Four more days to go...

College Heights is a bee hive of activity this week. People are working in the bake shop from 7:00 am until 5:00 pm. C Hall smells wonderful. Please remember to pick up your order when you asked for it to be ready! In Green Industries beautiful creations of centre pieces and wreaths are being created and all over the school are Christmas Season displays...
Wednesday we have our big Holiday Luncheon. Student Tickets are $4.50 and adult tickets are $6.50. The turkeys were in the kitchen today and Chef has the meal planned and it will be hot and ready to go for Wednesday.
I hear Mr. Gayfer will be dishing up the mashed potatoes.
On Friday we will be having our Holiday Assembly. This assembly will start after lunch and take us through to the end of our last day of school before the holidays. We have so many acts interested in being a part of the assembly that we are havinga few perform at lunch on Friday to warm up the crowd.
It will be lots of fun.

On a different note, with the wonderful snowy weather we have been having difficulty with students throwing snowballs at the vehicles that pass by. This is a extremely dangerous and damaging activity. Please encourage your son/daughter not to engage in snowball throwing. Thanks.

Have a wonderful Holiday Season! Relax enjoy and expect the Interim reports home just before Christmas. Call us in the New Year with any questions.

Pathways programming

Check out the student survey for our Fall 2009 Work Experience. This is what programming for pathways to employment is all about. Work Experience is a 2 week full-time placement at a job.

1. After completing your Work Experience are you still interested in the same career?
Yes 27 No 2
2. Did you enjoy your placement?
Yes 28 No 1
3. If you had it to do over again, would you still apply for the Work Experience Program?
Yes 29 No 0
4. Did you receive a job offer during your Work Experience Program ?
Yes 11 No 18
5. Why did you originally decided to take the Work Experience Program?
( check the one(s) best suited)
16 To get more practical work experience
9 To learn more about business, industry, or the community
9 To have a change from school
16 To check out a career interest
6. Did you enjoy having a teacher visit you at work?
Yes 19 No 3
7. Write down ONE thing you learned from being on Work Experience
- working in a kitchen is repetitive work
- learned to work under a hectic schedule
- how to mix mortar
- how to be a machinist
- how to milk cows
- how hard you have to work
- it isn’t as easy as I thought
- how to shoe a horse
- how to fix brake lines
- how to be a friendlier person and learn people skills



What a terrific experience for our students.


We also hosted a Tremendous Careers Day Dec. 2 where we had professionals from all of our pathways visit and talk to students about their work. From Mackinnon transport to the Guelph Police Service to Stigmata Tattooing there was something for everyone. Many thanks to Linda Renusz and all the others who helped to plan this day....


College Heights Truly is Education that works!!!