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Near North District School Board Celebrates Education Week

News Release ****************** The Near North District School Board is celebrating student achievement and teaching excellence during Education Week, May 4-8, 2015.
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The Near North District School Board is celebrating student achievement and teaching excellence during Education Week, May 4-8, 2015.  The theme for Education Week this year in Ontario is ‘Achieving Excellence: Moving Forward in Math.’   
Facilitators from the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University are helping students from Sunset Park Public School learn about the environment with a focus on the application of mathematics thinking in real ways.  Programming will be developed in response to student interests and locally relevant ideas related to the curriculum.  Students, as global stewards, will explore and learn through inquiry and apply their thinking in creative and innovative ways to make a difference in their community.  This marks the third year of the Board’s Educating for Environment (E4E) partnership with Nipissing University.  
Students at Mapleridge, Sundridge Centennial and Argyle public schools, along with students from South Shore Education Centre are also exploring aspects of their local natural environment through inquiry and hands on investigation. Students are applying their spatial reasoning skills as they move about their environment and experience how mathematics, language, science and the arts can help them to understand the world around them.  
Several schools across the district are engaging students in the application of mathematics thinking through the design, planning and implementation of projects that build community. Students at Silver Birches Public School and West Ferris Intermediate Secondary School are applying their mathematics thinking to design flower boxes.  This is an extension of the outdoor “Mosaic” learning project, which began last year, when students designed and built a shed.  
Mattawa District Public School students will continue to work alongside secondary students from F.J. McElligott Intermediate Secondary School to bring an outdoor learning centre to life.   Mathematics is naturally integrated through the design and construction process for a community building project titled, “Tewin.”  
In June, students at Britt Public School will visit Parry Sound High School to take part in culinary and carpentry workshops where they will experience the application of mathematics concepts toward an outdoor garden learning space titled “Mii Yiw” which was designed by Kindergarten to Grade 8 students.  Parry Sound High School construction students will then visit Britt to help assemble the benches and flower boxes, again applying mathematics through the process.  The community is looking forward to unveiling this student-developed project at the Britt Pow Wow on June 25, 2015.
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