Bullying Awareness Week
Bullying Awareness Week runs from November 16 to 20. The Movie "Pay it Forward" will be playing in the Auditorium Monday and Tuesday, button sales Wednesday, Photo Pledge in the cafeteria at lunch on Thursday, purchase t-shirts on Friday.Yoga club
A new yoga club is coming to Eastwood! The style of yoga is a combination of Tai Chi, Pilates and Power Yoga; it builds strength and flexibility and leaves you feeling rejuvenated and centered. Join Mrs. Bender every Tuesday after school from 3-4pm in the cafeteria. Sign up on the bulletin board outside the student activity office. All students, staff and abilities are welcome. Looking forward to seeing you all there! Namaste"The Cove" Film Fundraiser
Eastwood's IMPACT group is running a fundraiser on Friday November 20 at 5:00pm at the Princess Cinema on 6 Princess Street in Waterloo. IMPACT has secured a private screening of the award winning documentary "The Cove" The cost is $10 and all proceeds will be going towards IMPACTS initiatives for this year. "The Cove" follows a team of activists and filmmakers into a secluded cove in Japan. This cove has been kept a secret for years, and all media are prohibited from entering. Viewer discretion is advised as some scenes of animal cruelty are graphic. To get your name on the Guest List see the IMPACT team in the Lower Foyer at lunch.Holocaust Guest Speakers
The Eastwood History Department has arranged, through the generous support of Barrday Inc. of Cambridge, for two Holocaust survivors to come and speak with our grade 10 history students on Wednesday November 25, 2009. Students will have the rare opportunity to hear about the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust from those who lived through it to tell their story today, so that such atrocities may be prevented from ever happening again.
During period 2, all grade 10 history students will proceed to the auditorium to hear from Leonard Vis who was born in Amsterdam/Holland in 1930. Mr. Vis comes from a modern Orthodox Jewish home. He can trace his family origins back to before the French Revolution. He has a brother (born in 1934) who lives in Amsterdam, and a sister (born in 1935) who lives in Tel Aviv. Leonard, his parents and siblings survived the Holocaust in Holland by being hidden.
During period 4, all grade 10 history students will meet in the auditorium with Gershon Israel Willinger who was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1942 to German-Jewish parents who were murdered in Sobibor in July 1943. First, as a one-year-old, orphaned child he was placed in hiding. But, in 1944, as a two-year-old child he was deported with a children transport to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany and later transported to the infamous Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia where he was liberated in 1945 as a three-year-old child.
Gala 2009: Quelle Surprise!
Plan to attend this year's production of Eastwood's annual variety show, Gala, on Friday, November 27 at 7 pm, or Saturday, November 28 at 1 pm and 7 pm. Tickets are $12 and will be sold in the Activities Office during the day from November 17 to 20, and in the upper foyer from 3 - 6 pm on November 23 to 25. Come and be surprised, amazed, and wowed!Gr. 8 Information Night
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
A night to showcase all of our programs:
- Academic, Applied, and Open level courses
- Integrated Arts
- Specialist High Skills Major
- English Language Learner
Click Here to view brochure
Eastwood Strings News 2009-2010
Orchestral Zeppelin
Yes, you read correctly. Zeppelin! As in Led Zeppelin.
Thanks to Eastwood's partnership with the Waterloo Region's The Children's Museum, Eastwood's Strings groups have been invited to be a part of an exciting benefit concert. On Saturday, December 12, 2009, we will be backing up world-renowned Zeppelin tribute band Michael White and The White at a performance at The Gig theatre in Kitchener. More information coming soon.
For an idea of what this concert will feature, visit the following YouTube link, featuring Michael White and The White performing with some strings students from Toronto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQW-zCc5zs
Key dates
Nov 20: Mid-Term Report Cards handed out in homeroom classes.
Nov 26-28: GALA "Quelle Surprise!"" Student matinee on Thurs Nov 26 ($3/student) as well as Friday, Nov 27 (7 pm) and Saturday, Nov 28 at 1 pm and 7 pm
Dec 9: 6:30 pm: Please plan to attend our Grade 8 Parent/Student Information Night and find out about all of Eastwood's programs, including the Integrated Arts Magnet Program, the Specialist High Skills Major/Arts and Culture Program, Strings Magnet Program and our ESL Magnet Program.
Silent Reading Program Donations
ECI is launching a daily Silent Reading Program in February. Students will be given 15 minutes each day to improve their reading skills. The reading will rotate through the periods (Monday period 1, Tuesday period 2 etc...) Stay tuned for more information to be given to the students in January. In the meantime we'd like to ask parents to support this initiative by donating gently used books and magazines. Please drop donations off in room 327 before or after school.Important Information about the H1N1 flu
Do your part to reduce the spread of the flu. ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS!Click here to see the Ministry of Health guidelines for schools on H1N1 which should answer any questions you have.