N e w s l e t t e r - Lisgar Collegiate Institute
N e w s l e t t e r - Lisgar Collegiate Institute
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IMPORTANT DATES<br />
Nov. 20 – United Way Pancake<br />
Breakfast<br />
Nov. 24 – Last day to drop a course<br />
before full disclosure<br />
Dec. 3 & 4 – Drama Production -<br />
Night Chills Tales of Mystery and<br />
Terror<br />
Dec. 9 – Jazz & Choir Evening<br />
7:30pm<br />
Dec. 10 – Winter Music Night<br />
Dec. 14 – Jan. 15 – Summative<br />
Evaluations<br />
Dec. 21 – Jan.3 – Christmas Break<br />
Jan. 4 – First day back from<br />
Christmas Break<br />
Jan. 22- Jan. 29 – Examinations<br />
Feb. 1 – First day of Semester 2<br />
Feb. 9 – Last day to begin a new<br />
course for Semester 2<br />
Feb. 11 – Semester 1 Report Cards<br />
distributed<br />
The Nordic Skiing and Snowboard<br />
teams will begin training soon.<br />
Thank you to all our fall coaches for<br />
your commitment to <strong>Lisgar</strong> Athletics.<br />
Physical Education Summatives are<br />
due on January 11 th . Students will be<br />
receiving their assignments soon.<br />
The department has now received<br />
Automated External Defibrillator<br />
trainers and mannequins. Our grade 9<br />
students will receive the training this<br />
year in their physical education classes.<br />
The program is supported ACT<br />
Foundation with partners: Eugene<br />
Melnyk, The Ontario Government, The<br />
Heart and Stroke Foundation and The<br />
Sens Foundation.<br />
Guy Ouellette of Elite Karate has<br />
been working with our grade 9 &12<br />
classes providing instruction in self<br />
defense and kick boxing.<br />
The gym schedule is on the <strong>Lisgar</strong><br />
website under Athletics. All intramural<br />
and interscholastic events are posted<br />
there.<br />
The grade 10 outdoor ed. trip has<br />
completed successful canoe and<br />
orienteering trips to Algonquin Park,<br />
the Arboretum, and Gatineau Park. The<br />
classes will soon begin preparations for<br />
winter camping.<br />
SCIENCE<br />
Emma Graham took first place in the<br />
Intermediate Physical and<br />
Mathematical Science Division at the<br />
Ottawa Regional Science Fair in April.<br />
She was also selected as one of 16<br />
students to represent Canada at the<br />
Intel International Science and<br />
Engineering Fair in Reno, Nevada in<br />
May 2009. Emma won the Partners in<br />
Research Award which gave her the<br />
opportunity to attend the "Ottawa<br />
Evening" and meet and talk with Marc<br />
Garneau and Justin Trudeau. Emma<br />
says she was proud to represent <strong>Lisgar</strong><br />
CI at all these events and she hopes<br />
more LCI students will do science fair<br />
projects this year.<br />
Emma Grhaham with her Science Project<br />
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SOCIAL SCIENCE & LIBRARY<br />
DEPARTMENT<br />
Social Sciences<br />
At the beginning of September we<br />
welcomed Mr. Shuck to teach Grade 9<br />
and 11 Geography classes. Since then<br />
we have added a number of volunteers<br />
and a couple of student teachers who<br />
have helped with a variety of activities<br />
and trips. The Grade 9 Geography<br />
classes visited Gatineau Park and have<br />
had an introduction to Geocaching using<br />
a GPS loaner kit from the School Board.<br />
Ms. Jarvis'Grade 10 History students<br />
went to the National Archives and<br />
researched documents relating to former<br />
<strong>Lisgar</strong> students who were involved in<br />
the First World War. A number of<br />
Grade 11 Sociology students attended a<br />
conference entitiled "In Love and In<br />
Danger" with Mr. Buschlen, while<br />
several senior Politics, World Issues,<br />
International Law and International<br />
Business classes were fortunate to hear<br />
Allan Rock (former Cabinet Minister<br />
and president of Ottawa U.) speak about<br />
"Protecting Human Rights". Back in<br />
early September, the AP History class<br />
visited the National Gallery and viewed<br />
the collection of European Art dating<br />
from the Renaissance to the Twentieth<br />
Century. Students were excited to see<br />
masterpieces by Tintoretto, Peter Paul<br />
Rubens, Jacques-Louis David and<br />
Vincent Van Gogh. As part of their unit<br />
on Ancient Egypt, students in the Grade<br />
11 World History classes have had the<br />
opportunity to study artifacts such as a<br />
necklace, a linen and glass fragment,<br />
and amulets from ancient times<br />
provided by the Royal Ontario Museum.<br />
Students marveled at the workmanship<br />
and beauty of these objects which are<br />
thousands of years old.<br />
LEAF<br />
LEAF are busy preparing for their first<br />
Coffee House this month. They have<br />
already held a couple of successful<br />
vegetarian lunches, have planted<br />
hundreds of daffodil bulbs in the<br />
flowerbeds in the Mall, and have<br />
participated in the "Clean Up the<br />
Capital" initiative. They have learned