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Stamford welcomed our feeder schools for our Grade 8 Day, Wednesday, November 5th.
Students had the opportunity to visit 5 different classrooms of their choice (with a taste of English and Science and a focus on helping them pick their electives by letting them experience the electives).
Students had fun:
- writing Haiku poems (check them out at http://hornethaiku.blogspot.ca/) and song lyrics in English (we'll be posting a video of this song performed at a later date)
- running an experiment in Science where they learned how chemicals can "pop the top" off small containers
- trying out the equipment in our state of the art Fitness Centre
- creating a planting in Horticulture to take home
- building a pencil holder in Woodworking
- playing with clay in Ceramics
- taking tires and brakes off cars & welding their names on metal in the Auto Shop
- preparing and then eating a Baked Alaskan cookie in Foods
- experiencing mid-1800s photography by creating a Photogram in the darkroom (look for a coming news report featuring our Photography program - where we'll describe this activity in more detail and post the grade 8 projects)
If you didn't get to see and experience everything - be sure to visit our Open House on Tuesday, November 18th from 6:30-8:30! A very special thank you goes out to all of the student helpers and teachers who made our Grade 8 Day such a success.
Stamford is and always will be about caring and striving for excellence!!
