Please join us on Thursday, June 2 for our annual Arts Appreciation Evening.
* 5:00 pm BBQ hosted by the Philanthropy group in front of the school. Please join us for a burger as our Philanthropy group continues to raise funds for different charities.
* 7:00 pm grade 7 and 8 band followed by the choir performing in the CCC Theatre
* 7:25 pm intermission to check out the art work in the halls and the library
* 7:45 pm choir and grade 9 to 12 bands performing
Always a great opportunity to see our students showcase their many talents. All are welcome.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Yorkton Film Festival
24 HOURS
French Culture Day
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Chance to Camp
Our Carman Collegiate Philanthropy group finished their flower sales this week and donated the total $600 to the Chance to Camp organization.
Central Region Track Meet
Athletics Manitoba hosted the Central Region track meet at Carman on Thursday. Over 750 grade 3 to 8 athletes from around the region registered for the meet. 640 Freezies later, and we had a great day. Relay races unfortunately had to be cancelled due to lightning in the area. Congratulations to all athletes who participated in the meet, and a huge thank you to all of our volunteers from Carman Collegiate and the region.
Envirothon Provincials
Five teams of 5 students from Carman Collegiate each competed at the regional Envirothon competition at Clearwater on April 20. Madi S, Bailey G, Katie T-M, Alecia I and Kara M placed first with the highest overall test score in the province and are ranked first going into Provincials. The Envirothon provincial competition is from May 26 to 28 in Pinawa, The La Salle Redboine Conservation district covers the cost of registration for our students (includes food and accommodation). Good luck girls!
Monday, May 16, 2016
Why the world needs you to let your kids fail - By Craig and Marc Kielburger
Silicon Valley has an unofficial motto: “Fail.”
Whenever we visit the California tech hub, we see evidence of pro-failure leanings. Facebook’s office features posters that read “Fail Fast.” Failing “often” and “early” are also encouraged. There’s even a global conference for tech entrepreneurs, called FailCon, to learn from worst practices.
In the environment where brilliant minds innovate and billionaires are born, failure is inevitable, and seen as a necessary step to success. But in our own work and personal lives, there is still a stigma attached to failure.
That fear of failure is being passed on to the next generation through failure avoidance, with some parents taking drastic measures to ensure their child’s success well into adulthood—like attending their kids’ job interviews.
Failure protection changes how kids see themselves. It also got us thinking about how they might tolerate and respond to failure in others. Could failure avoidance stunt our kids’ empathy?
Learning from failure helps build not only self-esteem, but self-compassion, a kind of internal emotional maintenance that involves separating your identity from the blunder. You are not your mistake. If we never taste failure, we don’t experience that evolution—from anger or disappointment to healing, knowledge and growth—understanding that the whole person has not been compromised. The bug in your software doesn’t define you; it can actually make you stronger.
If young people don’t get the chance to test their failure response and hone self-compassion, they might lose empathy for others.
As a dad and an uncle to two little girls, we understand the instinct to protect kids from heartbreak. Helicopter parenting, however, has taken the rescue mission too far.
Well-meaning moms and dads take over tasks that may be difficult or frustrating, from tying shoe laces to completing homework assignments. Organized activities award participation medals and competition is eliminated from many team sports. We create artificial metrics for success so that kids can avoid losing house league soccer matches. (“We don’t keep score; we’re all winners!”) Children are rolled in emotional bubble wrap.
The consequence is that kids lose out on opportunities for personal growth.
It’s crucial that children gain the confidence to take healthy risks and aggressively pursue goals, all lessons lost with failure avoidance. It seems to us that learning to cope with failure also teaches kids how to forgive themselves, which in turn helps them learn forgiveness and compassion for others.
As they grow up, bubble-wrapped kids will encounter homelessness, unemployment, and people living with mental illness. But when you’ve always have a safety net, it’s hard to understand why others hit the ground after a fall. The assumption that everyone has a rescue team in place is an easy fallacy.
It’s the most privileged children whose parents have the means to leave the training wheels on throughout life, who learn that obstacles are like switches that can be turned off. So the less fortunate are more likely to be misunderstood, or written off as lazy and further marginalized.
It’s offensive to be intolerant towards race and gender, but it’s still culturally appropriate to accuse someone of failure by circumstance—to dismiss the person and ignore the obstacles. (Homeless? Why don’t you just get a job?).
We parents and youth mentors can all take a cue from tech entrepreneurs. Let kids fail young—while they are still in their beta phase, adaptable and resilient. Let them struggle with a math problem. Let them audition for the lead role when you know they’re likely to be cast as an understudy. Let them make mistakes that will build self-care, and even empathy.
