Chapel Review Weekending March 27th

Chapel Report

Thursday March 28, 2013

On Monday March 25 Chorale Director Richard Janzen recognized the students involved in the Sask Valley Music Festival in chapel.    

Musical Festival Award Winners
Kathleen, Sarah, Kenna, Laura, Ryan, Benjamin and Crystal

                                                                                                                                                              On Wednesday March 27, coaches and team captains shared highlights from the winter sports season.  These chapels are important times of community building and an affirmation of the valuable contribution of athletics and arts within our school.      

                                                                                                                                                       

Girls Basketball

Curling

Boys Basketball

Girls Hockey

Boys Hockey

On Wednesday March 27 and Thursday March 28 the Faith and Life Committee organized Good Friday and Easter services.  After a long winter and a challenging Lent season it was good to celebrate Easter!  Thank you to the cooks who prepared Easter bread in the dining room for the student body following Easter service.  We are an Easter people! 

Chapel Review Weekending March 22

Chapel Report

Friday March 22, 2013

This week in chapel students began preparing for ALSO Week with chapels focusing on poverty, hunger, and food waste.  Videos from TED Talks featuring Bono and Tristam Stuart were used to keep students and staff appraised of current trends and statistics concerning poverty in the world.  Ryan Wood introduced this year’s ALSO theme: “There are Two Sides to Every Story” based on the parable of  ‘The Rich Man and Lazarus’ and encouraged students to view their thoughts on ‘wealth’ and ‘poverty’ through the eyes and teachings of Jesus.  Continuing with Lent the Faith and Life Committee shared a readers theatre featuring students holding items representing things that we need to leave behind (anger, pride, greed, fear, worry) as we follow Jesus to Jerusalem for Holy Week. 

Ryan begins the one of the many chapels preparing the students for ALSO

A guest appearance from Bono!

ALSO Alabama meet to prepare for the trip.

RJC Update March 26-April 8

Congratulations to the Boys' Basketball Team who won Bronze at the 2A Provincial championships this past weekend! 

EVENTS THIS WEEK INCLUDE:

- Thursday, March 28, 1:00-6:00 pm - PARENT / TEACHER / DEAN INTERVIEWS in the rehearsal hall.

- EASTER HOLIDAYS, March 29-April 7.  Classes are finished at noon on Thursday (March 28), with Parent Teacher Interviews following from 1:00-6:00 pm.  Dorms close by 6:00 pm (no supper served), and re-open Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 pm.  Classes resume Monday, April 8 at 8:30 am.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

- CHORALE TOUR, April 11-15

- SPEND-A-DAY, April 19-20:   Students in grades 8-11 are invited to Spend-A-Day at the RJC campus. This will be an opportunity for prospective students to get a glimpse of what it is like to be a student here.  After registration students will be invited to sit in some classes, eat in the dining hall, join in fun activities and spend the night in the dorms. On Saturday they and their families are invited for brunch and an informal information session in the dining hall.  Any student that would like to attend this event needs to register by April 8th, as space is limited. ADMISSION is FREE! Registration forms are available at www.rjc.sk.ca or by email from val@rjc.sk.ca

- ALSO Service Week (Alternative Learning and Service Opportunities).   Guatemala group (April 24-May 5); Alabama group (April 25-May 5); Saskatchewan and Calgary groups (April 29-May 3).

- RJC Open Campus Day & Spring Concert, May 11

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Record Breaking Evening with Guys and Pies

A full gym was treated to great entertainment provided by Russ Regier and a Bunch of Guys on Sunday March 17th.  They sang a number of well received songs and then were joined by the RJC Man Choir for a set as well.  Everyone enjoyed  pies that we made by our very own kitchen staff.  The main fundraising event was the auction of 12 beautifully decorated cakes donated by many talented bakers.  All cakes received bids of at least 1000 dollars!  The RJC students got in on the action and combined their resources to purchase a cake as well.  Many thanks to all who donated items, the choirs, organizers, bakers, auctioneers, volunteers and of course the bidders for making this evening so successful.  

Kirsten Hamm welcomes everyone to Guys and Pies

Guys and Pies was well attended!

The auction goods.

SRC sold an arms lengths of tickets on several gift baskets donated by Wally and Carolene Funk, Trent Loewen of Earth Bound Bakery.

Bunch of Guys

With Paul Tiessen running the show, the bidding gets underway.  Luke bids for the Bunch of Guys.

Darryl needs a time out to discuss the bid with his son Eric.

Eric leads the current RJC students in their bid to buy a cake.

Man Choir

Combined choirs.

Sam Hawkins - Canadiana!

The Guys DC planned a night out for the student body.  The tradition in Sam Hawkins is for the boys to invite their 'dates' for an evening out.  For days preceding the event, boys were popping up everywhere with a special surprise invitation for their date.  The theme for the evening was 'Canadiana'.      The dining hall was decorated appropriately and the kitchen staff prepared a special meal with 'poutine' as the featured main dish.  After we had eaten our fill, we braved the elements and spent the evening playing outside! 

Yum Yum!

Bet you you can't see Hope between Landon and Matt! (She is in camouflage)

Lauren and Nicole

Celebrating Canadian Hockey

Racing to boiling water!

Shane playing snow kickball.

Everyone's favorite . . . road hockey!

Milk Week!

To break the winter blues, the SRC planned an exciting week of events to celebrate Milk Week.  It was sponsored by the Saskatchewan Milk.   Sask Milk provided prizes and milk products for the many activities that the SRC planned.  

A different activity was planned for each day.  Great fun was had by all!

Jaye and Crystal kick off the dress up day.

The boys took the win at Milk Jeopardy!

A giant game of 'Moosical Chairs'

The final round.  Paradise wins this round for the girls!

Bobbing for Oreos

The week ended with a Milk Relay, pitting the three grade against one another!  The grade 11 team jumped to an early lead but were overtaken by the Grade 12's !

Haley feeding Morgan ice cream through a stocking.

Paradise balancing a glass of milk on her head.

Shenyce sets up Brandon for the milk balancing portion of the competition.

Jake searches for cubes of cheese.

Vichael, Liam and Tyler take the grade 12's to victory in the 'milking competition!'

A Peek into the History 20 Classroom

Peek in the History 20 Classroom

Mar. 16, 2013

The History 20 class made use of the snow this year and completed a reconstruction of the trenches on the western front in WWI.  Once finished they used the trenches to recreate and film the events surrounding the Christmas Truce of 1914 which saw soldiers from Britain, France, and Germany lay down their arms on Christmas eve and observe and unofficial truce.  Many found it difficult to return to war the next day.  The History 20 video can be viewed on youtube on RJC’s channel or by searching ‘Christmas Truce  - RJC History Class’.

Ryan addressing the troops

The battle begins!

Kenna and Kathleen leading the singing of Silent Night.

The link for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgK2rauiPE&feature=youtu.be