrison and is an Alice in Wonderland spinoff. In the play, Alice is portrayed as a bratty, unwise child who…
Pep rally MC Thomas Redman takes a selfie with all the staff and students of DCVI By Spencer Seymour With activities throughout ranging from students balancing Oreo cookies on their foreheads to a giant tug of war game, the large gym was turned into a red and white Saluki party last Wednesday. Noisemakers, chants and…
Secondary schools in all corners of Ontario are showing signs of improvement, but far too many schools aren’t improving at all, or worse, have declined in their overall ratings, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual ranking of Ontario secondary schools released this week. This year’s Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools ranks 740 anglophone and…
Lissa Puttock, back left, who will be retiring in December after 35 years as South Perth Centennial’s secretary, sends a shot past the diving Dustin Fenemore, who was assisting Canadian Olympian Charmaine Reid during her presentation at SPCS Tuesday afternoon. From left, SPCS students Shyann Mills, Charlotte Richardson, Aryn Sheldon, Tucker Van Bolhuis, Noah Diehl…
PAC meeting at the PRC The owners of the Arthur Meighen site, 1934711 Ontario Inc. have submitted an application to the Town to ask for an Official Plan Amendment and a Zoning By-Law Amendment for the property. The plan is to have a five storey building which will have 84 senior’s apartments and 115 assisted…