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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Selwyn House School http://www.archive.org/details/parentsnewsdec1992selw TveRiTAsI December 1992 Selwyn House School Reading Week! September galloped to a close this year, with the busy celebration of Reading Week. Excitement grew as classroom doors sprouted favourite book covers. Reading Scarecrows peeked from corners, and a Joke Tree flourished in the upper hall. Gradually a verre de terre chi livre snaked along the walls, and children and adults alike could be caught reading wherever one looked. Pupils found that evenings could be spent without watching T.V., that amazing things could be discovered from just Diw volume of an encyclopedia, and that our visiting author, Bonnie Schemie, had many things to consider when writing and illustrating her books. We also discovered that our parents love reading stories too, and many ofthem shared ihcm with us. What a wonderful way for the world toenterourminds and help us grow. Let's keep reading to ourselves, toour stuffed toys, and to each other. Marg Lynn Grade 4 '7 really liked making the T-sliirts. We "We had a T.V. Buster contest. You could draw any book we liked. It was weren7 allowed to watch T.V. and you hard, hiltfim. After they were done, they had to write what you did instead. The looked great and we wore them to the winners werepulledfrom a ho.x, and they assembly." hadaFreeDress. Bring YourOwnLunch, AdamRozencwajg, .^B andNoHomeworkDav." ' Vidal Sadaka.,4A "In Reading Week someparents came to our classes to readfavourite stories. '7 really enjoyed the assembly. It wasfun Several came each day, and we heard to take some time out cmd get the whole somefunny ones, some sad ones, and Lower School together and read stories, some that even taught us things. I think poems, do skits, etc. We all had a part in SMtro.ryRboomoaknchPayrlaacttearnsdbMrrosu"ghItretnoelLifuentb.y dtihde."parents enjoyed it aBsenmSupcenhcears.4wBe Dit!rTSheeunssM.rI.twDaoswGdRrEeAaBTde!ru"nsarTdliePoLlolracakx,,6bA\ I participated in T.V.B. It was fun! I hope we will have T.V.B. next year. It was hard for nie not to watch T.V. 1 managed 7 days ofnoT.V. But 1 am very happy for T.V. Busters! all the readmg that I d.d. ^^^^^ p^„^ 33 Fun, but not easy! I was happy that I didn't watch T.V. I played outside instead ofwatchingT.V. I felt happy. 1 played hockey instead ofwatching T.V. Next year I'll do it again. Maximilien Desmarais, 38 Without your help we could not have done it! After months of Fund which enables preparation collecting 94anij tfianf;^ to everyone zufio participatecCin students to take part in garage sale items, and athletic and academic baking delicious lasagnas malqn^ this year's sate a huge success'. competitions across and other delicacies, the Canadaandabroad. Selwyn House School Volunteer Mothers can rest assured that We would like to thank all of you who participated and their hard work was not in vain. This year's Annual Garage and made purchases forthese greatcauses. Special thanks goto Kate Bake Saleon Saturday, October24, proved tobe anotherrecord- Esdale, CathyGovan, Donna Herba. Mary Knecht, Susan Mann, breakingevent with a total of$2 ,900.00 raised. Shirley Martoni, and Micki Morton (our committee): Normand 1 The money raised during this event will benefit a number of Brault (in the kitchen); Christine Krushelnyski and Annie Snabl; organizations. Donations will be made to The Montreal Mike Maurovich (the Pumpkin Man), Kip Cobbett and finally, Children's Hospital, FatherJohn's "le Bon Dieu sur la rue" ( an to Marc Krushelnyski whohelped make it all happen. organization that cares for street kids) and Selwyn's own Trip Nancy Pitfieldand Francie Montgomery B 1 Selwyn House School French Immersion: Leadership for Democracy The Experience Expands From October 7 to 11. three Grade 1 1 students, John Jonas, Tom Pitfield and I, took part in the International Leadership for One of the main objeetives of the French Programme at Democracy Conference at Lower Canada College. Its purpose Selwyn House is to graduate students who, with confidence, can was to help spread political awareness amongst the delegates choose to attend a French CEGEP. For the past thirteen years, who came from as far away as the Russian Federation and French immersion in La