Vanier's SAGE Team in Cape Town, South Africa

On July 26, 2010, 250 students in 21 teams from 14 countries gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to showcase their entrepreneurial ventures in the SAGE World Cup.  SAGE stands for “Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship”.  It was an exciting four-day competition showcasing the best SAGE high school teams in the world.

As national champions and winners of the TDSB Award of Excellence 2010, Georges Vanier Secondary School made it into the SAGE World Cup final after league play.  After presenting to over 350 spectators and judges from around the world, they placed 3^rd in the SAGE World Cup, Cape Town, South Africa.  They also won the Bronze Medal for The Grossman Family International Award for Best Environmental Venture with a cash prize of $500.

SAGE creates opportunities for high school students to run their own commercial and social ventures locally, nationally and internationally through competition.  Georges Vanier Secondary School represented Canada after winning the National Championship at Ryerson University in May, 2010.

We did it again!

Vanier’s SAGE team won the National Championship at Ryerson University on May 29, 2010.  They showcased 30 different initiatives and fundraising events competing against schools like St. Marguerite D’Youville and Agincourt C.I.  Gajan Jegatheeswaran also won ‘2010 Student Leader of the Year Award’. 

The team will be going to Cape Town, South Africa in July to represent Canada during SAGE World Cup.

Check out www.sagecanada.org and http://www.insidetoronto.com/community/education/article/828241–teens-take-top-spot-in-national-entrepreneurial-competition for more stories.

Vanier’s Business students participated in the 2010 Entrepreneurial Adventure at the First Canadian Place on June 3rd.  They showcased their entrepreneurial ventures such as International Food Festival and Pizza Lunch Sales.  Students raised $150 for Free the Children and $100 for KIVA.

The Learning Partnership’s Regional Entrepreneurial Adventure (EA) Program has been designed to instill a sense of entrepreneurial spirit in children from kindergarten to Grade 12. It is the goal of the program to harness local resources and to provide students with a foundation of knowledge that will allow them to envision, create and operate their own entrepreneurial undertakings.

The Award of Excellence Gala was held on Thursday, May 27 at Forest Valley Outdoor Education Centre.  Co-Presidents: Gajan Jegatheeswaran and Deepak Sangha, Project Managers: Sarosh Sarkari, James Rouse and Grayson Beatty attended the ceremony with teachers: Ms. Klein, Ms. Lam, Mr. Welham and Ms. Yoon.  Principal, Ms. Jackson and superintendent, Mr. Chang, were also there to support Vanier’s SAGE Team.

Bem-vindos ao site do Concurso de Português das Escolas Secundárias do Ontário (OSSPC)!

Our first event will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at York University.
Nosso primeiro concurso terá lugar sábado, o 15 de Maio de 2010 na Universidade York.

The OSSPC is open to all students currently enrolled in Portuguese (LWP/LWO) classes at day school.
Teachers of Portuguese: e-mail us for more information!

Todas/os as/os estudantes que estudam o português ao nivel secundário num high school em Ontário podem participar.
Professoras/Professores de Português: enviem-nos um correio para receber informações sobre este evento maravilhoso!

Contact us - Ponha-se em contato connosco:
E-mail: james.steele@tel.tdsb.on.ca
Fax: (416) 395-9373

Organizing Committee - Comité Organizador:
Jennie Lopes (Co-Chair), Jimmy Steele (Co-Chair), José Pedro Ferreira (University of Toronto), Anabela Melo, Tanya Pedro, Diana Pereira-Cibrão, Steven Silva

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Vanier’s French & International Languages Department is always a busy place and Semester 1 has been no exception.

• Mr. Steele’s Senior French classes went to the Toronto International Film Festival in September to see the award-winning Québec film J’ai tué ma mère and our lucky students met and took pictures with the amazing director, Xavier Dolan.
• Our Grade 11 Mandarin (Native Speakers) class has been very busy under the expertise of Mr. Peng.
• Our Grade 10 German class enjoyed another phantastisch field trip to Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest (where one of our students, Liroy V., even won the Pretzel Eating Contest!) and St. Jacob’s Market with Ms. Brandner and Mr. Steele.
• Our Grade 9 and 10 French classes have been very lucky to have the amazing Mr. Tse as their teacher this year!
• Mr. Steele’s Grade 10 Spanish class is one of the most dynamic and enthusiastic groups yet!

As we look forward to semester two, Vanier will take part in several exciting initiatives:

• Ontario High School German Contest - April 10, 2010 at North Toronto C.I.
• Ontario Secondary Schools Spanish Contest - May 6, 2010 at Glendon College
• Ontario Secondary Schools Portuguese Contest - May 15, 2010 at York University
• University of Toronto French Contest for our Grade 12 French students
• Ontario Beginner German Students’ Contest for our Grade 10 German students
• European Language Examinations: A2-level German Proficiency for our Grade 12 German students

We are also continuing the French & International Languages department’s fundraising drive for Free The Children in support of Vanier’s SAGE Team. Keep those pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters coming!

Finally, we are proud to announce some results of some special events from last year:

• Daniel Zilberay placed second in the Native Speaker category in the Ontario Secondary Schools Spanish Contest,
• Valeriya Goncharova placed fifth in the Beginner category in the Ontario Secondary Schools Spanish Contest (against 71 other students, and Valeriya had only studied Spanish for three months!),
• Mariam Abdel-Hadi placed ninth in the Core French Plus category at the York University French Contest,
• Georges Vanier placed ninth in the province in the Ontario Beginner German Students’ Contest, and
• Award-winning Québec actress Sophie Lorain sent special greetings and autographed photos to our students graduating with their Grade 12 French credit! It seems that she heard how much the class enjoyed her acclaimed television series Fortier and wanted to send her best wishes…

In addition, Daniel was featured on the cover of the El Correo newspaper, and was interviewed in Spanish along with Valeriya for the accompanying article. Vanier’s French & International Languages Department is very proud of all of our students!

Next semester, we will see Grade 11 and 12 German (another great advantage about Vanier; no other schools in our area offer German), Grade 10 Portuguese (one more Vanier first!), and Grades 10, 11 and 12 Spanish. The new semester starts on Friday, January 29. In the meantime, we wish all our students a restful December holiday and much good luck on their exams.