Eel Ground Hot Lunch Program

Ethan reports on the Eel Ground School's new hot lunch program.

Fish Friends

The students in Mr. McKay's class are involved in the Miramichi Salmon Association's Fish Friends education program. Student reporter Quai provides this story. Watch the video above.

This news story will be featured in the next broadcast of the District 16 Report, a monthly news broadcast being produced by School District 16 High School Students.

2008 National Awards for Excellence

On April 24th, the Kaiser Foundation Recognize it's 2008 National Awards for Excellence Winners. The awards ceremony, held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Calgary, recognized the outstanding work undertaken by organizations, communities and individuals from across Canada in reducing the physical and mental harms associated with substance use and mental health issues.
Eel Ground was honoured to receive the Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Programming. Mr. Mac and Felicia were at the event to accept the award on behalf of the school. The following text is from the awards program:

The Eel Ground First Nation School drama club program uses an innovative approach to the arts to teach students life and coping skills through drama, music and other forms of media. The program helps students connect to their culture and has inspired students to deal directly with issues common to first nation communities, such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) and teen stress and suicide. Movie versions of the students' plays have been shown across Canada, inspiring students from other communities to follow the lead of Eel Ground School.

Kaiser Award Tomorrow Night

Felicia leaves tomorrow morning for Calgary to accept the Kaiser Award on behalf of the Eel Ground School. Good Luck Felicia!
The Miramichi Leader featured the Eel Ground School and the award in Monday's paper:
miramichileader.canadaeast.com/community/article/273638

Short Film Score

The grade 7 and 8 students have been working on a Garageband activity. Each student was given a copy of a short film that was created by Braden, Sacha, and Jade. Their assignment was to score the video. Students used music and sound effects to help tell the story. All the students did a fantastic job. Here are a couple of the scores that stood out:

The Milk Man, Shot and Edited by Braden, Sacha and Jade, Music Scored by Aaron

The Milk Man, Shot and Edited by Braden, Sacha and Jade, Music Scored by Dilan

Creepy, Crawly Bugs

Naomi from the kindergarten class created this creepy picture of bugs using the Artrage software. Awesome!

60 Second Movies

The grade 7 and 8 students recently complete a digital video project. The assignment was to plan, shoot and edit a video under 1 minute in length; that had a beginning, middle and end; and used a prop. The above is a video that one of the groups produced using a coffee mug as a prop.

Sounds Like Canada

The Eel Ground School was recently featured on the CBC Radio program Sounds Like Canada. Host Shelagh Rogers interviewed Felicia, Mr. Mac, Mr. Bosma and former student Dylan. You can listen to the program by clicking here and scrolling down to the March 25th story.