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MONARCH MATTERS June 2005

Table of Contents MPC in the News 1 Principal’s Message 2 Vice Principal’s Messages 2 The Forum For Young Canadians 2 Scholarship News 3 Student Council 3 Free the Children /Leaders Today 3 Prime Minister’s Teaching Award 3 Prom 4 MPC Music Department 4 Stratford Visit 4 Mathematics News 4 Abel 4 BIZ News 5 COOP News 5 OBEA Contests 5 Business Awards Day 5 Mock Trial 5 Biz Quiz 5 @ your library 6 Harry Award 6 Oh My Word Club 6 Drama News 7 United Nations/Debating Club 7 Canadian and World Stud-ies Department 7 Science News 7 Spider Jones visits MPC Guidance News 7 Cricket 8 NEXUS - OAME 2005 Stu-dent Volunteers 8 Sports Recap 8 Bicycle Club 8 Thank you to Dave Ross 8

“MONARCH MATTERS” SALUTES OUR GRADUATES AND AWARD WINNERS 2005!

This year at Monarch Park Collegiate has been simply unbelievable. Monarch Park has been very busy making a difference in the world. This year in September, MPC started the Brick-by-Brick Campaign and through coin drives, personal and other donations raised an incredible $6,622.50. Through our relationship with Free the children, MPC has just officially announced that approximately 20-24 students will get the opportunity to go to the African country of Kenya in the 2006-2007 academic year. For the school year 2006-2007, MPC has just announced that it will become one of the very few schools in the TDSB that will offer the International Baccalaureate program. This is an internationally recognized di-ploma program that has earned a reputation for rigorous assessment, giving IB diploma holders access to the world’s leading universities. The Diploma Program’s grading system is criterion-referenced, which means that each student’s performance is measured against well-defined levels of achievement. These are consis-tent from one examination to the next and are applied equally to all schools. This year MPC received the very prestigious 2005 TIGP (Toronto Intergenerational Partnerships) Community Service Award. The students of MPC have worked with seniors in the local community through such activities as the annual Halal Christmas Dinner, the Seniors In Cyberspace program (where students at our school work with seniors in our community showing them how to use the Internet), and the Chinese Literacy program where Chinese students from our school teach Chinese seniors in our community English language skills. This year we anticipate that, once again, Monarch Park students will win in excess of $100,000 in scholar-ships and bursaries. This year MPC has 90 Ontario Scholars that have received over 80% in their six best grade 12 courses. This spring MPC won the South Regional Track and Field Championship taking home an incredible 15 medals. The Boys’ and girls’ basketball teams fought their way to the finals. MPC restarted a Cricket Team. The Chess Team also had a great year and is building their team for next year. This year, in January, MPC hosted a press conference with the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, and the Free the Children founder, Craig Kielburger, that announced the $1 million dollars of medical supplies that was sent to the Tsunami affected regions. MPC raised an amazing $32,890 worth of medical supplies! In addi-tion, our MPC community made a donation of over $2000 to the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Campaign. Students in Drama, Art and Music programs made documentaries, a music video and hosted the first Art Café that was extremely successful. MPC also participated in the Canadian Idol search contest. This year at MPC was amazing and just wait until next year!!! Martin Herbst - Staff Reporter

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Monarch Matters MONARCH PARK COLLEGIATE, 1 HANSON STREET , TORONTO, ONTARIO, M4J 1G6

Congratulations to Neha Fatima and Faiza Wahid. They correctly identified the MPC teachers who love to read on p. 6 of the March 2005 “Monarch Matters” as Mr. Scolnik, Mr. Curic and Mr. Shee-han. Please see Ms Card in Room 224 to claim your prize.

Status of Women Awards Martin Herbst, Johanna Tzountzouris, Sally

Hakim, Asma Zia, Mary Card Congratulations also to Azra Khakoo on her

Status of Women Award

All Saints Church-Community Centre Back: Karen Thompson, Martin Aller-

Stead, Martin Herbst; Front: Rob MacKinnon, Azra Hussain, Amani Ali,

Hailey Sturge, Bryan Gurney, Mary Card

Anne Hope Awards Rob MacKinnon, Valerie Sloman, daughter of Anne Hope, Bryan Gurney, Mary Card, Azra Khakoo, Azra Hussain, Sally Hakim, Magda

Goncalves, Martin Herbst

MPC students in the Seniors in Cyberspace and Chinese Literacy Program accept the

TIGP Community Service Award 2005

Meng Lee, Martin Herbst, Martin Aller-Stead, Rob MacKinnon, Karen Thompson, Mary Card with Community Service Award

