New Carlisle High School
ESSB Jr. Basketball Tournament
New Carlisle High School hosted the Conrad Dupuis Memorial Jr. Basketball Tournament on March 7th. Five schools from the region; Gaspe Poly, New Richmond, Escuminac, New Carlisle and Wejgwapniag participated in this event.
In the Girls division two teams participated from Escuminac and New Carlisle. These two teams played each other twice. In the first game NCHS was victorious in a tightly contested match by four points, while in the second game Escuminac edged NCHS by two. The banner was awarded to NCHS based on a cumulative score of +2.
In the boys/mixed division two pools were created with the top two teams in each division advancing to a cross over playoff. Most all the games were hotly contested affairs. In the final NCHS defeated the team from Wejgwapniag in an enjoyable match.
The students from all the teams showed good spirit and were well behaved. Special thanks to the volunteer referees and scorekeepers who helped make this event a success. |
ESSB Track and Field - On Friday, September 21st Gaspé Polyvalent hosted the annual Track and Field meet for students in the Eastern Shores School Board. Over three hundred students travelled to the Gaspé track from Escuminac, Maria, New Richmond, Bonaventure, New Carlisle, Shigawake Port-Daniel, Chandler , Belle Anse, Gaspé Polyvalent, Gaspé Elementary, Port Cartier, Baie-Comeau, and Sept- Îsle for a competitive and fun-filled day. Students were grouped by age into four categories; Pee-Wee, Benjamin/Bantam, Cadet/Midget and Juvenile.
Students used the beautiful weather to their advantage setting five new ESSB Track and Field records: Jodie Keays (Escuminac) for Pee Wee Girls High Jump, Rachel Hocquard (BPS) Cadet Girls 100 metres, Rebecca McWhirter (BPS) Cadet Girls 1500 metres, Sammy-Jo Meredith (BPS) Cadet Girls Shot Put, and Shaina Hayes (BPS) Juvenile Girls 1500 metres. The Bonaventure Polyvalent Cadet Girls Relay Team also set a new record in the 4x100 event.
Other notable achievements were made by Tasha Blais from New Carlisle High School and Jöhannes Muller from Gaspe Polyvalent who each won three events in their respective categories.
The final tally of results showed Gaspé Elementary winners of the Pee Wee category, New Carlisle won Benjamin/ Bantam, and Bonaventure Polyvalent won for Cadet/ Midget and the Juvenile categories.
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Gaspe Polyvalent -
September has been an incredibily busy month. We have five new teachers on staff: Leonard Matcas, Carla Shaw, Angie Gaul, Darren Huxter, and Ellen Smith-Shannon. From an exta-curricular point of view, we have hosted the ESSB track meet, participated in the Golf Day in Bonaventure and the Cross Country Run in Baie Comeau. Together, with Belle Anse and Gaspe Elementary, our schools did the walk-a-thon at the Poly track to raise money for Terry Fox Foundation. We went to the Simpson's movie in Gaspe, and went whale watching and hiking at Grande Greve in Forillon Park.
Academically, our programs include a special adapted curriculum for students in Secondary I, II, and III. We have maintained our computer-give-away program, our breakfast program, and our four-day-a-week after school homework program, not to mention our regular noon hour and after school sports programs.
Our CLC (Community Learning Center) is well under way in year two of the project. We have engaged a new coordinator, Don Barclay. He is well connected in the community and will be of great help in promoting our school in the community. Our partnerships that we are working on include: the Literacy Group, based in Montreal, who we be helping us to set up a satellite literacy library in Gaspe Poly which we hope to offer after hours. Business partners that we hope to sign on board include: Auberge des Commandants, Gaspe Bottling, Provigo, IGA, and the Gaspe Museum. We are in the process of purchasing furniture to spruce up our Video-Conference room for rental of the facilities. We have already engaged one client, a government agency, who will pay us our first rental fee. We have booked, free of charge, approximately one dozen Tele-Health conferences that will be offered to the Adult Community over the next several months. We have offered the VCN (video-conference network) facilities to both Gaspe Elementary School and Belle Anse for the showing of movies to their students on the nine foot screen and four speaker surround system.
Our virtual communication system with parents is working very smoothly. Thanks to technician, Robert Wolfe, we are able to offer all communications to parents who have a home email (approximatel 70% of our clientele). We continue to send home hard copies to all parents.
In an attempt to even get closer to our students than we normally are, we have instituted a buddy system, assigning one teacher to approximately ten students for a per cycle five minute check up.
For the first time, we are participating with an international student exchange program. Our visiting student is from Stuttgart, Germany. He is in Grade 11 and is enjoying his new francophone home and anglophone school. We hope to encourage the enrollment of another three or four more foreign exchange students in 2008-09. This way, we not only expose our students to other nations and cultures, we actually might increase our enrollment.
The next few years will prove to be academically challenging as we attempt to balance high level curriculum choices in Math 436, 536, and Chemistry and Physics along with adapted programming suitable to students at risk of failure in regular programs, while integrating required elements of the Reform tracks. Currently, for the first time, we offered four of our students on-line Math 436 with LEARN. Two of the students regrettably found the combination of a synchronous program that did not match with our own schedule along with the 436 Math, too difficult. The other two students have since switched to Math 436 on the French side, where by initial accounts, it is going very well. Nonetheless, our challeng in 2008-09 will be to coordinate a fully sychronous schedule with LEARN so that our students who follow on line courses, do not have to miss and make up for other live classes that are occurring at the same time as their virtual course(s).
DDDatttt's all for now.
Howard Miller
Principal
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Gaspe Coast