Archive for May, 2014

Arts and Culinary Expedition: A delight for the senses!

The Grade nine Arts and Culinary Expedition this year was a wonderful experience! We had six students and two teachers who enjoyed the opportunity to cook, eat, create with clay, watch a play, eat some more, milk a cow, gather eggs, and decorate cupcakes to list a few! Our first day started off with a […]

Posted on: May 29th, 2014
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World Issues Challenge: Dreaming big to fight poverty

The grade 12 World Issues class taught by Bryan Berg, has been caught up in quite a spirited debate. As a final project for their unit on economic disparity, students were challenged to choose a country that ranks near the bottom of the UN’s Human Development Index. They were then asked to do some research […]

Posted on: May 28th, 2014
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For the Love of Reading

We’ve done it again!  Our participants in the annual Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading, Red Maple Award program for grades 7 & 8 have voted for their favourite title! The all Ontario fiction award winner for 2014 is Susin Nielsen, author of The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen. Our students voted Loki’s Wolves: The Blackwell Pages  by […]

Posted on: May 27th, 2014
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A trip to the Falls

On Friday May 9th, the International students took a day trip to Niagara Falls. After a quick pizza lunch we headed to our first adventure, Journey Behind the Falls. Donning yellow rain ponchos, we descended into the tunnels underneath the falls. The look-out deck gave us a beautiful view of the power and magnitude of the falls. […]

Posted on: May 16th, 2014
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Visual Arts Exhibition "Quintessence"

Each year the Visual Art Department curates an exhibition of student work, grades 9 to 12, profiling the hard work and creativity of our students, in a variety of disciplines and techniques explored throughout our programmes. The Visual Art Committee determines a title and selects a significant work to be published as the cover image for all promotions, as well […]

Posted on: May 16th, 2014
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A lot of GOOD WORK!

On Friday, April 25th, our entire school population headed out into the community to do a full-day of GOOD WORK! This was part of Rockway’s annual Envirathon-Servathon fundraiser, that combines community service & environmental stewardship. Students performed a whole variety of important jobs – from planting trees, to collecting garbage along trails, to sorting items […]

Posted on: May 6th, 2014
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Youth Environmental Summit 2014

The “Youth Environmental Summit” (Y.E.S.) is Rockway’s annual environmental awareness chapel where we focus on learning to live in more sustainable ways. A lot of what you hear these days about the state of our Earth’s natural systems is gloomy. Instead of focusing only on the negative, we thought we’d try to take a more […]

Posted on: May 5th, 2014
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Alumni Music Series Recital: amazing talent

Rockway’s Alumni Music Series Recital on Thursday May 29th features three incredible musical personalities: Daniel Lichti is just fresh off performing J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion with the K-W Grand Philharmonic choir at Center in the Square in Kitchener. Since his operatic debut at the 1974 Stratford Festival, Dan has established himself as one of Canada’s finest Bass-baritones, performing with many of […]

Posted on: May 2nd, 2014
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Physics class visits UW Labs

On Monday April 7th, our grade 12 Physics class took its annual tour of some of University of Waterloo’s Labs. Students have the opportunity to complete their Physics Independent Study Units (ISUs) in some of UW’s Physics Labs with the guidance of Physics Professors and their Grad Students and this tour allows the students to finalize […]

Posted on: May 1st, 2014
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News

Employment Opportunity: Mathematics Teacher

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Camelot & Camelittle – Grade 7&8 drama

The Grade 7&8s are back! For the first time since 2019, grade 7&8 students, alongside their teachers and directors,...

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Rockway announces new Principal

For: Rockway Admin, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Students, Donors & ConstituentsFrom: Betty Pries, Board Chair on behalf of the Rockway...

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Sherlock’s Best and The Hound of the Baskervilles

Prepare to be enthralled by Rockway students in grades 9-12, as they take on the world of Sherlock Holmes...

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