SPIRE AWARDS Susan Tam and

Mr. William Minnis

Rachel Kaufman and Jay Arrington award Sarfraz

Khan his ILC Award

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Message from our Principal, Mr. Rob MacKinnon Congratulations on a fantastic year, MPC! On the cover of this issue of Monarch Matters is a sum-mary of some of the things we have accomplished this year – you should all be proud of this collective action to make our school, community and world a better place. Beyond these major events, I would like to con-gratulate the staff and students on the things they do every day to make Monarch a place of possibilities. Over this year, I have learned that one of the most wonderful aspects of our school is the way that people are open to new ideas and reflection. All of you look around your school and community and identify need and then figure out ways to address that need. This can take the form of curriculum review or starting a new sports team or club on the part of the teachers or it can take the form of peer mentoring or community leadership on the part of students. Your constant de-sire for personal, social and school improvement makes you, us, stand out as exceptional. Our collective focus on making MPC a Global School fits perfectly into this vision of renewal and growth. Thanks to all of you again for making MPC the best school in the city of Toronto! Below is the speech that I delivered at the Free the Children Assembly. This event was the realization of a year of work and the beginning of a great new relation-ship with this important agency. Since I delivered this speech, the Board has approved our Africa Experience (students and teachers going to Kenya to work with FTC to build a school and to work in Masai villages) and it has approved MPC as one of the future sites of the In-ternational Baccalaureate program for the TDSB. These major projects are further examples of how we are a Global School! “Last June I was appointed to the position of Principal of MPC for the coming school year. I had no idea what to expect. And I had no idea what to expect when 2 teachers asked to meet me in the “inner sanctum”. Mr. Herbst and Mr. Gurney asked me if I knew the group Free the Children – I’ve got to admit, while I had heard of Craig and Marc Kielburger and their good work on child labour, I had no idea what the group was doing now. They told me about FTC and that they would like that group to be the focus of fundraising efforts for the school for the year. I hesitated and thought, ok , let’s see how that works. It worked. Since then you - students and staff, have worked diligently and with profound commitment to raise money to build a school or classroom in a developing nation. In a little while, Sally will be presenting a cheque that you and your peers and teachers and support staff and community partners have raised. I’ll let her unveil that total. When I thought about this day and how I would describe it, I won-dered if conclusion was a word I would use; but no, I thought, the work you have started will go on, far beyond this year – it will create safe, clean, well ventilated and light filled class-rooms that the students of Kenya will be able to use for years – you will have done that and there is no conclusion to that. I played with other words, but I think that the best way to describe this period for Monarch Park is to describe it as a chapter in a very long book. Your chapter hasn’t been fully written yet; in the coming weeks a group of your peers will be representing you at Much Music where they will meet the Earl and Countess of Wessex to discuss all your wonderful work. But at the end of the year, when we put that last period on this chapter, you will be able to look back in the book you have played a part in writing and be proud of your efforts. They were efforts that were good - good in a deep and mean-ingful way. People will look back on this year as the year that started it all. Next year we will continue to deepen

Message from Vice-Principal, Ms Pat O’Dell This was a wonderful year to get to know our terrific staff even better and to observe how many of our stu-dents have been courageous enough to seize opportu-nities knowing that they would always enjoy the safety and support of our MPC staff. Message from Vice Principal, Ms Sue LeMesurier This was a great year for staff collaboration. Course outlines have been developed to demonstrate uniform delivery of overall and specific expectations in all sub-ject areas.

L to R: Pat O’Dell, Gail Fraser, Manager, Partnership Develop-ment TDSB, Jill Worthy, school

superintendent for MPC.

L to R: Rob MacKinnon, Sue LeMesurier, Rob Galikowski

at our school prom on June 3, 2005.

THE FORUM FOR YOUNG CANADIANS The Forum for Young Canadians was an amazing experience. It was an honor to be chosen out of so many candidates to go to Ottawa for an unforgettable week. For that week we were members of the parliament with our own special passes and we dined with the elite politicians of our great nation. We went to meetings and sessions and really got to learn how truly democratic our society is. We learned that the government is reachable. We got hands-on experience on how busy all the people that run our country are and that they sacrifice their time with their families to do their jobs well. The one thing that made my experience so mind-blowing was the people that I met. When I arrived in Ottawa, I had no idea what to do and where to go, and all the strange faces didn’t help at all. But within that week all 150 of us, many from small towns all over Canada, became like family. We were apprehensive at first. But we all became close, shared our ideas and debated on everything from Quebec’s push for separatism to turtle reproduction. We lived in the same hotel, ate our meals to-gether and had our mock parliaments. Overall the forum was an ex-hilarating experience and worth every penny and thanks to the forum now I have a place to sleep in anywhere in Canada! Azra Khakoo - Student Reporter

our partnership with FTC. And, in two years, with Board ap-proval and lots of hard work, it is my hope that we will send 20 students and 2 teachers to Kenya to build a school and to work with the people of Kenya… This will be a partnership that will benefit both groups. The students who go on this journey will come back as new people with new understand-ings and insights and, in turn, they will teach us. And the cycle of learning and sharing and growing will go on. Thank you Mr. Herbst and Mr. Gurney for your wonderful in-spiration to the school. Thanks to all of you for recognizing the value of this massive project and thanks to FTC and Craig and Marc for providing leadership and direction.” Rob MacKinnon - Principal and Staff Reporter

