Voici des commentaires d’élèves qui ont participé à la conférence sur le bilinguisme dans les écoles du QAIS, le 29 avril, 2010.
J’ai aimé la conférence sur le bilinguisme car c’était intéressant d’entendre les histoires des anciens étudiants. Ils ont dit que c’est très important de continuer le français après l’école secondaire car les langues aident [...]
Last week, the downtown QAIS schools (Quebec Association of Independent Schools) held a special conference entitled “Le Fait Français,” a celebration the high quality of French taught in our independent school system. It was an impressive collection of speakers: experienced teachers, alumni, community members and the former Premier of Quebec, Pierre-Marc Johnston.
All presenters spoke [...]
Another year has passed since our last Earth Day and Environment Week at LCC. Unfortunately, on the global scale it’s easy to feel gloomy about the general state of the environment. Climate change is a huge topic, and while politicians around the world debate the issues—as they did at the Copenhagen Conference last December [...]
There is an old adage that school is about the three R’s—Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic—the core subjects that support every young person’s success in the world. But in the modern world, I now see a fourth R that we have to add to the mix: Respect. For me this is a key element [...]
It’s the end of week one, 11 000 miles away from Montreal, in Ballarat, Victoria. The weather has been great, the family amazingly friendly, and my short time at Ballarat Grammar School has been fun.
So far I have spent a week at school followed by a great weekend in Melbourne approximately an hour [...]