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Pauline Johnson students were front and centre during May’s Hamilton Children’s Water Festival at Pier 4. The festival unites educators, government, industry and community to educate children about...
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Project GO-Girls Only Celebration Draws 700 Girls
The day was about finding a reason to like yourself, finding support and finding friends. It was also the largest culminating event yet held by Project GO-Girls Only, an HWDSB program that develops...
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Hamilton and area students brought home the hardware, snagging 12 awards at the 52nd annual Canada-Wide Science Fair. Sixteen students who took part in the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair in...
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SJAM Student Wins Beaverbrook Prize for Essay
Sir John A. Macdonald Grade 11 student Fahima Begum was among the 2012 winners of the Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, a prestigious scholarship that aims to educate and inspire students through the historic...
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Ancaster Tri Runs on…
This year’s Dared to Tri event at Ancaster High School its tradition of success, as hundreds of runners, cyclists and swimmed competed in the triathlon or duathlon races. The event supported Benetto...
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Virtual Art Gallery
Congratulations to the students of Memorial (Stoney Creek) Elementary School for their Come Together booklet, a recent publication they created to explore HWDSB’s Strategic Directions in words,...
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Work Highlighted for Mental Health Week
OP Students at OK Day, a Mental Health Awareness Event A teen can face anxiety anywhere at high school. Gym class may spark fears of a fight or not playing a new sport well enough. The touch of a...
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Director: Revitalizing Where and How our Students Learn
Our schools are changing. Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) has been engaged for more than a year in one of the largest reviews of student accommodation in Ontario history. We are...
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19 Schools Certified Ontario EcoSchools
As the Ontario EcoSchools program continues to take root at HWDSB, 19 schools were certified in the second year of the points-based environmental awareness initiative. The schools were certified for...
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Students Embrace Entrepreneurial Adventures
Paige, Sophia, Joseph, Ruby and the rest of classroom 7F at Ancaster Meadow put teacher Bill Forrester through his paces when they launched their new business. Calling themselves Forrester’s Party...
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Mountain Event Showcases Student Abilities
Mountain secondary students at a year-end showcase used drama, crafts, prose and presentation to highlight what they’ve learned in a diverse range of school-to-work programs. As the second semester...
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HWDSB Uses OSSLT Results for Improvement
The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) in June released school- and board-level results of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) that students across the province wrote in...
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Orchard Park Rides to Make a Difference
By Sherena Razek, Grade 12 student On Thursday, May 31, in the Orchard Park gymnasium, 160 students, teachers, and volunteers came together with one goal in mind: making a difference. The Inside Ride...
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Stoney Creek Students Join War of 1812 Celebrations
The Bicentennial of the Declaration of the War of 1812 has brought a lot of pomp to Hamilton. Three HWDSB Grade 7 students were a part of one special visit last month thanks to the winning postcards...
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Director: The End to a Successful Year
This post originally appeared on Director of Education John Malloy’s blog, All Students Learning. As we come to the end of another school year in HWDSB, we have the opportunity to reflect upon our...
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Summer is Here!
We hope that all of our readers, students, staff and parents enjoy a fun, healthy and safe summer break. See you in September!
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At the June 18 Board meeting, the Ontario Public Supervisory Officials’ Association (OPSOA) President’s Leadership Award was presented to Shelby O’Breza (Saltfleet).
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