HARRY AINLAY HIGH SCHOOL Where Character Counts

Principal’s Message

Semester 1 is complete with positive results. Many students completed semestered courses and

began new courses February 1, while the majority are continuing with full year classes. I am

very pleased to announce a 96% pass rate for students in their first semester courses. With that

being said, we still need to concentrate on keeping up with our students by reviewing course

material, keeping good notes, attending extra help sessions when needed and balancing activities.

Keep good communication with school and home by looking at our website and using school

zone for information.

This semester we have a few new teachers who have joined our staff Melaine Masson,

Katherine Hutter and Colleen Pearce. I want to welcome our new SRO Constable Scott Plesuk

to Harry Ainlay as he is replacing Constable Dale Myhre who is temporarily promoted to acting

sergeant. Also joining our team is Stan Seifiddine (educational assistant) in the Interactions

Program, Benedict Hipol (custodian), Peter Ruttan as our new head chef in the cafeteria and

Joanne Bonkowski (cosmetology technician).

As this semester continues I would encourage all parents to attend our Parent Council, next

monthly meeting is Monday, March 22.

Helpful Reminders

1) Check school zone for important information.

2) Call in for student absences.

3) Encourage students to get involved in school life ie. track & field, clubs, etc.

David M. Jones

Principal

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Superintendent of Schools

Edgar Schmidt

Assistant Superintendent

Jenise Bidulock

Ward Trustee

Catherine Ripley

Principal

David M. Jones

Harry Ainlay High School

4350-111 Street

Edmonton, Alberta

T6J 1E8

Ph. 780-413-2700

Fax 780-438-1465

ATHLETICS

Basketball

Jr. Men’s Basketball – We are undefeated in

season play with just over two weeks left in the

regular season. We still have to face Jasper

Place, Ross Shep and Scona in season play and

could use all the fan support possible. The boys

are excited to finish up regular season play and

jump into playoffs. After a hard fought battle in

the semi-finals of Jr. Tri-Prov, the team

overcame Jasper Place School for 3rd

place in

the tournament.

Bike Tour Team

Harry Ainlay MS Bike Tour Team

Congratulations to Stephen Smolski who won

Harry Ainlay’s T-Shirt competition this year.

Football

The football players are

currently training twice a

week before school to get

ready for the 2010 football

season. They meet in the mornings at 7:45 am

to work on strength, speed and agility in the new

Harry Ainlay Fitness Centre. The senior team is

looking forward to defending their city

championship title this year and the junior team

hopes to return to the city finals. The senior

team will be travelling to California to play an

exhibition game against a team from Coronado,

CA near San Diego and are currently

fundraising for that. Please keep posted for

dates of the spring camp for both Grade 9’s and

current Harry Ainlay Players. For all

information regarding Harry Ainlay Football be

sure to visit our great website at this is only for

http://ainlay.ca/athletics/teams/football/.

Golf Team

Although there is still snow on the ground,

golfing season will soon be upon us. The

tournaments are during the school day and take

place at golf courses in the Edmonton area. If

you are in Grade 10 or 11 and are interested in

joining the golf team, please see Mrs. Bandola

in Room 439 or Mr. Fung in Room 640.

Water Polo

Titans Water Polo is back for a second season

this year. So far the team has won its first two

games (14-2 and 30-1). With a large number of

returning players from last year, the team is

improving much faster than last year. We have

4 more league games and are hoping to improve

on last year’s 3rd

place finish.

CALM

HEALTHY MINDS – BRIGHT FUTURES

Students in Career and Life Management are

learning about the six dimensions of wellness

including physical, intellectual, social, spiritual,

vocational and mental. The focus at the present

time is on mental wellness. The classroom

presentation reduces stigma around mental

illnesses and helps the students to understand

the difference between feeling blue and

experiencing a serious depression.

The most important factor for success for

dealing with a mental health issue is support.

Teachers are a part of their students’ support

system. The booklet developed by the ATA

(Alberta Teachers’ Association) and CMHA

(Canadian Mental Health Association), entitled

Compassionate Classrooms-Understanding

Student Mental Health is presented and

distributed to each CALM student during

regular CALM classes.

The www.ok2bblue website is an amazing

website presented to students and is another

resource for strategies to deal with students in

sensitive situations.

FRENCH IMMERSION

Our French Immersion students and teachers

have begun a very busy second semester of

celebrations and activities. To kick off the

second semester, French Immersion staff, along

with students Kirsten LePage, Alyssa

Hammer, Nicole Terry, and Blair Warren

were present at the French Immersion

Information night on February 1

to answer

questions from students and parents. The

evening was designed to provide information to

grade nine students and their parents who wish

to come to Harry Ainlay High School.

