The following is the second installment of a project our secondary students worked on which is meant to offer prospective students insight into life at Sagonaska. It was collaborative project, written by our students using Google Docs. Please enjoy reading what a day at Sagonaska is like from our high school students' perspective.
THE DAILY ROUTINE:
MORNING:
N - An average day at Sag. for me is: I wake up and
then we have food made for us. We then come to school, which is on the
campus, about 2 minutes from residence.
D – You can wake up at any time, you just have to
be out the door by 8:30 am. Breakfast is cooked by the morning counselor.
If you wish to have a shower in the morning, you can, but you also can
have one at night before bed.
DURING SCHOOL:
N - During school hours, we come in and get to
work. The work here starts off really easy, then gets harder as the year
progresses. Most of the work we are doing now, personally, makes me mad
because I am easy to confuse.
D - We have small classes, which allows us to get
more one-on-one time with the teacher.
D - We have a full-time technology advisor, Mr.
Mortaley. If we have a problem with technology, he can fix it.
N - Mr. Mortaley named my pet fish, Mr.
Mortaley. He is very approachable.
J - In the
morning, you go to Student Health Services at 8 am (if you need to), then
head over to the gym. At 9:20 am, we head back over to the school.
We have classes from 10 am to 11 am. At 11 am, we go over to the
cafeteria and eat their food. When we are all finished, we walk back to
the school and hang out outside till 12 pm. We have classes from 12 pm to
1:40 pm. Then at 1:40 pm, we have a snack, usually Ms. Halliday bakes us
something like muffins or nachos. Sometimes, she makes really good
smoothies or hot chocolate too. Then at 2 pm, we go back to class until
the end of the day.
AFTER SCHOOL:
J - At 3:00 pm, our
residence counselors bring us back to residence (unless we have an outing after
supper, then we do homework right after school). In residence, usually
all of the girls sit around the island in the kitchen and talk about the day.
In the fall and spring, we usually go outside. At 5:00 pm, we go
over to the cafeteria and eat supper.
D - After school, we do our homework and then Lexia
(online reading program), once we are done our homework.
N - We have an hour for homework every night; we
can use technology (i.e. Dragon and Kurzweil) to help us with our work.
In residence, we have a 30 minute cool down period, then we are free
to do what we want until supper.
K - Residence life is where you will live for your
year at Sag. We have counselors who take care of us while we are on
campus. In my residence, we have three counselors in the day and one at
night. The one at night will check up on us while we are sleeping.
He makes us breakfast in the morning too. The counselors will push us to
do our homework and we get in trouble if we do not do it (we have to go to our
room if we don’t get our homework done). In the morning, I like to sleep
in a little, wake up, eat and then leave.
N - Our residence counselors also take us to
the ski hill weekly to ski and snowboard.
D - Some students will get their off-campus.
This means that they are allowed to go in the town of Belleville for a
time period and a certain distance from the school. There are three
levels: Luc’s is the first level, which just a convenience store down the
street, the next level is Giant Tiger, which is about a 10-minute walk from the
school, and the final level is the Quinte Mall, which is about a half an hour
walk, but this level allows you to go other places (for example Walmart and
Canadian Tire).
K - You need to earn your off-campus with trust
though.
M - The biggest things I’m going to miss here are
residence experience, school (the class sizes), and the Belleville skate park. There are two ways you’re allowed to leave the
school and go to the store to buy something: you can walk with a counselor or
you can get your off-campus, which allows you to go with a friend.
