Credits and Budgets

Grade 12 students Nicole Sullivan, Marissa Donohue,
Guest Speaker Tamara Kelly, Grade 11 student Candace
Purcell and Grade 12 student Josie Coulter. 

Grade 12 and some grade 11 students from Blackville School had the opportunity to get some pointers on budgets and credit advice. Tamara Kelly, Director Of Education for Credit Counselling Services of Atlantic Canada, spoke to the students about credit, interest and budgets. For more information on Credit Counselling Services, click here.

School Calendar Photo Contest Winners Announced

The winners for the 2013 Blackville School Calendar Photo Contest have been decided by an independent and impartial judge.

For the elementary level, Grades 3H and 4D won for their month of March and St Patrick's Day. An honourable mention went to the kindergarten classes.

For the middle school level, the winners are Grades 7D and 7W for the month of June and their celebration of school being out for the summer. An honourable mention went to Grades 6F and 6M.

Finally, for the high school level, the winners are Grades 9T and 9U for their month of December and celebrating the holiday.

Grades 3H and 4D, Grades 7D and 7W and Grades 9T and 9U will each have the choice of either a pizza or ice-cream party.

Congratulations to the winners and those classes who received honourable mentions. The school has received a lot of positive feedback on the 2013 calendar and special thanks to every class for helping to make it a success.

A big thank you also goes out to photographer Melanie Keenan for taking the time to judge the contest.

The Big Crunch

As part of promoting healthy eating and learning about local and global food systems, elementary school students at Blackville School participated in the Big Crunch last week. To learn more about the Big Crunch, click here.

Blackville School a 2013 Future Generation Tech Lab Winner

Future Shop representatives Mark Guy and Josh Quigley
with Superintendent Nancy Boucher
and Blackville  High School students 

Blackville School was recently selected as one of twelve schools across Canada to receive funds in the 2013 Future Generation Tech Lab program.

Sponsored by Future Shop, Blackville School received $15, 000 which will allow the school to purchase more equipment that can be used for podcasting, video production, online publishing, photography, interviewing and writing.

The equipment will be used mainly for Journalism 120 and Media Studies 120, but will also be available for students to use in other courses when the technology is required to complete assignments.

The equipment that will be purchased includes updated computers, software and digital cameras.

On Monday, March 11, representatives from Future Shop along with Anglophone North District Superintendent Nancy Boucher were present at the school for the cheque presentation ceremony.

For more information on Future Shop's 2013 Future Generation Tech Lab Program, click here.

Local award-winning author visits Blackville School

Blackville students Jules Keenan and Hailey Arbeau
with author Valerie Sherrard.
(Photo by Twila Sturgeon)

Award-winning author Valerie Sherrard visited Blackville School on Monday, February 25. She spoke to students from grades 6-9.

Sherrard has written many books for children and young adults, earning award recognitions in Canada and internationally.

She lives in Miramichi with her husband Brent, who is also an author.