Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School

The BC Association for Child Development and Intervention is a provincial association of agencies that provide child development and therapy to children and youth with special needs and their families.  Through generous support from the BC Ministry and Family Development, BCACDI has created the Specialized Sitter training modules.  The online learning opportunity is designed to provide additional skills and knowledge for those individuals (e.g. – “babysitters”) providing short-term  supervision of children.  The goal is to increase the pool of individuals with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to provide short-term supervision.  Training is offered several times a year via an 8 week moderated online training session. Individuals completing the training will receive a certificate and be connected to agencies in their community that may know parents looking for specialized sitters.  Please visit https://www.bcacdi.org/orverview or visit your school counsellors for more information.

Applications due March 15^th by 3:30 pm to Ms. Johnsen

The intent of the District Scholarships is to acknowledge excellence in non-academic fields and to assist with tuition for furthering students’ post-secondary education. The student does not have to be pursuing post-secondary education in the non-academic field although priority may be given to students who are pursuing one of those areas.

Areas:

• Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies (such as Business, Home Economics,
• Information Communication Technology, Media Arts, Tourism)
• Arts Education (dance, drama, music, visual arts)
• Community Service (volunteer activity, including awareness of local, global, and cultural issues)
• Indigenous Languages and Culture (school or community)
• International Languages (with Integrated Resource Packages or External Assessments)
• Physical Activity and Health (dance, fitness, gymnastics, sports)
• Technical and Trades Training (such as automotive, coding, culinary arts, robotics, carpentry)

The course selection process for next school year will begin March 1, 2019 and we would like to remind students and parents/guardians to have discussions at home regarding the course selection process and consider their selections very seriously. Decisions regarding how many sections of a particular course will be offered, the period/term that a particular course will be offered to reduce conflicts, the purchase of resources, and staffing decisions for the upcoming school year are all influenced by the registration patterns of our students. In short, the course requests of our students are one of the primary drivers of the master schedule. As such, once the master schedule is created, course change requests will be limited and rare.

Our plan is to have course selection completed prior to Spring Break.  This allows parents and students have time to discuss choices during Spring Break and can arrange to meet with counsellors after Spring Break if there are further questions.

Geraldine Lawlor, Principal