TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 12, 2011) -
Attention: Assignment editor and education reporters
This morning at the annual meeting of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF/FEESO), students from across Ontario were honoured for their outstanding abilities and creativity as provincial winners of the Student Achievement Awards in honour of Marion Drysdale. This year's theme was Become the Solution: Words into Action.
OSSTF/FEESO President Ken Coran presented the awards, assisted by The Honourable Leona Dombrowsky, Minister of Education.
The awards presented for poem or essay submissions in six prose/poetry categories were:
- intermediate grades 9-10 academic;
- intermediate grades 9-10 applied/essential;
- senior grades 11-12 university;
- senior, grades 11-12 college/workplace;
- French.
And for creative entries there are three categories:
- intermediate visual art;
- senior visual art; and
- French or English video/audio/animation.
Entries were judged at four successive levels: school, district, regional and provincial. The competition is open to all Ontario public high school students.
TELEVISION NEWS PRODUCERS PLEASE NOTE:
The Student Achievement Awards ceremony features a professionally produced 15-minute video about the students and their winning submissions. This video will be distributed on request for broadcast approximately one week after the ceremony. Please contact the OSSTF/FEESO provincial office to arrange delivery.
CATEGORY A-1: INTERMEDIATE, 9-10 ACADEMIC |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
22 | Aurora McLaughlin | Karly Straitton | Grimsby SS | "The Cold Shoulder" | ||||
CATEGORY A-2: INTERMEDIATE, 9-10 APPLIED/ESSENTIAL |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
1 | Keisha Iahtail | Bill McGillis | Timmins High & Vocational School | "Shannen Koostachin: A Youth Leader Who Became the Solution" | ||||
CATEGORY A-3: SENIOR, 11-12 UNIVERSITY |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
11 | Amy Hanif | Jane Hardy | Westminster SS | "Paladins of Change" | ||||
CATEGORY A-4: SENIOR, 11-12 COLLEGE/ WORKPLACE |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
11 | Mellisa Elliott | Catherine Leatherdale | Strathroy CI | "Hall Brothers" | ||||
CATEGORY A-5: FRENCH |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
30 | Alyssa-Lynn LeForte | Caroline Bernard | Centre Jules-Léger | "Mon amie, mon alliée" | ||||
Category B-1: INTERMEDIATE VISUAL ART |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
21 | Susan Huang | Silvia D'Agruma | Sherwood SS | "One With Nature" | ||||
Category B-2: SENIOR VISUAL ART |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
12 | Ana Zolotuho | Vivian Payne | Western Technical Commercial School | "Words Into trees" | ||||
Category B-3: FRENCH OR ENGLISH VIDEO/AUDIO/ANIMATION |
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District | Student | Teacher | School | Entry | ||||
21 | Joshua Wald | Rick Kowalchuk | Sir John A. MacDonald SS | "Mice of the Mice Colony" |
OSSTF/FEESO, founded in 1919, has 60,000 members across Ontario. They include public high school teachers, occasional teachers, educational assistants, continuing education teachers and instructors, early childhood educators, psychologists, secretaries, speech-language pathologists, social workers, plant support personnel, university support staff, and many others in education.
Contact Information: Randy Banderob at 416.432.3304
or after March 14 at 416.751.8300