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Mr. Nick. Pascuzzi, Principal Mr. David Dunkin, Vice-Principal Website: http://sd48howesound.org email: [email protected]
Updated: Dec. 2 2015 Volume 21 Issue 4
Dec. 8 PAC Mtg. 7 pm Dec. 9 Winter Gala Music Concert Dec. 18 Last Day of Classes before Winter Break Dec. 21 - Jan. 3 Winter Break Jan. 4 School Re-Opens Jan. 25 - 28 Provincial Exams
December 1, 2015
Dear Parents and Guardians,
It is hard to believe we are already into December! The past months have seen our students work extremely hard in their classes, in their extra-curricular op-portunities and in our community. We are excited about the coming month and about the recent accomplishments of Howe Sound students. Here are some highlights: Volleyball season wrapped up in the second week of November with our Jun-ior Girls Team being crowned district champions once again. Congratulations to all players and coaches. Our Sounders Football team finished their season on November 28th by play-ing in the Tier Two Provincial Final at BC Place vs Earl Marriot. While the boys were not successful in securing the championship, they played with in-tensity and represented our school with class. Congratulations to players and coaches on a great season and good luck to those players graduating and mov-ing on to new Post-Secondary Football opportunities. Our Winter Gala is coming up and our music students are very excited to showcase their talents to the greater community while raising money for a good cause. Tickets are $20 and are available in the front office. The event is scheduled for December 9, 2015 at 6:00pm. Please come join us in celebrating our music program! Additionally, basketball season is now underway. Our Senior Girls, Senior Boys, and Junior Boys are practicing and preparing for weekly games and tournaments. Please visit the school website to see schedules for each team, and come out and support our Sounders at home or away games during the season. Finally, as we move closer to Winter Break, I would like to take this oppor-tunity to wish you and your family a restful holiday. Upon our return from the break, we will have three weeks left before Semester 1 final exams! Exams are scheduled for the last week of January. More information will be forth-coming regarding final exams in the New Year. Please contact me at any time if you have any thoughts, questions or concerns regarding your child’s education. I can be reached by email at npascuzzi@sd48 or by phone at 604 892-5261 ext. 105. Regards, Nick Pascuzzi Principal
38430 Buckley Avenue P.O. Box 99 Squamish, BC V8B 0A1 604 892-5261 tel / 604 892-5618 fax Staff Email Address: 1st Letter of their first name AND full last [email protected]
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Winter Gala 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
6:00 pm Social 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm Concert
Silent Auction, Social, Dinner & Entertainment
by Howe Sound Secondary Performing Groups
Howe Sound Secondary &
Eagle Eye Theatre
Tickets $20 (Students $15) available at HSS office
or at the door
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“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
Leadership Class
This past month the HSS Leadership class has been extremely busy with putting on entertaining events for the students within our school and with volun-teering in our local community. At the moment a group of leadership students are volunteering at the annual Polar Express event that takes place at the Railway Heritage Museum the weekends before Christmas. Also, four of our students are currently working with the Salvation Army to help them raise money for the less fortunate this Christmas.
In November, the leadership students worked fierce-ly to run countless events for the school. A group of three students put on an exceptional Remembrance Day Assembly on November 10. Also, through the school’s leadership program, we got a chance to win our school $500 by recycling old cellphones. On November 12, the leadership class took part in a documentary film screening called “Take a Stand”, a film about B.C.’s threatened coasts . Moreover, stu-dents took part in a BC Hydro Energy Ambassador Program workshop, where they learned how to help our school become more sustainable and greener in the future.
This upcoming month, the leadership class looks forward on planning major Christmas events. A fun packed Christmas week will be organized for the students during the last week of school before Christmas break. Our school’s annual Christmas As-sembly will also be taking place on December 18th, the same day as this year’s Pajama Day!
Submitted by: Harbir Atwal and Salena Dhillon
Athletic Leadership
Athletic Leadership has seen an action packed calendar since the start of school. Our first major event this year was the Terry Fox Run, which went great! Not only was student participation high, but teacher participation as well! The school raised over $400 to donate towards cancer research. Students had lots of fun honouring Ter-ry Fox and keeping his legacy going and raising cancer awareness as a school.
An adventurous trip to We Day took place in October, which was a fun and exciting time for all of us. The at-mosphere was thrilling and very upbeat with energetic guests. The speeches were inspiring and spread a cool and positive vibe that everyone enjoyed.
Some projects we take on at Howe Sound include deliv-ering fruits/vegetables every few weeks to the entire school to promote a healthy lifestyle and how healthy food can be delicious. At Valleycliffe Elementary some of our Athletic Leadership help run the afterschool ac-tivities club which provides young students with lots of activities ranging from athletics to art activities. Taking care of the environment is also a priority Athletic Leadership, so every week we recycle all drink contain-ers and deliver items down to the bottle depot. Monies generated will be allocated to various charitable organi-zations throughout Squamish to assist those in need or provide some funding to support athletics at HSSS.
