Wildcat Corner
This week was definitely a busy one at Wm. E. Hay as students participated in Challenge Day and buckled down for project week. The Grade 9s and 10s and a few 11s and 12s were invited to participate in Challenge Day.
Challenge Day allows students to build connection and empathy, and to fulfill the vision that every child lives in a world where they feel safe, loved, and celebrated. It is an intense day of “lowering the waterline” and helping students to NOTICE – Wake up! Notice what’s happening. CHOOSE – Dream It! Create a vision for what you DO want your life to look like; and ACT – Do Something! Have the courage and commitment it takes to be the change.
We send a huge thank you out to all of the community businesses who donated to the program and volunteers who assisted us. Students are encouraged to join the Be the Change team to help promote the goals of Challenge Day within our school and community.
Grade 9s were tested in math by playing the role of a public relations employee that must plan a social event for 50 clients. Grade 9s and 10s also worked on their science fair projects. In Cosmetology, Grade 9s made their own hair accessories and Grade 10s participated in a braiding contest. The senior cosmetology students are travelling to Red Deer today to look at secondary hair colleges and two beauty supply places.
There is also a new poetry slam format where students make a video with their slam poem and present it. The French 20 class is doing a cultural study on the Acadians who settled in New Orleans and created “Mardi Gras”, and the math students are participating in various activities such as designing seating in a hockey arena and other demonstrations.
The Biology 20/30 class participated in dissections of hearts, lungs, and fetal pigs; an activity that seems more appropriate the closer we get to Halloween!
We would like to let everyone know that the fall production of “Bone Chiller” will be performed from November 27-29 and tickets will be available at Well’s Furniture soon.
Also the Wildcat football team played Sylvan Lake on Thursday. They worked hard and scored many points but it was not enough to beat Sylvan Lake. Friday and Saturday, the senior girls volleyball team played hard in a tournament in Eckville. Keep working hard Wildcats!
Students are reminded that there are many scholarship and post-secondary bits of information that are going in to the memo every day. If students and parents want information regarding upcoming scholarship deadlines or post-secondary information, they can contact the Student Services staff at Wm. E. Hay for lots of information.
And finally, the new Autoclub has begun meeting Fridays at noon. That’s all for this week.