L to R: Ms Sue LeMesurier, Mr. Rob MacKinnon, Ms Pat O’Dell

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SCHOLARSHIP NEWS At Monarch Park Collegiate we are proud of our stu-dents who are selected to receive scholarships, bur-saries, and awards on the basis of merit and need. These students work extremely hard and contribute a great deal to our school and to the larger community. Financial assistance enables such students to continue their education and to reach their goals. When this hap-pens everyone benefits. On behalf of everyone at Mon-arch Park Collegiate, a special thank you to our commu-nity partners for their very generous support of our Monarch Park Collegiate students honouring their con-tributions to our school community, local community and the global community and for providing them with financial assistance on their educational journeys to make the world a better place for others. We congratulate the following award recipients for the school year 2004-2005: APPLEBANKS (ALL SAINTS-CHURCH COMMUNITY CENTRE) SCHOLARSHIP – Amani Ali, ALL SAINTS-CHURCH COMMUNITY CENTRE SCHOLARSHIP – Azra Hussain, ALL SAINTS-CHURCH COMMUNITY CENTER BURSARY – Hailey Sturge; BOB MEIN-SCHENK SCHOLARSHIP – Amaal Abdi Mohamud; DAVE FERGU-SON AWARD – Sara Hajagos; DON MILLS CIVITAN CLUB AWARD – Katy Heximer; GREG BOND MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP – Daphne Zhou; GEOFFREY AND EDITH WOOD MEMORIAL SCHOLAR-SHIPS—Naciimo Abdi Mohamud, Nadia Ahmad, Sara Hajaos, Gregory Howard, Aduselam Idris, Hailey Sturge, John Wu; MERIT AWARD BURSARIES - Ada Aguilar, Alicia Baker, Katy Heximer, Gregory Howard, Hailey Sturge, Hawa Tarin; MAY-TREE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP – Azra Hussain; REFLEXX SERVICES INC. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Victoria Lawson; SPIRE SCHOLARSHIP – Susan Tam; TORONTO EAST ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY SERVICE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD – Abduselam Idris; TORONTO BEACH ROTARY CLUB AWARDS – Azra Hussain, Abduselam Idris; TORONTO BEACHES LIONS CLUB AWARD - Martha Oates; ALUMNI AWARDS - Liaqat Ali, Renuka Selvaratnam; STATUS OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP AWARDS – OSSTF DISTRICT 12 – Equity - Azra Khakoo, STATUS OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP AWARDS – OSSTF DISTRICT 12 – Im-pact on students – Sally Hakim, STATUS OF WOMEN LEADER-SHIP AWARDS – OSSTF DISTRICT 12 – Positive Community Im-pact – Asma Zia; LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S COMMUNITY VOL-UNTEER AWARD FOR STUDENTS—Azra Hussain; MARY CARD - PMA CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT - AWARDS - Kulbir Deol, Victoria Lawson, Hailey Sturge, Susan Tam, Asma Zia. Our school and staff have also been recently honoured by receiving the following awards this year: TIGP (Toronto Intergenera-tional Partnerships) COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD 2005 - Monarch Park Collegiate; ANNE HOPE AWARD – Bryan Gurney and Martin Herbst; STATUS OF WOMEN LEADERSHIP AWARD - OSSTF DISTRICT 12 – Johanna Tzountzouris: PRIME MINISTER’S TEACHING AWARD - CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT - Mary Card Mary Card - Staff Reporter

NEWS FROM THE STUDENT COUNCIL

“Student Council has had a fantastic year! Any word I could pick to describe this year would be a HUGE understatement. This year alone we planned and hosted a lot of events. From the Welcome Back BBQ to not one but two outstanding food drives for the Red Door Shelter, a CN Tower Stair Climb for the United Way, a Halloween Costume Contest, two Deck-a-Door contests, the very Halal Christmas Dinner, Candy Grams, Just-Because-O-Grams and Rabbit–o–Grams, Movie Buy Outs and lunches. We raised a marvelous $6,622.50 dollars to build a school in Kenya and $3,289.00 dollars for the tsunami effort which translated into $32,890.00 dollars in medical supplies for the victims through a $1 to $10 matching program at Free the Children. In addition, Premier Dalton McGuinty and the founder of Free the Children, Craig Kielburger came down to Monarch to congratulate us. And last but definitely not least we had our Prom which was a tremendous success. You have a remarkable student council to thank; they spent their time and effort to plan all of these events. Also I would very much like to thank all the teachers who supported us throughout this school year especially Mr. Herbst, Ms. Goncalves and Mr. Sheehan. Also we would like to thank the admin staff, Ms O’Dell, Ms LeMesurier and Mr. MacKinnon the folks in rooms 112 and 113 and all of you guys! So just wait until next year when we have even bigger and better ideas to come to life! Thank You!!” Sally Hakim - Student Reporter

