Festival of the Corn!

Great evening tonight at STUDCO's first ever "Festival of the Corn!" Not only did our students, staff and community enjoy the corn roast, but they were also treated to some great entertainment. Country music, our own in-house, teacher "Blue Grass Band" (Mr. Beck, Mr. Dahlinger, Ms. Grieve, and Mr. Schaffer), our newly formed student "hip-hop" sreet dancers, lots of games, treats and a scary movie to boot! Our Student Council also incorporated the act of "giving" as part of the evening. A "Wishing Well" was available for donations to build a well in Kenya; student reps of our PINK Campaign provided items for purchase to support our continue PINK Campaign for breast Cancer and donations were accepted at the door for our local food bank. The point of the evening for STUDCO was to combine a school event while also raising awareness in support of  a local, regional/provincial and global cause. Well over 200 folks attended this highly successful "First Festival of the Corn!" The first of many to come, for sure! Thanks everyone for your support of this event and special thanks to STUDCO, COMMCO and our staff, students and community for a job well done!

Ridge Spirit!

This past week at "The Ridge," truly exemplified our "Ridge Spirit!" Our Special Education Resource Team and members of our Personal Career Counselling Team held three "Learning at Lunch" sessions with our staff to review students in Grades 9 -12. The sessions were very well attended and are a tribute to the committment of our staff who came to  learn more about the learning needs and profiles of our students. On Tuesday September 27th, our whole school participated in the Terry Fox Walk/Run in support of cancer awareness and research. Thanks to the Healthy Active Living Team for organzing this event and setting the tone as we head into our "Pink Campaign" this upcoming month, which will focus on a full month of education, special events and fundraising in support of Breast Cancer awareness and prevention. On Wednesday September 28th to Friday September 30th, our Grade 10 Students headed to the Tim Horton's Camp near Brantford to continue to build relationships together with their Senior Synergy Leaders and Synergy Staff Team. Our Grade 9 students participated in their first dance, sponsored by our Student Council. This was a very successful event...with many more events to come through our Link Crew and Student Council Leaders. A "new teacher" meeting was held with all staff who we have been very fortunate enough to bring aboard. It was a pleasure to host this meeting as we oriented staff to our school and heard some pretty amazing and positive "first impressions" from them. At the start of the week, we had a very well attended School Council meeting which was chaired by Celine Steeves. This was a great opportunity to network together and share in discussion and feedback about our first month back at school, from a student, parent and staff perspective. We hope to see more folks out at our next meeting on November 21st at 7pm. Parents & caregivers are also reminded about the upcoming Tuesday at 10/7 to be held this Tuesday October 4th. Please check our website for more details! As we leave September and Ridge Spirit Month, we now begin October...our "Partners in Pink" Month. We hope to engage all of our school and community in the many activities and events that we will be hosting to raise awareness and funds on behalf of those afflicted by Breast Cancer. Together we can make a difference and together we will ensure that "The Ridge" leads the way in supporting this very worthy cause!