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Hack the Holidays with John McGivney Children’s Centre

Grade 11 and 12 Robotics students from Belle River District High School participated in an exciting partnership with John McGivney Children’s Centre this holiday season.

On November 23rd the students were given a variety of brand-new electronic toys to choose from and shown how the toys can be reconfigured to make them more accessible for children with exceptionalities. Their teacher, Heather St. Pierre, along with Spec Ed Coordinator Lana Brodes and John McGivney’s Education Coordinator Kelsey...

December 2023: Student of the Month

The Student of the Month for December is Ozegho Aliu, a Grade 10 student at Tecumseh Vista Academy, She is an outstanding role model for the theme of “collaboration”.

Ozegho's basketball coach and teacher shared a story of the power of Ozegho’s collaboration skills. When trying to put together the Junior Girls team this fall, the coach approached Ozegho, despite her being a complete stranger to the game of basketball. Known as a key player who led the Junior Girls Soccer team to a WECSSA victory...

McWilliam Mustangs take home the 21st Annual Cereal Box Challenge!

The 21st annual Cereal Box Challenge has come to an exciting close with the McWilliam Mustangs taking home the Cereal Box Challenge Trophy for the very first time! Bellewood, Talbot Trail,  McWilliam, Glenwood, Southwood and Central Public Schools collected and donated another record-breaking 3.283 MILLION grams of cereal! That is an average of 1,358 grams per student. Thank you to every GECDSB family, student and staff member who give so generously every year.

The Cereal Box Challenge was started...

Field Trip to Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre

Grade 9 students from Westview Freedom Academy were doing university-level science on a recent field trip to the Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre in LaSalle.

The centre is part of the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and their outing was organized by the GECDSB Student Success team with funding for the transportation covered under experiential learning.

The students’ experience, under the direction of Dr. Trevor Pitcher, was not an experiment, it was...

Riverside Athletes Sign with Colleges Across the United States

We were invited to Riverside Secondary School to watch a signing event with three students who have accepted athletic offers from schools in the United States. Congratulations to Brooke, Tate and Jayne! Keep reading to learn more about these fantastic Riverside students.

Brooke Megdall

Brooke will be attending Florida International University where she will be studying Psychology. She will be joining the FIU Swim and Dive team, specializing in Platform diving (7 meter and 10 meter).

Brooke...