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Our central focus is to enable all learners to fulfill their potential
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North Island Secondary School PO Box 100, Port McNeill, BC V0N 2R0
Tel: 250-956-3394 Fax: 250-956-2035
Email: [email protected] Website: www.niss.ca
From the Vice Principal Ms. Emma Robertson
Gilakas’la, Bonjour, Konnchi wa, iHola!, Hello! I am happy to say that we have hired a new teacher, Kyla Shiels, to our team at North Island Secondary. We are seeing a growth in the number of students, especially at the grade 8 level. Therefore, we have added another Math 8, Science 8, Careers 8 and PE class to our schedule. The growth seems to be from new families coming up to the North Island and some families that are returning to their roots here. As far as sports teams, we are excited to have both girls’ and boys’ basketball teams. If students are interested in joining either of these teams, let me know and we will connect them with the coaches, Ken Lucke and Ms. Wold. We have also had 3 volunteers come forward who are willing to help with the coaching and managing of the girls’ junior and senior soccer teams. More news about start dates for soccer will be posted soon. Mr. Mejias is offering community drop-in tennis on Sun-days. Email him at [email protected] if you are interested. The garden is progressing. We have students planting as well as cooking with the many plants and herbs. Potatoes, garlic and tulips have all been planted recently and some of the food created so far includes: kale cheese sauce and clover jelly. We look forward to having pumpkins this time next year. We have been successful in securing a couple of grants for the garden. Numeracy and literacy assessments ocurred on November 6 and 7. This mostly affects grade 10s. Mr. Craig and Mr.Hoodikoff have worked with the students to prepare them for these assessments. We look forward to visits to Sointula and Alert Bay this month. We will plan upcoming visits to the other com-munities as well. Expect to see report cards sent home in the middle of November. Parent teacher interviews will be held on Nov. 21. We hope to see as many of you as possible.
From the Principal Ms. Stacia Johnson
Gilakas’la, Bonjour, Hello October was another busy month for staff and students at North Island Secondary School. We sent 9 students to A.J. Elliot for the annual district Cross Country meet. The weather held off and our students represented NISS well, including first place in both the boys' and girls' open category. I was also able to meet with the Vice Principal's list students from semester 2 last year to celebrate their efforts in achieving all 'good' and 'excellent' work habits on their final report cards. Students can be proud of the success they are achieving through their dedication to their learning. Keep up the great work! As we enter into November we are fast approaching the half-way point in the semester. Report cards will be going home in the next two weeks and we encourage students to keep up the momentum of their studies by attending all of their classes and seeking the supports of their teachers if they need any help to stay on track. The first week of November is off to a great start already. I en-joyed the opportunity to go across to Sointula with some of our staff to meet families in Sointula on Tuesday evening and I am looking forward to heading over to Alert Bay on Thursday, November 7 to meet with families there. Gila'kasla!
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Gilakas’la
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(Family)
November 2019
gwaxsam (Dog Salmon Time)
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SCENT FREE ZONE
A reminder that NISS is a scent
free zone. Students and visitors
to the school, please refrain
from using scented products
while on NISS Property.
ALLERGIES!!
We have students and staff with
severe allergies. They are:
PEANUTS
PEANUT PRODUCTS
MINT
PERFUME
TREE NUTS SUCH AS WALNUTS,
HAZELNUTS, PECANS
BALLOONS
ATTENDANCE
If your child is going to be ab-
sent from school, please phone,
send a note or email the office
to excuse them.
If you receive an absent email
and you have questions about
it, please reply to the email.
Attendance emails are read
throughout the day.
Students leaving during the day
must sign out in the office.
They will not be marked
excused until a parent phones
or emails the office.
Students that are sick during
the day will be sent home only
after a parent has been
contacted.
IDLE FREE ZONE
A reminder to all student and
parent drivers to follow the idle
free zone rules while on NISS
property.