Sixieme has been important in that Surinam. The approximate 160 participants were divided into preparation. Effective September 1993. the school has decided to four groups: the Red. Blue, Yellow and Green parties which later expand its French immersion experience to include Grade 5. We represented political parties. They were separated in an attempt believe that two consecutive years of immersion provide a better to create an environment of a political election in the fictional opportunity for our students to gain fluency in French nation ofNotupia. communication while continuing our tradition of strong English Throughout the five day conference, the students from language instruction. around our global village were treated to speakers such as In Grades 1 to4. the French Programme will continue tohave Patrick Watson, author, journalist, and present Chairman of the a significant French component with some subjects taught in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Mr. Royal Orr, former French each year. president ofAlliance Quebec: and Leonid Maltsev, Consul to the After La Sixieme. the French Programme will continue to the Russian Federation. These speakers addressed a wide range consist of French taught each day in the 6-day cycle and, one of subjects, all the while connecting their topics to either other subject will be taught in French as well. democracy or to some aspect ofleadership. They spoke ofthe up We are confident that the changes in Grade 5 will benefit and and coming role ourgeneration is going to have to play, and how enrich our students" experience at school and help us attain the seriously we are going to have to take it. overall objective ofthe French Programme. The students were also lectured on various other topics such William Mitchell as Amnesty International, the meaning of democracy, Headmaster international trade, and the new world order amongst others. This information helped the students as the conference progressed. Special Thanks to peopAllelwien malelt,.tIhtegaevxepeursiaenncientewraesstiqnugitpeerssppeecctiialv,e oans twheerfeuttuhree Senator Michael Pitfield ofCanadian politics, as many delegates had high aspirations ofa professional career in the field. It also gave us a sense of pride, having been chosen to represent our school, and we did our best It was a great privilege for Selwyn House School to have to take part and have fun at the same time. Senator Michael Pitfield address us on the issue of the Phil Vinois,llB Charlottetown Accord. Mr. Pitfield began his presentation by explaining in general terms what a referendum is and in particular what the results of 1st In Quebec! this Referendum would or would not mean for Quebec. He talked clearly about the issues that were involved in producing 14th In The World! the Charlottetown Accord and described why the previous accord, the Meech Lake Agreement, had failed. Mr. Pitfield eSnetlewrytnaiHneodusmeasntyudeqnutess.tions from the group of Grade 8 to 1 TeaOmnoOfcTtoobmerPi2t3f,iel1d9,92D.utghaeldSeMlawlycnolHmo,usaendPuPbhliilcipSpBeaarkniensg, We were grateful to have him at our special Referendum accompanied by coach Kathi Biggs, attended the annual assembly. International Independent Schools" Public SpeakingTournamentat Bryan Guinness, IC Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. Not only was North 1 America represented at this tournament, there were teams from Cyprus, Bemiuda. and England. Quoted in New York Newsday dramEanttiecreidntienrptrheetaitimopnr,omipntteur,preetxitveemproeradainnego,usa,ndafrtaedriodinnneewrs, broadcast, the team linished strongly. The highlight of the The referendum is a chance for Canada to keep together. competition was Tom Pitfield who missed a spot in the tlnals by Right now there is a lot of tension between the French and a mere five of several hundred points. With the help of strong English in Quebec. I feel that to prolong this state of political individual finishes, the team ended up finishing fourteenth in the turmoil may mean that...we will lose credibility in the United world, and first in Quebec. These individual standings placed States. I think it is unfair to the rest of Canada to be making Tom as the first speaker in Quebec, Dugald as the third and sacrifices sothat Quebec can get (more) power. Philip as the fourth. JonathanJonas, 1 1 