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A publication to Educate & Communicate with the parents of Surrey School District.
Life skills
Schools to train students in CPR
Ten schools in the Surrey School District to teach CPR every year
CONSTRUCTION: School construction is on a roll in Surrey. Building has progressed on several projects recently – the latest being a brand new South Surrey elementary that broke ground earlier this month. Page C7 DPAC: A message from the president of your Surrey District Parent Advisory Council. Page C3
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hile holding CPR mannequins, a group of Grade 10 Tamanawis Secondary students said – without hesitation – that they could save a life if they were called to action. That level of confidence and training is what the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation wants to spread across the province, and country. Thursday, ACT and its partners launched the High School CPR and Defibrillator Training Program in 10 Surrey public secondary schools. More than 3,000 Surrey students will learn the lifesaving skill every year. The ultimate goal of the program, ACT executive director Sandra Clarke told Black Press Media at Tamanawis, is to train every Canadian high school student in life-saving CPR skills. So far in British Columbia, more than 506,000 youth have been trained in the program; 242 schools have established a CPR program; 1,300 teachers have been trained as CPR instructors and 45,800 students are
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ART: Students are learning valuable life skills in a glass works course at Earl Marriott Secondary. Page C5
Tamanawis Secondary students display their CPR skills at a media event in the school earlier this month. trained in CPR by their secondary school teacher every year. “The ACT foundation’s goal is to see all young people graduate from secondary school with the skills and knowledge to save a life,” Clarke said. “We’re fundraising to put defibrillator training units and CPR training manikins into the schools so the schools can train the students.” As recently as last week, Clarke said, the training saved someone’s life.
Clarke pointed to Oliver, B.C., where two high school teachers are being credited with saving the life of a Grade 8 student. The student went into cardiac arrest during gym class. Clarke said Southern Okanagan Secondary School had received training from ACT prior to the incident. Thursday, Tamanawis secondary students gave Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Bains a rundown on how to
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give CPR, though he told the crowd beforehand that he’d been trained years ago. Bains told the students that he believes every person should receive CPR training, but he hopes that none of the students will have to use it in a real-life scenario. “I could not be happier to see the ACT Foundation teaching young British Columbians skills that can save lives,” Bains said.
Science
ROBOTICS: Enver Creek Secondary’s senior robotics team is ranked first in the world for programming skills. Page C3 MATH CHAMPIONS: The Fraser Heights Math Challengers Team recently competed in the 2018 Canadian Open Math Challenge, where they earned first place in B.C. Page C6
Students urged to reach beyond research at revamped science fair The annual district science fair is fast approaching, and this year, is being revamped to encourage students to reach beyond research and experimentation. Scheduled for March 7, the newly named Surrey District Science and Innovation Fair is urging young participants
to advance their learning and strive to design and create solutions to real-world problems. While the science fair has always strived to be fun, educators found that projects tended to be reproductions of popular past projects. Instead, students should be
inspired to incorporate creative problem solving and expanding their thinking beyond a single scientific “event” such as a volcano explosion or plant dying. Kids will also have more choices in what type and style of presentation they display, and teachers will have access to
“problems of the month” to maintain the momentum of science fair thinking throughout the year. The Surrey District Science and Innovation Fair takes place March 7, 4-8 p.m. at Central City (10153 King George Blvd.). Surrey School District
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Thank You for the Music Society donated $7,500 to Surrey Schools to purchase instruments for music programs. The money helped purchase more than 21 instruments for schools, including at Bonaccord Elementary School (pictured here), where students received new xylophones.
Enver Creek Secondary
Robotics team’s programming skills are No. 1 Enver Creek Secondary’s senior robotics team (4549B) is ranked first in the world for programming skills. The team’s skills topped the 25-team field at the VEX Robotics Competition at Port Moody’s Heritage Woods Secondary Feb. 1, where they were also named tournament finalists and won the Inspire Award. Coached by teacher Reuben Heredia, Enver Creek’s 4549A team was fourth overall at “skills” and named tournament semi-finalists, while team 4549D was a quarter-fi-
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nalist at only its second tournament ever. Enver Creek has five robotics teams. “Two of our five teams have qualified for the provincial championship and with some hard work and a bit of luck, the other three teams may qualify at the upcoming tournament at Enver Creek on Feb. 24,” said Heredia. “Each tournament is an opportunity to go to provincials and ultimately represent Canada at the World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky.” Surrey School District
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Enver Creek robotics students (standing, left to right): Owen Gil, Jaideep Spall, Jackie Le, Arsh Jassal, Arianna Talento, Jashan Virdi, Madhurjot Sohi, Ritam Singal, Ali Waraich, Sukhraj Purewal, Abhay Cheema and Arman Randhawa. Sitting (left to right): Satvik Garg an and Ritvik Joshi.
