Congratulations to all the staff and students who involved themselves in the badminton games and tournaments during the last month, great work everyone! Also, you may have noticed our students and staff out "running around the neighbourhood" in the last few weeks. They are busy training for their Manitoba Marathon experience. Keep up the hard work!

Our Westdale Wildcat Cheerleaders are to be recognized for their 2012 Junior Overall Provincial Championship title! Way to go girls!

Congratulations also to our wind ensemble band members who travelled to the Rocky Mountain Music Festival in Banff. Mr. Boch and his students were recognized for their outstanding musicianship in their particular age bracket.

Our Westdale Outdoor Education classes are evolving nicely and are looking forward to a couple of different sustainability projects. One of our goals is to teach the elements of environmental stewardship and biodiversity through the development of a green space (southwest corner of the school grounds) on an otherwise barren unused parcel of school grounds. This green space would serve as an oasis of biodiversity by providing much needed shade and vegetation. The project planning/design, implementation and executing will be done entirely by our outdoor education students and supervised by our staff. Each facet of the project becomes an area of study for the students. Indigenous ecosystems/habitats, weather, biodiversity, sustainability and environmental stewardship become relevant and meaningful themes of study. We have been successful in receiving a grant from PTSD to use towards this project. Stay tuned!

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