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December 2016 – January 2017 WWW.ROYALWESTACADEMY.COM DECEMBER 2016–JANUARY 2017 A Word From The Administration what great work RWA can do to help those less fortunate. During that week, students raised $9347 for Mr. Tony Pita, Principal the Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre, which offers Ms. Chantal Juhasz, Vice-Principal support programs and services for underprivileged Mr. Steven Manstavich, Vice-Principal communities in the southwest sector of Montreal. A special thank you to Ms. S. Di Pietro, Ms. D. Colannino, and Mme C. Goudreau for organizing the Toy Drive in which RWA sent over 400 toys to Westmount Park Elementary School, and the Food Drive that supported families from John Grant High School. We would also like to thank Mr. J. Bateman for organizing the Penny Wars event and our wonderful SLA and Mr. J. Zigby, Prefects, and Leadership students for all of their dedication during this most successful week. A Word From The Administration December 10 marked our second annual Hackathon The administration would like to wish members of the event (see page 7 for details). Students from Royal West Royal West Academy community a peaceful and Academy, Vincent Massey Collegiate, and Merton prosperous New Year! We hope you all enjoyed a Elementary School participated in a day of programming restful holiday surrounded by loved ones. code. Thank you to Mr. S. Nemeth, Mr. C. Northey, Mr. A. Vamvakas, and Mme L. Bourdeau for organizing We would also like to take this opportunity to extend a the event. warm welcome to our newest staff members: Our return to school in January has also been quite a Ms. C. Reece (School Organization Technician) busy one. During the week of January 23–27, RWA Ms. V. Di Manno (Night Caretaker) students wrote various supplemental exams in subjects Ms. G. Doldron (Special Education Technician) such as Math, Histoire, and Science and Technology. All The past two months have been eventful ones here at Secondary V students wrote the Français langue Royal West Academy. The week of December 12–16 seconde exams. We are proud of how hard our students saw RWA students and staff working together for a prepared for these exams. As well, during the week of wonderful cause. Homerooms competed against one January 30–February 3, 2017, RWA students will be another to see who could collect the most money, non- writing their mid-year examinations. Students are perishable food items, and toys to support the Tyndale working very hard to prepare for their exams. St-Georges Community Centre, John Grant High School, On January 17, RWA staff and students participated in and Westmount Park Elementary School. Our annual our annual Winter Carnival Day. Participation in this Penny Wars was a great success (see page 4 for details), year’s event was the highest in recent memory. The as all of our students and staff did a fantastic job event involved some great activities such as skiing, promoting the event and worked together to show snowboarding, hockey, tubing, cabane à sucre (see page 8 for details), and the opportunity to enjoy some meet with your child’s teacher at the upcoming Parent- in-school activities. Students and staff enjoyed the good Teacher Evening on March 16, 2017. If your child is not weather conditions and reported having a great time. returning to Royal West Academy, please send a letter Special thanks to the SLA (led by Mr. J. Zigby) for their to that effect as soon as possible. efforts in organizing this event. Finally, we know Montreal can be faced with some On January 26, RWA hosted its third Secondary I Parent harsh weather conditions that sometimes cause delays Seminar of the school year. The theme of this seminar in getting to school. We request that students and was how to help your child manage stressful situations. parents plan for these possible delays during the winter Our Student Services team discussed a variety of months. Student tardiness is extremely disruptive, and strategies that parents can utilize to help their child it stifles the learning process. We ask that parents and cope with the various stressors that occur in a high students make every effort to minimize late arrivals. school setting. This seminar was especially relevant Parents should still call the school or send a note if they given that our Secondary I students wrote mid-year expect their child to arrive late. Your cooperation is examinations for the first time. Many thanks go to greatly appreciated. Mr. J. Mateus and Ms. C. Almeida for the hard work Once again, all the best in the New Year! they put into creating this seminar. Royal West Academy will be holding some upcoming Grade Level trips. On February 7–10, 2017, Secondary V students will be participating in the annual New York City Trip, and our Secondary II students will have the opportunity to participate in the annual Stoneham Ski Trip. HABS Raffle Scores at RWA On February 23, 2017, RWA will host its annual Science By Mr. Mitchell White, RWAF President Fair (see page 4 for details). Approximately 400 For the past four years, I have been intimately involved students participate in our annual fair, while many in raising over $450,000 for the Royal West Academy others will volunteer their services. Parents are Foundation. There is nothing more exciting and reminded that only those students participating in the successful for our school than the HABS raffle we have Science Fair are expected to attend school that day. going on. To date, the HABS raffles from previous years Parents and students are free to visit the fair during the have raised almost half of all the fundraising that we school day or the evening session. have done since I came on board. Students and parents have already received the This year, Sheila 2017–2018 Course Selection forms. This document Fanzolato won serves as your child’s registration form for next year. the early bird Students presently in Secondary I are required to select draw for a set of their Arts course despite not yet having completed their tickets to the three rotations of Music, Visual Arts, and Drama. February 4, 2017 Students may revise their choice for elective courses game against later in the year. Any student, at any level, can change Washington. selections any time between January and June by Congratulations! forwarding to the Administration a letter signed by a Thanks to all who parent. Placement in an elective of your choice is have purchased Ms. Taylor (right) draws the early contingent on number of students enrolled, marks, and to date. bird winner with Mitchell White. prerequisites. If you are concerned about your child’s placement in Math or French, we encourage you to If you win the actual raffle, you could win up to 10-sets of season tickets in the Desjardins Section. Go to 2 [email protected] DECEMBER 2016–JANUARY 2017 https://rwaf.ca/shop/raffle-tickets/canadiens-hockey- Centre for our children. The $2.2 million campaign will raffle/ and purchase your tickets now. A little help goes enhance our out dated auditorium, which is currently a long way and it is for our children!!! Thank you! inadequate for the scale and quality of productions mounted within. The auditorium plays a central role in Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death the entire academic life of the school and in the wide Call for Door Prizes variety of extra-curricular learning opportunities at By Ms. Carole Shemie Royal West Academy. Save the date! Royal West Academy’s very own Doug If you have any questions, would like to volunteer, or Floen is hard at work producing Agatha Christie’s have any fundraising ideas, contact the foundation at Appointment by Death. This play, which will feature [email protected]. You can also make a donation actors from the school community (students, staff, and at http://rwaf.ca. alumni), will be performed at RWA on April 13, 2017, in support of the Sharing the Stage With You capital MADD Ceremony campaign. By Nicole Stafiej Do you have access to any gift certificates, gift baskets, November 30 was a day to remember for sport/theatre tickets, AIR MILES, etc. that could be Royal West Academy students and staff. We were given away as a door prize? This is a call out to parents honoured to hold a memorial ceremony to to donate items to give as door prizes at the commemorate a former RWA student who was the performance. Please send anything that you would like victim of a drunk driving crash. to donate (new items only) to the office and to the attention of the RWAF. The ceremony was held by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD is a charitable organization that brings Royal West Academy Foundation awareness to the issue of impaired driving, with the The RWAF is run by volunteer parents and is currently hope of bringing an end to it. The ceremony was filled focused on transforming our over 80-year-old with touching moments as we received speeches from auditorium into a state-of-the-art Performing Arts various individuals. 3 [email protected] DECEMBER 2016–JANUARY 2017 Firstly, the president of MADD Montreal, Debby Coveny, The day will end with the awards ceremony, where all spoke to us about the organization itself. This gave the Science Fair participants, family, friends, and judges are students and staff insight into what the charity is all all welcome to attend. Hope to see you there! about. For more information, contact Jennifer Pevec at We were then privileged to listen to Kiki Souranis, [email protected].
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