Advocacy is about speaking up for our kids, our schools, school district, and our city. What does our city need? More schools. What do our schools need? Support staff and teachers. What do our kids need? All of the above. Kids require a local school that meets their needs. Every student’s needs are different, but students need a safe school where they have the support they need; the first lines of that support are the staff and teachers at the school. Your child’s education is a partnership. Talk to your child’s teacher: if you can’t make the parent conference times, communicate by email or send a note in the planner. Many schools are using websites and apps like SchoolLink, Schoology, or Fresh Grade to send information home. Get to know your school’s principal – they’re at the PAC meetings, letting you know what’s happening at your school. If your child has a special needs designation, there will be an Individual Education Plan (IEP). Go to your child’s IEP meeting every year and let the team know what works for your child outside the school and what your child needs in the school. Come out to DPAC meetings and Surrey Board of Education meetings. Parents are represented both by their school PAC and the district PAC, Surrey DPAC. The role of the DPAC is to advise the board on matters relating to the district and the PAC’s role is to advise the principal and staff on
Upcoming meeting dates for Surrey DPAC: • Feb. 27 - Topics related to special needs, exclusion/inclusion • April 24 - Topics related to gangs, drugs and violence • May 22 - AGM, review of constitution and bylaws Meetings are from 7-9 p.m. at the District Education Centre, located at 14033 92nd Ave. matters relating to their school (from B.C. School Act). The Surrey DPAC works together to collaborate and share ideas with each other. We are parents helping parents, a group of volunteers just like your school PAC. Come and share with other parents about what is happening in your school. Attend our meetings and hear about what is happening in the district. There is a conference in Surrey in March on inclusion and advocacy and the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils has its annual general meeting in May. Hope to see lots of Surrey parents there. Contact us at info@surreydpac. ca, follow us on Twitter: @surreydpac and on Facebook: facebook. com/surreydpac. Dean McGee Surrey DPAC president
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and sang for the audience before teaching attendees how to pronounce each animal name in the Semiahmoo language. “I want to thank you for bringing our language into your school,” Chappell said, “for bringing our language into your culture.” Grade 4 student Adam Lenk and his mom taught students their clan’s dance, which included each animal representation. Trustee Laurae McNally,
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known to be a good collaborator that works well with others and cares for the environment. On top of the pod names, the school mascot, the raven, is, appropriately, a persistent problem solver that never gives up. Besides orca and beaver, animals used for other school areas include the salmon, bear and wolf. SFN Chief Harley Chappell, who also attended Peace Arch as a child, drummed
been renamed in this way,” she said. “This is really a gift from the Semiahmoo people to the school and you need to treasure that in your heart.” Principal Carol Davison said she is thrilled to nurture PHOTOS: SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT the school’s connection to the land and to the Semiahmoo LEFT: Peace Arch Elementary student Adam Lenk and his mother drum people. with Semiahmoo First Nation Chief Harley Chappell at a pod renaming “When I moved here last ceremony at the school. ABOVE: Drawings of the different animals the pods are named after, with year, I thought ‘what can we do to make it more commuthe name in the Semiahmoo language. nity-oriented and less institutionalized?’” who served as one of four of- roring that of students and Davison said a committee ficial witnesses to the naming staff protecting one another; of teachers worked together ceremony, said she was proud and the wolf’s dedication on connecting the animal to family, representing the to observe the relationship names not only to the approbetween the school and SFN strong and supportive Peace Arch Elementary community. priate pod, but to the core peoples. competencies – intellectual, Assistant-Supt. Lynda She spoke about some of the animals chosen, including Reeve, also a witness, referred personal, social and emotionto the responsibility of those al skills – in the B.C. curricthe salmon. ulum. “They’re really all about re- in the orca pod. Roxanne Charles will de“You are the leaders of newal, and that’s what you’re sign the artwork for each this school and as you work doing today with the pods pod’s new animal designawith your buddy, younger – you’re renewing the names tion, and hopes to include students, it is also your duty of them.” students in creating signs. to teach the new students in She also referred to the Surrey School District bear’s protective nature, mir- the school why the pods have
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The land where Peace Arch Elementary sits was once a giant rainforest with large trees and wild animals roaming free. Semiahmoo First Nation (SFN) member Roxanne Charles reminded students, teachers and guests of this during a ceremony at the Surrey school, where she and many of her relatives, including her children, have attended over the decades. The event was held to rename five of the school’s sections – or pods. Instead of being identified with numbers, the school areas will now be given a fitting animal designation. The senior classes, for example, will be in the orca building, explained student Yannick Wright. “The orca is the navigator and the leader for the younger students,” he explained. Similarly, the area for Grades 1-3 will be represented by a beaver – an animal
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Students gain life skills in glass works course Rob Tamboline, a longtime Earl Marriott Secondary teacher, is no stranger to working with his hands. With a background in the trades, he has been teaching glass work since 2000, when it was known as a “locally developed course.” For the past 18 years, Tamboline has been updating and revising the glass work course; this year, it has been re-worked for the new curriculum. Few teachers run glass work courses at all, and Tamboline says those who do tend to combine it with art metal or jewelry classes. When he and Krista Robinson, a teacher at Salish Secondary, re-wrote the Glass Work 11 and 12 course outlines, they hoped more tech teachers would take it on. Tamboline’s courses at Earl Marriott are currently the only in the district that focus strictly on working with glass.
