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“Thanks 4 Giving” - We Did It!

• Nov 2
Grade 9
Immunizations
• Nov 3
Take You Kid
to Work day “Your commitment to Deltaassist
• Nov 11 as a recipient of the largest food
Remembrance clelction by a school in Delta will
Day
• Nov 24
enable us to provide food hampers
Post Secon- to over 600 low-income familes in
dary Info our community this Christmas.” -
Night
- Doug Sabourin
7– 9:15 p.m.
• Nov 26 Executive Director—deltassist
Pro-D Day
• Nov 10 & 24
Collab Days

Once again, Delview Secondary
INSIDE THIS
has proven that a little school
ISSUE:
can have enormous accomplish-
Athletics/DPA 2 ments. Thanks 4 Giving is a huge
event that takes weeks to plan,
Principal’s Message 3
with teachers and students giving
Take Our Kids to 4 up hours of their time each day,
Work Day/Grad well before the actual event
Trnas takes place. On October 14th,
however, it is all made worth-
Career News/Tech 5 while by the number of partici-
Stretch pants and the sheer generosity of
the community.
Pantomime 6 Amazing stories always come out
This year, over 400 students and
We Day 7 staff members came together to
help support Deltassist and the
Communicating with 8
Surrey Food Bank, either by
You
canvassing the neighbourhood in
chilly autumn weather or by
Delview Secondary
staying back at the school to
9111 116 Street
carry out the arduous task of
Delta, BC
sorting the collected canned
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goods.
604-594-1258
http://www.deltasd.bc.ca/dl/ The result was an incredible
Principal: amount of non-perishable food
Mr. D. Younger items; a final total of 16,001 cans
Vice Principal: was reached, Delview’s second
Mr. M. Robinson highest total since Thanks 4 Giv-
ing began. The record is 16,155, canned goods be made to Delview’s
a total reached in 2008. food drive. It was these cans, and this
North Delta is a large commu- amazing act of kindness, that began
nity, and it is truly wonderful to the 18th annual Thanks 4 Giving event.
see each resident come together Since 1992, Delview has collected
on one night to support such a over 10,000 non-perishable food
good cause. This year, canvassers items each year, and the numbers are
were able to extend their only getting higher. This event will
boundaries and knock on the only continue to grow in the coming
doors of houses that had never years. Thanks 4 Giving is one tradi-
before been visited for this tion that will never be ignored, no
event. matter how many graduating classes
pass through Delview’s hallways.
of Thanks 4 Giving because of North Delta will always support
the compassion citizens of North those in need.
Delta have for others. This year Submitted by: Nadine Clark
was no different. The very first
cans to be brought to Delview
were not collected on October
14th. In fact, they weren’t even
brought in by students.
Two people recently cele-
brated an astounding 70 years
of marriage. Even more incredi-
ble than that was the request
they made of their family and
friends; they asked that instead
of sending gifts, a donation of
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Athletics
Delview’s Fall Athletics season
has been full action both on the
local fields and in the gymnasiums.
The junior boys soccer team,
which is primarly made up of
grade 8s has been showing fantas-
tic determination while playing
against other teams made up pri-
marily of grade 10 boys. Mr.
Bonikowsky can not say enough
about the teams determination to
play their best each match. The
senior boys are continuing to
improve in their team and posi-
tional play with each match. Al-
though the scoreboard is not
always telling of successes, Mr.
Johal is impressed with the com-
mitment of a core group of guys
and their willingness to work
together to improve their game.
Delview’s girls volleyball teams
have all been experiencing the
” joys of winning matches this Fall.
The grade 8 girls, coached by Mrs.
Karpun, have been leading the way
and have been outplaying many of
the local teams and racking up the
numbers in the wins column. The
junior girls have also earned some
wins along the way and showed
significant improvement after at-
tending a full day tournament in
Burnaby earlier this month. Both
the 8s and jr teams have two
matches left before playoffs being
in the first week of November.
The sr team accomplished a Del-
view milestone on the evening of
October 19th, after winning the
first match in the 3 year history of
sr volleyball at Delview. The
team’s win against North Delta was
done with as much heart as talent
by all players.
Basketball is just around the corner
(mid-November) and some pro-
grams have already began holding
open gym sessions for interested
students. Anyone who has an
intention to play should have
already contacted the coach.
We have Mr. Waldman back
coaching with Mr. Choy at the
grade 8 boys, Ryan Joannes
(former student) is back coach-
ing the junior girls team, while
Mr. Nikic will continue coach-
ing the jr and sr boys teams.
We are looking for a commit-
ted and interested coach for
the grade 8 girls basketball
team this year. Please contact
Mr. Close at
iclose@deltasd.bc.ca if you are
interested.
The Delview PE and Athletic
Programs are looking for used
gym equipment in safe working
order to add to our weight
room facility. If you have any
items you would like to donate
please contact Mr. Close @
iclose@del asd.bc.ca

Daily Physical Activity - DPA

Starting September 2008, all students began partici-
pation in DPA reporting. Kindergarten to Grade 9
students are expected to participate in 30 minutes of
moderate to intense physical activity per day, while
Grade 10 to12 students are expected to participate
in 150 minutes of moderate to intense physical activ-
ity per week. Students will be asked to complete
“snapshots” of their daily physical activity twice per
school year in order to keep track of this require-
ment. Quick questionnaires will be handed out to
students prior to the first formal report card
through “D Block folders.” Parents/guardians are
asked to review their children’s responses and sign
by required timelines. Stay active and healthy all year
round! For more information about this, please visit:
www.bced.gov.bc.ca/dpa

From the Student Council

From the St ude nt Council Presi de nt

This is Delview's first year having a Student Council,
and it's great to see how many people have decided
to commit to bettering our school. For the time
being, our goals are very vague. Our biggest con-
cerns revolve around communication and school
spirit; aspects of school-life which we hope to im-
prove as the year goes on. However, as time goes
by, we're finding more and more areas to get in-
volved in and we're working hard to put our ideas
into practice. We want to hear the suggestions of
individuals and by the end of the school year, we
hope to ensure that student voices play a larger
role in decisions and events! Our goal is to make
changes for the better and I hope you decide to join
us on our exciting new venture.
Submitted by: Shamina Kallu

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Principal’s Message
Once again it has been an exicting and busy
start to the school year. From your children
you may have heard of how full our hallways
seem and the need to arrive quickly in the
cafeteria if you want to eat at your favorite
table. This is not just an illusion, Delview has
once again increased in the size of our stu-
dent population with an increase of 30 stu-
dents over our last year’s numbers. Our
grade counts are now fairly well balanced
with roughly 140 students at each grade. The
increased number of students has meant an
increase in the amount of classes operating.
This in turn has also resulted in an increase
in our staff and we are pleased and excited
to welcome new teachers to the Delview
community.
We have continued this year with our col-
laboration time built into our timetable.
Happening 16 times over the school year,
collaboration time is a reworking of some of
our Professional Development time that
supports teachers to become involved in the
ongoing development of their teaching.
Originally when we started with collabora-
tion time we had teachers, with their depart-
ments, focus on three guiding questions: 1)
What are the key concepts from the cur-
riculum that we want to teach well and to
great depth? 2) How will we know when our
students are learning what has been taught?
(An examination of assessment practices) 3)
How do we respond if students are not
learning? We have seen our teachers have
make great use of this time as our depart-
ments come together and determine what
must be taught and the best ways to teach
it. New and exciting for this year is the
expanded use of the collaboration time to
allow groups of teachers to focus on
cross-curricular concerns, teaching strate-
gies and assessment techniques.
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank the teacher and student organizers
of the “Thanks 4 Giving “ event. To me this
is one of the highlights for the year as it
involves our school coming together with
the North Delta community in support of
our community. We saw an expansion of
involvement with “Thanks 4 Giving” this
year with approximately 100 parents be-
coming involved with driving students and
the sorting of food items. Roughly 70% of
our student population joined in this
event and helped to collect 16,001 food
items.
As usual, there is a lot happening at Del-
view to involve students in extra-
curricular activities.
In athletics, we have 6 teams in action
through the first couple of months of the
school year, including 2 Soccer teams and
3 Volleyball teams and a small group of
students running in track competitions.
Our Basketball program has been running
open gym skill development time and
conditioning sessions. In the near future,
there is an upcoming drama presentation
scheduled for mid December for a panto-
mime. Finally, the Grad Committee is
working hard to plan and pull off a series
of exciting events, including the upcoming
Grad Cruise.
Finally, for the information of all parents
and guardians, I wanted to make you
aware of a change that is occurring to
how we report on students. Our next
formal report card, being sent home Nov.
18th, will be the final printed report. All
subsequent Interim and Term Report
cards will be published to Parent Connect.
Through both email and voice mail we will
be alerting our community when the re-
ports are available to be viewed and we
will be directing parents to Parent Con-
nect. For those parents who do not have
the ability to view these on-line report
cards, please contact the school and we
will make a printed copy available to you.
Mr. D. Younger
Principal

Yearbook Purchases
The cost of the
2010/2011 Yearbook has
decreased. Students
were charged $55.00 and
the actual cost will only
be $50.00. Students who
have paid will be issued a
credit and this credit will yearbook will go up to
carry forward into the $55.00. So hurry and
second semester. Year- order your yearbook now
books may still be pur- before the cost goes up!
chased at this price until
December 31, 2010.
After that date the cost of
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Grade 9 Take Our Kids to Work

family, mentors, school; recognizes the importance
school and career of life-long learning in pursuing
counselling centres, career opportunities; and creates a
“The primary coaches, web sites, relationship between business,
objective of libraries) labor and education.
Take Our Kids
· Explain the impor- Delview’s expectations are that all
to Work Day is tance of developing students in Grade 9 will participate
linking class- employability skills in this activity. Registration forms
room learning (e.g., employability will be distributed to students on
with the com- skills are transferable Monday, October 25 and need to
The Delta School District is pleased to all areas of a student’s life, in- be returned to the office by Thurs-
munity and giv-
to support Take Our Kids to Work cluding school, leisure, part-time day, October 28th. There is also a
ing students new on November 3, 2010. This na- employment, future careers student reflection assignment that
insights into a tional career event takes place has been given to each grade 9
parent’s occupa- annually on the first Wednesday of Through job shadowing our com- student and it needs to be returned
November. munity is able to play a part in the
tion and role in to the school by Friday, November
career development of Grade 9
providing for the The experience helps students 5th. If you have any questions
students. The primary objective of
family.” meet the following learning out- Take Our Kids to Work Day is about your child’s participation,
comes in Health and Career Educa- linking classroom learning with the please call the school and speak to
tion 9: community and giving students new Mr. Robinson.
· Describe ways of exploring career insights into a parent’s occupation Visit
options (e.g., job shadowing, men- and role in providing for the family. http://www.takeourkidstowork.ca/
toring, volunteering) The experience enhances students’
understanding of jobs in the con- for further information on this
· Identify sources of information national event.
and support to assist them in their text of the working community;
education and career planning (e.g., encourages students to stay in

Graduation Transitions 12
Graduation Transitions 12 is a man-
datory, four-credit course that all
Grade 12 students must successfully
complete in order to graduate.
Delview students received their
booklets during the week of Octo-
ber 4, 2010. The first deadline for
completion of pages 1 – 5 of the
booklet is Tuesday November 9,
2010. All students will be required
to meet with their School Coun-
selor, their Career Advisor, and
their Graduation Transitions Advi-
sor, along with a parent/guardian, in
order to discuss their post-
secondary plans for the first year “Graduation Program” for informa-
after high school graduation to tion specific to Graduation Transi-
successfully complete all aspects of tions. Additional information can
the booklet. Please ensure that your also be found on Delview’s Home
child has discussed his/her personal Page, and students and parents can
plan with you and that they have access up-
completed the required compo- and-
nents of the booklet by this first coming
deadline. informa-
Should you require any further tion using
assistance, please do not hesitate to their First
contact Mrs. Karpun. Information is Class
available at: www.deltasd.bc.ca. accounts.
Click on “Schools,” then
“Secondary,” and finally

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From the Career Centre

Wondering how you’re going to pay for attend, go to the home page and print to do, come talk with me (Ms Derk-
college or university? Well, aside from scholarships into their Search. You’ll get a sen)—you can also do an assessment on
part-time jobs, student loans, and par- whole page coming up that will tell you Career Cruising that might help you.
ents, there are tons of scholarships and what that particular school has to offer. Grade 12 Parent Night is October 28,
bursaries out there if you know where to Sometimes you have to apply for the 2010. That’s an opportunity for your
look. A scholarship is free money for scholarship, and sometimes you don’t— parents to learn this information, too, so
excellence in a particular field (not just you’ll be awarded money on the basis of they can help you at home. Remember,
academic). A bursary is free money for your grades. nobody’s asking you to decide the rest of
demonstrated financial need. The major universities are looking for your life before you graduate. All you
First of all, websites. Check out stu- about an 80% (or better) average for have to come up with is plans for what
dentawards.com. You register, create getting in, but you can always start with to do in the year post-high school—after
your profile, and then review the infor- schools such as Kwantlen or Langara and that, your ideas could change again as
mation that’s sent to your account. An- transfer later. The process for admission you’re exposed to more information
other website you have to sign up for in BC is done electronically, and the ear- about the possibilities.
(but it’s free) is scholarshipscanada.com. lier you apply, the better. The website is
Or you can search on bcaward- pas.bc.ca. You can start an application,
sonline.org: alphabetically, by career area, save it, and come back to it when you’re
by deadline—whatever you like. ready to submit. Be sure to print off a
Don’t forget the websites of the universi- copy of your application for your Grad
ties and colleges themselves. If you have Transitions package. If you’re not sure
an idea of the institution you want to about going to college or what you want

Tech Stretch-An Electrifying Experience

Trades and technology will once again
be front and centre this year at Del-
view Secondary. Our very own Sebas-
tian Klinkenburg was part of an initial
group of Delta students who at-
tended the first ever Technology
Stretch (TechStretch) session earlier
in the fall term. In this program stu-
dents participate in five practical,
interactive sessions at Delta Manor
under the guidance of Al Miles, BCIT
Electrical instructor. Delview has a history of strong partici-
TechStretch gives students an introduc- pation in trades-related programs. We
tion to the electrical trade as a viable have a number of students attending
career option and helps them see how ACE-IT programs outside of Delview in
elective choices during senior secondary Carpentry, Construction Electrical,
school can facilitate the transition to Warehousing, Auto Refinishing and
post-secondary education. The Tech- Baking and Pastry. We also have stu-
Stretch program is offered through an dents taking work-based training as
apprenticeship grant received from the Secondary School Apprentices. If your
Industry Training Authority and is open son or daughter is has an interest in
to grade 9 and 10 students upon recom- trades, have them speak to Mr. Prideaux
or Ms. Derksen in the Career Centre.
mendation of their shop teachers.
As part of our ongoing commitment to
trades exploration, the Career Depart-
ment will be organizing tours and infor-
mation sessions during the year to in-
form students interested in the trades
as a possible career. We are planning
site visits to construction projects and
industry shops during the year as well as
a trip to the annual Skills Competition in
Abbotsford in the Spring.
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Annieville’s Annual Christmas Craft Fair
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November 12th Message from the PAC
DPAC is please to present best and November 9th. This is an The next PAC Meeting will be on
selling Author Barbara Colorso event parents won’t want to miss. Thursday, November 4th at 7:00
and her presentation called If you would like more informa- p.m. in the Library at Delview. All
“Parenting with Wit and Wis- tion or for tickets call PAC Presi- parents are encouraged to attend.
dom”. There will be 2 evening dent Laura Hagar-Gaube at 604-
presentations on November 8th 584-3064 .

Burak Ranger and
Brittany Fingzies—
starred in Last
Year’s Pantomime
Pantomime Time
This December, the Drama Studio will play host
to Delview’s fourth annual Pantomime.—1001
Arabian Nights. The show has never been any-
thing short of spectacular, and this year will be
no different. Starring Burak Ranger as Ali Barber,
and Brittany Fingzies as Bob, the Pantomime
boasts a talented cast and dedicated crew con-
sisting entirely of Delview students. Nobody
should miss out on what promises to be an
amazing performance. Stay tuned to our website
for more performance dates and times.
Last Year’s performance of
“Peter Pan”

The Cast of the 2009 Pantomime

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More Photos from Thanks for Giving

We Day
Our generation has been called apathetic;
we are often considered the generation
who simply doesn’t care. Somehow, an
image has been formed in people’s minds,
in which we sit at our computers and
listen to our iPods and text on our
phones and ignore everything important
that is happening in the world. This isn’t
true. Young people care very much about
global issues, and recently an event took
place in Vancouver that proved just that.
On October 15th, over 18,000
students from elementary and secondary
schools all over the province came to
Roger’s Arena to attend WE Day. Fea-
turing speakers such as Al Gore, Martin
Sheen and Jesse Jackson, this event was
nothing short of inspirational. The Kiel-
burger brothers also spoke at WE Day,
reprising their role from last year and
sponsoring this event with their founda-
tion, Free The Children.
Interspersed between the
speakers were musical acts including the
Barenaked Ladies, Hedley and Colbie
Caillat, but it was obvious that those in
attendance were really only there for
one thing: to learn from, and be inspired
by, the leaders of the human rights
movement. They were given a battle cry,
a simple “I am somebody. We are all
somebody,” uttered by Reverand Jesse
Jackson. Now, for the next year and until
WE Day comes to Vancouver once
more, the young people of British Co-
lumbia will spread this message. They will
raise money and awareness for those in
need. They will show that this generation
is fuelled by compassion, not apathy.
They will make a difference.
Submitted by: Nadine Clark

Student Fees Club Day - Friday, Oct 29th

Thank you to all the families that were able to pay
their student fees on Student Fee Collection Day this
month. There are still many students who have out-
standing fees. Payments may be made at the office any
weekday between 8:30 and 4:00 p.m. If you have any
questions or concerns about your shild’s fees please
call Mr. Younger at the school.
Delview Student Council will be holding a Club Day on Friday Oct 29th. All
the individual clubs will be set up displays and hand out information about their
club meetings and activities.. The event will take place at noon in and around
the school Library.
Students are encouraged to wander down to the Library, have a look around
and get information about all the activities they can participate in.
Hope to see everyone there!
Parent Connect
Parent Connect is great way for Par-
ents and schools to be able to commu-
nicate and provide information to each
other. Here are some of the great
features and benefits that Parent Con-
nect has:
Updating family information: on Parent
Connect you can update certain infor-
mation about your family, such as con-
tact phone numbers, e-mail address,
employer names, emergency contacts,
etc.
Attendance: you can check the atten-
dance of your child
School announcements: new this year
is the bulletin system in Parent Con-
nect. This allows the school to post
information that is important for you
to know.
Schedules: you can access your sched-
ules for Parent Teacher Interviews.
Course Planning: all course planning
choices are made on-line in February
and early March
Course information: Want to know
who your child’s teachers are, what
classes they are taking? It is all con-
tained on Parent Connect.
Report Cards/Interims: Digital copies
of these from the 2009/10 school year
forward are available to view and print.
Fee statements: you can see what fees
are being charged to your child.
Messaging: you can send a message to
your child’s teachers, the office or
administration
Password: you can change your pass-
word at any time.
If you are having difficulty signing on to
Parent Connect contact the office for
assistance.
https://
cimsweb.deltasd.bc.ca/

Report Cards and Interims - A New Way of Delivery

As part of green and
financial initiatives high
schools in Delta are
moving towards com-
pletely digital Report
Cards and Interims. Last year was the
start of the transition from paper copies
to digital ones. For the 2009/10 school
year all Interims and Report Cards were
available in a digital format accessed
through Parent Connect. This year
Delview is planning on only providing a
paper copy for the fall interim and the
first Report Card in semester one.
After that point all copies of Interims
and Report Cards will be only available
on line through Parent Connect. (Note
– any Interim and Report Card can be
printed through Parent Connect if you
choose.) On Parent Connect you will
have access to all Interims and Report
Cards from the 2009/10 school year
forward. We do realize that this may
not suit some families. If you require a
printed copy of an Interim or Report
Card and would like Delview to print it
for you please contact the school and
we make arrangements for this to hap-
pen. If you are having problems access-
ing Parent Connect please contact the
school office for assistance.

Communicating with You

Delview uses a number means of providing
you with information. We feel that it is
important and so we have a variety of ways
that we do this
Delview web site – all daily announce-
ments are posted here, other important
announcements, Parent/Teacher interview
request forms, pictures and a calendar of
events (click on Parents to see this calen-
dar).
SynerVoice – this is a phone call out sys-
tem. It is used for daily absence notifica-
tion as well as important announcements News Letters – we will post these on our
and information. web site and notify you by email and syner-
E-mail – we email important information to voice when we have done so.
the e-mail address that we have on file. Facebook – yes we do have a page and all
Please check in Parent Connect to see if of the daily announcements go here.
you have one for you. If not please enter Twitter – we do this too with the daily
your e-mail address or contact the school announcements.
so we can add it.
School street sign – outside of our school
Parent Connect – we are starting to use on 116th street is a sign board where we
the bulletin system to post important in- post important dates and upcoming events.
formation.