26 - North Shore News — Friday, March 3, 2000

A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF =)

March 6 -70 is Education Week in British Columbia
—a time to celebrate the accomplishments of ail our
students, teachers, administrators and support

staff over the past year, and a time to look

forward with the broader community

and plan for the challenges ahead.

A Year of Academic and
Artistic Leadership

@ Daniel Brox, a grade 10 student at Sentinel
Secondary, achieved 98% on the 1999 Euclid
Mathematics competition, tying with five Ontario
students for the highest score in Canada. Sentinels
team placed first overail in the competition.

@ Paul Cheng, a student at West Vancouver

Secondary School, attained the highest score in

British Columbia on the Canadian Open Mathematics
Challenge held at the University of Waterloo in November.

® Pin Chang Liu of Sentinel Secondary Schoo! finished
first among 2,519 competitors in Physics at the University
of Toronto’s Leonardo da Vinci competition.

@ Benjamin Steinberg of Sentinel Secondary School was

one of only cen BC graduates to be awarded a Gold Medal and a
$2,000 scholarship by the Ministry of Education after achieving three
perfect scores in Biology, Mathematics and Physics i in the June 1999
provincial examinations.

@ Six teams from
Chartwell Elementary
School will participate in
the regional Destination
Imagination competition
this month. This
participation rate is

C’s highest.

@ International
Baccalaureate students
Robert Jackson, Charlie
Liu and Jamil Karim
finished second among
4,999 school teams

in the 12-week long
CNBC Student Stock
Tournament.

© Fourteen Rockridge
Secondary School
students will attend the
Nationaj High School
Model United Nations
Conference in New York
this month and present
their detailed position papers on such topics as genocide, anti-microbial
resistance, and the political stabilization of post-communist nations in

the UN General Assembly Hall.

® Brandy Shin's ceramic “clay head with shawl” was selected -

for display in the Senate Rotunda in Washington, DC this past
September. Brandy, who attends the Advanced Placement Studio

Art Program at Sentinel Secondary, was one of twelve North American
students chosen for this honour.

® Asa result of its recent success in international competitions in San
Francisco and Toronto, the West Vancouver Secondary Treble Choir
has been invited to perform this spring at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

A Year of Professional Distinction

@ Two West Vancouver staff were elected to the Board of Directors
of the Staff Development Council of BC: Dr. Sue Elliott, Westcot
Elementary School as President Elect, and Dr. Carol Morris,
Sentinel Secondary School as Treasurer.

@ Irwin Park’s Tenny Homma was invited to join the
IBM K- | 2 Education Team as a national trainer on
the use of technology in the classroom.

® Tom Harding of Rockridge won the annual
FORED BC environmental education award for an
environmental lesson plan that provides “a unique
teaching approach engaging students as authentic
stream scientists.” Last spring, Tom was invited
to present a workshop at the National Science
‘Teachers Association in Boston, Mass.

® Cynthia Nicolson, a teacher at Bowen Island —
Community School has been nominated for
Onzario’s prestigious Silver Birch Award,
following publication of her most recent

children’s book entitled The Stars.

© Sentinel’s Chris Georgas and Michael Toth
combined te write and produce “Class Action”,
an inspiring new musical that celebrates our
cultural diversity.

© Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Douglas Player,
was named President Elect of the Canadian
Association of School Administrators.

A Year of Outstanding
Educational Performance

West Vancouver public schools lead the province
in many measures of academic performance.

The BC Foundation Skills Assessment test was written
by students in Grades 4, 7 and 10 throughout British
Columbia in May 1999. West Vancouver students
achieved levels weil above those reported.

for the Province.

75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 100%
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