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Commission scolaire English-Montréal ~ English Montreal School Board EMSB www.emsb.qc.ca volume 21 | number 1 | FALL 2017 See our SPECIAL Eat,Grow,Learn SECTION pages 14-18 CREDITS: FOOD ICONS: VELIRINA / LLUSTRATION OF LIGHTBULB: QIUN ISTOCK Top, Pre-K students from Gerald McShane Elementary School in Montreal North get ready to enjoy their ever so healthy fruit kabobs. At the right, Brianna Haikalis and Michael Tablan from Westmount High showcase their Eco-Shoes made from corn starch. Please see our special four page Nutrition section inside this edition. A CERTIFICATE EMSB adds TO SEE A MOVIE AT more schools See page 2. THEATRES OR INSIDE THIS EDITION TICKETS TO Montreal Alouettes, Chairman’s Message . 2 SPECIAL SECTION: Eat, Grow, Learn . 14-18 Laval Rocket & DateBook. 3 Sports Capsule. 19 2 Commissioners . 3 St. Léonard Montreal e High School Open House . 20 North Arctic Junior AAA W g ExpressLine. 4 h a p games this fall er e DG’s Message . 5 e t se o find us, Bulletin de la CSEM . 6 Career Fair. 6 TM SCHOOL Volunteers Appreciation CALENDAR Evening . 7-13 see page 18 2017-18 See page 5 2 www.emsb.qc.ca EMSB EXPRESS | vol. 21 | No 1 | FALL 2017 Être bilingue, c’est gagnant! by ANGELA MANCINI barked upon the most ambitious branding exercise in our history Our promotional and mar - under the theme “Être bilin - keting initiatives are getting gue, c’est gagnant! The recognized. campaign included billboards, When the English Montreal brochures, newspaper advertise - School Board was established in ments, shopping bags and 1998, the enrolment in our youth television commercials. The sector was just more than 25,000. objective was to emphasize the As it continued to grow, the then excellent bilingual education Parti Québecois government provided to students, using a implemented new measures to catchy unilingual French slogan. further tighten the language res - We worked with our French trictions. As a result of that, simple consultants, beginning the process demographics and a lower birth with over 30 potential slogans and rate saw our student population finally coming up with this one. begin to drop signi ficantly to By highlighting our excellence in the point that it fell below 20,000 French instruction, we want to last year. Conversely, our Adult persuade more parents to choose Education and Vocational the EMSB for their children. PHOTO BY NATACHA ROUSSEAU Services (AEVS) sector went I am pleased to report that at from some 12,000 students upon the annual Spring Conference of our inception to almost 25,000. the Quebec English School Last fall, though, we received Boards Association last May in some encouraging news as our Bromont, EMSB Communi - enrolment numbers for youth came cations and Marketing Specialist in at 19,345 students. This was a Mike Cohen was presented with drop of only 24 from the previous an Award of Excellence in year. That is a far cry from the Education in the Public School several hundred we had been Promotion category, by a panel For our CTV Montreal commercials promoting Open House season, EMSB Chairman Angela Mancini was joined on camera by (second row) left to right: Catrina Nguyen, General Vanier Elementary School in St. Léonard; Damiano losing. So, with more than 44,000 of external judges for our “Être Di Biase and Brianna Johan, John F. Kennedy High School in St. Michel; and (first row), Emily Troy, Nesbitt students in total, we are indeed the bilingue, c’est gagnant!” Elementary School in Rosemount; Anthony Trudeau, General Vanier; and Benicio Cardoso, St. Dorothy Elementary largest English public school board campaign. School in St. Michel. Thanks to the students from The Laurier Macdonald Career Centre for their assistance with in Quebec. We have decided to continue providing the makeup sessions for our young TV stars. It is very important to showcase to focus on that theme this year as what we do. Last year we em - well as promoting our wonderful success rate, the highest among our Facebook page had 4,600 TV project will be expanding. any public school board in likes. We are now at well over There are so many great things Quebec. Every day we hear of 10,000. You can follow us on occurring at the EMSB and we something special going on in our Twitter, Instagram, YouTube take pride in disseminating all of schools and centres and thanks to and Vimeo. Soon, our EMSB this information. the local media and our own platforms we get the word out. EMSB Social media remains an im - portant vehicle for us at the central EMSB ADDS MORE board level and at our schools Produced by the Communications and and centres. Last year at this time STEAM SCHOOLS Marketing Services Division of the The EMSB has announced the expansion of its very English Montreal School Board successful STEAM initiative for the 2017-2018 academic 6000 Fielding Avenue, Montreal (Quebec) H3X 1T4 year. “STEAM” stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. It represents a @EnglishMTL Phone: (514) 483-7200, ext. 7245 multi-disciplinary initiative that promotes