Dave Bentley Art Awards

Thank you to Dave Bentley for inspiring art at Sagonaska. Mr. Bentley has been a dedicated staff member of Sagonaska for many years, and continues to embody the spirit of Sagonaska with the establishment of his recent art contest. Over the last month, several students have worked hard at recess and during their free time to create pieces of art for the Dave Bentley Art Contest.

Dave handed out cash prize awards today in morning circle to the talented artists.

Here are the results:

1st Place: Logan Snider
2nd Place: Cordy King-Browes
3rd Place: Shey Howlett-MacEachern

Honourable Mentions: Khenan Hall, Quinten Campbell, Noah Gallant

Using Alternative Spaces to Engage Learning

Whether it is a comfortable couch for reading, a circular desk for collaborative work inside or outside the classroom, or students own unique quiet area in the classroom with just their chair, students at Sagonaska find alternative spaces to learn.

For students with learning disabilities, using alternative learning spaces is essential to limit distractions, but also to put students in situations where they need to focus independently on their learning goal. The sense of choice students have in their learning environment gives them flexibility when using many types of resources (i.e. assistive tech., manipulatives for math) with greater ease.

Here's what some of our alternative learning spaces look like at Sag:

2019 Sagonaska Spring Transition Conference

We hope that parents and families of students will all be able to attend on May 16th as it will be a valuable opportunity to connect as a community and learn more about ‘life after Sagonaska’.

Snow Day!!!

February 12/19

The first snow day for Sagonaska that I can remember in 16 years. No teachers came into school so residence staff looked after the students all day. In the morning everyone just relaxed and played video games. We had chili and garlic bread for lunch in residence. The grade 7 and 8 boys had lunch together in the grade 7 residence.

After lunch we all headed over to the Sir James Whitney gym for a campus wide game of dodge ball. All students and most staff that were here from both schools participated in a huge game of dodge ball that lasted about 2 hours. Students from both schools had an extremely good time.

 

 

After dodge ball everyone went back to their residences to relax. We again ate dinner in residence. Pizza and chicken fingers were on the menu and Grade 8 Boys hosted us.

After dinner the Grade 7 and 8 Boys joined the Jr. and Sr. Boys in a mini ball hockey tournament to end our day.

Snow Day 2019 turned out to be a busy one for staff and students. Everyone had and extremely good day and all were very tired and ready for a good nights sleep (staff included).






Sagonaska Using iMovie

A small group of students (Quinten, Mason, Noah, and Thomas) displayed their tech. skills in the creation of short video capturing some of the best moments of Sag in 2018. For many weeks these students have captured pictures and short videos with their devices, and transferred them to iMovie to create a collage. Students developed their understanding sound editing by capturing interviews, and seamlessly adding them to the underlying track of the video beautifully. Not only do these iMovie skills open avenues of opportunities these student will use for culminating assignments next semester, but it allows them to be creative in displaying their school pride.

Here is a link to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwNHxip3_3Q&feature=youtu.be

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The staff and students from Sagonaska Grade 7 Boys would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday.

Click to check out our snowball fight.

https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/Elf_snowball_fight/832584c3-0b67-4f12-add0-e6ed70af77f3

Click to check out Grandma (Tiffany) getting run over by reindeer.

https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/grandma_got_ran_over/76c8bcf5-9692-44fe-8bf0-5686aa8b73da

Sag Takes on 6Social Project

On Thursday (December 13th), John Scully from 6Social facilitated a great day of collaborative learning at Sag.

During the day, students and staff worked on:

1) Developing collaboration skills

2) Identifying the biggest challenge we face as a school currently

1. Developing collaboration skills:

The day was filled with several team building activities that were fun, challenging, and very engaging for our students. The goal of the activities was to develop the essential 'six c's' of 6social.

Students were able to put the 6social theory of effective communication, critical thinking, creativity & imagination, citizenship, character education, and collaboration to practice.

After each team building activity, staff and students were able to reflect on aspects of the 'six c's' that went well and share feedback on how to improve next time. Students were taught about how these 'six c's' can translated to other aspects of their life.

Here is a link to a clip of how two students displayed excellent collaborative skills when given the task of making a paper airplane with one hand.

https://twitter.com/SagonaskaLD/status/1073314448469884928

2. Identifying the biggest challenge we face as a school:

Early in the day, students were given the opportunity to share in small groups what aspects of Sagonaska they were passionate about, as well as the major challenges they face at Sag.
John facilitated a discussion in which all students and staff took part in identifying the biggest challenge.

We look forward to John rejoining us in the new year, as we embrace the opportunity to collaborate and find solutions to our biggest challenge at Sag. Just like every student at Sag works on their learning disability to become better learners, we as a school are excited to confront our current challenge so we can continue to grow stronger.

Here is a link that will allow you to check out what 6social and all their current initiatives. https://www.6social.org/about