Category Archives: Extracurricular

Grade 10 Core Competencies

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Communication Self-assessment

  1. Do you Communicate your ideas and opinions in a respectful way? Answer: Yes, I try to bring my thoughts up in respectful ways so that they will be heard and not frowned upon because of how I bring them up.
  2. Communicating your questions or concerns to teachers or parents. Answer:  I communicate my concerns and questions usually very well to my parents. Sometimes I find that I keep some emotion in and if I disagree with something, I bite my tongue and don’t say anything.
  3. Ways I demonstrate communication include. Communicating during sport activities with teammates in basketball. Checking in the friends and family to make sure that they are doing alright and if they have any problems just listen to what they say. Trying to meet new people in my classes during Covid. Trying to engage people in a conversation while trying to keep distance has been hard. That’s one of the challenges with communication this year.

 

Creative thinking.

  1. Using creative thinking in assignments and in schoolwork. This year there has been a lot of here’s an outline for an assignment, you have the freedom to do whatever you would like with it. I have developed a lot of creative thinking skills through these assignments. Trying to convey my ideas in a creative way either through the likes of PowerPoints, presentations, and essays. This wasn’t always easy; I think this competency is one I struggle with the most as I sometimes find it hard to think outside the box.
  2. Ways I demonstrate Creative thinking. I demonstrate creative thinking in schoolwork. Like said above I use it almost every day. I brainstorm ideas by creating mind maps, searching for ideas, communicating with others, and looking at past work I have done for inspiration.

 

Social responsibility

  1. I use social responsibility almost every day. Giving back to community is a big thing in my family. We have done things through my basketball club like cleaning up parks and picking up garbage throughout our community. I think that its very important to hold yourself to a high standard. Making sure you know if you’re making a mistake that could get you in trouble or cause you regret later in life. Being responsible for yourself, the people around you and the area you are in is very important. Volunteering is something that I would like to do more of. I have only done it a couple times with basketball clubs and Port Moody rec center. I want to be able to give back more and volunteer doing things I enjoy.

 

Alternate assignment 2

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Spring Meal Plan and groceries

Creative thinking.

This project involved to coming up with a 4 course meal that I would be able to actually serve to my family. We didn’t need to cook it but we had to get creative and find recipes for a good meal. I chose said meal because I have had something like it in a restaurant. that my parents and I really liked. I had to use the competency of building my skills up to succeed. When I first came up with a idea for a meal. It was to simple and it didn’t think that it would get me the mark I wanted to get. I built on that idea and expanded it into a bigger meal with a lot more aspects to it.

Another competency that I used was, I made my ideas work, or I changed them. Finding the right dessert was a challenge. There is a wide variety of desserts out there, ranging to chocolate to vanilla and expensive to cheap. I second guessed myself a lot when I choose what dessert to use. I originally used a cake but thought it was too simple. I then agreed on apple pie because it is my favorite dessert ever and a lot of people like apple pie as well.

One of the problems I can across when doing this project was the groceries order that we did. We needed to make a list of ingredients and prices for said ingredients. We were supposed to use save on foods online website, but because of covid 19, they had limited the things you could purchase online. I knew that it would be hard to find a price, so used the competency of building on others ideas. A idea that my friend had was to look on other websites, just so you can have a ball park price. I was like, that’s a great idea. I wanted to check with the teacher first though. she said that you could do that or just leave it blank. I devolved on his idea, by looking at multiple stores and cross referencing the prices. Overall, this may have been a problem at the time, but looking back, it wasn’t a significate problem.

Extracurricular Assignment

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My Extracurricular activity is basketball. Basketball has played an important part in my life so far. It is something that I can always go do and enjoy in my free time. Right now, I’m on the Grade 9 Boys basketball team at Heritage Woods Secondary School. I know a lot of people on this team and love to play and hangout with them. I’m hoping that our team will do well this year. I’ve been playing basketball since grade 2 where I started in a club called VSC or Vancouver Sports club. My first ever basketball game I watched came at the age of 6 months old. I watched the Basketball Highschool Provincials as my dad was the coach of the Gleneagle Talons and I came to support them in between my diaper changing and bottle feeding. Right now my position is the 4 or the Power forward its called. Though that’s my position at the moment, I have played all over the court. Sometimes I’m a Point Guard and sometimes I’m a big man. It all depends on the game. I got involved in basketball from a young age because my dad was a coach, but now its much more than that. I love to play the game no matter who I’m playing with. No matter if its a game of pick up in the gym, or a playoff game with my Club team, basketball is always enjoyable. Like I said at the start, basketball holds a place near and dear to my heart and it will stay like that forever.

