First Ever-LRC Cooking Club

Tuesday of this week was the first class for students enrolled in the LRC Cooking Club. 

When when advertising the Cooking Club, that there was a lot of interest from grade 12 students. These student will soon be leaving home for university.  Cooking is a very important life skill, one that they will need in their lives as university students and adults. 

The students were very enthusiastic during the first class where they learned how to make an omelet. Initially, they had to deal with a few challenges such as learning to dice vegetables,  but they soon  got the hang of it. By the end students were very pleased to have learned how to cook a very healthy omelet for their breakfast.

Cooking Club helps students to develop in many different ways including:

• providing enjoyable learning experiences that focus on important life skills

• providing opportunities for children to improve their food preparation skills

• teaching children healthy nutrition practices in an enjoyable manner

• giving children the opportunity to learn about foods from different cultures

• providing opportunities for collaboration

• enhancing community partnerships around the issue of child health

• encouraging food security through promotion of affordable meal and snack ideas.

*Each week, students are given a list of ingredients and quantities to purchase for the following class.
**During lessons students will have to follow the LRC cooking class safety rules at all times.

DVA 2019

This year's we are celebrating the ABC DVA's 10th anniversary!

How time has flown since our first practice run in September of 2009!

The DVA is and has always been about celebrating and sharing outstanding audio video work by the students for the students, as well as the entire ABC community (campus and extended). That said, over the past three years DVA has opened the doors to other schools in the local community. This year's DVA includes submissions from Acton Academy in both Primary and Secondary categories.

DVA has grown incrementally in both scope and length over the years to the point where the decision was made to run it as two events.
As a result, this year's DVA will run over 2 nights instead of the traditional one night event, with Secondary launching the events on February 12th and Primary closing DVA on February 13th.

Over the years, the ABC DVA has gained recognition internationally, as well as nationally through the regular sharing of this important work through community outreach and conferences such as Library and Classroom 2.0, Winter STEAM Conference, the ISTE Conference and local events.

One of the greatest impacts DVA has had over these past 10 years however is the growth of a culture of  creation through which all  students have opportunities to learn new skills, apply them across situations and subjects and share their work with audiences in the community.

Voting opens this coming Friday the 1st of February and closes at 6pm on Sunday the 3rd.

Please go to our official DVA Website and our various DVA Flickr Galleries to learn more.