Western Canada`s Cole Pratt Sets Alberta Record for Canada Games Medals

Read the story in the Calgary Herald

Alumni Inam Teja Named Student of the Year at Western University!

Read about Inam in The Gazette.

Western Student Speaks at FURCA

This year, a grade 11 student from Western Canada HS, Jesse Lee, was invited to be a speaker at the University of Alberta’s annual Festival of Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts. Jesse is the first high school student to speak at the event.

You can find the abstracts to the projects here.

Western Canada student wins Optimist Club of Calgary essay contest

The Optimist Club of Calgary is a community based service club with the objective “Bringing Out The Best In Youth”, One of the ways this happens is through an essay contest for students up to Grade 12. The club offers medals and cash prizes for the first three places. The best essay is sent forward into a contest with essays from all the clubs in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana and Northern Wyoming in which the prize is a $2,500 post-secondary scholarship.

This year the topic for the contest is “When All the World’s Problems Are Solved, Is Optimism Necessary?”’ Two students from Western Canada HS, Jay Baldonado (Gr. 10, IB) and Joanna Li (Grade 11, IB), placed first and second, respectively. It was a repeat performance for Jay in this contest, as he achieved first last year when he entered from his Jr. HS in 2018. His essay has been sent forward again this year to the contest for he post-secondary scholarship of $2,500. He should learn the results by mid-April.

Mr. Bob Steele of the Optimist Club of Calgary recently visited Western Canada HS to present medals to Jay and Joanna. He was accompanied by Mr. Poirier as he visited their classes to present the medals.

You can read Jay's winning essay here.

Concert Choir Wins Platinum Award At Choral Fest

Celebrate Western is Coming - April 6, 2019

Left to Right: Susanne Williams, Gary Systema, Julia Bosse,
Sarah Flynn, and Martin Poirier.

Julia Bosse was selected to showcase her artwork on the Celebrate Western Poster. We are very thankful that she has donated her talent for our fundraising efforts this year. For More information check out our facebook page.

Western Students win medals at the Canada Games

Western Canada Students winning medals at the Canada Games In Synchro swimming

• Jamie Czarkowski won 3 gold 
• Camryn Hooey won a gold and a silver 

• Pascale Paradis and Naomi Walch both won medals at the Canada Games for Biathlon. 
• Pascale Paradis won 4 medals (1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze) 
• Naomi Walsh won 2 medals (1 Bronze and 1 Gold)

Mae Uhuegbulem (Grade 11 at Western Canada) won the Gold Medal at the U18 60m Sprint over the weekend at the Canadian Indoor Track & Field Championship

IB Programme Evaluation

WCHS invites parents, alumni, and students to participate in our IB programme evaluation by completing a short, 10 minute survey before March 22nd.

• IB Student Survey
  https://goo.gl/forms/r98MgObTSgNkJIFd2
• Parent of IB Student Survey
  https://goo.gl/forms/EOD5UXNmc8FFAnem2
• IB Alumni Survey
  https://goo.gl/forms/mQZOaAA32lfQb0os1

Math Contest Registration

For details, registration dates, former contests and solutions, etc see Western's website under Students → Clubs → Math Club. We have three upcoming contests for which registration will open on March 5, and close on Pi day, March 14.

The Galois (grade 10) and Hypatia (grade 11) math contests will be written on Wednesday April 10 from 8:30 - 10:00. 

• log in using your educbe.ab account (not your regular gmail, etc) 

• click https://tinyurl.com/Galois-Hypatia to complete your online registration 

The Euclid Math Competition is open to grade 12, and will be written on Wednesday April 3 from 8:30 - 11:15. 

• log in using your educbe.ab account (not your regular gmail, etc) 

• click https://tinyurl.com/Euclid-registration to complete your online registration

Do you love to DANCE?

If the answer is YES, you don’t want to miss this:

 CENTRE STAGE 2019

IT’S BACK! The highly acclaimed dance production of Centre Stage is back. If you are interested in being a part of Centre Stage this year, auditions will be held Thursday, March 15; Friday, March 15; Monday, March 18; Tuesday & March 19 in the Dance Studio (rm.090). All students are welcome to audition. Pieces must to be of high quality and performance ready. Please visit the Dance Studio to pick up an audition form and to sign up for an audition time. If you have any questions please see Ms. Price.