ry Peters IRWIN PARK Elementary School student Allison Murray holds up her gold medal while the rest of her Grade 2 class await their recognition during award presentations for the successful book-a-thon held at the school. Irwin Park students read to raise funds ‘THE STUDENTS of Irwin Park Elementary School, through their reading efforts, have gained 11 sets of refer- ence books for the school. In the World Book Partners in Excellence Read-a-thon held at the school earlier this year, students set out to read seven to 10 books ia seven weeks and received pledges for doing so from family and friends. Their goal was to raise enough money for an encyclopedia set for each class. The students read 1,706 books and collected approximately $2,900 to which the World Book company added $1,450, or $1 for every $2 raised, making available a total of $4,350.to spend: on reference books. . i The school was ‘able to buy six sets of the World Book En- cyclopedia and four sets of Childcraft — The How and Why Library. The lith set of reference mate- rial is the World Book En- cyclopedia of Science awarded by the World Book company to the class with the highest average of. books read per student. : Ginny Taylor’s Grade 2 class had the highest average of 18.6 books read per student. Children Programs for all are at Eagle Harbour EAGLE HARBOUR Community Centre has a busy summer planned for people of all ages. Coming up is Family Tram- polining, a two-session workshop | that will add to your knowledge of . the skills and safety involved in trampolining. . An introduction to safety and basic skills will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 16. ’ The follow-up workshop, on Saturday, July 23 at the same time, will cover skill advancement, spot- ting and other topics. ; Pre-register by calling 921-7425. ’ woe The centre has recently installed a new gas-fired Raku kiln which has greatly enhanced its pottery program. By ‘removing degree® pots: from the kiln to a combustible: material for smoking the clay; the lustrous metallic and : cracked glaze associated with Raku ". See Centre Page 10 red-hot. 1,000. | of that class read a total of 484 books. Special attention should be made of two particularly copious readers in the class: Alison Murray who read..198 books and Emily Solsberg who read 135 books. In: second place was Sheila McKinlay’s class (Grades 1 and 2 combined) whose average number of books read per student was 8.5. Third place went to Dave Bissell’s class (Grades 4 and 5 combined) whose average number of books read per student was 8.4. A special dedication page with the names of participating students is inserted in the first volume of the set of reference books of the three winning classrooms. The students’ personal awards were, for seven books read and seven sponsors, a certificate of achievement; for eight books and eight sponsors, a certificate and a silver medal; and for 10 books and 10 sponsors, a certificate and a gold medal. Certificates and medals were presented recently when partici- pants were formally thanked by principal Art Heine. The World Book representative, Norman Hurst, was also thanked for mak- ing this achievement possible. Whether it be World Book En- cyclopedia or Childcraft — The How and Why Library, a set of reference books has been gained for each class at Irwin Park School. 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He is wished weil by students and statf at Sentinel. eos Sentinel students Ciris Champion, Byron Conway and Michael Melenka have this year achieved the gold Duke of Edinburgh award for completing a variety of accomplishments. They will be awarded their honor by the Duke when he returns to Canada. oe HILLSIDE Secondary School was the top school on the North Shore in the Euclid National mathematics examination. Hillside’s top stu- dent Chris Savage placed 24th in the province and will be invited to a luncheon with the president of UBC. 200 Out of 2,000 students who entered the UBC Essay Competition in February, Hillside’s Gillian Duncan and Chris Brayshaw were award- ed a Distinguished Prize and received book awards for placing in the top 20. Honorable mentions went to Hillside students Michelle Hefti, Jeanne Tolmie, Paul Haagenson, Sarah Baldry and Tiffany Burns. 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