Special thanks must go out to Ms. Biggs for tolerating five days ofintense exposure to herthree students. Philip Barnes, llA IVERITAS) The Parents' Newsletter % The Football Report Under 13 The Juvenile Football team under The Bantam Football team expected National Soccer Tournament the guidance of Head Coach. Mike a rebuilding year after a City Maurovich, started the training camp Championship in 1991. The recruits On October 22 we arrived at St. John's- period on August 26. Mr. Maurovich, were young and inexperienced and to Kilmarnock School in Breslau, Ontario and met our realizing he had a young team, add more difficulty, there were billets who kindly took us to various places including immediately assembled an outstanding numerous injuries early in the season. the Skydome, the CN Tower, movie theaters and list of assistant coaches to help prepare However, the new players' skills restaurants. the young Gryphons.Working with our improvedquickly. On Thursday morning, we were ready to play our quarterbacks, linesmen, and offense The TeaiTi entered the play-offs first three games against Glenlyon-Norfolk, Crescent were James Stuart. Andrew Lee and against the undefeated and perennial School and Royal St. George's. Thanks to great Ted Wall. Our defensive power, the Loyola Waniors (7 goaltending by Camillo Durana, we advanced into the expert was Mr. Michae '^wins - losses). After a tight championship round. He made a beautiful save in the Downey. SEDl battle, the winless Gryphons had last few seconds to save us from being placed in the After a series of tough upset the first place Warriors 15- consolation round. Tough sweeping by Roberto losses, the team ended up in a 14. The team entered the city finals Bellini and the speed of Richard Martz up front also semi-final game against Loyola against Laurentian Regional who had helped us. who had beaten us in the last beaten us 49-0 the final week of the On Friday, we were pleased with our results regular season game (21-14). regularseason. against LCC, UCC and St. George's. Michael Lore The young Gryphons pu The outcome of the final game and Justin McManus, our two fifth graders, dominated together a stellar effort (28 read 13-12 Laurentian and even the other teams' defense and Louren^o Bustani along C1l4)asasnd'aAd'vanDcievdistiootnhe thpoouignhtthsehoGrrty,phonnosthfielnlgonlwyill1 wgiatmheMiacghaainesltDLurCcCakwdarsillmeodrpeastthtahnejoupsptosaitwiionn.. OWuer final held at McGill'i " measure the improvement and scored an early goal and later, while we were tied, Molson Stadium on November 4. The desire the boys developed in the last two Basil Karim scored another beautiful goal to give us Gryphons faced Polyvalente Laval and weeksofthe season. the victory. qmuaadretetrhembutpaysautctecnutmiobneidn tthoe ftohuertihr witnIenss1e5dyseaurcshoaftcuorancahrinogu.ndIohfavpehynseivcaelr MichOanelS'astufrodrayfi,ftwheplpalcae.yeWdeourlosftinaalndgacmaemeagsaiixntshtoSutt. opponents 24-14. skills and emotions. The might}'fell to of sixteen teams. We headed back with the experience We expect to be heard from next the hands ofthose who had the bigger ofa lifetime. year with our 20 returning veterans hearts. I am extremely proud of this On behalf of the team, we would like to thank including star back, Chris Gayton (7 group of students and the coaches who Mr. Alfie Paoletti and Mr. David Cude for great touchdowns in 1 game), receiver Ben inspired them in times ofdifficulty, Mr. positive coaching and their contribution to our Wearing (42 receptions) and the young Colin Boyle, and Mr. Tom Nicoll. enjoyable soccer weekend. andtalented David MacKinnon. Steve Mitchell. Athletic Director Camillo Durana, Roberto Bellini and Louren^o Bustani, Grade 7 SHS Elementary School GMAA JuvenileSoccerIn Playoffs Soccer Champions The Selwyn House Juvenile Soccer team under the The Selwyn Elementary School Soccer Program which involved tutelage of soccer expert and coach, Alfie Paoletti, coGmpMiAleAd approximately 50 boys from Grade 5 and 6 was highlighted with our an outstanding record and found themselves in the tteeaammss ccaopntsiusrtiinnggtohef L16CCGrTaoduer5nabmoeynstainnddraamGartaidcef6asthieoanm.,TohfesoSemlewy1n7 playT-hofefsGfroyrpthheonfisrstlteidmebyinCyhearriss. Dedicik. Cody Barker- bthoeysc,hawmopniotnhesihrirpesgpaemcet.ive sections with two wins and no