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Post-Secondary Acceptance Update - May
31, 2010
The acceptance letters have been rolling
in for this year's graduating Linden students. Today, we bring
you an update on the many schools to which our girls have
gained entrance. Our grade 12 students received offers of
admission from the following schools:
- Acadia University
- Dalhousie University
- Fanshawe College
- Humber College
- McGill University
- McMaster University
- Queen's University
- Ryerson University
- Seneca College
- Sheridan College
- Trent Unversity
- University of British Columbia
- University of Guelph
- University of King's College
- University of Ottawa
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo
- York University
The programs to which the girls were accepted
are too numerous to list here. However, this sampling gives
you an idea of the many prestigious programs that said "yes"
to Linden students, as well as the breadth of interests and
skills among our graduating class:
Congratulations to our 2010 grads on their
outstanding achievements!
A Fun Friday at the Field - May 26, 2010
On Friday, May 21, girls in grades 1-4 gathered
at the Rosehill Reservoir Park for Linden's annual Primary
Track and Field Meet. The focus of the day was on having fun
while using the skills the girls have been working on in gym
class throughout the year. With the help and organization
of phys. ed. teachers Deidre and Elizabeth and senior gym
students, the girls participated in events from long jump
to hurdles - and had a great time doing it.
Check out our photos of this event below:
Archived in: Athletics
Making a Scene: Senior Drama Night - May
21, 2010
Linden drama students in grades 9-12 took
the stage on Thursday, May 20, for a wonderful and diverse
Senior Drama Night.
Work written and workshopped by the students
themselves featured prominently in the evening's performances.
Grade 9 students presented monologues that they scripted based
on topics that interested them, while grade 10 students performed
one-act plays that they wrote and edited with the help of
playwright Carol Cece Anderson. Students in grades 11 and
12 performed excerpts from three well-known plays by the prolific
Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth, The Glass Menagerie
and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The evening's performances ran the gamut
from humorous to heart-wrenching, and each was a testament
to the hard work of our senior drama students and their teacher,
Jenn, throughout the second half of this year.
Caring for Mind, Body and Soul: Linden's
Inaugural Wellness Day - May 21, 2010
On Tuesday, May 18, at our very first Wellness
Day Fair, Linden girls learned about some of the many ways
they can keep themselves healthy and happy.
Wellness Day, which is the brainchild of
guidance counsellor Kate McEvenue and Linden parent Patricia
Koine, was founded with two main goals in mind: helping students
discover various methods to care for their physical, mental
and spiritual health, and raising awareness among the girls
of health issues faced by many Canadians today.
After a keynote speech by Talya Rotem of
the International
Schizophrenia Foundation, students had the chance to visit
representatives from many different health practitioners throughout
Toronto. Our guests represented many different approaches
and organizations devoted to maintaining physical fitness,
mental wellness and spiritual balance, including:
- Yoga
- Boxing
- Athletic therapy
- Naturopathy
- Art therapy
- Holistic nutrition
- Personal training
- Focusing therapy
- Self-help resources
- Chiropractic
- Diabetes awareness, prevention and treatment
Our girls really enjoyed hearing about these
approaches to wellness from the people who practise them,
and especially liked getting to try many of them firsthand.
Throughout Wellness Day, the gym was filled with students
practising yoga poses, getting creative with art therapy materials,
working on boxing technique, and generally having fun as they
learned.
Track and Field Success- May 12, 2010
On Monday, May 10, our senior track and
field team had great showings on both the track and the field
at their annual meet.
Despite being a single-sex school in a co-ed
competition - meaning that Linden entered only half of the
events - the team came an amazing 4th overall out of seven
teams. The team members took home six gold, five silver and
six bronze medals, and all of the girls finished in the top
five in their events.
We hope all the athletes get some well-deserved
rest this week!
Faster than Achilles, More Clever than
Quintus, Stronger than Hercules - May 12, 2010
From May 6-9, Linden's Classics Club experienced
the fruits of a year's worth of labour at the annual Ontario
Classics Conference, held at Brock University. With the guidance
of Classics Club teacher advisor Jenn Stewart, the team was
a force to be reckoned with in the Academic, Athletic and
Creative categories, finishing 6th overall out of 17 teams
in total points earned. Here are their overall and per capita
rankings for the competition:
Overall rankings:
- Total points: 6th
- Academic points: 8th
- Athletic points: 7th
- Creative points: 3rd
Per capita rankings:
- Per capita overall: 6th
- Per capita academic: 11th
- Per capita athletic: 2nd
- Per capita creative: 4th
Congratulations, girls!
An Artful Production - May 12, 2010
On Monday, May 3, Linden was transformed
into an absolutely astounding art gallery. Every room throughout
the building featured paintings, sculptures, videos, photos,
textiles, installations and more, representing the projects
our art students have worked hard on throughout the year.
Congratulations to all of the girls whose art was represented
in the show, and to Linden's senior art teacher, Jennifer
Ross, for her incredible work as curator.
We want to thank everyone from our community
who joined us to celebrate the girls' achievements and share
their work. A special thank-you goes to our dedicated parent
volunteers - your help was invaluable in making this event
a success. Our food sale raised over $600 for the Native Canadian
Centre Youth Program, and this would not have been possible
without you!
It's In the Numbers: Social Justice Data
Fair - May 6, 2010
On Thursday, April 22, Linden math students
of all ages took over our gym for the annual Social Justice
Data Fair.
This event encourages students to apply
their math and statistics skills to the analysis of social
justice issues. Once they have completed their analysis, they
share their findings with other Linden students, and with
members of the wider community who volunteer to act as Willing
Listeners.
Here are just a few of the questions Linden
girls used math and statistics to investigate this year:
- Grade 1 and 2 students asked: How does eating only the
food found in a single Food Bank basket affect health and
well-being? In particular, the girls looked at the experiences
of the participants in The Stop's Do The Math! campaign,
in which ten prominent Torontonians and their families attempted
to live off the food found in one basket over the course
of a week. The campaign highlights the fact that current
Ontario social assistance programs often don't allow people
to regularly obtain food and shelter.
- The grade 5/6 class asked: How does Linden fare when it
comes to sorting garbage, recyclables and compostables?
They collected and analyzed a day's worth of garbage, recycling
and green bins to get their data - you can see detailed
information about how Linden fared in our summer edition
of The Linden Letter.
- A grade 8 student asked: Do countries with lower gross
domestic products have higher adolescent fertility rates?
The statistics she found indicate that there is a significant
negative correlation between these two factors.
The event also featured two keynote speakers.
The first speaker Linden parent Adam Adamou, spoke to the
girls some alternative ways to analyze social justice data.
In many cases, social justice data is measured using a “normal”
distribution that is commonly referred to as a “bell”
curve because of its bell-like shape. The normal distribution
is a powerful analytical tool – but is it the best tool
to use? The “Power” distribution – also known
as the “hockey stick” curve - may be a better fit
for some social justice matters. Adam showed the girls some
of the surprising results that were revealed using this alternative
strategy.
The second speaker was Susan MacDonnell, the Director of Research
at United Way Toronto. She spoke about why and how the United
Way collects data, analyzes it, and how they use it to further
their work. She focused on United Way Toronto's recent "Poverty
by Postal Code" report that analyzed the level of
poverty in each neighbourhood in the city over a period of
20 years.
While the content of the projects
centred on social justice issues, the girls were also careful
to be environmentally conscious when deciding how to present
their results. Many projects were displayed on recycled Science
and Technology Fair boards, leftover bristol board, and even
on open pizza boxes!
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