We could create a more culturally compassionate society if we all failed a bit more often.
Kielbrger, Craig and Marc (May 14, 2016). Why the world needs you to let your kids fail. Taken from: http://www.weday.com/we-schools/columns/global-voices/why-the-world-needs-you-to-let-your-kids-fail/?utm_source=Pardot&utm_campaign=Global+Voices:+Why+the+world+needs+you+to+let+your+kids+fail&utm_medium=email
Whenever we visit the California tech hub, we see evidence of pro-failure leanings. Facebook’s office features posters that read “Fail Fast.” Failing “often” and “early” are also encouraged. There’s even a global conference for tech entrepreneurs, called FailCon, to learn from worst practices.
In the environment where brilliant minds innovate and billionaires are born, failure is inevitable, and seen as a necessary step to success. But in our own work and personal lives, there is still a stigma attached to failure.
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| Learning to cope with failure helps children develop other critical attributes like forgiveness and compassion. (Photo Credit: Rebecca Nelson, Getty Images) |
Failure protection changes how kids see themselves. It also got us thinking about how they might tolerate and respond to failure in others. Could failure avoidance stunt our kids’ empathy?
Learning from failure helps build not only self-esteem, but self-compassion, a kind of internal emotional maintenance that involves separating your identity from the blunder. You are not your mistake. If we never taste failure, we don’t experience that evolution—from anger or disappointment to healing, knowledge and growth—understanding that the whole person has not been compromised. The bug in your software doesn’t define you; it can actually make you stronger.
If young people don’t get the chance to test their failure response and hone self-compassion, they might lose empathy for others.
As a dad and an uncle to two little girls, we understand the instinct to protect kids from heartbreak. Helicopter parenting, however, has taken the rescue mission too far.
Well-meaning moms and dads take over tasks that may be difficult or frustrating, from tying shoe laces to completing homework assignments. Organized activities award participation medals and competition is eliminated from many team sports. We create artificial metrics for success so that kids can avoid losing house league soccer matches. (“We don’t keep score; we’re all winners!”) Children are rolled in emotional bubble wrap.
The consequence is that kids lose out on opportunities for personal growth.
It’s crucial that children gain the confidence to take healthy risks and aggressively pursue goals, all lessons lost with failure avoidance. It seems to us that learning to cope with failure also teaches kids how to forgive themselves, which in turn helps them learn forgiveness and compassion for others.
As they grow up, bubble-wrapped kids will encounter homelessness, unemployment, and people living with mental illness. But when you’ve always have a safety net, it’s hard to understand why others hit the ground after a fall. The assumption that everyone has a rescue team in place is an easy fallacy.
It’s the most privileged children whose parents have the means to leave the training wheels on throughout life, who learn that obstacles are like switches that can be turned off. So the less fortunate are more likely to be misunderstood, or written off as lazy and further marginalized.
It’s offensive to be intolerant towards race and gender, but it’s still culturally appropriate to accuse someone of failure by circumstance—to dismiss the person and ignore the obstacles. (Homeless? Why don’t you just get a job?).
We parents and youth mentors can all take a cue from tech entrepreneurs. Let kids fail young—while they are still in their beta phase, adaptable and resilient. Let them struggle with a math problem. Let them audition for the lead role when you know they’re likely to be cast as an understudy. Let them make mistakes that will build self-care, and even empathy.
We could create a more culturally compassionate society if we all failed a bit more often.
Kielbrger, Craig and Marc (May 14, 2016). Why the world needs you to let your kids fail. Taken from: http://www.weday.com/we-schools/columns/global-voices/why-the-world-needs-you-to-let-your-kids-fail/?utm_source=Pardot&utm_campaign=Global+Voices:+Why+the+world+needs+you+to+let+your+kids+fail&utm_medium=email
Friday, May 13, 2016
Carman Collegiate Waste Audit
This week saw several of our grade 10 students (Amber U, Hailey M, Kim N, and Hannah P) spearhead a waste audit to determine our school's footprint on the environment. They collected waste for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Then on Thursday, with help from the Biology 40 class, they completed the audit. On Friday, Amber, Hailey and Kim presented their finding to the student population.
Over the three days, 23 bags of garbage and 10 bags of recycling were gathered. The students did an audit of one of the three days, dividing the garbage into categories of actual garbage, compost materials, and recyclable materials. Here is what they found.