Recently, our school hosted a basketball officiating clin-ic for all secondary schools in the Sea to Sky district to help students referee and score- keep multiple games throughout the year to support our Junior and Varsity teams. Over the course of the school year, multiple intramurals will be planned and organized by our leadership to offer the student body something to keep them active at lunch time. Currently volleyball is being offered with basket-ball, soccer and badminton to follow.
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Did you know that HSS students, parents and staff have access to the following electronic re-sources?
Movies National Film Board of Canada Learn 360 Video Streaming (Similar to Net-
flix) La Collection de videos educatives (French
videos)
Check out our resources at: http://www.hssslearningcommons.com/videos1.html
(If you need usernames and passwords, come on by the library to pick up a bookmark with the passwords on it!) Digital Newspaper Howe Sound Secondary is participating in the "Newspapers in Education" program with The Vancouver Sun. Visit the library webpage: http://www.hssslearningcommons.com/newspapers.html Click on the "login" tab found in the top right corner. Our email address is: [email protected]
(Please see the librarian or ask a staff member
for the password if you forget it!) Enjoy watching movies & reading over the
Winter
Library News
OPPORTUNITIES
ABOUND IN CAREER
PROGRAMS
Post-Secondary Trades Train-ing while in High School!
Did you know that HSS students can acquire their first year apprenticeship training in Auto-Mechanics, Carpentry and Professional Cook? Our first year apprenticeship training in these courses is offered in conjunction with Vancouver Community College and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
We have space available in our Semester 2: Professional Cook 1 (PC1), partnered with Van-
couver Community College, Automotive Service Tech Foundation (AST) part-
nered with Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Equivalent to Carpentry Level 1 (Carp)
Students earn 16 graduation credits (4 grade 12 cours-es) plus post-secondary credentials. Carpentry runs after school, 3:30 to 8:30 pm and PC1 and AST run for 4 blocks during the school day. Tuition is funded by grants and costs for uniform, knives and books for PC1 is $415.00. AST and Car-pentry students pay $400.00 for books and materials/supplies. Please see Mrs. Schenk in the Career Programs Office
asap if you are interested. Students must register be-
fore the course begins, January 25, 2016.
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Aquatics
Congratulations to Alex Jevons who qualified for Provincials in multiple events, placing: For 50m Freestyle she placed 19th
For 50m Butterfly she placed 26th
For 50m Backstroke she made finals and placed 9th
For 100 IM she made finals and placed 16th
Girls Volleyball
Both the junior and Senior Girls Volleyball teams finished their seasons on a high note at the district cham-pionships in Whistler. It wasn't easy, but the girls maintained their intensity and drive for success right to the end. This determination really paid off for the Junior Girls with a big win at the district Championships where they beat Whistler in 4 exciting sets. Congrats girls! Both teams would like to thank their coaches for all their hard work and dedication. Winter sports are just getting organized with the following teams and coaches. Senior girls basketball Coach: Paul Wick, Sponsor teacher: Adam Quiring Junior boys basketball Coach: Toran Savjord, Sponsor teacher: Eric Jones Senior boys basketball Coach: Max Roy Many thanks to all the staff and community volunteers who make athletics at Howe Sound such an im-portant part of school culture.
Howe Sound Athletics
Ski/Snowboard Club
The ski/snowboard club has its first day on the mountain Dec 18th, 2015. If you are still inter-ested in signing up see Mr. Gregr ASAP or contact him at [email protected].
It has come to my attention that some students who have a full semester now may be interested in joining us for the 2 dates in the 2nd semester. If this is something that you may be interested
in, see Mr. Gregr
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HSS Bulletin Board
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Music Students travelling to California in April:
We are still hoping to receive at least $700 in payments or fund raised funds from each student prior to Christmas break. This is needed to pay for the airline tickets to California. Thanks so much!
Fran Booth
Art News
Please visit the new Howe Sound Secondary Art Class Page to view current student art work, students at work and other interesting info!
http://hssart.weebly.com
District Student Council Survey
The District Student Council is a group of student representatives from Whistler Secondary, Pemberton Secondary, Don Ross Middle School and Howe Sound Secondary.
The council choses a theme each year to raise awareness in the schools. This year, the council has chosen Global Awareness. To start off the year, the council has made a survey to see what students know about
this topic. Please find the link to the survey below. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2DVH9W3
North Shore Baseball
Anyone born between 1 May 1999 to 30 April 2001. Season will run from Mid-Late March till end June 2016.
Please text or email players full name, birth date and contact info to Joe Konkin Text: 604-379-7534
Email: [email protected] Deadline will be December 11, 2015