Students, parents, and community members will be applauded for their efforts by the Rainy River District School Board at its regular monthly meeting here tonight.
Honoured first will be students Matt McQuaker (Sturgeon Creek School) and Heidi Friesen (Sturgeon Creek Alternative Program) for their participation in the national science fair in Kingston last month.
They qualified for the national science fair after placing on the top three at the regional contest in Kenora on March 31.
Their experiments–one on electricity (McQuaker) and the other on burning wood (Friesen)–will be set up in the gym for trustees to see.
Meanwhile, David Barron, a grade seven student at Sturgeon Creek School, will get a certificate for winning the district intermediate speech contest at St. Michael’s School here last month.
He also will deliver his speech, “What Might Have Been,” which ponders the question of what his life would have been like if he was born a girl, for the board tonight.
In other news, the board will announce it’s mailing out its “Recognition of Excellence” certificates to 453 community volunteers who have offered their time to school councils, lunch programs, field trips, reading programs, and music programs, and acted as classroom helpers and coaches.
“Their compassion and humanity improve the quality of life in our schools,” Education Director Warren Hoshizaki noted in a report.
2001 is recognized as the International Year of the Volunteer.
Also tonight, the board will:
•hear a presentation by Lucinda Meyers and Laurie Holliday on mentorship, one by Superintendent of Education Terry Ellwood on summer school, and another by Ellwood and literacy co-ordinator Maureen Ricard on Summer Institute 2001;
•consider approving policies on school councils and harassment, and vote to move policies on playground safety and course subsidies forward for stakeholder consultation;
•receive the June personnel report, which notes the appointment of a caretaker, a computer technology specialist, and the addition of two teachers to the principal/vice-principal pool.
(It also notes leaves of absence for three more board employees, and the retirements of two teachers); and
•receive minutes of the May 15 finance committee meeting, the April 26 Occupational Health and Safety , and the May 8 Supervised Learning for Excused Pupils (SALEP) committee meeting.
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