The Citizen, 2010-07-08, Page 14East Wawanosh Public School2010PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010.By Bryce
Glousher
Good evening
parents, staff and
the 2010
graduating class of
East Wawanosh
Public School.
This is an honour for me to be able
to speak to all of you this evening on
behalf of my classmates about our
past and our future.
We have all managed to get to this
point in school by going through 10-
l-o-n-g years at East Wawanosh, but
here we are after the last day of
Grade 8.
Through our public school
experience we have accomplished
many things in all subjects such as
math, science and my favourite,
Physical Education. We also have
overcome fears like riding on the
school bus for the first time and
making new friends, also
overcoming the fear of homework,
well at least some of us have.
Although we sometimes think
teachers teach us pointless things,
they sometimes teach us things that
are really useful and we will
remember forever.
In kindergarten, we had Mrs.
Hessels as our teacher and she was
one of my favourites because she
hardly gave us homework and we
even had nap time but we learned
our ABCs and 123s, we also learned
our shapes and colours. We learned
how to spell our names and read
small books with help from the
Grade 8s and now we are helping the
future Grade 8s of East Wawanosh
learn how to read.
In Grade 1, we had Ms Mathers.
That year we saw most of the people
who would be with us here today
and we made friends with them. We
learned how to write different letters
in the alphabet and put words
together to create small sentences.
We learned simple math problems
like 1+1= ahhh … ummmm – 2?
Which leads me to Mrs. Walker’s
Grade 2 class. She taught us the
different continents and how to read
bigger books with bigger words. She
taught us how to draw shapes and
pictures. We learned how to sing in-
tune (most of time).
In Grade 3 we and Ms Thompson
for half the time and Mrs. Stapleton
for the other half, they taught us how
to begin, end and construct a
paragraph. That’s when the
homework started to stack up. We
learned about all sorts of simple
machines and how they perform to
make work easier. Most importantly,
we learned things we needed to
know to go into Grade 4, 5 and even
6. The highlight of Grade 4 was that
we began to learn French with Ms
Gardiner. We learned how to ask and
answer easy questions in French.
In Grade 5 there was another split
class, so some people had Ms
Culbert and other people had Ms
Elder. We learned even more things
in math, science and history. In
Grade 6 we all were in Mrs. Elder’s
class we learned about the different
body parts and how they work. We
also learned about famous explorers.
That was the year that we had our
first spring concert, which got us
away from doing a lot of
schoolwork.
In Grade 7 some people had Mrs.
Walper for part of the year and then
Ms Napps for the rest, and some
people had Mr. LeRoux. They taught
us about the world through
Geography. They also taught us how
to play recorders, well at least they
tried. We also went to Camp Celtic
that year but when we came back,
school was over for that year and I
was looking forward to my last year
at East Wawanosh.
Finally we were in Grade 8. Mr.
LeRoux taught us things that we
need to know to succeed in high
school. This was the year that a
particular teacher had to look up to
East Wawanosh Public School
East Wawanosh Public School’s Grade 8 students threw off their mortarboards in celebration
of their graduation on June 24. Back row, from left: Tommy Hewitt, Dylan Bromley, Dallas
Ruff-Robertson, Bryce Glousher, Braydon Whitfeild, Bret Montgomery and Nick Irwin. Middle
row, from left: Briannay Yuill, Kaitlyn Michie, Gabriel Carter, Tristin Cook, Cody Larson,
Jessica Procter, Stacey Hallahan and Andrea Shiell. Front row, from left: Spencer Stevenson,
Denise Sicord, Courtney Shearer, Kathleen Stennett, Jesse VarCamp and Landon Stafford.
Good luck with high school graduates. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Continued on page 22
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