D A T E S T O
R E M E M B E R
November 14
School Photo Retakes
9:00 AM
November 14
NISS clothing orders due
November 15
Report Cards mailed
November 16
NISS Boys Basketball Bottle
Drive
November 18
First Nations Career Fair
in the Gym
November 21
Parent/Teacher Interviews
5:00 to 6:30 PM
District Pro D
Nov. 22
No school
VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL
For the safety and security of all, we ask that ALL visitors to
the school, please report to the office and sign-in. We will
find and bring students and staff to meet visitors in the
office.
UNAUTHORIZED FUNDRAISING
Please be aware that North Island Secondary School has
not authorized any door to door collections. Any
fundraising authorized by the school will be posted on
the school website.
NISS BOYS BASKETBALL BOTTLE DRIVE—NOV 16
Our Boys basketball team
are collecting bottles for
upcoming basket ball field
trips. Please leave bottles
out on Nov. 16 for pick up
or drop off bottles at Island
Foods. Please call Ken
Lucke at 250 607 7696 for
more information.
GREAT CANADIAN SHAKE OUT—OCT. 17
North Island Secondary School participated in the Great
Shakeout 2019 Earthquake drill. The drill ran very success-
fully. Here is the link to the Earthquake Drill Reference:
Earthquake Drill Reference.pdf
GRAD 2020 INFORMATION
Grad 2020 information will be sent home to
parents’ email addresses using our School
Messenger system. Grad information will also be
posted on the NISS website at
http://nis.sd85.bc.ca/125-2/
There is a NISS Grad 2020
Facebook page created for
students and parents to keep up
to date on events.
STUDENT VAPING With concerns about youth vaping, there is a need to raise awareness of the harms and risks associated with vaping. For more information, visit the following website: www.canada.ca/vaping-info
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Erase is all about building safe and caring school communities. This includes empowering students, parents, educators and the
community partners who support them to get help with challenges., report concerns to schools, and learn about complex issues facing students. Services and Information Topics are:
Online Safety, Mental Health & Well-Being, Bullying & Vio-lence, Substance Use, and Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity.https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/erase
Although we express the sentiment that everyday is “pink shirt” or anti-bullying day at
North Island Secondary, February 27 is recognized as our nation’s Anti-bullying Day. Our
staff are always equipping our students with skills and strategies for being kind, assisting
others and reporting. Reporting is key—as a school, we can help students and families
with concerns when we know inappropriate behaviours are occurring. Having students
report incidents they have experienced or witnessed protects everyone and is an im-
portant step in solving the problem. Distinguishing between behaviours and attitudes is
important as a shared language helps all (perpetrator, target, bystander and ally) involved
in the situation.
Rude = Inadvertently saying or doing something that hurts someone else.
Rudeness is often spontaneous, unplanned and often based on thoughtlessness,
poor manners or self-centredness and the actions were not intended to harm oth-
ers. This may be jumping in line before others, boasting about ones’ assets, or ac-
tions (burping, gestures etc.) that are socially unacceptable.
Mean = Purposefully saying or doing something to hurt someone once (or maybe twice.)
An important distinction between rudeness and meanness is intent—mean behaviour aims to hurt or depreciate.
Meanness is often motivated by feelings of anger or the desire to prop oneself up in comparison to the person being
put down.
Bullying = Intentionally aggressive behavior, repeated over time and an imbalance of power.
Bullies do or say things on purpose with the intent to hurt others and often, show no sense of regret or remorse—even
when their targets show or express their hurt or tell the aggressors to stop. Bullying may be physical, verbal, relational,
or carried out via technology.
Can you identify the following situations as rude, mean or bullying? Check your answers on the last page of the
newsletter.
1. Devin and David are friends. In school, they had an argument. Devin called David a name and David shoved Devin
out of the way.
2. Talia makes plans to go to the school dance with her new friend, Gwen. Katie tells Talia that if she hangs out at the
dance with Gwen that everyone will think she is a total weirdo and no one will like her anymore. At lunch that day,
Katie convinces everyone that it would be a really funny joke to all laugh out loud when Talia approached the lunch
table.