losses to meet in Gseraeseonne,anadndeaBslialiyrfPianitstheeedwfeinrstt iunndGe.fMe.aAt.edA.inDitvhiesiroengul'Ba'r A late goal by Philip Hospod, assisted by Olivier Desmarais, led the standings with a season record of5 wins. losses and 1 tie. Grade 5s and theirGrade 6goaltender, Michael Duchesne, to an upset win In the city quarter finds, Selwyn House beat James Lyng (1-0) over the LCC team. The game was a hard fought contest that could High School 2-0 and entered the city semi-finals against the always powerful Vincent Massey High School from Montreal's have gone eitherway. The Selwyn boys are to be congratulated for their outstanding victory, east end. The game was a hard fought contest with both teams aablloyngfiwliletdhisnubfsotriPteutteercGoaocvhaenswDahvoiwdaCsuadweaayndatMtahretSyenBiooyrleT,ouwrhnoammeonrt.e than tsiheodrtaifntetrhereogvuelrattiimoenshtoiomet.-ouUtnf(o3r-2t)u.naAteglrye,attsheeasGorn!yphons fell IveRiTAsI Selwyn House School Book Ends On the Recently Ms. Ferguson had age book about a budding artist Cutting Edge of Education the pleasure of hearing who has fallen in love with New artist/author Ludmilla Zemon York City. Major's book has just Middle School News discuss the creation of her won the Canadian Library gorgeously illustrated book Association Award for Young Gilganiesh The King: a re-telling Adult Best Book ofthe Year. As stated in last month's bulletin, the objectives for the of the famous epic. Ms. Zemon, Chris Van Allsburg's The Middle School in 1992-1993 focus on a multi-disciplinary daughter of famed Czech film- Widow's Room was the favourite curriculum. To this end, some new activities appeared in the maker Karel Zemon, spoke at the Hallowe'en story this year in story curriculum in the past few months. annual Vanier College Children's hour. The hero of the story is a The Grade 7 French teachers joined with Sylvain Literature Conference. Gllganu'sh discarded witch's broom that has Decelles, who teaches geographic, to put on a "rallye" on the King, after being on loan to run out of steam but is still October 30. This was a scavenger hunt which required Ms. Manning's Ancient History capable of playing soothing piano students to synthesize their French and geography skills. class, is now available for general solos and creating a Mrs. Pinchuk, our art teacher, lent her talents to the loan. We are looking forward to neighbourhood brouhaha. history programme in Grade 7 and gave each class a lesson Ms. Zemon's planned sequels as A note for all those interested: on visual presentation of information. This will aid the well as her full-length feature film The reserve list for Ondoatje's students in their projects on ancient Egypt which will soon ofGilganiesh. Booker Prize winner The English adorn the walls on the third floor. In addition, A current hit with the older Patient is short at the present Mrs. Pinchuk's Grade 7 art class (part of the new Arts boys at story hour is Kevin moment. rotation) did some fine work on cave paintings, a topic Major's newest novel Eating VirginiaFerguson dovetailing the history programme. They are currently Between the Lines, a coming-of- Librarian tackling Egyptian sculpture. Ms. Biggs and Mr. Badger have been busy in the computerroom, and the result is: illustrated poems. Rallye frangais-geographie Both the students and the teachers have been the beneficiaries in these endeavors. Carol Manning Le .^0 octobre dernier s'est dcroulc dans le cadre des activites Co-ordinatorofthe Middle School interdisciplinaires du "Middle School", un rallye a travers les rues de Westmount. Tous les etudiants de la 7ieme furenl impiiques dans ce rallye. Divises en 14 equipes, ils parcoururent differcnts points de la ville a la recherche d'indices leur permettant de repondre a des Sculpture From Head to Toe questions de geographic et de frangais. Le rallye fut un grand succes de participation malgre deux On October 23, at 9:40 .