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Wildcat Press
On January 12, 1999 a
young blond haired boy
named John at the age of
13, in Grade 8. He had
brought two threatening
items to school. There was
a lockdown after the
threatening scene. The boy
was carrying a handgun
and a knife. Police have
investigated the major
scene and have got as much
information as possible.
A young witness named
Colin in Grade 6 said that
John was trying to
threaten Dylan because
he had said that he wanted
to fight him. They still
didn’t understand why this
happened.
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Volume 1, Issue 1 During lunchtime one day
Colin overheard John talking to
Dylan “ If you call me that one
more time it one I’ll fight you!”
Dylan replied “ ok you’re a
“wimp” I’ll fight you, meet out-
side tomorrow at 2nd period!”
The boys did meet outside at
2nd period and instead of John
fighting Dylan, John brought a
handgun and a knife. Teachers
saw what had happened and
called a lockdown because this
scene was to dangerous. She
said “ What is going on! I’m
calling the police” John ran away
right after he caught a glance at
the Teachers! If you see him
around call 1-800-OPP1 and he
will go into court.
Young boy with a gun
thinking its very funny to
hold one and hurt some-
one.
Kid threatens boy with handgun and
knife! By: Ruth
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the team captains and are coach is
Lisa and our roll is to make sure
every one does there part. We also
teach them dances and work with
them on there stunts and dances”.
My final question is: About how
many people are on the squad and
are there any boy cheerleaders?
There is 14 people on the squad all
girls. Guys can sign up but no one
did. Now you know a little more
about Port Rowan Public School and
there cheerleading squad. Boys
should sign up so the cheerleaders
have strong guys to hold them up.
Thanks Sarah for letting us come and
interview you.
I’m interviewing Sarah a cheerleader
at Port Rowan Public School. I asked
her a few questions my first question
was: When did you start cheerlead-
ing? She said “ I started in grade 5
and went through the year and now
I’m in grade 8" Then I asked: What
was the first routine you learnt? The
first routine of this year was
“Superman” to a bunch of songs put
together. Then I asked: Who is the
team captain and the coach and what
is the captains roll? “ Alison and I are
Interviewing : David Bacro
From the day sports in elementary school
started, many kids have been trying their
best to participate in the regular school
sports, that every school has example:
basketball, soccer, badminton, and volley-
ball. Girls and boys have been wondering
shouldn't elementary schools have higher
leveled sports team like ball hockey,
hockey team, lacrosse and rugby? Now
lets interview someone very athletic who
tries his best at any sport, named David.
David stated that it would be a great
idea if elementary schools could have
higher sports teams like a hockey team
for boys and girls but only grades 6 –8.
Also he thinks their shouldn't be any
rugby or lacrosse because not many peo-
ple would know how to play it.
Would the participants have to pay to
play on a hockey team at school? Well
they should have to pay because the
coaches of the team would have to buy
ice time for the team so they can practice
and play games. Described an athletic
boy.
The schools would enjoy this event but
mostly only the athletic boys and girls
because it wouldn't be any use to the
ones who don't like to play sports, stated
David.
David quoted “If elemen-tary schools did
this I would
totally partici-
pate because I
love to play
hockey espe-
cially with my
friends from
school!”
Should schools have harder sports? By: Ruth
Port Rowan Public School Cheerleading By: Summer
Wildcat Press Page 3
“Cheerleading isn’t easy by
any means.” commented
Kailey Petz.
Ball hockey being played at
school on a cool looking day.
Today I interviewed Mr. Muth on his
coaching experience at Port Rowan
School.
He said, “I’ve coached junior mixed
volleyball since teaching at St.Williams
and Port Rowan. I also coached soccer
and baseball.”
He believes that wining and
having fun in sports creates great school
spirit. School sports can change stu-
dents attitudes. They also how to play
the game.
Sports from a Coaching Perspective
Mr. Muth once thought coaching was too
difficult “When I did it I felt enthusiasm for
coaching. It’s was a lot like directing school
plays. When you see kids succeed it drives
you even move.”
His best game was winning a pen-
nant at Simcoe Composite.
Mr. Muth coaching one of his
teams.