3. Pilar tells Martine that she can’t sit with her on the bus because she is saving the seat for the new student that was
enrolled today.
4. Pat tells Morgan that they can’t play Lego together because “you are the worst builder in the whole first grade.”
Credit and adaptations from the work of Signe Whitson
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Chum salmon, also called keta, dog or silverbrite, tends to be the least known of the five Pacific salmon species and receives little love – this may be because of its “dog” moniker, based on sled dogs being fed chum in the north and the sharp dog-like teeth of spawning males. When chum salmon is caught in the open-ocean, far from their spawning location (the ‘silverbrite’ phase), the flesh is of high quality and it’s outward appearance is often indistinguishable from its better known sibling, sockeye. Excerpts from Skipper Otto https://skipperotto.com/we-love-chum-salmon/
The Kwakiutl dried or roasted their salmon, and most often accompanied it with t’lina (oolichan grease) Dried salmon was consumed roasted, soaked (sometimes directly in the river) then sometimes boiled with a kettle or fire, or eaten as is. Half dried salmon and preserved salmon heads were consumed boiled, and “split back” salmon was eaten as is, dipped in t’lina. Baked dried salmon was consumed for breakfast, and sometimes, spoons were used to eat the fish. Salmon heads were steamed in a pit of hot stones with water poured over, and then consumed on top of and covered with skunk cabbage leaves. Salmon roe was consumed dried with salmonberry sprouts or fern roots- if not, it was believed that one would feel sick. Fresh salmon roe was roasted on a hot stone. Salmon was sometimes shared during a feast amongst friends, invited by the man with the
permission of his wife. On some occasions, the husband would participate in the cooking. The guests sang songs while the food was being prepared. Other reports of the Kwakiutl showed that they consumed salmon roe dried, accompanied with t’lina and that they traditionally used a smokehouse to smoke salmon for storage. Salmon was also roasted over the fire, sun-dried or more recently stove-dried, and smoked in a smokehouse. They consumed it silently, dipped in t’lina, using their fingers. Another report showed the Kwakiutl dried salmon for preservation, and was cooked over the fire before being consumed. Fresh salmon was roasted over a fire on a spit or a thong, steamed on rocks, or boiled. Salmon roe was consumed roasted or fresh, and t’lina was recovered from roasting
IN THE GARDEN Our landscaping student has been busy with garden clean-up and helping with harvest. All the potatoes are harvested and the oregano has been cut down, dried, and crumbled for use. The sunchokes have been staked, a section of flower bed has been deeply weeded, turned over, and is ready to have tulips planted. Ms. Maya Wold brought in Red Russian gar-lic that has been planted. Kale was also harvested from the garden. Many thanks to Sea Soil for the donation of 15 bags of Sea Soil for the garden.
NISS CLOTHING ORDERS Show your school spirit and buy some NISS clothing! Hoodies $40 Zip-Up Hoodies $49 T-Shirts $19 Long Sleeve T-Shirts $26 Sweatpants $32 Order forms are in the office. Cash only please. Orders due November 14, 2019. Next order will be in April.
IN THE FOODS ROOM In October, the foods students have continued to work with garden produce including making clover tea and clover jelly. We harvested the sunchokes in November as they weren’t quite ready in October. The senior students have made pumpkin pies and the grade eights have made pumpkin pancakes. Two classes made and decorated Hallowe’en cookies. The grade ten class made items for the vending machine and did nutrition labels for them. We have had donations of a juicer and vegetable slicer and are looking forward to working with them. We have also used some of our fundraised money to purchase new hand mixers for each unit and a food dehydrator.