^.M. we found ourselves on the constraintcs majeures: le temps incertain et froid et le temps alloue (100 Number 24 bus going on Sherbrooke. We got offin front of minutes). the Montreal Museum ofFine Arts. Les equipes gagnantes etaient: As we went in, we saw the beautiful modem architecture Au premier rang: Equipe #7: Ziad Kaedbey, Richard Martz, ofthe new building. Our tour guide, David, took us upstairs Louren<;o Bustani et Michael Dalgleish to the workshop. We saw different sculptures, artifacts and Au deuxieme rang: Equipe #14: Michael Shea, Nicholas Yanow, paintings, both realistic and abstract. We then took some Colin Noet Brendan Paull clipboards and paper and tried (desperately) to draw the Au troisieme rang: Equipe #3: Christopher Eich, Sean Coristine, paintings and sculptures on paper. After, David took us to Roberto Bellini et Eric Benner. the real workshop, and we made clay sculptures of humans Merci aux professeurs-superviseurs du rallye: Johanne Werbiski, to take back to school. Ginette Rocheleau, Nancy AUard-Coutu, ct Rolland Glaude. We all enjoyed this very much and we learned a lot from Sylvain Decelles this experience. James Kisielew, 7C Traces From Past and Present tlie Tuesday, November 10 marked a trip to the Museum of Fine Ana for the extremely talented Grade 8 and 9 Art class. Once at the museum, we toured everything but Pop Art. Certain items were sculpted and others were painted. We saw older items from Greek, Chinese, and Egyptian civilizations and a glance at African works. The piece which impressed me the most was the one which portrayed three soldiers. They looked to have been painted on a HUGE piece ofcloth. The soldiers looked to be a little cra/y, although they were smiling. The maroon-red background provided a factor which made the soldiers pop out! Another piece that enlightened me was The Thinker. Surely you've seen it on ads! There are only ten in the world and this museum had the fifth. It was made out ofbronze. Thanks Mrs. Pinchuk fortheexcursion! ScottBailey,8A s Selwyn House School The Grade 2 Sleepover- A Bearable Experience Recently, the Grade 2s had fun visiting Thenwegotonthebusand wentback to bags and things. We walkt across the rod the Ecomuseum in Ste-Anne de Bellevue. school. After a snack and a quiet story we to the dining room for brecfast. For After the excursion, the children returned were off again! We went to Murray Hill brekfist there were "Lego my Egos." If to the school for a sleepover. The Park to collect things to do with Fall. I liked some kids did not like egos they could following original comments were written the trees. They were all colours. I pikt up havecereal. Brekfist was the BEST! by the children and tell what they did and some leves. I rolled down the hill and got After breakfast I went to the Red how they felt about theirexperiences. leaves all over me. When we got back to Room with my Mom. My Mom and me We hoped on the bus and we drove school we made nice collages with the got my stuff and we went home. The away in the morning. We went to the leaves,.sticks,conesandthingswecollected. sleepoverwas fun. We liked it! Ecomuseum and saw lots of animals. I Then it was time for supper. We had Mme Bastien-Doss, Mrs. Funamotoand liket the deer, the wolfand bears. Deer are pizza and the dessert was ice cream and it Mrs. Lunt would like to thank again the one of myfavrit animals becacs they are was good! After supper we went to the many parents cute. Bears are myfavrit because they are Red Room. We rolled out our sleeping who helped in feirce and strong. Wolves are my favrit bags and we got chanjed and played one way or because they are furry and big. The eagles games. I read books. I played chess. 1 another. were very fat and there beaks were not talked with my friends. 1 liked it when we From all strat, they were sort of round. I liked the whoched two videos called The Teddy accounts, snakes also. Bears" Picnic and Winnie the Pooh. the children We went to the Adventure Park in Our teachers read us bedtime stories, had a great the Ecomuseum. It was fun. I play'ed on then we had midnite snacs and then we time and the Spider Web and I was a bit scared. I slept. When it was dare I woke up and 1 tmoagedtheer we liked walking on those big logs because cood not sleep becas I was hot. Then, wen it it teachis you how to walk on thin it got wit owtside the teacher sed "Time to possible. We things. get up."" gotdrest, packed our sleeping The Play's the Thing! Friday, October 25 marked the beginning of this year"s Grade 10 excursion to Stratford. After an arduous busjourney, we arrived at the Festival Inn, in Stratford, Ontario. We were assigned rooms and were given free time to play tennis, swim or amuse ourselves somehow. This was a much appreciated