To coincide with Earth Day, April 19th was the 3rd annual Tim Hortons Community Clean Up on Vancouver Island and with over 10 000 students participating from Comox to Victoria, our Island home is a little cleaner. There were several schools within our district taking part and a number of classes within our school [...]

Remember the day your teacher said to the class: “Today, we’re going to make a music video”? No? ….  Well, Division 2 can answer that differently now. Sounds a little crazy doesn’t it? Maybe, but that’s exactly what we did. In one school day, the Ripplers learned and recorded tracks to a song, mixed the [...]

March 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm is Earth Hour in Canada. What is Earth Hour? It’s actually an international event that began as a local one in Sydney, Australia in 2007. From there it has spread globally year after year. Last year, 1.3 billion people ranging from 128 countries participated in it. 10 million Canadians [...]

Today was Pink Shirt Day – a day we set aside to bring awareness to bullying issues and the devastating effects it can have. This past week, we have been looking more closely at the hidden scars it can leave on people as well as how powerless it can make a person feel. We each [...]

Since the beginning of this year, Division 2 has been learning about our rights and responsibilities as Canadian citizens. They are outlined in our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which was added to our constitution in 1982. Our Prime Minister at the time, named Pierre Trudeau, had a vision of a multicultural country based [...]

Garbage is a really interesting topic. It’s one we’ve been investigating through our Earth Week and we’ve been astounded by some of the facts we’ve discovered locally and globally. We live in a beautiful town where tourism contributes to our economy and we see evidence of the pride our town councils take in the adjoining [...]

Today is Pink Shirt Day! Depending on where you live, you may or may not have heard about this extraordinary day. It all began in September 2007 in the small town of Cambridge, Nova Scotia. A Grade 9 student wore a pink polo shirt on his first day of school and became the target of threats [...]

Today, February 9th, is Safer Internet Day (SID) in Europe, although countries outside of the continent also choose to participate. This is an annual event sponsored by a network of Awareness Centers that helps promote young people’s safe and responsible use of the Internet and mobile devices.  The theme this year is “Think B4 U Post” and they [...]

Our two weeks of looking after the student friends international blog, Bringing Us Together, is over and now, we’re looking forward to seeing what appears from the next groups in charge. Taking the reigns for this short time was an interesting feeling knowing that we were a part of something much bigger than our class blog.  It was [...]