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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This past March Break, we had the pleasure of accompanying ten grade 12 students to China for a 16 day adventure. We flew 14 hours non-stop from Toronto to Beijing where we toured the Forbidden City and Hutong Village before boarding a much smaller plane for a more manageable three-hour flight to Chengdu. Nearby Chengdu […]
Grade ten French students at Rockway took a field trip in the fall to a grade one French immersion class at Sheppard Public School on Weber Street. The purpose of this trip was to share the alliterative alphabet books that they had written for the grade one students there. This project started early in the […]
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