release from the constricting boundaries of the buses. The rooms were comfortable and the hotel" facilities great. Dinner en masse gave the teachers, particularly Dr. Harker. a chance to address us all on the details of our schedule. We were then bused to the Festival Theater forourfirst performance. The Tempest. The Tempest served as an excellent introduction to the Stratford Festival. It had all the elements which we expected, and others which we did not (particularly the banquet scene near the close of the play). These included numerous special effects, a story direct enough to be appreciated without the careful scrutiny Shakespeare receives at school, and many interesting and humorous characters. Wayne Best's vivacious portrayal ofCaliban, as well as the drunken mishaps of Stephano and Trinculo, helped regain our attention at slow parts. Ironically, The Tempest was intended by Shakespeare to be a goodbye to the theaterbut was more ofahello to us. The next day we returned to the Festival Theater for Love's Labour's Lost, expected by most to be the worst ofthe plays. What it lacked in tempestuous action, it regained in humour. The story ofa vow ofthree scholars to abstain from women for a year, it was a series of mix-ups and innocent deceptions which proved to be hilarious at times. Love's Labour's Lost was infinitely better than the students (and some teachers, who will remain nameless) expected. The third and final performance. H.M.S. Pinafore at the Avon Theatre, was the most popular of the three. A musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, it was lively and funny, full of dance and comedy. Sir Joseph Porter, played by Douglas Chamberlain, was the most outrageous and funny character ofthe entire weekend. H.M.S. Pinafore was a fantastic way to conclude ourcompact exposure to the theater. It was a very enjoyable weekend during which we all (hopefully that includes our chaperones) had lots of fun. The plays were excellent and the live theaterexperience a refreshing one which gave us something to associate with what we read in class. Thanks to all ourteachers fora great trip. Andrew Lord.108 IvERriAsI The Board Bulletin Selwyn House School ^ T Thank Selwyn House Yoii You Deserve a Pat on the Back September 14. 1992 In only 6 weeks, the Selwyn House community has r3ised-,$*B.57(^^lhro.ugh DearMr. Mitchell: a variety offundraising campaigns. i' v' ' .\^f' i We wish to thank the students ofSelwyn House Thank you to all the participants, the orga.n.iz-er*s'^nd to aW^t^fcjBK^-ve so generously! •• - Schoolfor theirgenerous donation to the Montreal Children's Hospital Dialysis Programme. The Annual Garage and Bake Sale $21,900.00 Currently we have 7 children undergoing regular dialysis treatments and they range in agefrom 2 TheTerry Fox Foundation $16,400.|l0 months to 15 years. The contribution ofSelwyn The Kidney Foundation $ 2,270.' House will be used to help purchase much needed ThePeunutCampaign $ 1.950.00 TheGrade 10BakeSale $ 320.00 equipmentto be usedin theircare. We would he delighted to meet with interested students to explain how dialysis is used to treat kidneyfailure in children anda visit to ourdialysis unitcouldalsohearrangedfora smallgroup. Thank you again for your kindness and generosity. Pour I'amour des Lorraine Bell. M.D.. FRCP animaux EndStage. RenalDisease Programme Director ^ Pour venirau secours des animaux blesses et abandonnes, la S.P.C.A. a grandement be.soin de draps pouren faire des pansements. The Great Canadian Cover-up! Les eleves de la 5ieme annee, sensibilises a I'existence de la cruaute envers les animaux. ont organise une cueillette de draps a I'ecole The Selwyn House Dress Code as outlined in the 1992-93 Parent/Student primaire. Handbook has changed very little through the years. Please be aware of the Cet evenement fut un succes! Nous avons instructions regarding winterclothing. re9u plus de douze grandes boites dedraps! •A blazer must be worn to and from school. Heureusement que vous etiez la! •Nojackets ofany kind are pemiitted except a Selwyn House teamjacket. Les professeurs et tous les eleves de la •Outerwear must be at least knee-length and is to be very conservative in 5ieme vous remercient. shade and colour. Nancy Allard-Coutu Parents" help in scrutinizing their son's clothing as he leaves the house would be greatly appreciated.