By: Angel
On Saturday,March,19,2012 a grade 6
boy named Liam was hit by a drunk
driver at 5:30pm. It was a hit and run
moment . Liam was out walking his
dog when he went to cross the road on
hwy 3 and was hit. Paramedics where
called when Liam’s parents went out
to see why he was taking so long and
they found him dead on the side of the
road. His dog was laying beside him
when they found Liam. Paramedics
arrived and tried to resuscitate him but
he was gone. There was a witness and
they said “The young boy crossed the
road and the driver came spinning out
of control and hit the boy, the driver
never stopped”. Police are still search-
ing for the driver if you know anything
please call 1-800-crime. Liam’s life
will be held Saturday,March,24,2012
at 2pm at THOMPSON WATERS
FUNERAL HOME. 102, First ave,
Port Rowan. (519)586-2251. Pastor
Bowman officiating for those wishing
donations to the DRIVE SOBER.
Would be greatly appreciate.
son’s class.
Both teacher’s presented
Ann with a “thank you”
gift on the last day and
welcomed Ann back for
another week of art the
next year.
Miss. Tara Hutchinson’s and Mrs. Diane
Whitside’s class participated in an art pro-
ject February 6th- 10th.
Ann Barber of Toronto works with
Shadow Land Theater on Toronto Island.
She’s been coming to Port Rowan Public
School for three years and working for five
days with the two classes of students on the
Arts. She spent three periods with each
class per day alternating mornings and
afternoons to the classes schedules. From
February 6th- 10th Ann taught the classes
how to act, perform and make masks or
puppets. Miss. Hutchinson’s class made
masks of historic figures and put on skits.
“It was really cool.” commented
Taylor Duits, one of the
students who participated
in the mask making. Mrs.
Whitside’s class created
puppets. Both classes
used the materials they
had at hand or brought in
from home.
“It was a wonderful
opportunity for the kids to
display their artistic abil-
ity's.” said Kathy Kinsley
an EA for the school who
works with Miss. Hutchin-
cess, if the students play properly and if she
enjoys recess in general.
Many students get held back from recess
for reason from not cleaning their desks to
misbehaving. Elaina commented on how
she is at the most only held in once a week.
Recess is a privilege students have when
we behave and get our job done in class.
We pay a small price for our fun time out-
side. Let’s keep recess fun and behave on
the yard and in class.
Recess. The time we get for our selves
twice a day, ten times a week. We let loose,
play and hang with our friends and/or class-
mates. I interviewed my sister- Elaina in
Mrs. Connors class- on the subject of of this
yard time fun.
It doesn’t matter if the suns shining or it’s
snowing students enjoy recess no matter
what the weather conditions are. We take
advantage of snow: to make snowmen or
snow forts and we take advantage of the
sunny summer days: playing tag or doing
sports. But there are rules and my sister
had to think a little before answering my
question as to what they are. No hands on,
no inappropriate language, don’t exclude
other students, don’t be mean, don’t be
rude, be respectful to other students, teach-
ers and do as teachers say without farther
argument are the basic rules of re-
cess. With the additions of first recess the
swings are to be used by the students
in grade three and younger, at second
recess student in grade four and higher can
use the swings and certain game restric-
tions.
Our school’s recess spans from 10:25-
11:10 and 12:50- 1:35 (including nutrition
breaks), are scheduled before nutrition
break unlike some schools and occur twice
a day.
“Yes, because it gives kids a chance to
exercise after sitting down for a while.”
stated Elaina when I asked her if we should
have recess. Elaina also answered “yes” to
liking the time recess is, if it’s safe at re-
Student Dies at P.R.P.S By: Summer
Artist in the Classes By: Kailey
Recess By: Kailey
Page 4 Volume 1, Issue 1
Masks in the making.
Please donate.
Miss Payne the prince able of
P.R.P.S says “The students of
PRPS are usually angels but last
Tuesday they were like savage
dogs!”
Police say “If the fight lasted any
longer that instead of walking
away with bumps and scraped
that the kids would walk away
with broken bones!” Good thing
that it didn't get any worse!
Because of this fight PRPS is put-
ting its foot down and is having
more rules about bullying and
fighting
Last Tuesday there was a hu-
mongous fight every body in Miss
H’s Grade 7 class was involved in
this fight of all fights
Last Tuesday there was a hu-
mongous fight every body in Miss
H’s Grade 7 class was involved in
this fight of all fights
How has technology changed in the
class room? We asked Ryan Haley and
he said Yes! Technology has changed a
lot!
Techaoligy in the class room has
changed because. In 2004 We didn't
have the faster black computers we had
the SLOW!! White pieces of junk!
One of the ways technology has
changed the host is. Back in 2004 we
had a lot of TV’s on TV stands that sat
out side oif thed library now we wach
movies on the smart board or on com-
puters.
Another way thechnoligy has
changed is. Every body is bringing
cell phones to school so many people
have brung cell phones to school that
we have to have rules that you cant
text or even keep your cell phone in
your pocket.