Zone by Marcel Dubé (our French Play)

On Tuesday and Wednesday, February 23 and

24, some of our Grade 12 French Immersion

students performed in front of their peers and

other French Immersion students. The Grade 8

French Immersion students from Avalon,

Kenilworth and McKernan Junior High Schools

were also in the audience.

Félicitations! Chapeau!.

Franco 7

M. Marc Farley, M. Jean-Proulx, a group of

Harry Ainlay French Immersion students, and

staff offered their assistance to the French

Immersion Junior High Schools in the district

on Monday, February 22, at Fort Edmonton

Park. Our students spent the entire day working

with narrators, actors, musicians and teachers to

present aspects of French Canadian culture to

students from five of the district’s immersion

schools. Junior high students spent the day

learning about music, dance, traditional clothing

and early history while being immersed in the

surroundings of Fort Edmonton. The day is a

unique way for Harry Ainlay High School

students to share their language skills and

knowledge with over 250 young students who

have been developing their love for a second

language.

DELF

Harry Ainlay High School is proud to offer for

the third year, to our French Language Arts 30

and 30I students, the opportunity to write the

DELF or DALF exam. Le Diplôme d'études de

langue française (DELF) and le Diplôme

Approfondi de la Langue Française are an

international diploma officially awarded by the

French Ministry of Education to certify the

French language skills of individuals from

outside France. Students will write the DELF in

April. They will be assessed on the same

international language standards as candidates

in 161 countries. The diploma will also certify

their French language achievements and enrich

their résumés.

INTERNATIONAL

BACCALAUREATE

We are now officially half way through the

school year and continue to see growth and

improvement from the excellent group of

students involved in the IB program. Grade 12

IB students have already handed in many of

their major internal assessment material in

courses such as English, French and History.

We would like to congratulate all full Diploma

students for completion of the Viva Voce and

Extended Essay. Full Diploma Students are

reminded that the deadline for completion of

CAS Logs is Monday March 1, and Science

IA materials are due in prior to Friday, March

5. Japanese, German and Spanish IA’s will

occur in early March. Students should consult

their agenda books for the schedule.

All Grade 12 IB students should be starting to

set aside some study time for review of

previously covered curriculum as the May

Exams will sneak up on us before we know it.

The IB Art Examinations will be held on April

7 and 8. The IB Art Show has been rescheduled

to Friday April 9. Please attend this outstanding

exhibition!

All students who registered to write IB exams in

May must attend a MANDATORY information

session on Thursday April 15, in the Theatre.

Exam protocol will be covered and an exact

timetable of exams will be handed out at this

meeting. Students will also fill out an IB

Transcript request form at the meeting.

Grade 10 and 11 students will need to start

considering possible courses that they will follow

in the IB program next year. Registration for next

year will happen in a few short months. Students

should try to investigate courses they need for

entrance into the post-secondary institution of

their choice in order to pursue their desired career

path. Students and parents should also visit

http://www.ibo.org/ibna/recognition/slideh.cfm

which houses an incredible reference bank of

information about IB admission and award

policies around the globe.

If students have any questions or concerns about

the IB program, please see Ms. Fischer in

Room 440 (am) or 305 (pm) in the near future.

Diploma Schedule

To ensure the most optimal level of achievement as well as the most accurate results, it is imperative

students write exams on scheduled exam days. Therefore students who are unable to write June exams

for reasons that can be altered (ie. vacations, general medical appointments, etc), opportunity will be

provided to write all missed exams on Friday, August 27, 2010. Please contact Ms. Belyea if such an

arrangement needs to be made. Although the diploma schedule is already set for June, the remainder of

the schedule will be posted on School Zone in the next few weeks as our Semester 2 classes settle.

FASHION

Spring Cleaning?

The Fashion Studies program accepts donations

of fabric, yarn and sewing supplies. Please

contact Mrs. Hyland at 780-413-2700 ext 2224

to arrange for drop off.

FITNESS

Harry Ainlay Fitness Centre renovations are

complete. The new facility has an expanded free

weight area and multipurpose space for core,

BOSU, kettlebell, stability ball, Dynaband,

medicine ball and plyometric training. Adjacent

to the Fitness Centre is the classroom and Dance

Studio where the Sports Performance classes

can do their training, agility, yoga and stretching

programs. Watch for events this spring like

Womens Workout Wednesdays and Fitness with

your Family.

FINE ARTS

Improv Troupe

Improv is alive and well and thriving at Harry

Ainlay! This year, we have a Senior Team and

two Junior Teams. The students have started

doing a lunch hour Improv show once a week.

The shows will be every Wednesday in March

from 12 – 12:30 pm in the Theatre. Since it is a

lunch show, we appreciate help from the

audience cleaning up at the end of the show.

