Penny Hope, Vice-Principal David Myrvold, Principal Wilf Gray, Vice-Principal

We are in the middle of another active semester in the life of Adam Scott. Academically our students are demonstrating once again that our staff's commitment to improving student achievement is having a positive impact. Examples of these achievements are Ryan Zhou in the Mathematics competition and the recent success of students Alicia Unrau, Allison Boyd, Angela Rowland, Helen Dry, Ashley Brown and Andrew Olson in the Science Fair.
 

Our Arts Program continues to showcase the unique talents of Adam Scott through the hard work of staff and students at recent musical performances, art shows and the recent fashion show which was a huge success.
 

Our sports teams have been busy practicing from early in the morning (rowing at 7:00 am!) until late at night when track and field and rugby players can be seen getting ready for the Spring season. Our rugby team traveled to Scotland and Ireland during the March Break and by all reports had the experience of a lifetime. There are many other sports occurring each day and I would like to thank all of the coaches for volunteering their time. On a personal note, I would like to thank Dave Ralph and Al Davies for helping me coach the girls hockey team this year. I could not have asked for a greater group of young ladies than the ones who proudly wore the colors of Adam Scott this past winter while winning the Kawartha High School Championship.
 

As we move towards the end of the school year, parents and students should note carefully the dates of final examinations. Please avoid booking holidays, appointments, summer jobs until after the last examination is written. All students are aware of when they write each final exam.
 

With the graduation of the double cohort this year our guidance department is dealing with all the added pressures this brings to post-secondary plans. Our Commencement will be November 1^st, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. and our committee is busy preparing for this special occasion. With the added number of graduates we will have twice the number of awards and two valedictorians. We will make this a day to remember for all our graduates.

Recently I attended a workshop put on by local police associations on Internet safety. The Internet is a powerful tool. It can turn a home, a school or a library into a place of unlimited information and communication. The Internet can help a family find educational resources, help children with their homework and allow family members to learn and have fun together. However, along with these benefits come risks, including exposure to material considered to be pornographic, violent, hate-filled, racist or generally offensive; and contact with individuals who may jeopardize the safety of children and other family members. Inappropriate content is easily accessible on-line, and with increasingly widespread use of the Internet, parents need to understand and address the issues and take an active role in guiding their children as they explore this new world.
 

One of the Internet's greatest attractions for children, especially teens, is its interactivity. Making friends all over the world is exciting and a wonderful use of the Net. Keep in mind, however, that "chatmates" are not always who they claim to be. The anonymity of online correspondence makes it easy for people to misrepresent themselves. Make sure your children always use a nickname and don't reveal personal information online until you are sure of the identity of the recipient. If your children have passwords they use on the Internet, make sure they never reveal them to anyone. Parental involvement is the key to safe surfing, so keep your computer in a well-used area. Even when you can't be right beside your children, you will still be able to keep an eye on their online activities.
 

Browsers usually keep a history of sites recently visited. For Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) users, there may be a button on your tool bar that says "History". If this button is not displayed, then someone has probably configured MSIE to not allow browsing of the history files. If you see the History button, then simply click it to view recently visited sites. If you can't find it, go to "Help" and search in the "Index" for "History". Netscape users can search through the menu items across the top of the computer screen for a selection called "History". If you're using a recent version of Netscape, you will find it in "Communicator" at the top of the screen. Click it, then select "Tools". Choose "History" and a list of web sites, dates and times will appear. Or, press the "Ctrl" (control) and "H" keys together on your keyboard to view the history. Using either browser, you double-click on the web site name in the left column to visit any web site listed in the history.

All parents are welcome to our next School Council Meeting. Our guest speaker will be Barbara Bond of the Emotion and Health Research Department of Trent University. The topic is "Why Smart Kids Fail" - the role of Emotional Intelligence. Barbara will administer a test that demonstrates the emotional intelligence of individuals and then will describe how this relates to students academic success. She will then show how students can increase their emotional intelligence thereby increasing their academic performance. All of our staff have attended a similar presentation.

Seniors living within the Adam Scott school boundaries may request help to complete various jobs around the house i.e. yard work, small paint jobs, light lifting, etc. Requests may be phoned in to Adam Scott (743-7373) from 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. on April 28^th, 29^th & 30^th. Volunteer students will perform the requested tasks the morning of May 7^th (rain date - May 8^th). Students must not be left unattended at a private residence and may not accept remuneration for work completed.

May 7 - Students Supporting Seniors

May 8 - Rain Date (S.S.S.)

May 19 - Victoria Day

May 20 - School Council Meeting

May 24 - Prom

May 30 - Wonderland Trip

June 12 - Athletic Awards Night

June 13 - Student Involvement Awards Assembly

June 19 - Last Day of Classes (Secondary)

June 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 - Exam Days

(Secondary)

June 24 - Report Card Distribution (Intermediate)

June 24 - Grade 8 Graduation

June 26 - Last Day of Classes (Intermediate)

June 27 - Professional Activity Day

(Intermediate & Secondary)

June 30 - Non-Instructional Day (Intermediate & Secondary)

July 4 - Report Card Distribution (Secondary)

July 4 - School Office Closes

August 25 - School Office Reopens

The web page has lots of useful information and provides Internet links to help students do their assignments.