creativity Fax: (514) 483-7213 and high levels of student engagement, as they E-mail: [email protected] perform a series of group projects that not only Web site: www.emsb.qc.ca involve five school subject domains, but also makes vimeo.com youtube.com them more relevant, creative, discovery-based and /emsb /emsb interesting for students. STEAM is subject-specific Editor: Michael J. Cohen Communications & Marketing Specialist, EMSB learning. It aims to foster inquiring minds, logical reasoning, and collaboration skills. Joining pilot Copy Editors: Elaine Cohen, Manon Bourassa project schools General Vanier in St. Léonard and Pierre Translation: Manon Bourassa Elliott Trudeau in Rosemount will be 10 elementary Layout & design: Ponctuation Grafix Inc. schools Elizabeth Ballantyne in Montreal West, Pierre de www.ponctuation.com Coubertin and Honoré-Mercier in St. Léonard, Coronation W : in Côte des Neiges; Westmount Park; Carlyle in TMR; s Legal Deposit: Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec h u Gardenview in St. Laurent; Michelangelo in RDP; Dalkeith ILLUSTRATION: ANIKEI, ISTOCK er d National Library of Canada e to fin in Anjou; Bancroft in the Plateau; and two high schools: ISSN 1488-416X John Paul I in St. Léonard and James Lyng in St. Henri. EMSB EXPRESS | vol. 21 | No 1 | FALL 2017 www.emsb.qc.ca 3 DATEBOOK EMSB COMMISSIONERS 2017 LES COMMISSAIRES DE LA CSEM WARD 4 WARD 10 September 8 December 10 (Côte Saint-Luc/Hampstead): (Rivière-des-Prairies/ World Literacy Day Human Rights Day Pointe-aux-Trembles) September 10 December 25, 2017 National Grandparents’ Day to January 8, 2018 ANGELA MANCINI October 5 Christmas Break Chairman / Présidente World Teachers Day BERNARD PRAW Vice-Chairman, Education Committee / JOE ORTONA 2018 Vice-président, Comité de l’éducation Chairman, Governance & Ethics October 2 to 9 WARD 7 Vice-Chairman, Human Resources Committee / Président, Comité de Fire Prevention Week (Ahuntsic/Montreal North): Committee / Vice-président, Comité des gouvernance et de déontologie / www.afleq.ca January 2018 ressources humaines Vice-Chairman, Finance Committee / Vice-président, Comité financier EMSB Public School October 10 Education Month Thanksgiving WARD 5 (St. Laurent): PARENT January 27 COMMISSIONERS October 16 Family Literacy Day SYLVIA LO BIANCO World Food Day (www.fld-jaf.ca) Vice-Chairman / Vice-présidente Chairman, Human Resources Advisory October 18 and 19 Committee / Présidente, Comité February 2018 consultatif des ressources humaines Career Fair for Black History Month Vice-Chairman, Adult Education & High School Students Vocational Services Advisory Committee / JAMES KROMIDA Hosted by EMSB Student Services February 5 to 9 Vice-présidente, Comité consultatif des Chairman, Executive Committee / Department and Adult Education and Services de l’éducation des adultes et Président, Comité exécutif Kindergarten de la formation professionnelle Chairman, Audit and Finance Committee / Vocational Services JASON TRUDEAU St. Pius X Career Centre Registration Week Président, Comité de vérification et Comité financier Elementary Schools 9955 Papineau, Ahuntsic Écoles primaires February 5 to 9 WARD 1 November 6 to 10 Teacher Appreciation (Côte des Neiges/Snowdon/Outremont/ National Media Week (Quebec) Town of Mount Royal/Park Extension): WARD 6 (St. Michel/Villeray/Plateau Mont Literacy Week Royal/Ville-Marie East): www.medialiteracyweek.ca February 12 to 16 Teacher Appreciation November 11 Week (Canada) Remembrance Day MARIO BENTROVATO February 12 to 16 MORDECHAI ANTAL Secondary Schools November 20 to 24 Hooked on School Days Chairman, Education Committee Écoles secondaires Professionals in Président, Comité de l’éducation AGOSTINO CANNAVINO Education Week March 2018 EMSB Nutrition Month November 23 and 24 WARD 2 WARD 8 Quebec Provincial March 5 to 9 (Montreal West / NDG): (St. Léonard): Teachers Association March Break (QPAT) Convention Palais des Congrès, Montreal April 12 JOANNE CHARRON Terry Fox Day ACSES / CCSAS MEETINGS April 23 to 29 JOSEPH LALLA PATRICIA LATTANZIO National Volunteer Week Co-chairman, Transportation Advisory Co-Chairman, Transportation Advisory The EMSB council of commissioners meet Committee / Coprésident, Comité Committee / Coprésidente, Comité consultatif de transport consultatif de transport / in public once a month. They convene at May 14 to 18 Vice-Chairman, Governance and Ethics 4:30 p.m., only to adopt the agenda, Daycare Appreciation Week Committee / Vice-présidente, Comité de and move in camera. Therefore the WARD 3 gouvernance et de déontologie session for the public convenes at (Westmount/Sud Ouest/ NORM GHARIBIAN 7:30 p.m. and is held in the Laurence Ville-Marie West): No Designation September 27, 2017 WARD 9 Aucune désignation Patterson Con ference Room of the • October 25, 2017 (Anjou/Mercier/ administration building at 6000 Fielding • Hochelaga Maisonneuve/ Avenue. Everyone is welcome to attend. • November 29, 2017 part of Rosemont, Petite Patrie) Please note that occasionally during December 20, 2017 the year special meetings are called.