The Wildfire Festival commences, this week, at

the Varscona Theatre. Hosted by the Rapid Fire

Theatre Company, the festival runs Feb. 23 – 28

for Canadian Improv Games (CIG Provincials)

and March 3 – 7

for Nosebowl 2010

(TheatreSports™). Our Senior Team is

competing in both tournaments on the following

days: Wed., Feb 24 at 7 pm (CIG), and March 3

and 5 at 7 pm (Nosebowl). If they make it into

the Finals, they will be playing on the

weekends, as well. Admission to all

performances are $5 for students (must have

school ID) and $10 for adults. Tickets are

available in advance from tix on the square or at

the door. Please arrive by 6:30 pm to make sure

you can get in – the Varscona is a small theatre!

The local Improv Show will be held Friday,

March 19 at 7 pm in the Harry Ainlay Theatre.

Tickets are $10 and will be available for sale in

the Rotunda starting March 10. All three teams

will showcase their talents, accompanied by

special guests.

One Acts

Preparations for the 2010 One Act Festival are

now under way. The festival is comprised of 15

plays directed by 21 Drama 30 students and

involves over 50 actors and 30 technicians! The

festival runs the week of April 12 – 16, 2010.

Watch for more details!

Dance

We are very excited to be using our new Dance

Studio to start off semester two. The facility is

equipped with one full wall of mirrors, ballet

barres and a state-of-the-art sprung, hardwood

floor. Attached to the new Fitness Centre, the

space is utilized by dance classes, physical

education classes and students for extra-

curricular activities. At the end of April, the

dance students and dance club members will be

showcasing their work in the annual Good Foot

Dance Showcase. Performances will be on

April 28 and 29, 2010 at 7 pm in the Theatre.

We will be celebrating International Dance Day

on April 29!

SCIENCE

You may or may not know that we did quite

well in last fall’s CIC crystal growing

competition: Third in best overall (Ranek Kiil,

Stephanie Bohaichuk, Ulysses Chin), Fifth in

best quality (Dev Dutta, Derek Wong, Julia

Jin) and First in the teacher division (Aura

Pombert), resulting in monetary prizes for the

school. To see the results of the

http://ncwsnc.cheminst.ca/crystal/xlr2009.html

STUDENT COUNCIL

Semester 2 begins! Can you believe that half the

year is already over? Student Council has been

busy as always making Harry Ainlay THE best

high school in Edmonton.

Highlights of the first semester include:

- A week of Scary Ainlay Rotunda

activities culminating the costume

contest,

- TVT – the biggest Volleyball

tournament in western Canada

- and who could forget possibly the most

exciting Dodgeball tournament we have

personally ever seen here!

And it isn’t just all school activities, Harry

Ainlay has always given back to the community

and help those in need!

Remember the:

- Christmas Hampers donations,

- or the Junior High leadership

conference,

- or the Mckee winter celebration? thanks

for all of your help!

But now’s the time to be looking ahead! In

Semester 2, be looking forward to:

Blood Donor Clinic – Donate blood to help out

those in need! Happening on the last week of

February

Tri-Prov - Biggest and Best Basketball

tournament around! Happening on the first and

second week of February

Skateboard Olympics – A weeklong Rotunda

activity tournament style! More details to come,

happening in March

Alberta Student Leadership Conference –

hosted by Ainlay this year! One of the stops is

the WEM waterpark, need I say more?

Happening in May.

Aloha Ainlay – Pina Coladas and beach shorts,

happening for the first time ever OUTDOORS

in June!

And these are some of the big ones. Listen to the

announcements everyday to keep track of all the

things happening at Harry Ainlay.

The Time is NOW Titans!

Calvin Ho and Shivani Upadhyaya

Change for Change

In February, Harry Ainlay held a fundraising

campaign “Change for Change” for the Haitian

Earthquake Relief led by Kriti Singh and

Sameer Dhar, under the guidance of Mr.

Heidt and Ms. Fischer. From February 2 to

February 12 a large, clear box, made by Mr.

Mazur’s students, was placed in the center of

the Rotunda to collect any loose change that

students were willing to donate. Additionally,

from February 8 to 12, volunteers collected

large tax deductable cash and cheque donations.

The total amount collected for the Red Cross

and Free the Children foundations by the 12th

of

February was $6,700.00 The Canadian

government matched our donations, therefore

the total contribution from Harry Ainlay was

approximately $13,400.00 The ability of our

school to come together and achieve such a

great goal is truly commendable and this

campaign clearly serves as an example of how

anything is possible when a group of young

people work towards a common goal. Well done

Titans!

Back row from left to right

Kriti Singh, Ms. Fischer (guidance) and Sameer Dhar