The web page also has links to on-line services such as World Book On-Line (encyclopaedia) and Ebsco Host, which have over 500 magazines and periodicals on-line (searchable full text articles from magazines such as National Geographic, Maclean's and Time). Career Cruising and Canadian Statistics are also available. Below are the passwords:
 

www.worldbook.com

login: kprworldbook
password: kprwb
 

http://search.epnet.com

login: ascvi
password: ascvi
 

www.careercruising.com
username: kawartha
password: 18070

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Estat/licence.htm

userid: kprdsb
password: 2002edon

The Science Department is proud to announce the results of the 2003 Trent Regional Science Fair held on April 8, 2003. All of the projects submitted brought home awards. Alicia Unrau (OAC) placed first in the Senior Biology Division with her project "Eye Spy: the Visual Field". Allison Boyd (OAC) and Angela Rowland (OAC) came second in the same division, with a project entitled "Think Less for Success". Third place winners were Helen Dry (OAC) and Ashley Brown (OAC) with their submission: "Are You Getting Enough Sleep?". Andrew Olson (grade 9) placed third in the Intermediate Physical Sciences Division with his project "Electric Sound - From Volts to Violins". Judges complimented all Adam Scott students on the superior nature of their projects.
 

Many thanks go to teachers M. Gagne,

P. McAuley, J. MacMillan-Jones, and

D. Wright for providing a phenomenal science show at Trent's Wenjack Theatre for all science fair participants.
 

Awesome assistance was provided by student judges Jordan Ahee, Gemma Kitchen, Kristen Russett, and Robin Wall. Special mention goes to recently retired teacher Mrs. A. McIlmoyle, for her support and dedication to the senior science students.
 

Watch out for the results of the Canada-wide Science Fair to be held in Calgary,

May 10-18, 2003!

Learn about a Latin culture and make new international connections!

Provide a happy home to our Spanish youth for one month this July when they visit the communities of Cobourg and Whitby. The Cobourg Program will include daily activities (Monday to Friday) provided by our organization for your Spanish guest. These are also available to your teen at no cost to you. Activities include golf, sailing, camping, sports, out of town excursions and language lessons (Spanish for the Canadian youth). The Whitby Program is for more experienced sailors and includes an intensive 4 weeks of sailing. For this reason no additional activities will be provided by The Community Training & Development Centre. However, the sailing instruction at the Whitby Yacht Club will be available for your teen at no cost to you.

Applicants are welcome from families with or without teenagers. Financial compensation is available for families that will not have a teen participating in either the Cobourg or Whitby Program.

For further information, please contact Tara Warren or Tracy Vandenberg at 705-742-7277 or

1-877-749-2832.

Your child's school will also have application packages available.
 

Adam Scott CVI now has three free "email mailing lists" that parents and students may wish to subscribe to. This is due to the generosity of a company called L-Soft that offers this service free to schools. http://netpals.lsoft.com

In essence, one email sent to the list will go to everyone on the list automatically. Please note that only school administrators can do this. This is known as an "announcement" type of email list.

The first email list called ASCVI-NEWSLETTER-L is for grades 9 to 12, bulletins, current events, the school newsletter and anything else that is of general interest to the school.

The second email list called ASCVIIS-NEWS-L is for the Intermediate grades 7 and 8, bulletins, current events, the school newsletter and anything else that is of general interest to the school.
 

The third email list is called ASCVI-NEWSEXTR-L is for the entire school to send out announcements about the extracurricular events that are happening at the school (sports schedules, music productions, fund raisers)
 

Please type the instructions as shown (ie. in Capital letters)

In order to subscribe or unsubscribe to any email list simply send an email to:

LISTSERV@NETPALS.LSOFT.COM

The body of this email must contain the required command. For example to subscribe to the "newsletter" Email List the command would be:

SUBSCRIBE ASCVI-NEWSLETTER-L Firstname Lastname
 

You should remove any other text from the email.

In order to subscribe to the "Intermediate Newsletter" list:

SUBSCRIBE ASCVIIS-NEWS-L Firstname Lastname

In order to subscribe to the Extracurricular news list:

SUBSCRIBE ASCVI-NEWSEXTR-L Firstname Lastname

To be removed from either list simply replace the word "subscribe" with the

word "SIGNOFF" in the command.

SIGNOFF ASCVI-NEWSLETTER-L

Here is an example using a sample name:

SUBSCRIBE ASCVI-NEWSLETTER-L John Doe

For security purposes you will receive an email reply asking you to confirm your request.