know it, but they are learning something they could use later in life.” And when the students are provided with the skills, they can then focus on the design aspect. Typical projects include concrete and glass stepping stones, soldering, wire structures, stained glass and glass etching. “With glass etching,” Tamboline says, “it’s about PHOTO: SURREY SCHOOL DISTRICT designing with positive and Rob Tamboline’s Glass Works 11 and 12 courses at Earl Marriott Secondary negative space in mind, and etching highlights onto both are the only in the district that focus strictly on working with glass. sides of the glass so the light refracts differently. There’s creating art. As per the course outline, quite a bit of science in it.” “You might think they’re students practice the design The course also forces stuprocess, how to safely use and just working with glass, but dents to think both critically by introducing tile as a way care for the facilities, tools to lead into working with the and creatively, which aligns and equipment, while learndirectly with the new B.C. ing the processes, procedures glass, the tile work is somecurriculum core competenthing you can do in your and historical and cultural own place, tile backsplashes, cies. Tamboline notes that aspects of glass working. tile flooring, or any of that… over the years he’s seen many What the students might incredible projects from The measuring and making not realize, says Tamboline, students who choose to highthings fit is very valuable, is that they are learning light their culture. that’s a life skill. They don’t valuable skills and not just
“Kids will do a lot of these types of projects, so that when they take them home they can share it with you know, granddad or grandma, and that’s cool,” he says. “I’ve had a lot of excellent First Nations projects, the students just thrived on that, creating something so cool made of glass.” Although students who take the courses are enthusiastic, multiple factors have contributed to enrolment declining, such as scheduling conflicts with mandatory academic courses. This semester, Tamboline teaches two blocks of glass work, whereas in the past he has taught five straight blocks. “As a hobby in the public, [arts and crafts] has declined in favour and people are more into technology stuff rather than working with their hands,” Tamboline observes. “The arts and crafts
movement was big in the 60s and 70s, everyone wanted to make their own stuff, then it sort of died off and then in the 90s there was a little bit of a resurgence.” But courses where students can work with their hands are invaluable to students who need a creative outlet, or to students who might one day work in the trades or go down a non-traditional post-secondary path. “I think arts and crafts is extremely valuable, for just the different types of connections it makes in your head,” explains Tamboline. “I think it’s so important. We can’t all be talented at things, but we can still be creative. Even if you’re not using your own ideas in your designs, there’s still a creativity involved in getting it down for other people to see and then sharing it with us. That’s important.” Written by Laura Johnston
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While construction is not always a welcome sound, machines rolling on local school sites is like music to those living and working in some of Surrey’s fastest-growing neighbourhoods. Building has progressed on several school projects recently – the latest being a brand new elementary school that broke ground earlier this month near 23rd Avenue and 166th Street, temporarily dubbed Edgewood Drive-area elementary. The $33-million, 655-seat school is set to open in September 2021. “We’re on a roll now with school construction in Surrey and it’s great to see,” said Surrey Board of Education chair Laurie Larsen. Indeed, it is on a roll. In January, a contract was also awarded for construction to move ahead on another school in the bustling Clayton neighbourhood. Maddaugh Road Elemen-
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