One days garbage weighs in at 121 pounds.
Of the 123 pounds of garbage:
This computes to 36% of the garbage being either material that could have been recycled or composted. How does this translate per student. Currently, based on the one day waste audit, the average student puts over 82 pounds of items into the garbage. This could be reduced to 52 pounds per student per year if they recycled. This would result in 8500 pounds less items in the landfill if everyone was efficient at recycling.
Issues brought up by the girls included people putting garbage into recycle bins. If not sorted, then the recycle materials mixed with garbage is all considered garbage. The school does not have the resources to sort all recycling, and the Town does not sort recycling either. The school will also redistrbute recycle bins for this Monday.
The girls ended their assembly to the students with a challenge to improve the recycling efficiency of our school. Students were then asked to complete a short survey about recycling. A similar audit will be conducted in a year to see if the student population has succeeded.
Over the three days, 23 bags of garbage and 10 bags of recycling were gathered. The students did an audit of one of the three days, dividing the garbage into categories of actual garbage, compost materials, and recyclable materials. Here is what they found.
One days garbage weighs in at 121 pounds.Of the 123 pounds of garbage:
- 21 pounds was paper
- 6 pounds was plastic
- 7 pounds was cans
- 10 pounds was compost
This computes to 36% of the garbage being either material that could have been recycled or composted. How does this translate per student. Currently, based on the one day waste audit, the average student puts over 82 pounds of items into the garbage. This could be reduced to 52 pounds per student per year if they recycled. This would result in 8500 pounds less items in the landfill if everyone was efficient at recycling.
Issues brought up by the girls included people putting garbage into recycle bins. If not sorted, then the recycle materials mixed with garbage is all considered garbage. The school does not have the resources to sort all recycling, and the Town does not sort recycling either. The school will also redistrbute recycle bins for this Monday.
The girls ended their assembly to the students with a challenge to improve the recycling efficiency of our school. Students were then asked to complete a short survey about recycling. A similar audit will be conducted in a year to see if the student population has succeeded.
Dig it! Soil Science Symposium
On Friday, May 6, fifteen Agriculture and Science students had the opportunity to attend the Dig it! Soil Science Symposium at Fort Whyte. This event was all about connecting students with local experts on soil health and water quality issues in Manitoba, leading to a better understanding of the challenges facing today’s farmers and our environment.
Family Movie Night
A great turn out for the Family Movie Night showing of "Zootopia". Approximately 150 people enjoyed a show and popcorn Thursday night. Thank you to all who attended this philanthropy group fundraiser. Stay tuned on when our next showing will take place.
Construction Career Expo
A group of our grade 10 and 11 students attended the Construction Career Expo on Wednesday, May 11. The Manitoba Construction Career Expo is an annual event held at Red River Exhibition Place, designed to encourage students in Grade 9 to 12 to explore their future in construction. The exciting and extremely popular Expo features an entirely interactive experience with hands-on demonstrations in over 30 skilled trades in construction, including masonry, carpentry, roofing, concrete finishing, electrical wiring and painting, among others.
Students also had the chance to interact with skilled journey people and learn more about Manitoba’s construction industry from construction companies and trade associations.With Manitoba’s construction climate creating a wealth of career opportunities, and the current shortage of skilled tradespeople, now is the time to introduce students to the vast, profitable, and rewarding careers in construction!
Friday, May 6, 2016
Rotary Career Symposium
On
May 3, 2016, 33 Grade 10 students attended the annual Rotary Career Symposium
showcasing leading industries, employment and educational opportunities in
Let's Talk Science
On Monday, May 2nd, eight Grade 8 students went to the University of Manitoba to compete in the annual "Let's Talk Science Challenge". The Let’s Talk Science Challenge is a team-based, competitive enrichment event for Grades 6-8 students that takes place each spring at over 20 Let’s Talk Science Outreach locations across Canada with over 3000 students competing. At the U of M, the students competed with over 100 students from across Manitoba.
Our students spent many hours over the last two months studying and preparing for the challenge which consisted of a 90 minute 'quiz show' style competition in the morning, and then a 1 hour 'design challenge' in the afternoon. Our two teams' overall standings are not available as of yet, however the students had a great time learning about all areas of Science. 'The preparation was worth it.'
Nicaragua Trip Presentation Tonight
Five students from Carman Collegiate recently travelled to the small rural town of Waspam, Nicaragua as part of a group from Crossroads United Church. The students are making a presentation about their trip this Friday evening, starting at 7:00 pm at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Carman. Everyone welcome!
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