Hawthorne 2 Bilingual Alternative

Thank you to all the parents and teachers in the French committee. Here’s a quick summary of 2009-2010. It was a great year. Looking forward to more fantastic events in September!

Bill Moyers interviews Jane Goodall, founder of our Roots and Shoots program. See the video or read the transcript.

The letter we received from the EcoSchools Central Team of the TDSB, awarding us a Silver medal for our ecoschool.

A simple how-to manage contents on our school website.

A global youth program spearheaded by the Jane Goodall Institute will help address poverty in First Nations, Assembly of First Nations’ National Chief Phil Fontaine said Wednesday.

Read the rest at http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Jane+Goodall+First+Nations+team+fight+poverty/1499699/story.html

Several hundred enthusiastic folks came out to the front doors of City Hall at 9:00AM this morning, many donning swim wear and holding signs, to show they want their City Councilors to engage in the solution to help rescue the 39 community pools from closure this June.

An inspiring less-than-5-minutes video from Australian schools on a project to “change the world in 5 minutes”. It’s fun, and possibly could cause us to do something like that.

As discussed at the School council meeting, the TDSB is considering a proposal to get rid of the Grade 7 entry point for Extended French, leaving Grade 4 as the latest point a student can choose Extended French. Right now, the Hawthorne kids who want to go on in Extended French go to Winona, which is a Grade 7 entry point school. Please consider writing your trustee to object to this change.

At the School Improvement Meeting in early October 2008, the parents and teachers attending were asked to jot down on post-it notes their responses to the following questions:

Our 2007-8 EQAO results from TDSB’s website.