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NISS CLIMBING WALL UPDATE FALL 2019 We are in need of CGI Level 1 climbing instructors for the climbing wall at NISS, as our certified teacher moved away. So far, six SD 85 staff, two community members, and two NISS students have expressed interest in working towards their CGI 1 certification. ACMG, the Canadian governing body for training skilled climbing instructors, has agreed to train at NISS. It is a 2.5-day program and costs registrants $450 each. We are looking at offering it around a Professional Development Day, to include as many SD 85 staff as possible. We have emailed out applications to all those interested so far. Once ACMG has 5 fully completed and approved application forms, they will set a date to run the course. If others (parents/community) want to get the training, please find the link below for the training application. Once your applica-tion package is completed, email it to [email protected] and let him know you would like to receive your training in Port McNeill. If you are interested in taking the course, please contact Ms. Johnson at [email protected] Thank you and we look forward to having the wall opened again.
THANK YOU
Mobetta Farms in Grand Forks donated seed garlic for our outdoor garden.
Port McNeill Legion donated tulip bulbs for our school garden
Sea Soil donated 15 bags of Sea Soil for our school garden
Loonies for Loggers for their contribution to our Breakfast and Lunch program
Dawn Harristad and Annie LeBlanc donated to our Breakfast and Lunch Program.
Rotary Club and Petro Canada for their donations to our Breakfast and Lunch Program
AJ ELLIOT DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY Great turn out by NISS students at the district cross country race in Sointula. William Grant won the Open division with a time of 11:02. The next four runners to finish were all females from NISS, the first being Lucy McDowell with a time of 14:00.
GOVERNOR GENERAL AWARD
Madison Van Will is the recipient of the 2018-
2019 Governor General Academic Bronze
Award. This is awarded to the Grade 12 student
who has the highest average of their Grade 11
and Grade 12 marks. Congratulations, Madison
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NAMGIS ELDER VISIT Elder Eva Dick came to visit the school on Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 to share her knowledge about Indian medicine. She visited a total of 5 classes. Eva brought some Indian medicine over made out of devils club and alder works for the kids to try. She enjoyed her time here at NISS and looks forward on visiting again.
CAREERS 10 AND 12
Sergeant Mark Whitworth
spoke to Careers 10 and 12
classes about career
FRENCH 8 BREAKOUT BOX
French 8 had a good time working in
groups on breakout boxes. For more
info on Breakout boxes see the link
https://www.breakoutedu.com/
blog/2018/11/26/out-of-box-
education-escape-room-classroom-
Tristan Lahti, our Landscaping student, hard at
work in the garden.
SOCIAL STUDIES 8 VISITOR
Bak’was visited Ms. Sharpe’s Social
Studies 8 class. He arrived as Ms.
Miller was talking about origin
stories.
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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY MINI FAIR—OCT. 22
College and University mini fair happened on Oct 22 from 1:15 -3:25 PM. Representatives from British Columbia Insti-
tute of Technology, North Island College, Camosun College, Canadian Armed Forces, University of Victoria, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver Island University, Thompson River University and Vancouver Community College ar-
rived and set up presentations for Grade 11 and 12 students to view. Information booths were also set up for students
to gather brochures and other information about the respective colleges and universities.
1 Devin & David: Devin and David are engaging in rough play, or rude behavior. This is not bullying because they are usually
friends, the power balance is relatively equal and there may not have been an intent to harm each other.
2 Talia & Katie: Katie is acting like a bully. She has creating an unfair balance of power by getting all of the girls at the lunch table
to laugh at Talia. She is also using words like “everyone” and “no one” to threaten Talia about how she will be socially excluded if
she does not do what Katie wants her to do.
3 Pilar & Martine: Pilar is being rude, but there is no evidence of intentional meanness, repetitive behavior or a power imbalance.
4 Pat & Morgan: Pat is being mean. It appears that the words are intended to hurt Morgan. There is no evidence of repetitive
behavior or a power imbalance, however.
After being mixed, pita bread made their way from griddle to cooling rack and then into hands to be
eaten. Foods 8 Class made short work of eating the finished product.
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Halloween
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