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Great Tourneys for Linden Ball Hockey Teams
- April 30, 2010
Last week, Linden's junior and senior ball
hockey teams had fantastic showings at the Small Schools Athletic
Federation (SSAF) ball hockey tournaments.
After a month's worth of running hard and
learning fast at practices, both teams were ready to put their
skills to work against other SSAF teams. Their tenacious play
earned the senior team a second-place finish, and the junior
team, after a nail-biting final game, came home with a first-place
finish and a banner!
We congratulate all team members and their
coaches for their terrific accomplishments!
Linden Drama Flies High in Peter Pan
- April 23, 2010
On Wednesday, April 21, Linden’s junior
and senior Drama Clubs came together to put on a wonderful
production of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale, Peter Pan.
The girls began working on the play back
in September, and they all put in hours of rehearsal time
and set design leading up to Wednesday’s performance.
Jenn, Linden’s senior drama and Latin teacher, directed
the production and oversaw the senior Drama Club, while grade
11 student Alannah (who also played the character of Hook
in the production) ran the junior Club. In the spirit of Linden,
the junior and senior Clubs shared ideas, experiences and
feedback with each other throughout the last several months;
each girl supported her fellow actors as they learned lines,
practised scenes and hunted for costumes and props.
The result of their hard work was outstanding.
Strong performances from all of the girls (and a few teachers,
moonlighting as pirates) brought Barrie’s tale to life,
earning hearty laughs and heartfelt tears for the audience.
Although the play is called Peter Pan,
another appropriate name for it might be The Story of Wendy
– for as much as it is about Peter’s life in the
Neverland, it is also about Wendy’s journey into womanhood.
Though Wendy is just as bold and adventurous at Peter Pan,
her compassion and sense of responsibility completely oppose
Peter’s reckless abandon. Though she at first embraces
her role as the “mother” of Peter and the Lost Boys,
she soon realizes that she, her brothers and the boys cannot
hide from the real world – and the hard, yet necessary,
lessons it teaches - forever. Ultimately, though Peter rescues
Wendy from the pirates, it is Wendy who rescues John, Michael
and the Lost Boys from Neverland. Wednesday’s performance
highlighted Wendy’s strength, leadership and nurturing
spirit, emphasizing the developing ideas of women’s roles
at the turn of the 20th century.
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