FREE THE CHILDREN/LEADERS TODAY CO-OP PLACEMENTS 2005-2006 As part of our on-going partnership with Craig Kielburger and the Free the Children organization, Monarch Park has been offered two Co-operative Education placements with the Free the Children and the Leaders Today programs starting in the fall. Skye Baziuk and Ashlynn Fisher will be commencing their coop positions in office administration starting in the fall. We are looking forward to expanding our partner-ship with the Free the Children organization as they with us. Hopefully we can develop an International Co-op program for 2007 that will cre-ate new initiatives in education! Karen Thompson - Staff Reporter

Sally Hakim, Student Council President, introduces the dy-namic and hardworking members of the 2004-2005 Student

Council at the year-end assembly on June 9, 2005

Photo Above: L to R: Mary Card, Craig Kielburger, Rob MacKinnon, Sally Hakim, Martin Herbst, and Bryan Gurney. Photo Below: (L) Sally Hakim,

Achilla Orru, Rob MacKinnon; (R): Bryan Gurney and Martin Herbst

On June 9, 2005, Mary Card received a Prime Minister’s Teaching Award—Certificate of Achievement. The award was presented by Rob MacKinnon and the $1000 received by our school was used to create PMA Certificate of Achievement Awards for our students!

NEWS FROM THE MPC MUSIC DEPARTMENT It was a busy second semester this year for the music students at Monarch Park. It started off with the music presentation/concert "Bach to Beatles". Doug and Wendy Pullen are a professional saxophone duo who have played in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Their program consisted of music from the 1600's to modern day including classical, jazz, and popular styles. It was well received by our music students and teachers who brought their classes. The band and vo-cal students were involved in our annual Massey Hall concert. The Monarch Park Concert Band's first per-formance this semester was for the Greenwood stu-dent visits. Our annual non-competitive Music Festival at Monarch Park was a great success. All the music students were involved including the Concert Band, the vocal class, and the grade 10 and 11 guitar classes. All of these groups were also involved in our first Arts Night/Coffee House which was also a great success. On a sadder note, this is my last year at Monarch Park. I am off to the music program at Sir John A. Macdonald C.I. I have enjoyed my time here, first as a music teacher and then becoming In-Charge of the Music Department and Program. I have always been very proud of the Music Department, Program, and espe-cially all of the music students that have performed in concerts for me over the last 5 years. All of these per-formances have been very special to me and I will not forget them. Thanks to all of the Staff and the Arts Silo who have been supportive over the last five years. A special thanks to Adriana Radelicki, John Au and Laura Norris. Good luck in the future. Arthur Luck—Staff Reporter STRATFORD VISIT On Thursday, June 2nd, Ms Fearon’s and Ms Sattaur’s Grade 10 Academic English classes attended a sold-out performance of Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”. Although this play was written in the time of Elizabeth 1st, it was set in the “Peace and Love” period of the 60’s and 70’s and the music was composed by the popular Canadian band, The Barenaked Ladies. The weather was splendid as we picnicked by the Avon River. The following is a review of the play by Ms Sat-taur’s student, Vincent Launchbury; “Congratulations to William Shakespeare on another well-written play. “As You Like It’ lives up to its name; the audience did like it and it received a stand-ing ovation. The play was well-cast, especially the part of Oliver, which brought an excellent atmosphere to the production. The story itself was witty and amusing, with a lovely happy ending that cheered us all up, especially since all the characters were still alive at the end of the play, something we are not entirely used to with Mr. Shakespeare’s plays…if you are planning to see it, be prepared for women dressed as men, love, romance, and a complex but highly en-tertaining plot. This production was one of the best I have seen and certainly deserves the good reputation it has garnered.” Heather Fearon –Staff Reporter

Special thanks to our Tutors in the Classroom - Maria Agousti, C.J.Cromwell-Simmonds, Senai Imam, Alexia

Moliotsias, and Sandy Wong!

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MPC PROM 2005 – THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!! This year’s prom was held on Friday, June 3, 2005 at Ellas Banquet Hall. The event was a great success! The evening started at around 6:00 p.m. with the guests ar-riving in style! Everyone looked exquisite, from sweet-heart cut princess gowns to a white top hat! During the dinner some guests received awards ranging from “Best Dressed” to “Most Likely to Cure Cancer”. Of course, who can forget Prom King and Queen, Greg Howard and Leslie Wright! Afterwards, the real party started as Su-perior DJ’s rocked the house until midnight!!! Even the chaperones showed what they were made of! A special thanks goes to the Prom Committee – Azra Khakoo, Sally Hakim, Rebecca Brionnes-Clarke and Ms. Goncalves. Thanks for making this event come to life!! Magda Goncalves—Staff Reporter

