Spring &
Fall Into Learning
Every
year our school offers special programs:
Spring Into Learning, and
Fall
Into Learning.
From
Pottery to Multicultural Cooking, from Alpine Hiking to Hip Hop Dance,
our into Learnings are a hit with students and teachers alike! Each fall
and spring we offer four or five new opportunities for learning outside
of the regular classroom. Relevant, rich, and steeped in passion for
learning across the fine arts, applied skills and outdoor education
areas, our into Learnings make Lucerne school rock!!!
Science
Fair
Every two
years, Lucerne students show their stuff in the world of science. This
year showcased terrific experiments, innovative theories, and dedicated
scientific research.
Fine
Arts Programming
Commitment and legacy of fine arts programming:
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K-12 Music
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Drama
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Media
Arts
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Writing
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Visual Arts
Distance
Education
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E-learner
courses
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Virtual Book Club
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School Moodle site
Click here to
log on to our distance education site.
Roots of Empathy
 Empathy
means understanding how people feel. With facilitator, Lane Haywood and
a local baby and mother, the Grade 1/2 class had a terrific year
watching "their" baby grow and learning how others feel.
The Roots of Empathy's program goals include fostering the development
of empathy; reducing levels of bullying, aggression and violence in
childrens' lives; building peaceful societies; preparing students for
responsive parenting; and increasing knowledge of human development and
infant safety.
The program, developed by Canadian social advocate, Mary Gordon, is used
widely throughout Canada at a variety of grade levels.
Each month, Lane, the Roots of Empathy instructor, prepared the class
for the visit of a baby and his/her mother. Themes include Crying (why
does the baby cry? and how we can help her?), Sleep, Communication,
Safety and Who Am I? (focusing on the Grade 12 students' and others'
individuality). Themes are designed to help students gain understanding
of their own world as well as the baby's. The baby's visit was eagerly
anticipated by the class, who observed her development throughout the
year. What fun!
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Grade 5/6 Outdoor Education
This year was full of exciting adventures for Katrina’s Grade 5-6 Outdoor Ed class. The class skied, snow shoed, camped at Whatshan
Lake, hiked, biked, and paddled. Many of the outdoor expeditions were in
partnership with the Burton School Outdoor Education students. It was a
terrific year filled with lifelong memories and many a Kodak moment!
Thanks to Katrina and all the parent volunteers for all of their hard
work.
Arts Festival
The Arts
Festival took place during the week of April 23-27 at the Silverton
Gallery. Community artists taught Lucerne students their various
specialties. The artists included Virginia Boyd, Kaitlan Murphy, Jeremy
Downs, Mary Fulkco and Karen Forsyth who taught photography, pottery,
car painting, and fly tying, respectively, to high school students.
Elementary workshops with artists Donna Hicks, Anita Dumis, Penelope
Stuart, Betty Fahlman, Eloise Charet, Elly Scheepens also made this
festival a resounding success.
Writers Festival
 As the
marvelous Arts Festival event emerged this year, our annual Writers Festival shifted its format into two week long Writing residencies — one with Katrina’s Grade 5/6 class and the 5/6's from Burton School, and the other with teen writers in our Spring into Learning week.
Stuart Ross was a brilliant writing mentor for all the students, regardless of age. The 5/6 class created their own poetry books, while the high school writers published their work to an online ezine
and read at a community coffeehouse.
One-to-One Reading
 Each week a crew of enthusiastic literacy volunteers participated in the
One to One Reading program. This year both adults and teens were One to
One tutors. Thanks to Charlene Alexander for her terrific co-ordination
of this program.
Homework Club
 Another excellent literacy initiative based in the school was the
homework club under the direction of Lila Strand. The club met once a
week to complete their work and eat healthy snacks.
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