VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4 Bear Clause DECEMBER 15, 2010 Laurentian Regional High School 448 Argenteuil Avenue CHRISTMAS BREAK Lachute, QC J8H 1W9 December 24, 2010 Telephone: 450-562-8571 Fax: 450-562-5494 to Principal: Josée Côté Vice-Principal: Nadia Anwar January 7, 2011 January 10th is a SIR WILFRID LAURIER FOUNDATION Pedagogical Day at LRHS SWLF - More than $340,000 donated board. to the schools and centres of the SWLSB Ticket: $225 ($112.50 income tax receipt per ticket) Since its creation in 2004, the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Foundation has donated Door prizes, surprises, silent auction and more than $340,000 to the schools and fabulous entertainment await you! centres of the SWLSB. The Foundation’s next fundraising event; MUSIC AND For more information, please contact SHOW FESTIVAL will be held on Thurs- Susan O’Keeffe at 450-621-5600 exten- th day, January 13 , 2011 at Le Château sion 1351 or by email at info- Royal in Laval. [email protected] Attention: Grads We hope you can join us in our annual Photo retakes to be taken celebration and kick off the New Year in library—Friday, This year’s: December 17th— with a bang! We promise you a memorable 1st period evening of music and dancing. Group pictures with • Book Fair made a profit of friends - to be taken The evening’s proceeds will help the $800. Foundation’s finance, technical and cul- during lunch • Golf Tournament raised $5 per student (each stu- tural projects in the schools and centres dent will receive a 5 x 7 of of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board $3600. his/her group picture) as well as offer 100 Citizenship bursaries to graduating students throughout the Thank you for your support! This year our Christmas Breakfast VOLUNTEERS NEEDED CLC will be held Thursday, LRHS is currently looking for volun- Upcoming Spring Event December 23, 2010 teers. Do you have a free hour once We are planning a Craft Fair at LRHS. If you 8:30-10:30 a.m. or twice a week? We would love to are interested in participating in this event, Cost: $3.00 see you here. Contact Mme. Côté please contact either Tim Foreman 450-562- for more information at 450-562- 8571 ext. 8449, e-mail tifore- 8571. [email protected] or Jan Hannan at 450- 621-5600 ext. 8332, e-mail [email protected]. BEAR CLAUSE PAGE 2 LRHS STANDS UP! This year at LRHS a group of students voice to children silenced by poverty, war have come together as Leaders Reacting and oppression. to Help create Social change. With the help of the Canadian Organization Free On Parents Night many of you met our the Children they have decided to Stand group and helped them towards their goal Up and make a difference in our world. of building a school in Kenya by purchasing Free The Children is the world’s largest baked goods, raffle tickets and bracelets. network of children helping children This one evening helped us raise over through education, with more than one $377. the Children came to our school and told million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 us what Free the Children was all about The Brick by Brick campaign helps our countries. Founded in 1995 by interna- and how they could help us become leaders students stays motivated and reach their tional child rights activist Craig Kielburger and make a difference in the world. They goal of $8500 to build a school in Kenya. when he was 12, Free The Children has a then invited us to WE DAY in Montreal So far we have raised $900 but we still proven track record of success. The or- where students from all over Quebec and have a long way to go. ganization has received the World’s Chil- Ottawa came together to get inspired by dren’s Prize for the Rights of the Child Craig Kielburger, Mia Ferro, Marc (also known as the Children’s Nobel Prize) Garneau, Simple Plan, and others to en- How you can get involved: and the Human Rights Award from the courage us to be leaders of today. World Association of Non-Governmental This Christmas season make a donation in Organizations. In October the students blanketed the a friend or family member’s name to Free school in posters and information about the Children and give the gift of educa- Free The Children empowers children in hunger issues in Canada and in our commu- tion. We will have Christmas cards avail- North America to take action to improve nity. They informed the school that over 1 able at the school with an insert explaining the lives of fellow children overseas. Their million Canadian children go hungry every our campaign and our progress. These are local leadership initiatives bring leadership day and that over 40% of food banks have free with any donation over $10 and a tax and inspiration to tens of thousands of less food then the demand. They then ran receipt will be provided. During Christmas youth across Canada. Their international a Cookies for Canned goods campaign. For Breakfast