As I said in my paragraph before but I play for my school’s grade 9 team. I also play for a club called Swish. I have played for Tri City and other clubs in the past as well. I played Tri City rep, and right now I play for Swish. My main priority is my high school team that practices around 4 times a week while my Swish team plays 1 once a week. Basketball is my main sport that I play 5 times a week. I enjoy basketball for many reasons. The main one is because it is fun. I like to play with my friends and family. I forget all my problems or homework while I’m playing basketball and just think about the game. That is another reason I love basketball.

Finally, I get inspired to play basketball from a variety of people. The first person is my dad. he got me into playing basketball from a young age so I kept playing when I got older. Another inspiration is watching the NBA. I love watching the pro’s do some of the moves that I do and I watch them do it 100 times better than me and that just makes me want to get better at that move.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Take Your Kid To Work Day Assignment

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Name: Aidan L
Advisory #: 01

You will be observing your host throughout the day. There are 3 parts to this assignment:

Part 1- The Interview: Observe your host at work, at some point interview your host and record/make notes of the results
Part 2 – Reflection: After the day is finished, reflect upon your experience and answer the reflection questions Part 3 – Post Your Assignment to Your Blog: Once your have completed Part 1 and Part 2 post it on your blog. Make sure you take pictures and/or videos to document your day, you can place them in your blog.

Name of your host: Cheryl Lloyd   Relationship to you: Parent (Mother)

The Interview: (ask your host these questions)

1. What is your job title?

Vice principal at Maillard Middle school. Recently moved from Kwayquitlum middle school. She used to be a teacher at Maillard middle and Pitt River Middle School

2. What is your job description?

  • Helping teachers, students and parents with variety of things including student learning and social/emotional learning.
  • Supervising all staff (Teachers, EA’s, Noon hours, Custodians, Secretaries.)

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

  • Health and safety, emergency drills and first aid.
  • Class building and responding to student issues.
  • On a day to day basis she handles with TOC’s and students and problems that arise.
    4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
    a) training?
  • 20 years of teaching experience at Middle school.
  • in-service training for supervisory responsibilities.

B). Education

  • Masters of educational practice from SFU.
  • Graduate diploma program from SFU (Teachers as mentors and leaders).
  • Graduate diploma program from SFU (Literacy).

C). Experience

  • 20 years of teaching experience at Middle school.

Acting vice principal at Pitt River

D) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?

  • Good Communication
  • Organization
  • Leadership
  • Reliability
  • Good Work ethic

5. What are some of the things you like about the job?

  • Likes helping people and solving problems
  • Making the peoples lives around her easier
  • Good Pay and hours
  • Holidays off
  • Like working with a team
  • Student achievement
  • Watching students develop
    6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
  • Miss having deep connections with kids now she is a vice principal not a teacher.
  • Some days dealing with only conflict not the positives.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

  • More responsibility
  • More conflict issues with technology
  • More paperwork, filing out forms and more work.

Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) The pay is a substantial amount. According to www.glasdoor.ca the average Vice Principal gets around $117,542 per year. I could do with that money right about now!

b) Working with other people. You get to talk and work with Teachers and Principals and personal I would like that much more than sitting in a cubical writing all by myself. interacting and getting to know the kids is something that I would want to do.

c) When you are a Vice Principal you get to cover some classes and that would be one thing that I like to do. My host (Cheryl Lloyd) said that she usually covers classes regularity when the teacher can’t make it to work and there isn’t a TOC available.

2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

a) Lots of work. There is a lot that comes with this job, as I saw today. You are constantly running around solving problems and putting out fires. My Mom is always at home doing work for at least 2 hours a night. Meetings are something that I wouldn’t be comfortable with right about now. I don’t love to talk in front of large groups of people and that was what I saw happening.(Talking to staff).

b) The downside of being with lots of kids is that there is always that group of kids that are misbehaving. Having to do with the problems that come up on a daily basis with eventually wear me out and I will not be having the greatest of times.

c) The meetings that you have take up a lot of your day and they are sometimes early or late in the day. Most times you have to create a presentation and give a speech to the staff. One of my stretches is public speaking, so that will be some thing I will not enjoy.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I think that this job isn’t for me. There is to much running around and meetings that I wouldn’t enjoy. I think that I can be a teacher because I like to help people. I think that I could be a math teacher because I love math and I think that I could be good at helping other people with math. But with Vice principal there is a lot more work and responsibility that I think eventually might be ready for but not now or anytime soon.
4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?)

I learned a lot about what my mom does  during her day. I had no idea she did as much as she did. I defiantly now know that I want to go to university and get some sort of degree in a field that I enjoy and want to work in. I do want to work close to home because going around the world and traveling for your job isn’t something I want to do. I would be happy with being a teacher but I still think that there is a job out there that I would like more. Overall, it was a god experience to see what it was like to work and to get to know more about what my mom does on a daily basis.