Students in Rockway’s grade 12 World Issues class traveled to the MCC offices at 50 Kent as the culmination of a month-long development project. Students were challenged to conduct research into the roots and cycles of poverty in a country. Next, they conceived a project that might break those cycles of poverty in a way […]
Recently several of Rockway’s German students were honoured to receive awards during the annual German-Canadian Business Association Bitzer Awards night. Local dignitaries and many business representatives were on hand to help present cash awards to students from local high schools. Two University of Waterloo engineering students who had recently been on an exchange in Germany, spoke […]
What do you get when you take five motivated Grade 12 Technology students, Sungjin Lee, Alec Dawdy, Eric Pederson, Ben Dodd and Steffan Yantzi, and one vintage motorcycle in bad need of repair…? A vast array of disassembled parts!! This semester, the Grade 12 Transportation Technology class took on the restoration project of a 1978 Yamaha XS650 […]
Just over a week ago, Mr. Enns’ grade nine Mathematics students were asked in their Math Warm Up Questions: “Can you reduce 2795/565? How would you write it as a mixed number? What do you think this number could represent?” While students came up with all sorts of ideas about what 4.95 could represent, the […]
Open WiFi is now available in the Rockway library! Students are able to wirelessly access the internet on their own devices in addition to the iMacs, iPads and Chromebooks that are available for use. Much of our students’ work and research is done online, and Rockway wanted to ensure that students had access to the resources they […]
Writer’s Craft 2014 students have just sent the manuscript of Enthralogy, Volume 12 (Twelve Years a Student), to press. This anthology showcases writing they produced during the course. When she began teaching Writer’s Craft at Rockway 12 years ago, Ms. Kristen Mathies envisioned an annual anthology that would showcase student writing. She and Ms. Kay Weber led their classes in choosing, editing, and organizing selections […]
On May 29-30th our grade 7 class went to Fort George on the Niagara River. We were there to experience what life would have been like for soldiers and civilians during the War of 1812. We spent the day in workshops that taught us about the hardships of being a soldier, musical instruments of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Celebration of Karen Scott Booth, Ray Boehm and Deb Baxter Heeney Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Sunday, June 9 from...
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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