LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010

BLOCK ROTATION FOR WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 7-10: TBA

CLICK HERE FOR THE 2010-2011 DAILY BLOCK ROTATION SCHEDULE

CLICK HERE FOR THE APPROVED DISTRICT 2010-2011 CALENDAR

DRIVER'S EDUCATION INFORMATION

Looking for driver's training? For more information, please check out http://www.ixldrivertraining.com or contact IXL Driver Training.

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS THAT DID NOT MEET DAILY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS ON JUNE REPORT CARD

Please click HERE for specific instructions!

GRAD 2010 PHOTOS READY FOR PICK-UP AT SCHOOL

Grads please note that your photos are now available for pick-up at the office. The office is open until 4:00 p.m. on Monday June 28th, until 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday June 28th, and until noon on Wednesday June 30th. The office will also be open sporadically throughout the summer. Please phone ahead in order to make arrangements.

AP ENGLISH HONOURS CLASS SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT NOW AVAILABLE

Please go to the English Department webpage and click on Grade 12 tab in order to access your summer reading assignment. NOTE: English 11 Honours students will be receiving their pre-course reading assignment over the December holidays for the second semester course. For more details or questions please contact Ms. Kroker at the school or via email kkroker@sd8.bc.ca.

STORM 2010

A great way to spend a lunch hour--Storm 2010! Many thanks to Ms. Morrison's Rec Leadership class for planning, organizing, and running the flaw two lunch hour events. Check out below for highlights from both the Grade 9/10 contest and the Grade 11/12 contest featuring two teacher teams.

GRAD PRANK 2010

Catching everyone by surprise...

TEACHERS SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD

Last week, LVR's Amnesty International student group successfully met their target of 250 student-generated letters expressing concerns about human rights violated around the world. As a reward...well, check out the images below (we're still trying to get a picture of Ms. Smith in silence!)...

Mr. Myles (aka Peter Pan) shows off his alter ego. And apparently, he really did enjoy the tights.

"What are YOU lookin' at?" Mr. Joyce is considering keeping his hair this colour. Seriously.

ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD NOW AVAILABLE

The Rotary Cub of Canada sponsors the Rotary Youth Leadership Award. Any Grade 12 student of a former L.V. Rogers graduate is eligible to APPLY. For more details please see Mr. Machado.

GRADE 12 STUDENT, LAUREN DEGROOT, WINS $1000 SCHOLARSHIP

Congratulations to Grade 12 student, Lauren DeGroot as she took first prize in the British Columbia Secondary Schools Association essay writing contest and won a $1000 scholarship! Check out Lauren's winning essay on technology and education.

JUST GET TAPED: REC LEADERSHIP CLASS HOSTS TAPING CLINIC

Local physiotherapist, Jackson Giroux, led an informative, and indeed useful taping clinic last week with members of the rec leadership class. Here's a bit of the action:

JUNE 2010 PROVINCIAL EXAM SCHEDULE RELEASED

Here is the Provincial Exam Schedule for June. Any students having an exam conflict must see Mr. Mushumanski ASAP!

GRAD 2010 CAVALCADE VIDEO

Saturday's grad cavalcade event downtown was filmed by the Nelson Star and bcdailybuzz.com. Check it out HERE!

GRAD 2010 CONVOCATION

On Friday, June 4th, L.V. Rogers held convocation ceremonies for our soon-to-be graduates at the Nelson and District Community Complex. Check out some of the action below:

ICTS 11: BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST!

Ms. Jones' ICTS 11 class was hard at work, creating, fixing, formating and bringing technology to life! See the footage below. The next step? Networking them all....

2010 GRAD TALENT SHOW!

Highlights from the 2010 Grad Talent show held last month at the Capitol Theatre, along with over thirty other student-created videos, can be accessed on the LVR YouTube channel, LVRCinema. Here's the video created by members from LVTV:

Used with permission courtesy of LVTV.

LVR ACE-IT STUDENT WINS AT NATIONALS

Congratulations to Grade 12 student Brendin Zozman who recently competed at the SkillsCanada Nationals in Waterloo, Ontario. An ACE-IT program graduate, Brendin beat out all other competitors in the secondary school category to win the electrical installation skills contest. He is now the Canadian Champion. A truly remarkable feat! Thanks to

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for sponsoring Brendin's trip to the Championships.

Canadian Champion (and Grade 12 student) Brendin Zozman shows off his TeamBC jersey from the SkillsCanada Championships.