students will also be selling new projects, led by our adopt a village pro- every canned good brought to school the and gently used jewelry to help raise gram, have brought over 650 schools and students were given a cookie for their funds. water projects to communities around the generosity. Two days later the secondary 5 drama students created a haunted house world. We are always looking for financial dona- and charged 2 canned goods or a dollar as tions as well as donations of raffle items, entrance. This campaign raised over $250 The LRHS Stands Up group decided that and volunteers to help supervise events. and over 300 pounds of food. this year’s goal would be to create aware- If you would like more information please ness of hunger in our community as well as contact Katrine Marrin at the school. th raise $8500 to build a school in Kenya and On November 19 some of our students decided to participate in the Vow of Si- give other children an opportunity to go to Thank you for your support and stay tuned lence. They joined thousands of students school. for more information on our January 24 around Canada who stood up for children’s hour fast! rights by saying nothing at all. By staying In September youth leaders from Free silent they raised awareness to help give a MAGAZINE CAMPAIGN This year’s Magazine Campaign was a great success with 491 subscrip- Several students won cash prizes. Also: tions ordered totaling $14,995. Our school earns 37% of the net sale. • Kendra Beaven won a camcorder Congratulations to this year’s top sellers from each level: • Samantha Dubois won a mini cooler Sec. I—Ebony Foucault—42 subscriptions • Maunika Fournier won the i-Boo Docking Station Sec. II—Emma Provencal—21 subscriptions Magazines can still be ordered online at www.qsp.ca Sec. III—Maunika Fournier—19 subscriptions (school code:13621). Sec. IV—Katelyn MacLeod—11 subscriptions Please allow 10-14 weeks for delivery of magazines. Sec. V—Kendra Beaven—12 subscriptions Thank you for supporting this year’s Campaign. VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4 PAGE 3 LEVEL 1 AWARDS ASSEMBLY FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT—NOV 30/10 1st Term Honour Roll (Aug 31-Nov 2, 2010) English Carly Bennett 94 Jayson Barrette Matisse Gauthier 92 Shane Black Emilie Vaillancourt 92 Louis-Carl Boivin Jenna Hammond 91 Meghan Corrigan Courtney Murdoch 91 Kaynan Di Lillo Emma Beaudoin 90 Kyev Gouveia Rebecca Bouchard 90 Melanie Guay Jessica Charlebois 90 Kecha Lange Madison Le Gallee 90 Alyssa Lavoie Samuel Richer 90 Jagori Lussier Megan Drouin 89 Nicholas Morel Alexandra Giorgis-Audrain 89 Dylan Papineau Zoe Heid-Craig 89 Thomas Provencal Megara Barnes 88 Alexander Raeburn-Madden Meghan Leblanc 88 Andrew Traynor-Cholette LRHS Choir Emma Mongeau 88 Carson Turnbull Gabriel Vincent 88 William Valergakis Hey, do you like Julie Lively 87 to sing? If so, Samuel Lizotte 87 ERC the LRHS choir is Brielle McAndrew 87 Louis-Carl Boivin Jesse McDonald 87 Katrin Dimitrova the place for you. Karyanne Muro 87 Charlyann Laurin Rehearsals are Kayla Paulini 87 Kevin Ogilvie Tuesdays after Zachary Riendeau 87 Frederick Poirier school. All sing- Brandon Ronalds 87 Brandyn Taylor-Jodry ers are welcome. Michèle Bigras 86 Robert Turcotte Don’t be shy and Vincenzo Manzone 86 give it a try. See Stefany Moran 86 FSL, Enriched Mr. Stagg in the Shawn Mulrey 86 Louis-Carl Boivin music room if you Angélie Parent 86 Meghan Corrigan Andrew-John Proulx 86 Danyka Lajeunesse have any ques- Kellyane Rochon-Racine 86 tions. Brooklyn Urbain 86 French Daniel Ward 86 Victoria Barlow Kayliane Degray 85 Dominic Bonneau Benjamin Lawson 85 Kristopher Mc Phee Simon Martellino 85 Geography Art Catherine Bigras Emilie Rose Butler Laura Iafigliola Kyev Gouveia Reid McCullough Megan Larose Madysson Peres Kalena Pisano Keanu Senghakenechanh Kate Roche Brandyn Taylor-Jodry Carson Turnbull William Valergakis Dance Ebony Foucault Madison Mussgnug LEVEL 1 AWARDS AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SECONDARY V ASSEMBLY FOR STUDENT STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT—NOV 30/10 History & Citizenship Burger King Scholars Jayson Barrette http://www.haveityourwayfoundation.org/burger_king_scholars_program.html th Kecha Lange Deadline: January 10 2011 Sarah St-Jean Amount of Scholarship: $1,000 awards Carson Turnbull Meghan Williams National Award: $25,000 “KING” National Award Regional Award: $5,000 Regional Awards Mathematics (Enriched) Madison Le Gallee Applicants must: Samuel Lizotte • Be residents of Canada Vincenzo Manzone • Be graduating from high school Mathematics • High Academic Average Vincent Carriere Hunter Deschamps • Plan to enroll full-time, without interruption, for the entire 2011-12 academic year Chase Edwards at an accredited two- or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical Melanie Guay school Mikael Huot Danyka Lajeunesse See detail on above website.