Those are just a feiew ways technol-
ogy has changed since 2004.
Technology in the class room By: Matthew
Wildcat Press Page 5
A picture of one faster computer in PRPS.
Carter Allen Oliver Walsh loves to be
the schools D.J. for school dances.
What Carter does before the dance and
after the dance Carter helps set Up the
dance and take down the dance. Carter
also picks the song that the students
want. Carter Walsh loves to be a D.J. at
our school dances. Carter said “That at
the first dance athon it went on from
12:00 am till 4:00pm and now the
dance athon is only 1:00pm till 3:00
pm.”
Carter says it is hard to find songs without swearing
and that is appropriate. At the dances they sell
freezies, gum, glow-sticks, and you don’t want to
dance you can play Wii. The dances are really fun we
also have snow balls were two people a girl and a boy
go in the center of the gym and slow dance then the
D.J. witch is Carter says “SNOW BALL” and the two
people go and grab another person then he keeps
saying “SNOW BALL” every few seconds and then
every one is in the center slow dancing. The dances
are awesome and fun they are a blast but everyone
wishes they were longer a few more hours and way
darker.
School Fight By: Matthew
SCHOOL DANCES FROM A D.J.’S POINT OF VIEW!
By: Dylan K
Teacher: That's good.
Pupil: Good?, that's perfect!
A history joke~
Why did the knight run about
shouting for a tin opneder?
He had a bee in his suit of ar-
mour!
A history joke~
How did the Vikings send se-
cret messages?
By norse code!
A math joke~
Teacher: What's 2 and 2?
Pupil: 4
Students at Port Rowan Public School
saw a pack of wild bobcats during after-
noon recess going through the parking lot
yesterday, April 3, 2012.
It was brought to the attention of a yard
duty teacher that there were bobcats near
the school. Someone told the principal and
a lock down occurred. Students rushed
into their classrooms and they closed the
blinds so the bobcats wouldn’t break
through the windows. The bobcats were
orange and big and they believed they had
rabies.
Miss Hutchinson was on duty at the time
and said “We never had bobcats at the
school before and it was scary for the stu-
dents. They were nervous, shocked and
scared. The bobcats were orange and big
and were believed to have rabies.
The Principal, Mrs. Margaret Payne was
interviewed and said “I’ve never been in
a situation like this before and didn’t
know what to do. It made sense to have
a lockdown”.
The majority of the students were fine,
but there was one incident that occurred
in which – a teacher getting back from
her lunch was cornered by two bobcats.
They clawed her but she is still alive and
healing from her attack. There was also
a few trees that were shredded and one
tree torn down, the newly planted gar-
dens were also torn up. The animal
rescue Billy-Bob Brown suggested that
the bobcats were searching for food after
a long winter of having no food
The animal rescue service has said to
watch your children and if you see the
bobcats call the animal rescue service at
– 1-800-ANIMALS. And go inside and
close up every thing
Wilcat By: Angel
Jokes of the Day By: Summer
Wildcat Press Page 6
couldn’t walk because it would be to much pain
for them. They could just pull out their phone
and call their mom or the ambulance. If one of
his friends were their they could just run to the
school and tell the secretary and they could also
call up the parents or the school with the cellu-
lar device.
It would be a good idea if kids were aloud to
have their phones out at school.
Sometimes cell phones can be a good resource to
have with you, not a bad thing!
Is it just me or every school NOT allowing cell
phones around during school hours? When
Your hearing teachers phone go off during class-
room lessons and then the teachers go to check
it. I clearly think that the kids in elementary
school and high school should be aloud to have
their cellular devices at school and on because
the teachers do it so we should just to be fair.
If children from the age 10 and up have their
cell phones with them during class they have
their reasons of that. Some of their reasons
would be they need to contact their parents for
certain reason. It would be faster because they
wouldn't have to go to the office and call.
Lets say that someone got hurt and broke their
leg and they were at the back of the field, they
In our twenty first century most students from
grades six to twelve revolve around their social
lives. When their not in groups chatting there
texting or talking on their cell phones. School on
the other hand is for learning not improving
your social life. I believe cell phones should not
go to school– they should stay at home. The
constant texting and talking leads to unhealthy
habits, it distracts students from their work,
and it disrupts classes altogether.
We stride to make sure our next
generations– now teens or preteens- stay
healthy. We fight obesity, illness (both mentally
and physically) and other issues. Texting or
talking constantly can distract teens or preteens
from meeting their physical needs properly.
We also try to meet their individual
learning needs. But if a student is texting or
talking or constantly checking their phone for
missed calls or messages it moves their atten-
tion from the learning topic to their cell phones
screens.