STUDENT-AUTHORS WIN BIG IN NATIONAL WRITING CONTEST

Congratulations to Grade 9 students Abby Cowan and Kevin Milde! Kevin won 1st prize in the Polar Expressions short-story writing contest (beating out over 4000 other entries!) while Abby took 3rd prize in the poetry writing contest (beating out over 4500 other entries!). Considering the number of entries, these are tremendous achievements! Check out Kevin's 'The Long Faced Ones (draft copy)' and Abby's 'Watching You Watching Me'. Way to go, guys!

Grade 9 students Kevin Milde and Abby Cowan, award winners at the 2010 Polar Expressions Youth Writing contest.

LVR BANDS COME UP BIG AT NATIONALS!

Congratulations to all members of the music department that travelled to Ottawa to compete at MusicFest Canada, the largest competitive music festival in the country. LVR had three ensembles entered to perform with 9000 other students from across Canada. While there, the following groups performed and were adjudicated by some of the top music educators and performers in North America:

LVR Concert Band – Silver; Yamaha Honour Award: Lauren Antifeau, clarinet

LVR Senior Concert Band – Silver; Yamaha Honour Award: Alex Bullen, drums

'Evacuation Route' Jazz Combo – Gold; Yamaha Honour Award: Danica Long

Well done everyone!

SPRING FEVER IN ATLAS MEANS THEY ARE 'CLIMBING THE WALLS'!

Check out the video from the day's activities at Slocan City! Our climbing unit is intensive and closely supervised for maximum safety, maximum experience, and maximum fun. Students learn more about themselves in this unit than any other. They are physically linked to another class mate which requires trust and team work. Climbing is also metaphorical in the sense that students are able to explore new boundaries for themselves. By facing these new challenges they can transfer this determination to other challenges in life, be it post secondary stress, fear of the unknown, job interviews, etc. NOTE: There is still room in next year's ATLAS class, so if you are interested, please see Deb Smith as soon as possible.

Video courtesy of Graeme Wahn.

GOT A SECOND? TAKE OUR LATEST SURVEY

LVR is looking to install a ubiquitous wireless network at some point next year which would give Internet and printer access to anyone, anywhere on campus with a cell phone, smartphone, laptop or any other handheld device with wireless capabilities. To help with the necessary planning we would like feedback from YOU the student. Please take a moment to complete our survey; and make sure to let your friends know about it. We will publish the results of the poll in June and use the results to push for funding assistance to help the project.

ENGLISH 11 CLASS DOES MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING!

Ms. Kroker's English 11 class has created some digital posters using Glogster for their work on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Check out Kaitlyn Foot's glogs!

And there's always Prezi for a dynamic approach to presenting...anything:

'OFF THE SHELF' IS NOW ONLINE

"Off the Shelf" is now online. The notes and book image from Mr. Yaz's weekly spot on LVTV can be found by clicking on the 'Library' tab on the navigation bar on the left side on the LVR homepage. Then click on the 'Off the Shelf' tab at the bottom. As always, the library is looking for student participation on "Off the Shelf". If you are interested please see Mr. Yaz!

SCHOOL YEAR PHOTOS ON FILE

LVR has its own photo gallery featuring slideshows of various activities from this year. To date, we have thirty-three (yes, 33!) slideshows on record. Click on the link below to visit soon, visit often!

ENGLISH 12 HAIKU PROJECT: A MARRIAGE OF ART AND LITERATURE

Ms. Klan's English 12 Haiku project yielded beautiful and thought-provoking results. Check out the magnificent marriage between art and literature!

SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR 2010-2013 APPROVED

For a copy of the newly approved SD8 calendar for 2010-2011 please click HERE.

BECOMING CYBERSAFE: USING FACEBOOK, SMS, TEXTING, & MSN MESSENGER

Facebook, SMS, camera phones, and online chat rooms have become nearly ubiquitous forms of communication among our teens they bring with them specific issues surrounding personal safety and citizenship. Do you know how safe (or not) these forms of twenty-first century communication are? Did you know that in Canada incidents of cyberbullying and harassment among teens is growing exponentially? For more information on the new media, please visit the Ministry of Education's Cybersafe online resource for both parents and students.

LVR CINEMA IS HERE!

LVR now has its own YouTube Channel, LVRCinema. The channel is a place for teachers to upload student digital works for viewing and commentary. For a sample of what's on the channel check out recent student work from Ms. Jones' ICTS 11 class: