New Myrnam School Hosts Spring Showcase

New Myrnam School Hosts Spring Showcase

Michelle Pinon - News Advertiser

The Spring Showcase at New Myrnam School was truly a celebration of learning for parents and community members to enjoy.

Hands on learning with an eco-sustainability focus was evidenced throughout the classrooms, during demonstrations and exhibited in many different displays

throughout the four hour jam-packed event. Grade 10 student Sam Crundwell decided to take beekeeping to the next level by starting his own project at school. Sam says he has been learning about beekeeping from his dad at the farm over the last two years and that it’s been a good bonding and learning experience.

Teacher Jodine Benning with some of her students and future student, seated in the desk.

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Lily Wagner began taking cosmetology this semester. She’s really enjoying the course so far and can definitely see herself in this type of career. Wagner said they had Princess Hair Day about a week ago which was a lot of fun and she already had a number of people requesting haircuts already.

Grade 9 student Judy Klassen was aboard the former school bus which is being converted into a solar powered tiny home. It is being retrofitted to include a kitchen, stove, toilet and bedroom area. She helped construct two storage benches and explained some of the challenges involved with the project.

Grade 10 student Sam Crundwell displays his honeycomb.

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Isabel Badry with her checkerboard that she created and crafted.

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Grade 7 student Harper Matthews couldn’t wait to tell guests about her sustainable poultry project. She said the chicken coop was built by a couple of Grade 12 students last year, and on the first day back at school in September she asked to do the project. She explained that she needed to have the Village of Myrnam’s bylaw changed to allow chickens and that she needed an urban hen licence and had to complete a guide on how to raise chickens. She has four chickens and is really enjoying her project. “It’s a real life learning opportunity and I’m so happy to be able to have it.”

Harper Matthews.

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Harper has a “big passion” for chickens and runs her own business, Harper’s Happy Hens, at the family farm. She currently has 15 hens and is hoping to persuade her mom to increase the brood to 20 hens. Harper said she couldn’t be happier, “living the chicken life” and hopes to introduce many more people to the benefits of sustainable poultry farming.

Grade 12 student Amy Okeymow said learning about horticulture has been “fun and interesting” as they have learned a lot about growing different types of produce.

Student fine tuning his project.

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Grade 8 student Mackenzie Norman made a spyglass, one of several things featured in the Airborn Museum. Briggs Matthews showed off the go kart he is working on to his dad Nathan, who said he likes the smaller classroom sizes and hands on activities the kids get to do at New Myrnam School. He said he would highly recommend the school to other parents.

Music students performed as well as elementary students and special guests during open stage in the gymnasium to cap off the event. Principal Danielle Eriksen thanked everyone for attending along with school trustee Jan Rajoo, Village of Myrnam Mayor Donna Rudolph, County of Two Hills councillors as well as representatives from Inside Education that has provided A+ Energy grants to the school for the past six years.

Grade 6 student Mandy Klassen cuts out a piece for the wooden coat rack she is making for her parents.

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Ericksen said all of the work comes from the students and that’s where the strength of the school lies and asked the audience to give them a special round of applause to recognize their efforts.

Peter Christian, Levi Christian and Henry Christian work with some gadgetry in the library.

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