MATHEMATICS NEWS The Mathematics Department would like to announce some great news regarding this year’s Math programs and students. With the steadfast and unwavering effort of the Math Department staff, the math students of Mon-arch Park showcased their persistence and dedication in their preparation for this year’s editions of the National Euclid Contest and Canadian Open Mathematics Chal-lenge. Monarch Park is proud to announce that eight students received Certificates of Achievement, earning scores that put them in the top twenty-five percentile nationally. Such a wonderful accomplishment deserves much recognition. We are proud of all the students who participated for they represented Monarch Park admira-bly and professionally. Honourable mention goes out to our junior math students who participated in the Pascal, Cayley, Fryer and Galois Math Contests. Your effort and resolve did not go unnoticed. The Monarch Park Math Department would like to congratulate and thank all of this year’s students for their hard work, enthusiasm and perseverance. We expect only bigger and better things for the future! Vidak Curic – Staff Reporter

ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning) will be in full force during the school year 2005-2006! KT&MC

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BUSINESS STUDIES “BIZ NEWS” BUSINESS AWARDS DAY HUGE SUCCESS! Once again, Mr. Scolnik's BOH4M1 class organized the annual Business Awards Day held in the auditorium on Thursday morning, May 19th, 2005. The auditorium was beautifully decorated by the students; co–chairs in charge of the activities were Nadia Ahmad and Haroon Wahid. The guest speaker, Martha Russel, the Managing Director of Integracare (www.integracare.ca) took stu-dents and guests on an entrepreneurial journey of the creation and expansion of her business which provides healthcare as well as other services. Certificates of Excellence were given out to deserving students as well as Business Certificates for students earning five credits in business subjects. Refreshments were served after the ceremonies, completing a successful morning! Karen Thompson and Mary Card - Staff Reporters

OBEA 2005 ACCOUNTING COMPETITION On Wednesday May 19th, 2005,, Monarch Park Business students in the Grade 11 and 12 Accounting classes wrote a province-wide, 1 ½ hour examination, consist-ing of 100 multiple choice questions, sponsored by the Ontario Business Educators Association. The following students scored very well in the competition: Josephina Zhu, Lisa Chou, Waqas Mir, John Wu, Lawrence Lee, David Du, Hannah Kedini, Osama Mumtaz, Rong Fa Zhang, Tamaryn Chung, Abdul Rahman, Numaira Se-hresh, Cynthia Cheng, Renuka Selvaratnam, Duc Nguyen and Tahmina Ferdous Chowdhury. Congratulations to all the participants! Way to go Monarch! Elliot Scolnik – Staff Reporter OBEA 2005 DESKTOP PUBLISHING CONTEST AND OBEA 2005 POSTER CONTEST Congratulations to Carey Basaraba from Ms Card’s BTT101 class and Stella Ha from Ms Walker’s BTT101 class for their entries in the Desktop Publishing contest and to Christine Shepherdson from Ms Card’s class for her entry in the Poster Contest. Well done!!! Mary Card - Staff Reporter MOCK TRIAL—JUNE 2005 Congratulations to Ms Kozell and Ms Walker and their classes on the excellent Mock Trial. Well done!!!

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION NEWS RECOGNITION BREAKFAST, MAY 27, 2005 Principal Rob MacKinnon and Vice-Principal Sue LeMesu-rier joined Coop Teacher/Monitors Karen Thompson and Bess Kyritsis for an early morning Recognition Breakfast in our cafeteria to honour successful Coop students and their Coop Supervisors. Certificates of Recognition and Achievement were handed out after the breakfast.

JOB FAIR, MAY 27, 2005 Monarch Park Co-operative Education students cele-brated their Fifteenth Annual Coop Job Fair after the successful Recognition Breakfast was completed. Super-visors stayed after the breakfast to visit the different informational booths and were joined by parents, teachers and fellow students for the rest of the morn-ing. Placements in Health Care, Teaching, Fashion, For-estry, Chemical Engineering, Carpentry and Auto Me-chanics indicated the wide range of placements that students seek in 2005! Pamphlets were given out and of course popcorn was served as usual!

COOP THEATRE-IN EDUCATION PRODUCTION Monarch Park Dramatic Arts students do it again! For the 14th year, the MPC Drama program has participated in the TDSB Coop Theatre-in-Education Company. Four-teen students from all over the TDSB came together at Jones Avenue School to create an original script from their own experiences dealing with equity issues. The production was directed by Simon Malbogat and the young actors then workshopped, blocked and rehearsed their roles, and created scenery and costumes for their performance called “The Other Side”. Monarch Park’s very own Ada Aguilar played the part of Principal Singh with compassion and gusto!! The actors toured and per-formed the play to young students in Grade 7 and 8 programs in the TDSB. Their final production took place on June 14th at the Harbourfront Studio Theatre for an enthusiastic audience made up of family members, friends (Martha Oates) and supportive teachers. Ms Thompson, Ms Tzountzouris and Ms Yarmouth (former Dramatic Arts Head) were delighted to give Ada their congratulatory hugs! Karen Thompson - Staff Reporter BIZ QUIZ JUNE 2005 - What is the name of Ms Martha Rus-sel’s company and her trademark Moose? Deposit your an-swer in the BIZ BOX in the Coop Office to win a prize.

