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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1994-10-26, Page 29THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1994. PAGE 29. Grey Central Echo School works towards peacemaking prog. By Crystal Ahrens This year our class is made up of 28 students. We have a split grade, Grades 5/6. Our teacher's name is Mrs. Suzanne Irwin. We have 14 girls and 13 boys in our class this year. By Julie Machan and David Cullen Our school is working toward "playground peacemakers" for the playground. Grade 6 students have been invited to apply for the position of peacemaker. The successful candidate will undergo a training program which will assist them in helping to resolve conflict between youngsters on the yard. Supervising teachers will be consulted if the dispute is serious or if students do not wish to talk to Kids learn how to erect teepees Continued from page 27 put up a teepee. First when the Grade 7 class go there, Mr. Clark explained about the Indians and why they used teepees. He talked a lot about teepees like the north and the south end and why the door always faces the east. (The door always faces the east because the Indians said that the sunrise is the beginning of a new day.) We also found out that the Indians have spiritual religions. Then we went to put up the teepee. We started by tying together the north, south, and east poles. Then we pushed them in and brought the north end around. Then one of the poles broke so we got a new one and repeated the process. After that we got more poles and each other about the problem. It is hoped that peacemakers will have a hat or some other piece of clothing which will identify them. The program will assist young people in learning to resolve difficulties through communication and co-operation and learn strategies for conflict resolution. By Allison Rapson Our class decided to make a class creed to let other people know the way we would like to be treated. It goes like this...We pledge to respect each person and their belongings. All ideas and opinions will be heard and respected. We promise to treat each other nicely and not to hurt them in any way. We will treat others as we would want to be treated ourselves. placed them between the first three. Then we used the rope that was left hanging from tying the first three together to tie the rest together at the top. The rope was only to be wrapped around the top four times, because it was part of their spiritual religion. Then we put the main pole up and wrapped the tarp around the frame. Then we tied the part over the door space together and pinned in pegs part of the way down. We pinned up the door and then went inside. Inside the smoke flap was open but we didn't get time to close it. The smoke flap lets the smoke go out when the Indians had a fire in the teepee. Then we talked awhile and left, and that concludes our trip to Mr. Clark's house. By Mike Stephenson and Mark Gillis We have just started doing our class newsletter. The first two people that did our class newsletter were Julie Machan and David Cullen. They wrote about each subject that wc have and things that we like to do. The next two people are JayCee Kubassek and Tamara Diehl. When we are done we take them home to our parents so they know what is going on. ENVIRONMENT FAIR By Justin Walker On Thursday Oct. 20, we went to the Environmental Fair. There were 28 exhibits such as what kinds of birds would use a birdhouse, Maitland Valley Conservation and what processes wool goes through before being made into a blanket. These were some of the exciting exhibits at the fair. Grade 3 to 8 will continue to leam to Reuse, Reduce and Recycle in hope of a better future. MY BEST FRIEND By Jodi Semple Golden hair and eyes of blue, Just to give you a little clue. Kind, honest and friendly as can be, These are the qualities that are important to me. Playing soccer or just plain hanging out, Wouldn't be the same without you, no doubt. Our friendship may bend and bend, But if it's up to me, it will never end. By Philipp Affoiter and Brian Oldfield In our class there are five people who play hockey. They are Philipp Affoiter, Brian Oldfield, Marc Fischer, Mark Hunter and Devon Frank. They all play for Brussels. We are all in Atom and there is an "A" team and a "B" team. Both teams have had four practices and the A team had one game which they won 5-4. The A team has a game on Friday, Oct. 21 against Mitchell in Brussels at 7:30. SOCCER By Marc Fischer In intramural soccer there are three boys' teams and three girls' teams. Soccer is only for Grades 4 to 8. We have tournaments and this year it was boys' Team three against Team two. Team three won in the third game 3-1. For the girls' soccer Team Two won in the final game with Team Three. Soccer ended on Oct. 19. So that's all until next year. DEMO TEAM By Jill Speiran and Amanda Cummings The Demo Team is a skipping demonstration team. We skip to encourage other schools to participate in the Jump Rope For Heart Skip-A-Thon. Brussels PS news Picture time By Philip Graber and Ashley Gropp Students al BPS seem to be in front of cameras a lot more than usual lately. On Oct. 18 the Royal Canadian Legion held a video ID program for Grades kindergarten, 4 and 8. The point of the program is to help the police find missing children. Students walked in front of the camera and a background showed how tall they were. They also stated their names, ages, grades and how they got to school. They also got school pictures taken. There were individual and class pictures. Retakes will be held on Nov. 11. Our leader is Mrs. Irwin. We practise in the gym every Wednesday and Friday at 12:20. We go to different schools to perform for the whole school. There are 16 people on the team from Grade 4 to 8. We are on the team to try to keep healthy and to have fun. LIBRARY HELPERS By Tamara Diehl and Cheryl Armstrong Every day two people go to our library to help. They are called library helpers. Some library helpers help other people sign out books, help to find books, put books back on the shelves, help people on the computer and help people learn how to read. You leam how to discharge and how to renew a book and how to charge a book out to somebody. Sometimes we have other library work to do like taping books back together and helping people find the information they want. The students went to the Environmental Fair on Thursday. It seemed everyone enjoyed them selves and learned some interesting things about the environment. Primary classes are getting ready for Halloween by having fun and learning at the same time. Crafts, songs, poems and stories as well as learning about spiders, bats, ghosts, and goblins are all part of the school for this week. 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