Students in Action Day

Our Students in Action Day is centred around getting the students engaged in the school and igniting their passion. They will get the opportunity to participate in workshops organized by the high school leadership group as well as participate in a djembe drumming workshop.

Update (February 24, 2014)

We have a very busy day set out for our students! Below is a basic schedule of our day.
Schedule:

Time Grade 7 Grade 8
8:30-9:20 Extended homeroom with Extended homeroom with
pancake breakfast pancake breakfast
9:25-10:10 Session 1 Session 1
10:15-11:00 Session 2 Session 2
11:05-12:00 Drum Café Session 3
12:00-1:00 Lunch Lunch
1:00-2:00 Session 3 Drum Café
2:00-2:30 Christian Music in auditorium Christian Music in auditorium

Not only will we be having our students involved, but we will be having students from a feeder school come in and enjoy the drum cafe and other workshops as well.

Most workshops will be run by senior students, with the exception of a few run by those from the board or from local parishes.

It will be a busy and fantastic day!

Update (March 17, 2014)

We ended up changing the day up a bit. Instead of having music for the last 30 minutes of the day, we decided to send our students back to their homerooms to complete an exit card activity.

The questions, and some responses, we had on the exit card are:


1) What workshops did you participate in today?- each homeroom group had the opportunity to

participate in three different workshops as well as an hour long session with Drum Café- there

was an extended homeroom period where students shared in a pancake breakfast.

2) Name something new that you learned

• Forgiveness is important

• There are three things you can forgive- God, yourself, others

• Communication is good

• Friends are important

• All girls are beautiful, and brave

• How to play the drums

• To appreciate others for who they are

• Most important part of the Mass is communion

• God loves us unconditionally

• Definition of reconciliation- a free gift, God always forgives

• Middle class in Nicaragua is really poor- their houses are build on the ground and get flooded

• Rumours spread fast and change a lot

• 4 different kinds of love-

• Four new Greek words

• Chastity isn’t all about not having sex, it is about accepting yourself

• We can be more connected to God than we are

3) What surprised you?

• Learning about the bible can be fun

• Impact of media on our views

• Think before you prank (intentions don’t always matter)

• Drum circle

• Dancing

• What bread and wine (Mass) are all about

• How much we liked it and we should do more of these

• There were so many workshops and they were all different

• Drums and how we can all come together in unison

• Living conditions of Nicaragua – tough living conditions

• The set up for the trip to Nicaragua

• Girls- relationships versus friends

• How privileged we are

• How well everyone worked together during the Drum Café

• How everyone followed the non-verbal directions during the Drum Café

• How everyone showed up and participated in the day

• Girls were able to take charge of group

4) What was the best thing about today?

• Bible game

• Drumming

• Pancakes

• Marc’s stories

• How to communicate in a relationship

• Girls only (Brave workshop)- teamwork

• Boys only –

• Learning about Jesus

• Questions in the chastity workshop- where girls only got to send their questions to the

• The high school students facilitating the workshops

• Skits - promoted us working together

• Balloon dodge ball

5) What would you include if you were planning a day for grade 7 and 8 students?

• More food

• Movie

• More time in the chapel

• Arts and crafts

• Activities outside

• Splitting boys and girls for workshops

• Teamwork

• Sports

• Activities that involve moving

• Reconciliation (having a priest here)

• Competition

• Meditation

• Drum circle

• Keep it the way it was

boys only group and vice versa.