So What's Wrong With This Picture?

            “So, what’s wrong with this picture?” asks Hannah Rengele, a facilitator at Queen’s Park. Western Tech students are sitting around her examining the diets and food profiles of typical Torontonians and trying to figure out exactly how sustainable and healthy they are.

            “It’s too expensive,” says D’Andre a student in Mr. Pegg’s class, “and the carbon footprint for the groceries is enormous.” 

            “Precisely!” says Rengele.

            Students in Ms. De Rosa, and Mr. Pegg’s  Food and Nutrition classes are here at Queen’s Park to get a free lunch and to sample some of the  better food choices that they can make in their own diets. The initiative sponsored by Toronto’s Food Share  is meant to introduce students to a new perspective on what they eat and the importance of food production to their lives. It was all free - from the beet muffins, to the zuccinni/squash vichychoise. “This was the easiest field trip to organize, ever, “ says Ms De Rosa with a smile, “everyone loves a free lunch!”

Western Goes Down The Mississippi

Students at Western Tech had the luxury of floating down a theatrical  Mississippi River with the Classical Theatre Project’s production of Huck Finn. Viewing and participating in live theatre production is an element of the English Curriculum  in Ontario and teachers at WTCS make every attempt to expose students to a variety of  plays and theatre experiences. Principal Linton also subsidizes the cost of tickets to allow as many students to participate as fully as possible. 

“It’s a fantastic way to introduce my students to the performing arts,” says ESL teacher Ms Genine Natale, “This really tests their oral communication skills, but it’s also tons of fun.”

Some of the future theatrical excursions are two Shakespeare Classics: “Romeo and Juliet” and “MacBeth”.