Mr. Scolnik and his BOH4M1 students celebrate Business Awards Day 2005 with guest speaker Ms Martha Russel.

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MPC STUDENT WINS HARRY AWARD! On May 27, 2005 the TDSB presented the HARRY AWARDS for student film and video work at the CBC building in downtown Toronto. Two Monarch Park Stu-dents, Joanne Diep and Jian Cao, were nominated for works created in Mr. Marcoux's Grade 12 Media Class. Jian's short work entitled “Escape” was nomi-nated for the Experimental category. Joanne received two nominations; one for her work entitled Troubled Girl in the Commercial category; and a second nomina-tion in the Experimental category for her work entitled Abandoned House. All of these works were intricate explorations of media elements such as movement, colour and sound. Both Joanne's and Jian's works were sophisticated in their use of mood, concept and struc-ture. At the end of the ceremony, which was presented in association with the Toronto Film School, Jian's video received the award for Best Experimental Work. Both Joanne and Jian felt that the HARRY AWARD presenta-tion was a good experience because they were inspired by other students' work. David Marcoux – Staff Reporter

OH MY WORD CLUB The ubiquitously renowned OH MY WORD club has wrapped up another deliciously waggish, phenomenally supercilious, yet unbelievably self-abnegating, year of sound and fury with the Mighty Word. Of course, "B" is for "bombast," as in "My teacher may well be a pulchri-tudinous pachyderm pondering the shallow puddles of the Serengeti, but, boy, is he full of BOMBAST!" As we all know, however, "B" couldn't buy you a baba ganoush. Verily, I say, "A" is where the acrimony is at. Because "A" stands for "alliance." To be sure, as with any mellif-luous meeting of the minds, allegiances were formed which would make a Metternich turn a pale shade of cadmium red. Yes, they came, they cogitated, and they conspired; sometimes they conquered rather like cos-sacks; most times, they simply confabulated and cod-dled each other with predictable caprice. It was an epiphany to see, eh (pun completely unintended, n'est-ce pas?). And no one even had to resort to his or her bare bodkin this year! Bravo to the principal players who salivated like sirens rich in their beguiling sylla-bles, and omnivorously ate from the plate that feeds the soul: Yeotje Ahn, Trudy Ekubor, Sana Khalid, Ray-mond Liu and Favadia Nosheen. Mr. D. Goman - Their esteemed Ringleader and Staff Reporter

@ your library Once again we had an amazing crew of student volun-teers keeping the library vibrant and organized this year… consider joining the crew next year. The follow-ing students were invaluable in holding the fort to-gether: Mariam Ahmedy, Yeoji Ahn, Mahilet Arega, Jen-nifer Chen, Lily Chen, Dang Quang, Sajeev Devaraj, Mai Doan, Vincci Ip, Deneth Kahandawala, Lawrence Lee, Raymond Liu, Keerthika Pulenthiralingam, Erin Rumsby (also our lunch time desk aide), Kara Sanders, Samiya Syeda, and Hannah Zhao. Two of these students are also recipients of the Arthur Livingston Library Award, for their dedication and volunteer spirit, enhancing library use for the whole school: Vincci Ip and Hannah Zhao. Congratulations! A considerable thank you on behalf of the whole school also goes to the remarkable teachers who volunteered their extra-curricular time during lunch in order to keep the library open for stu-dents this year: Ms Hilhorst, Ms O'Donnell, Mr. Au, Mr. Mead, Mr. Katzmarek, Ms Gooding, Ms Goncalves, Mr. Niedzwiecki, and Ms Posner. Reading was UP 2% this year… so don’t forget to relax and READ over the sum-mer: look for the handy list of good books (as suggested by fellow students!) that will be with your final report card. We wish you a fantastic summer! A FOND FAREWELL TO MPC FROM MS DEMPSTER “I’ve been lucky enough to be a Monarchian for 6 years now. Monarch has taught me so much, and I thank you all … and as MY culminating activity, I’d like to share a few of the things that I’ve learned in my time here: -I've learned that ... Mr. Galikowski’s students get the best use of library time on average. -I've learned that… under every student’s hard shell is some-one who just wants to be heard and appreciated. -I've learned that ... ½ of you like my hair long and ½ of you like it short. -I've learned that… we all need a little peace in our fast paced days, in our info-rich /frenetic /MP3 /Ipod worlds… so please, just STOP everyday for a little while, slow down, and READ something… read for depth, read for piece of mind, read for escape, read for the soothing rhythm in your brain; read to relax, to absorb… JUST READ. -I’ve learned that… it doesn’t really matter how many signs or bulletins I put up or how good I make them look, there are folks who read signs, and there are folks who just don’t. -I've learned that… (and this is my public service announce-ment for the day) way too many of you still SMOKE - that goes for teachers too. You know, we actually LIKE you, you really have to not smoke anymore. We honestly WANT you around for a long time. -I’ve also learned that … libraries really must bring out the best in people, because all of you are always so fantastic and genuinely productive whenever you come to the library. -But most of all I’ve learned that… when it REALLY COUNTS, you all have great heart: whether it be during a GLOBAL trag-edy like the Tsunami, or a deeply personal and local tragedy, like the death of our friend Dave… … you really show your true colours, and I thank you for that. So…. I am very happy to have been a Monarchian for a little while, it has been an honour, and I thank you for having let me be your teacher-librarian for a few years: it is by far the best job I’ve ever had, I highly recommend it. Thank you!” Ms L. Dempster - Staff Reporter Thanks to our staff, students and community part-ners for making the year 2004-2005 a great year at MPC! MC and KT - Monarch Matters Co-Editors

