It’s time to register for the school year 2012-2013. Call the school to book an appointment for registration or re-registration. Here are some important details you’ll want to know:
There is a 3% reduction of fees for annual school fees paid in full before Sept. 1st.
Siblings discounts are 25% for the second child, 50% for the third child and 100% for the fourth child.
We have a limited number of bursaries available by application (please contact the school).
Small Town Villains at Youth Jammers April 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
$5 entry. FREE for anyone who wants to perform at Open Mic.
If you’d like to perform, be at Island Oak High School at 6:30 pm.
Youth Jammers Coffee House is a joint production of Island Oak High School and the Cowichan Folk Guild.
The Open Mic first half of the show with MC Bill Levity is followed by the feature act in the second half.
All young performance artists are invited to come out and share their talents in front of a friendly audience. Audience members of all ages welcome.
IOHS Senior Play, The Physicists
by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Directed by Karen-Lee Pickett
March 16 & 17
at the Hub in Cowichan Station
7:00 pm
by Donation
Three physicists are in an asylum, but are they really as mad as they seem? Why are they REALLY there?
Join us this weekend to find out.
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To help students complete their Waldorf education through to grade 12, Island Oak High School is offering full-tuition entrance scholarships to new Grade 9 and 10 BC students. Applicants should be students who are fully engaged in and passionate about learning, have the capacity to be successful in their studies at Island Oak and who will contribute to and benefit from the social and learning environment at Island Oak.
The deadline for the scholarship application is April 30, 2012.
Contact Island Oak at mail@islandoak.org or 250-701-0400 for more information or for an application form.
Island Oak alumni Georgia Clap visited Friday, Feb. 17th to do a presentation on her experience with the Youth Initiative Program (YIP), an anthroposophical post-secondary program outside Jarna, Sweden. The ten-month youth initiative leadership training and social entrepreneurship training equips 19-25 year-olds with the tools to realize their ideas for manifesting change in the world. Living on a large farm located on a fjord, the students enjoy a packed schedule of lectures, community engagement, group projects and internships. They also form a question as the basis for an individual project. Courses in fundraising, budgeting, book keeping, community mapping, water, systems thinking, portraiture, sustainable economics and business, project planning and more help students recognize “tools of abundance” and realize that they have everything they need to manifest their ideas. The program teaches students how to “challenge social norms and economic restrictions”. During the program, a dance group Clap and her friends began for fun evolved into a performance group that toured Europe for months after the program ended. For more information go to http://www.yip.se/home/
End of Term Reports go out today. These give students and parents a mid-year, analytical picture of how students stand in their courses, and an account of citizenship within the school community. The marks given on the End of Term Report are used for any submissions for early application to universities.
Teacher Conference week is February 20-24, and school is not in session.
IOHS welcomes Gifty-Serbeh Dunn today to kick off International Development Week. Gifty is the founder of Shea Butter Market and a board member at Partners for Prosperity, a Shawnigan Lake-based International NGO. Shea Butter Market purchases shea butter from a widows collective in Tapko, Ghana and creates products with it here in Canada. The widows are paid fairly and also recieve 2% of net proceeds.Gifty will be talking to the students about International Development, grassroot initiatives, and sustainable development. She’ll address what works, what doesn’t,and what we can do better. We thank Gifty and the BC Council for International Cooperation for their support.
Classes 11 & 12 are producing an International Valentine’s Day Dinner on Sunday, Feb.12 at 5 pm. The dinner is partially sponsored by the BC Council for International Cooperation and the NGO, Partners for Prosperity. Enjoy international cuisine and live music. $15/ticket, $30/family of four
Island Oak is hosting the Cowichan Folk Guild Youth Jammers Coffee House on Saturday, Feb.4th at 7 pm (6:30 pm for performers). It’s an Open Mike evening with MC Bill Levity. Everyone who plays an instrument, sings, dances or recites poetry is welcome to come on out and share their talents! Just let the person at the door know you are a performer on the way in.
$5/individual, free for performers. Concession.