Thursday, January 30, 2014

Jr. Basketball: CSSvs PHSS



The junior boys' basketball team had their hands full with a tough Pender Harbour team. PHSS had the lead at the half but the Eagles fought back and took the lead after 3 quarters.

Our lads persevered and won the game.  Congratulations to Coach Scarr and the team!!!

Tomorrow is Turn Around Day so classes will not be in session.  We do have our annual CSS Winter Formal tomorrow evening.

Have a good night.

Mr. H



Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Calculators & Picnic Tables

 Mr. Quinn Campbell showing our new TI-Inspire Graphing calculators (with bluetooth technology) to Mr. Greg Kitchen, SD 46 Assistant Superintendent, and two international student agents visiting the Sunshine Coast.
SD 46 carpenter, Mr. Warren Phillips, proudly shows off his handy work.  He worked hard to procure the wood for two of our neglected picnic tables outside of the District Life Skills room behind CSS. Thanks for the great work you did for our school and our students.


Have a great afternoon.

Mr. H

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Chatelech Ski and Snowboard Team Off to a Great Start


The Chatelech Ski and Snowboard Team’s season is off to a great start, filling the podium for their past two races!  In the first competition, Graden Deasey brought home a first place in the boys snowboarding, passing through the gates substantially ahead of the runner up.  Pierre Martinet secured second place in the boys skiing and Laren Pudek took third place in the girls snowboarding.  Caleb Burnham had a great showing for his first race of the season, with a fifth place overall.   
The very next week, the team raced again up at Whistler, and the first place victory for the boys skiing went to Chatelech’s Pierre Martinet!  Pearl Deasey brought home the second place ribbon in girls snowboarding, and Laren Pudek secured third place for the second consecutive week.  Ella Adams raced extremely well and came in fifth in the girls skiing category.
The competition is heating up between Duncan Bryson and Jason Fournier as they fight for the lead in boys skiing.  Ingrid Bryson secured a very respectable seventh place in the girls skiing, and Callum Rive and Jasper Deasey followed up with a sixth and twelfth place respectively in the boys snowboarding.  Leif Magnussen, Braydon Fletcher and Kaiden deRoon, who joined the team this year, have had a great start to their season as well.  Chatelech will race again next week, and is sure to show strong again.

Thanks to Kirsten Deasey for providing the article and picture of Lauren.

Have a good day.

Mr. H

Monday, January 27, 2014

Provincial Exams Today

We were busy with our English 12 and Socials 11 Provincial Exams today.  Tomorrow we have the English 10 Provincial Exam in the morning, along with Math 12 and Chem 11 school exams. The English 11 school exam and the Francophone 12 exam are in the afternoon.

As you can appreciate Mr. Biel and I are spending most of our time invigilating exams or preparing for the exams, so our availability is limited.

We'll be back to normal next week with the start of the second semester.

Have a good night.

Mr. H

Friday, January 24, 2014

Clean Freak & Rockets

 Mr. Scarr making sure no dirt enters the weight room.
 The Weight Room is impeccable due to the steps our PE staff take to ensure it stays clean!
 Mr. Emmerson's Tech Ed 9 students built rockets propelled by air.  The water in the rockets keep them balanced.
The aftermath of takeoff!!! The students really seemed to enjoy the activity. Great job.

Hopefully the great weather will continue into the weekend.


Until Monday!

Mr. H


Thursday, January 23, 2014

Senior Girls' BBall

Our Senior Girls' Basketball Team lost a tough game at Mulgrave School (West Vancouver) yesterday.  Our girls should be commended for their effort.

Mr. H

Acrylic Paintings



As you can see we have some very talented Art students at CSS. Ms. Kelly does a great job motivating and supporting these students.  Well done!!!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Rat Dissections

Mrs. Johnson's Biology students have been dissecting rats this week-- looks like fun!

BCPVPA President Tour




I gave BC Principals' & Vice-Princpals' Association President, Shelley Green, a tour of all of SD 46 schools yesterday. The photos here are from the Chatelech tour.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

New Graphing Calculators

Mr. Campbell was thrilled to get the new graphing calculators for his senior Math classes today.  They had been tracking the order and knew that the shipment was in Richmond last night. 

I look forward to seeing them in action.

Thanks again to the CSS PAC for helping us purchase the class set.

Our next big purchase is a new van-- one of our school vans has come to its final days.  Hopefully we can procure this before next semester.

Have a good night.

Mr. H

Science Experiment & Student Leadership

 Ms. Liddicoat's students working on a Science experiment.
 Recording temperature and observing when the ice melts.
 Students totally engaged.
 Triad writing down their observations.
Superinetendent Bocking and student leaders from SD 46 high schools met at CSS yesterday. The students are excited about having a district-wide student forum.  Information will be forthcoming.

Have a good day.

Mr. H

Monday, January 13, 2014

Grade 9 Basketball vs Elphinstone



The Grade 9 Boys' Basketball team had their hands full with a tenacious Elphinstone squad.  The game was pretty well even at the half.  The Elphinstone press was too tough for our guys to handle and ESS took over in the 2nd half and won the game.



Friday, January 10, 2014

Excellence in Fine Arts & Physics

 Emma's excellent painting of her as an infant and her mom-- great  job!
 Joanne's first time using pastels. What a fantastic job!!!
Mr. Fryer demonstrating angles of waves in Physics.

It has been a busy first week back.  I trust that everyone will have a good weekend.

Mr. H

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Wow, Look at Those Appies!

The Senior Foods class made some outstanding appetizers yesterday. A picture tells a thousand words!  Well dome Ms. Sutherland and students.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Check out Twitter

I utilize Twitter for some of my professional learning.  I also post comments regarding things I feel are important  and/or interesting.  

https://twitter.com/MarkHeidebrecht