L to R: David Marcoux, Joanne Diep, Sabrina Huynh,

Jian Cao (award winner), Tim Ao, Li Kang Zhou

L to R: Yeotje Ahn, Favdia Nosheen, Sana Khalid, Ray-

mond Liu, Trudy Ekubor

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NEWS FROM THE DRAMA DEPARTMENT ARTS NIGHT COFFEEHOUSE On Thursday, May 19th, the MPC Arts Department had their first ever Arts Coffeehouse. It was a wonderful night of drama, music, visual arts and media arts. Fea-tured acts included scenes and monologues from the Grade 11 Drama class, short films and slides shows form the Media classes, and performances from the Vocal class, MPC Concert Band, and the Beginner and Ad-vanced guitar classes. The Art Show in the Library was a must-see! There was also an opportunity to do some shopping for jewelry made by the Art classes and crafts made by the Independent Living Program. Once again, Monarch Park staff and students showed that through working together, anything is possible, and the Arts are alive and thriving at MPC! Many thanks to the staff and students involved for their hard work in preparing and running this event! SOULPEPPER OPENING NIGHT CLUB Congratulations to Letticia Brooks, Lindsay-Marie Fraser and Sheila Ilanga for being selected to participate in Soulpepper Theatre’s Opening Night Club! These stu-dents will be a part of the “coolest drama class in the city”, along with many others from across the TDSB. They will do workshops before the various plays in Soulpepper’s summer season, and then have exclusive tickets to attend the opening nights of all the plays! Johanna Tzountzouris - Staff Reporter

CANADIAN AND WORLD STUDIES DEPARTMENT MPC STUDENTS NOW TEACHING GLOBAL EDUCATION March Break is usually a time for winding down and re-laxing. But for five students in Mr. Mead’s World Issues class and one from Ms. Goncalves’ class, the March Break was a time for learning about global education. These students spent one full week at the YMCA Educa-tion Center learning about such issues as Fair Trade, Human Rights, Debt Relief and a whole range of other very important issues impacting our world. Training workshops and guest lecturers’ presentations were part of this week long session. The object was to encourage students to not only become more globally aware of their world but also, equally important, to be able to deliver their own training sessions to their peers back here at Monarch Park. Within the context of the World Issues course we enabled students to use this as part of their final culminating unit. Overall, all of the students provided excellent and meaningful seminars. We hope to expand this learning opportunity next year and make it an integral part of the World Issues experience. Con-gratulations to Azra Hussain, Franklyn Earle-McFadden, Baljinder Mann, Tracy Chen, Nirujah Senthilnathan and Sally Hakim. Michael Mead – Staff Reporter THANK YOU TO SPIDER JONES FOR VISITING MPC!

NEWS FROM THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The 2004-2005 school year has been an exciting one for Monarch Park Science. The children cheered for wave analysis and circuit building. The excitement was in the air whenever a titration was going on. Stoichiome-try is a thirteen letter euphemism for…..FUN!!! Our cells were undergoing some serious aerobic respiration during dissections. In addition to that daily excitement that the youth of today yearns for, there were some notable events that stand out. Mr. Brabazon hosted University of Toronto engineering students from the group Engineers Without Borders to do a workshop on world water resources. There will hopefully be more collaboration with this group in the near future. A spe-cial mention goes to Michael Shen and Raymond Liu, our top two performers in the OAPT Grade 11 Physics con-test. Under the Guidance of Ms. Ozair, Michael and Raymond did extremely well out of 2,500 contestants. Michael scored in the top 100 students and Monarch Science is very proud of all the students that partici-pated. Congratulations to all the students who partici-pated in the 2005 University of Waterloo Avagadro Exam for Chemistry. Out of 5,686 contestants Edgar Cao and Raymond Liu scored over the 85th percentile, with Edgar scoring in the 92nd percentile. With an im-pressive performance in both a physics and chemistry contest, Raymond Liu looks to be an academic jugger-naut. Way to go science students!!!