What happens
when you have an incom-
ing call or you receive a
text message? Your phone
rings or vibrates. When
your in class you have
enough distractions, like
students talking, your
teacher talking, what’s
going on outside the win-
dow, etcetera. It’s a known
fact that once your dis-
tracted it takes you an
average of ten minutes to
get refocused. That’s ten minutes of valuable
class time, what student
wants homework? So a
simple ring or vibrate of a
cell phone can take you off the track of your
work for ten minutes.
Unhealthy choices, distractions to
students and classes can all be caused by the
small social device called a call phone. Cell
phones in class cause more harm than good.
Cells in our School By: Kailey
Should cell-phones be aloud in school? By: Ruth
Wildcat Press Page 7
Ages 13-17 sent the most text massages in the year 2011.
This is a Graph of the age groups
of kids who go on electronics at
school to help their learning.
NEW SPORTS
EQUIPMENT
If you had a loved one who died
would you want to see or feel their presence again? Haunt-
ing Violet by: Alyxandra Marvey was nominated for
the Red Maple Award this year.
Marvey shaped a story of ghosts, betrayals and true
love. Sixteen year old Violet Willoughby lives in the early
nineteenth century. Where manners
and rules are important and must be obeyed. Violet and
her mother- Celeste Willoughby- barley scrape by. They
have a maid that they brought in and pay with food and a
bed. They also have an assistant- Collin- who for some
reason Violet can’t leave behind or take her eyes from.
The only reason Violet lives a suitable life in a house and
has several decent dresses is because of her mother’s job.
Celeste is a “Spiritualist Medium”. With Violets, Collin’s
and the maid’s help they create fake “sittings” where her
mother tricks people into believing she can contact with
their dead loved ones.
Until they go to a “sitting” at Lord Jasper’s
mansion. Lord Jasper has a particular interest for the
“summonings”, the afterlife and it’s inhabitants. But as
soon as Violet crosses into Lord
Jasper’s land she becomes haunted
by a certain ghost. Unlike her mother
Violet can actually see and communi-
cate with the dead.
Violet is forced to figure
out why the ghost wants her attention
and in the process solves a mysteri-
ous murder case! She also is pushed
to choose a man: the one her mother
approves of- a gentleman of great
wealth- or her Irish childhood friend
Collin, who knows her better than her
own mother. In this fiction young adult
novel Marvey has written a fast-
paced, electric, haunting and mysteri-
ous read. She has not only made an
adventure but a romance. When I
read this book I too felt the haunting
presence of the ghost at my side.
try my best to be
careful and make
sure they are true
friends, by asking
questions.
Ruthsadvice: Your
welcome :). I know
you can do it!
Bearlover: Everyday at school I try
to make new friends but when ever
I make a new friend they always
end up to be bullies and they al-
ways bully me, it makes me mad.
What should I do?
Ruthsadvice: Well what you could
do is try to make sure they are true
friends, make sure
you can trust them
with anything and
you could also ask
them questions to
make sure too.
Bearlover: Thanks
for your help, I will
Capricorn [Dec-22 Jan-19]
Don’t let your self be distracted
in class.
Aquarius [Jan-20 Feb-18]
Don’t let your attitude spoil your day
get out of bed on the right side!.
Pisces [Feb-19 March-20]
An upcoming dance will bring
you romance .
Aries [ march 21 April 19 ]
Stop procrastinating and
get that assignment
finished .
Taurus [ April 20 May 20 ]
Wearing in door shoes will keep
you out of sticky mess.
Gemini [ May -21 June -20]
Dead lines are crucial to your
success at this time.
Cancer [June -21 July -22]
Some one will be looking to
reward all your hard work .
A surprise is on the
way.
Leo [July -23 Aug-22]
Go out for lunch with a
friend make sure you
you keep an eye on the
clock.
Virgo [Aug-23 Sep-22]
Don’t forget your gym close this
week your hands will be relived.
Libra [Sep-23 Oct-22]
Tonight is a good night
to study . Your efforts
will pay off.
Scorpio [Oct-23 Nov-21]
Something spectacular is
about to happen . Be prepared
with a new wardrobe .
Sagittarius [Nov-22 Dec-21]
Take time to clean your desk
you’ll find something you’ve
been
searching for.
Violet– Alyxandra Haunting Marvey By: Kailey
Need Some Advice? By: Ruth
Horoscopes By: Dylan K
Page 8 Volume 1, Issue 1
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MUCH MORE!
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Come to the Norfolk County
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