Sept 2014 Sketch - Battle River School Division

Volume 86, Issue 1
September 2014
Principal’s Message
Composite Sketch
THE CCHS
Principal’s Message
Welcome to the 2014-2015
school year! We are confident that the time you
spend learning at CCHS
will be an exciting and
rewarding experience. We
are a proud school that
takes great pride in providing all students with multiple opportunities in both
curricular and extracurricular activities. The
staff at CCHS has high
expectations for each and
every student and we know
that every student can be
successful if they are committed to their education.
As a CCHS student, you
are part of a school community that is rich in tradition and history. We expect
that you will become part
of this tradition and share
in the excitement of learn-
ing and advancing knowledge. I extend an invitation
to you to get involved to
help in making this school
a great school for all students!
Most importantly, we need
the help of our parents.
Our commitment is to keep
you well-informed about
our school and about your
son or daughter. We need
you to help us enforce the
student handbook, to ensure your son or daughter is
at school every day and on
time, to keep your teachers
informed of situations that
may have an impact on
school performance. Parents and guardians are the
foundation of all great
schools. Thank you so
much for being a part of
our school family. Our
first Parent Council meeting is scheduled for September 16th at 7:00 pm in
the library. Our student/parent Grad meeting is
scheduled for September
25th at 7:00 pm in the library. This meeting will
outline the grad requirements to participate in grad
and will be a time for other
information to be shared
regarding Grad 2015.
Remember, you can call on
me at any time with questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Yours in Education,
Patrick McFeely
Principal
Attention all Drivers
All students who drive a
vehicle to school must
register their vehicles at
the office. If you drive
more that one vehicle,
each vehicle must be registered.
Students are reminded not
to park in the reserved
parking stalls. This
would include the first
four rows nearest the
school in the main parking lot as well as any stall
that is marked reserved in
any of the other parking
lots.
Contact Us
Camrose Composite High School
6205-48 Avenue, Camrose Albert T4V 0K4
Phone: 780-672-4416/Fax 780-672-6351
Www.brsd.ab.ca/cchs
email cchsweb@brsd.ab.ca
CCHS Library 2014-2015
as author visits, in-service
workshops and student meetings.
Library Media Center
The library media center is
open from 8:00—4:30 Monday / Wednesday, 8:00-5:00
Tuesday/Thursday and 8:003:00 on Fridays that school is
in operation.
The school library provides a
range of learning opportunities and serves as a place for
students to do independent
study, collaborate on digital
and non-digital projects, use
computers, conduct research
and enjoy leisure reading. It
also serves as a welcoming
venue for special events such
A librarian is available at all
times during the school day
to assist students. Library
orientations are recommended and are available on
request. As well, student
suggestions for purchasing
materials that will be of interest are encouraged.
Golf Team Tryouts –come out and have some fun in the sun!
Do you like golf?
Attend the meeting
Tuesday Sept 9th at
11:50 in Mr. Angelstads
Design Studies Lab.
Golf is open to Gr. 10-
12 and there are both boys
and girls teams. Any Gr. 9
interested can go to the
Design Lab and talk with
Mr. Anglestad.
Student Transportation
Our school policy states that we shall
provide transportation for students to
travel to and from school activities that
are off campus. Any exceptions to this
rule are to be approved by the Principal. The Battle River School Division
also has a policy “Administrative Procedure 559” that addresses the issue of
“Student Transportation in Private Vehicles”.
Each year, we have numerous requests
from parents asking for permission to
pick up students after an event. We
approve these requests provided we
have advance notice. If someone other
than the student’s parent or guardian is
picking up the student, then a written
request must be made. This application
process includes completing an application form, proof of insurance, and a
driver’s abstract. Make sure you begin
this process in advance of the event as
the entire process can take several days.
In summary, our preference is that all
students travel to and from school activities in school-provided transportation. Exceptions must comply with
school board policy and be approved
by school administration.
Brandon Liang Best of the Best
A hockey fan might describe CCHS
Mechanics student Brandon Liang’s
winning regional, provincial, and
national Skills Canada competitions
as a hat trick. He took the gold
medal as the nation’s top high
school Auto Service student, beating a field comprised of each province’s top high school mechanics
student. The event was held June 5
and 6 in Toronto.
Brandon won the right to represent
Alberta in the Auto Service category by winning Gold at a regional
competition at Lakeland College
and then the provincial competition
at Edmonton’s Expo Centre May
17. He and CCHS Mechanics
teacher Kevin Nagy joined a strong
Alberta delegation of fellow top
trades students and their teachers
for the national event.
Skills Canada is the only national,
Olympic style, multi trade event of
its kind, providing students the opportunity to be tested against rigorous industry standards and their
peers. While a few previous CCHS
students working under teachers
Matt Stinson and John Burns have
competed at the national level,
Brandon is the school’s first Gold
medal winner. Over the two days of
competition students were judged
on speed and accuracy in diagnosis
and repair of scenarios set by industry leading post-secondary instructors. The competition was grueling
and timed to fifty minute blocks per
task.
