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Swift Current Comprehensive

High School

1100 11th

Ave NE

Swift Current, SK S9H 2V1

(306) 773-2801

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April 2018

Calendar of Events March 30 – April 6 – Easter

Holidays

April 9 – Classes Resume

April 9 – Driver Ed Cycle D

Starts

April 11 – Midterm Report Cards

Emailed home

April 17 – Student Led

Conferences

April 23 – No School

April 25 – Student Led

Conferences

Sporting Events

April 14 – Sr Badminton

Tournament

April 21 – SWAC Rolling Hills

Sr. Section Badminton

April 28 – SWAC Sr. District

Badminton Championship

Upcoming Dates

May 2 – SCCHS Twilight Track &

Field

May 9 – Grad Games Night

May 12 – SCCHS Invitational

Track & Field

May 15 – Blue Section Track &

Field Meet

May 21 – No school

May 23 – SWAC District Track

& Field

May 26 – All that Jazz swing

night

June 1 & 2 – SHSAA Track &

Field Provincial

Championship Semester Two Mid Term Report Cards will be emailed on Wednesday April,

11, 2018.

Parents are encouraged to book appointments and meet with teachers to

discuss your student’s classes and academic standing. Should you wish to

contact a teacher you can find their email address listed on our school

webpage under “About” “Staff Directory”.

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Sports Colt/Arden Wrestling team competed in the Regional wrestling

tournament March 3rd

with 6 wrestlers moving on to Provincials in

Saskatoon. Congratulations to SCCHS provincial winners, Aleah

Nickel who won gold in the girls 60kg division, Sebastian Marchand

won silver in the 73kg division, Emmett Guider won bronze in the

77kg division and Luke Nelson won bronze in the 65kg division.

Congratulations to all of our wrestlers for their hard work and grit this

season!

Clubs The SCCHS Business Club had a great day at provincial debate finals

Sat Mar 17 with Megan Dejager, Jarrod Quinton, Abby deGala, Jemmie

Ponting, Harshini Arumugam, Eljay Dungca debating Social Justice.

Thanks to Sara Cronan and Michael Orthner who volunteered to help

judge and moderate.

Topics were: Poverty should be a significant mitigating factor in

criminal prosecutions, juries should be abolished, and affirmative action

policies are counterproductive.

Results: Megan won 2nd

place speaker, Jemmie & Megan won 1st place

team and Megan won Spirit of Debate award!

Thank you to Innovation Credit Union for supporting our debate club

students all year long!

Outdoor Ed - The final trip for the school year has been set, and

we are headed out to the new Castle Mountain Provincial Park near

Lethbridge June 13-16. Students will be backcountry camping, hiking,

fishing, and exploring the tunnels under the Frank Slide; it promises to

be an action-packed couple of days in June. It isn't too early to start

planning for next year...students will once again be invited to a

registration evening as our first orientation trip will be the third week of

September before our big fall trip to the Adam's River salmon run in

BC.

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Fine Arts SCCHS Drama had a very successful showing at Region 3 Drama

Festival. One of our two plays, Fearful Symmetry, won Best Overall

Production Runner Up, Best Technical Production, and Best Technical

Crew Runner Up. Many individual awards were won by our students

from both plays:

Best Stage Manager:

Karma-Rae Lefebvre (Fearful Symmetry)

The Mary Ellen Burgess Performance Award (Top Acting Award):

Danielle Beaudoin-Kwan (Fearful Symmetry)

The Bob Hinitt Technical Performance Award Runner Up (Top Tech

Award): Blayne Anderson (Every Novel You Read in High School)

Major Technical Merit Award:

Kaelen Chellew (Fearful Symmetry)

Major Acting Merit Award:

Jemmie Ponting (Fearful Symmetry)

Certificates of Merit:

Zoe Foster (Props – Fearful Symmetry)

Wigandt de Klerk (Sound – Fearful Symmetry)

Teagan Budd (Stage Management – Every Novel You Read in High

School)

Sara Booth (Acting - Fearful Symmetry)

Carter Johnson (Acting - Every Novel You Read in High School)

Danielle Beaudoin-Kwan (Acting - Fearful Symmetry)

Eliza Switzer (Acting - Every Novel You Read in High School)

Hailey Hornung (Acting - Fearful Symmetry)

Mickalie Nicholson (Acting - Fearful Symmetry)

Adam Unvoas (Acting - Every Novel You Read in High School)

Dawson Harlos (Acting - Fearful Symmetry)

Spirit of Festival

Indika Oberding (Every Novel You Read in High School)

Dawson Harlos (Fearful Symmetry)

Congratulations to the SCCHS Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Sr.

Jazz Band for bringing home golds from the Regina Provincial Optimist

Festival March 21st and 22nd. All three ensembles received highest

rankings for superior performance and also received invitations to National

Musicfest Canada in Ottawa in 2019. The SCCHS Jr. Jazz Band also came

home with silvers. Well done everyone.

The music students at S.C.C.H.S. have been busy preparing for the senior

music department trip. On April 11, the band and choral students will

embark on a trip to Alberta where they will be participating in the Rocky

Mountain Music Festival in Banff. This intensive festival includes

performances as well as workshops, and it is a valuable learning experience

for our young musicians. The students have worked very hard in anticipation of this festival, and they are looking forward to growing as musicians and building camaraderie with each other.

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SCC Student of the Month The School Community Council has developed an initiative aimed at

motivating and increasing connections with students. The Student of the

Month will be given out to one student in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Students are nominated by their teachers to the SCC, and from those

nominated students a random selection process is used by the SCC to

determine the recipient of the award. Each month a different department

in the school will be nominating students. This month it was Science.

Each Student of the Month will receive a $10 coupon from the SCCHS

Cafeteria, sponsored by the SCC.

Grade 9 Nominated Students- Ben Schuetz, Chris Israelson, Parth Shah

Grade 9 Student of the Month- Ben Schuetz

Ben has a genuine interest in Science. During class discussions he is

always the first student to answer questions or offer input. He remains

focused when we go into the lab and wants to know why things happen.

He is a pleasure to have in class.

Grade 10 Nominated Students- Jessie Schwartz

Grade 10 Student of the Month – Jessie Schwartz

Jessie is a positive student who is inclusive towards her peers. She has a

strong work ethic which is seen in her academic habits in science 10.

Grade 11 Nominated Students- Dawson Abbott

Grade 11 Student of the Month- Dawson Abbott

Dawson is a pleasure to have in class. He is mature, helpful, independent

and a hard worker. If an assignment needs to be completed or a project

needs to be finished, Dawson always puts in the extra effort to make sure

it is done to the best of his ability.

Grade 12 Nominated Students- Quinn Hodges, Mackenzie Broughton,

Aaron Wittmier, Kennedy Choofoo, Cornelius Wiebe, Hunter Vance,

Andrew Steinley

Grade 12 Student of the Month- Hunter Vance

Hunter is a quiet student who works hard to improve his understanding

and knowledge of a subject. He is willing to grow as a learner and is not

afraid to ask for help. He is an inquisitive student and strives for deeper

learning in class and is a positive role model for his peers.