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Thanks to all the students and staff who joined us in the school library to celebrate International Games Day @ Your Library. Over 300 people came in at some point during the day to play games. Together we celebrated the tremendous educational power of gaming, and especially the unique advantages of board games, table games, party games and other social games. We hope that you continue to play games throughout the year. Come down to the library to play games, or even to borrow our games to play at home with your family.
Month: November 2013
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak was born in April of 1469 in north-west India, (what is now Pakistan.) He would go on to become the founder of Sikhism as the first of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism. Although his birthday was in April, it is celebrated in November on the day of the full moon. (As such, the date will vary from year to year on the solar calendar, like other lunar based holidays.)
Most Canadians of Indian heritage who live in Canada are Sikhs, including many students at Lord Tweedsmuir, and communities throughout Surrey and Greater Vancouver.
For more on Guru Nanak and Sikhism, check out the SikhWiki, the online “Encyclomedia of the Sikhs.”
International Games Day @ Your Library!
Today we celebrate International Games Day @ Your Library! We are looking forward to the many different classes, representing all grades and from across the curriculum, that will be joining us for all sorts of board games, table games, card games and more.
What are your favourite board games?
What are your favourite board games? We can use the term loosely, to include all sorts of table games and party games. Here are some of my favourites:
- Settlers of Catan
- Monopoly
- King of Tokyo
- Chess
- Nameburst
- Scrabble
- Trivial Pursuit
- Scattergories
- Backgammon
- Password
What are some of your favourites? Leave a comment to let us know!
International Games Day @ Your Library
November 15, 2013
SafeTeen
SafeTeen will again be in the school library today, for the afternoon blocks only. As such, students are reminded that no study block students or drop-in students will have access today. No female students or staff are to enter the library during the boys SafeTeen session.
International Games Day @ Your Library JUST 2 DAYS AWAY!
Just another couple days until International Games Day @ Your Library!
Take a look at the map to see the locations of libraries all over the world that will be taking part!
For more information, check out the official home page
SafeTeen
SafeTeen is a tremendous program that covers a variety of topics including conflict resolution, healthy relationships, bullying, sexual health and more.
Once again we are very pleased to host SafeTeen seminars in the school library. Grade 10 BOYS will be attending SafeTeen seminars on November 12 and 14. As such, the room will be closed to all drop-in and study block students, as well as to all female staff.
Kristallnacht
For all the amazing accomplishments and advances of humanity, we are still capable of terrible barbarism and unspeakable evil. One of the most terrible and shameful chapters of our history is marked by the remembrance of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.” These events of November 9 and 10, 1938, in Germany, are seen to be the symbolic start of the Holocaust, the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews (and other groups) by the Nazis.
From Yad Veshem :
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and Austria. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. For the first time, tens of thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps simply because they were Jewish. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (“Night of the Broken Glass”) for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets. Kristallnacht was an essential turning point in Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews, and a significant event in Holocaust history.
For more about Kristallnacht, click here. For educational resources click here.
Visit the full site of Yad Veshem for more information on the Holocaust. Other online sources include:
Remembrance Day
Remember, Remembrance Day is not one of the those holidays that is just an excuse for a long weekend. Please take some time over these next few days to reflect on what Remembrance Day is all about. And on Monday, plan to take some time to honour those that have died and those that have served. Whether you attend a ceremony in person, or check out the television coverage of the ceremony in Ottawa, take some time for Remembrance.
Bram Stoker
The author of Dracula was born on this day in 1847 in Ireland. Check out bramstokerfestival.com for more on the life of Stoker and Dracula. You can borrow several different versions of the Dracula story from our collection, including several graphic novels.
King Kong Bundy
Back in the day, when I was a kid in Grade 8, all the boys were fans of pro wrestling. And as much as we had the good guys to cheer for, it was more about the bad guys to cheer against. Big John Studd, the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkov, Paul Orndorff, Greg “the Hammer” Valentine– these were some of the bad guys. Then there was King Kong Bundy. There were plenty of ugly you-know-whats in pro wrestling. Billed at 6 foot 4 and 460 pounds, he had to be the biggest, ugliest so-and-so you loved to hate. Born on this day in 1957 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Chris Pallies grew up to become the world famous King Kong Bundy.
Note: Pro Wrestling was never again as good as it was in the early 80’s. Did it go downhill that much? Or did we just grow up? I hope it was more of the latter!
Source: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
Seeing in Technicolour
The first of in what we hope is a series of free lunch time concerts on the new school library stage went today and it was a big success! Thanks to “Seeing in Technicolour,” a band of Lord Tweedsmuir senior students, who put on a great show.
A small but enthusiastic crowd of students was on hand to enjoy the music. We hope that word can spread that we can pack in even more people for our next show.
If you are a performer, either in a band or a solo act, we would love to give you the chance to perform on our stage in a future event!
See Mr. Sexton or Mr. Swaddling for more information.
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