In Brandon’s event, students were
tested on cars supplied by Volkswagen and Audi, makes not common in central Alberta. To prepare
for the national event, Nagy arranged for Liang to spend a day
observing and learning from technicians at Southgate Volkswagen and
Southgate Audi. That learning ex-
perience, especially insights into the
body electrical schematics, proved
extremely valuable, as did his time
at CCHS.
Although Brandon found the events
challenging and the competition
extremely demanding, he graciously credits his teacher and his
thorough preparation for his success. When he started high school
he thought he was headed for a career in engineering, and registered
in Mechanics out of interest. “I’ve
always had a passion for cars,” he
says, “but I never thought I’d be
working on them for a living.”
Teacher Kevin Nagy recognized
that passion and encouraged Brandon to pursue his passion. “My
teacher got me into Skills two years
ago and I’ve been hooked on it ever
since.”
Nagy’s approach is to nurture students’ critical thinking and diagnostic skills, and to guide them through
progressively more demanding
situations that would parallel real
life in the industry. For students
like Brandon who are eager to commit to excellence, Kevin Nagy is
willing to spend extra time. In the
past two years, Brandon estimates
he and his teacher have spent in
excess of two hundred hours outside of regular school time to develop his abilities. In addition to a
full academic course load, Brandon
is enrolled in the Registered Apprentice Program (RAP) at Lamb
Ford, working in the Fast Lane under the direction of licensed technicians. He has already accumulated
the hours required of a first year
apprentice mechanic, and will start
his first year of post-secondary
schooling with Ford at SAIT in
January.
Brandon is excited to be entering a
demanding and rewarding skilled
trade. As Federal Employment
Minister Jason Kinney told Skills
Canada participants in Toronto,
“The skilled trades are a growing
and vital part of our economy, and
promoting careers in these areas is
critical to our economic future.”
The Minister’s advice clearly applies to Brandon, and to other students exploring their choices and
developing their passions at CCHS.
Brandon Liang and Kevin Nagy are
appreciative of the support given by
Battle River School Division for
funding the trip to Toronto, to
Lamb Ford for helping develop
Brandon’s skills, to Southgate
Volkswagen and Southgate Audi
for providing service advice unique
to those makes, and to Lakeland
College and Edmonton Northlands
for hosting preliminary events.
Track and Field 2014
The 2014 Track and Field season was another successful one for CCHS athletes. We sent 15 amazing athletes
to the Provincial Championships in Calgary. The city-county and regional meets were both excellent opportunities for athletes to showcase their skills and prepare for the following weeks of competitions.
CCHS athletes did very well in Red Deer at the zone meet on May the 28th. The following athletes advanced
from the zone to compete at provincials in Calgary the following weekend. Here are their placing’s and the
events they competed in at provincials:
Bryan Cole 800 meters 10th place in final
Emily Braun 3000m 7th and 1500m 7th place in finals
Alexis Brown discus 7th place
Lilian Axton 800m 7th place in final
Brynn Markowsky 100m 6th place in final
Romario Turner 100m 10th in qualifiers
Melinka Voytechuk 400m 6th in final
Dominik Gies, Romar and Romario Turner, Danton Davis 4x100m relay 7th in the Final
Trent Kowal, Danton Davis, Hirotaka Yamashiro, Josh Beck 4x400m relay 10th overall
Leon Sadler shot put 3rd and Bronze Medal
CCHS also placed a respectable 12th out of 54 overall in the 3A school point’s classification.
Thank you to Coach Haugen for helping our athletes’ this past season. Also thank you to Mr. Lyster and Mr.
Thain for helping to organize the meets and record results.
62nd Street Café
Red Seal Chef Judy Anderson would like to welcome you back to school, and to the 62nd
Street Café. Judy would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported the Café in
the past and is looking forward to another year of making and serving delicious dinners to
the hungry masses.
The Café is open every morning for breakfast courtesy of Neighborlink, and now the Café is
open from 10:00 t0 10:30 every morning and from 2:00 to 2:30 Monday through Thursdays
to purchase sandwiches, salads, fresh baking, ice cream and coffee, regular and flavored!
Why go off campus for lunch when you can support your school and Mrs. Anderson’s awesome homemade cooking?
L-R Back Row = Lindsay Barton, Katherine MacKenzie, Phillip Bailey,
Stephen Cole and Lloyd MacKenzie
L-R ront Row = Jody Watson & Erroll Brager
A HUGE thanks to Isabeau Doig and then later, Matthew Kuefler for washing all the returned textbooks! That was a big job and they look, feel and
smell great! (missing from photo was Patrick Daubert)
Big thanks to book room helpers Denai
Guenther, Jaunita Holm & Isabeau Doig
for helping at the start up of this school
year. Your help making things run
smooth was greatly appreciated!
62nd Street Café opens for business starting Monday the 8th. There will be a
choice of 2 soups, sandwiches, salads and baked goods, then the following week
there will also be a daily special. Starting in October a monthly menu will be
included in the CCHS Composite Sketch as well as one being posted on our
school website.
L-R = Lee, Rhonda, Irene, Tilly, Dok and in front Kham.