To close out the 2004-2005 year the science depart-ment would like to wish Ms. Ozair, Ms. Lee, Ms. Li and Ms. Leung all the best in their new schools. Monarch science will miss them next year. John Au - Staff Reporter UNITED NATIONS/DEBATING CLUB Congratulations to Sadia Rahman and Asfia Khan for being selected to represent Monarch Park at SOMA (Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly) at the University of Toronto, April 10th to 23rd. They did us proud for a small delegation of two by actively de-bating and questioning in the General Assembly ses-sions. Randy Niedzwiecki - Staff Reporter MESSAGE FROM THE CANADIAN AND WORLD STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES AND MODERNS Thanks to all teachers for their hard work all year. So many of you have gone far above and beyond the bricks and mortar of teaching to make our students’ experi-ences here interesting, fulfilling and most importantly –fun! Thanks again to those teachers who filled in, sometimes on very short notice, and did a fantastic job. Our thanks goes to Donna Ward, Christine Gagne and Kim Malcher. Furthermore, good luck to Stuart Morris and Meng Lee at their new schools….great job every-one! Michael Mead – Staff Reporter GUIDANCE NEWS From the Guidance Department We would like to say congratulations to all of you who successfully completed your courses this year. To the graduating students – good luck in your future endeav-ors whether they be college, university, apprenticeship or the workplace. Have a great summer everyone! Cathy Zeldin – Staff Reporter Best Wishes to Sandy Globerman in her retirement!

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ATHLETICS RECAP – 2004-2005 The athletics year wrapped up recently and Monarch athletes experienced a great deal of success. The highlight of the fall season was the Girls’ Basketball Team. They had a very strong season that was capped by a successful playoff. The girls reached the champi-onship final in the Varsity league. Congratulations. The highlight of the winter season was the playoff run of the Senior Boys’ Basketball Team. They, too, made it to the championship game. The spring season may have been the most successful season for Monarch Athletics in years. During this season, the athletics program grew with the addition of a Cricket team. The team experienced some success in their first season of competition. There is hope for the future also, as many members of the team were only in grade 9 this year. Good luck in future seasons. The Co-ed Volley-ball team just missed making the playoffs. The Track Team had unprecedented success. The Senior Boys’ accumulated enough points at the South Region meet to take home the championship. In addition Selam Idris won the Steeplechase, Hailey Sturge won the Senior Girls’ shotput, Courtney Gore won the Junior Girls’ hurdles and the Senior Boys’ 4 x 400m team was also victorious. At the regional championship Selam Idris won the Steeplechase and the Senior Boys’ 4 x 400m Relay team finished 3rd. Deron Agard finished 4th in the Long Jump. All of these athletes went on to compete in OFSAA. Congratulations to our Athletes of the Year. This year we honoured Courtney Gore as our Junior Female Ath-lete and Sally Hakim as our Senior Female Athlete. We also honoured Selam Idris and Liaqat Ali as our Senior Male Athletes. Finally, we in the Phys Ed. department would like to thank all of our athletes for their work this year. We witnessed many different types of suc-cess, but you were all successful because you partici-pated with dignity and respect. To our coaches, thank you for your efforts. Our program was a huge success because of your experience, passion and commitment. One last special thank you, from everyone associated with the Athletics Programs: A special thank you to David Kerr on his retirement. You guided us to be our best in competition and in school. Your influence will be felt in this school and in our lives for years to come. Have a relaxing, happy, long and productive retirement. Bryan Gurney – Staff Reporter MONARCH BICYCLE CLUB RAFFLE POSTPONED!!! A super used road bike in great condition will be raf-fled in the fall. Anyone is welcome to help sell tickets. You can earn volunteer hours. Please see Ms Hilhorst in Room 223. Carrie Hilhorst - Staff Reporter Special thanks to our Student Volunteer, Aly Hirji!

SPORTS NEWS MPC CRICKET TEAM Cricket is back as a sport at MPC. This spring, our team practiced diligently indoors during the wet spring and managed only a few outdoor sessions. We moved directly to compete in two day-long journeys at Sunnybrook Park in May and managed to defeat Danforth CI, while losing badly to Eastern CI and Marc Garneau CI. We also lost to East York CI but our battling batsmen brought us to within 3 runs of East York! Most Valuable Player as voted by the team was Sufyan Khatri. Other team members included: Arif Ameer, Syed Ameeruddin, Jawad Azeem, Suleiman Hamidullah, Osama Mumtaz, Qasim Rasool, Mamza Tariq, Teja Yenu-mula, Irfan Zahid, Sami Sharif, Muhammed Awais, Hassan Mirza, Waqas Mir and Mohibun Noor. Special thanks to student coaches Salman Khatri and Zeshan Malik. Coaches Ibrahim and Niedzwiecki had a great time and thank the team for their enthusiasm and cooperation. Randy Niedzwiecki - Staff Reporter

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MPC Cricket Team 2004-2005 outdoors at last!!!

MPC VOLUNTEERS AT NEXUS-OAME 2005

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Sattaur, Front: Stella Ha

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