If you want to have a friendship page (or friendship pages) in this year's yearbook, this is the opportunity to purchase one.
You can design your own, or you can have students from Ms. Kim's yearbook class design it for you. You can use your own pictures, combine them with group pictures taken from your Artona session, or create your own artistic version that would represent you and your friends. For technical specifications, please see Ms. Kim, Jessica H., or one of the yearbook staff.
Each full-colour friendship page will cost $250 (if you have a group of 10 friends, that works out to $25/person for a page that would be read by all, cherished by you). A $50 deposit must be paid by January 29, 2010.
There is a limited number of friendship pages available, so please act quickly and purchase one, two, or three pages before they are bought by other groups.
For a sample of past friendship pages (to see what a friendship page is all about, or to get some ideas to start your design), check out the last 8 or 16 pages from our previous yearbooks. If you do not have a copy of an old yearbook handy, you can come see me, or drop by Ms. Kim's class.
This is to remind you that we will be having an instructional planning period this Thursday, January 21, between 10:05 and 11:05 a.m. (instead of the usual afternoon time slot).
Your attendance for this I.P.P. is crucial, as we will be going through a few very important topics pertaining to graduation. Among the topics are: 2nd term grad transitions documents, a student profile that must be filled out for in-school scholarship considerations, grad fees, and several other topics. If you are going to be absent on Thursday, you must come in to see me ASAP afterwards to obtain the required documents and instructions.
There are other upcoming information sessions held at Capilano. In case I do not remember to tell you about that, go to the program information meetings page (Click here), and you can find out all about them.
Information sessions will be held at Douglas College's New Westminster and Coquitlam campuses at the end of January.
These information sessions focus on providing you with information about Douglas College's continuing education and part-time programs. A number of full-time, degree/diploma programs will also have representatives attending. For a full list of what programs would be in attendance, or to make an appointment so see a program-specific advisor, click here.
Times and locations for these and other info sessions can also be found at Douglas College's information page: Click here
There are two major info sessions currently being advertised:
January 26, 2010 (Tuesday)
Coquitlam Campus (1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam)
Start Time: 5:00 p.m.
January 28, 2010 (Thursday)
New Westminster Campus (700 Royal Avenue - one block from the New West Sky Train Station)
I am going off the board with this entry, but it is that important of a message that I think it is worthwhile.
By now, you have probably heard and watched the news about the earthquake in Haiti. The latest has it that as much as one third of this Central American country's population is affected directly by the 7.0 quake. Thousands have died, many more are injured, and countless people have lost literally EVERYTHING they have.
This blog has been used to talk about graduation, scholarship application, and various events leading up to grad. They are all important, no question, but watching the scenes from Haiti, seeing the faces of despair, and hearing the cries of hopelessness, almost everything stops, and almost nothing is relevant anymore.
I know this is a very difficult economic time. People are losing their jobs; everyone is probably a little concerned over his/her job security. But most of us can spare ten dollars, twenty dollars, or whatever amount, to help those who are in dire need. I urge you today to help.The following non-profit groups are some of the reputable charitable organizations that are recognized by the Government of Canada (click here for the complete list). I'm attaching a link to their websites so you may go directly onto any of them to donate. News just broke today that the federal government will match our donation dollar-for-dollar (click here for details) – that means, if you donate 10 dollars for the Haitian victims, 20 actual dollars will be reaching them. If you can help, please help. Thank you!
The grad transitions forms for Term 2 have arrived. Please come to see me for your Term 2's physical activity log, and to pick up your "employability skills" forms (these new forms are purple - do not use the old forms from last year).
The following are the instructions to the employability skills form. If you have any questions, please see Ms. Ward for details.
"This plan requires that students demonstrate the skills required to work effectively and safely with others and to succeed as individual and collaborative workers. There are two requirements:
Complete 30 hours of work experience and/or community service: examples of acceptable activities include volunteering and part-time jobs. Any combination of paid work or volunteer experience that adds to 30 hours will be accepted. Please use the form provided to verify the work or community service performed.
Summarize and reflect on your experience by completing the following tables: (when you receive the actual forms, the tables will be a part of the package)
For students who are going to be writing one/more provincial exams in January, please read this post VERY CAREFULLY:
January provincial exams will take place from Monday, January 25 to Friday, January 29. The morning exams will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., while the afternoon exams will take place from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. All exams are two hours long, and you may stay up to an extra hour to finish the exam.
(For a complete schedule of the January provincial exams, click here)
Exams administered at Templeton will take place in the computer lab in the library. All exams will be done electronically. If you have not registered to write an exam, but needs to write one, please see Mr. Mark in Room 203 directly to ensure that there are enough computers for you to do the exam.
Sample and practice exams can be found online. Download them, and use them to prepare yourself. Exams can be found here.
Several of you have not written a required provincial exam needed for graduation. Please note: even if you have successfully passed the school portion of the course, you must have written the exam to earn the credit. This is true for English 10, Mathematics 10, Science 10, and social studies 11. If you are not sure if you have written the required provincial exam(s), please come in and see me immediately.
If you want to have a friendship page (or friendship pages) in this year's yearbook, this is the opportunity to purchase one.
