Hello, 5B families!
In our Career Education class on Friday, students sure enjoyed Mr. Watson’s fun presentation about the plumbing profession! He compared historical waste management practices with modern day ones and gave us new appreciation for the convenience of running water.
Check out students’ core competencies in action! This video shows Mr. Watson’s apprentices collaborating to determine the best way to engineer a water piping system.
We gained new insight into the complexity of plumbing work that demands technical knowledge, mechanical aptitude, problem solving skills, creativity, teamwork, attention to building codes, physical stamina, and sometimes quick thinking in emergency situations. It was also fun to hearing dramatic stories about working in the field! Wow!
Students examined pipes, fittings, and other gadgets, and they were enthralled with the task to work together to create a waste water piping system, which they tested with a marble. In the processes, they learned first hand about the importance of considering the grade of a pipe! Thank you for an awesome presentation, Mr. Watson!
Looking for More Guest Speakers!
What’s your passion? Please email Tiffany Poirier at tpoirier@cisdv.bc.ca if you have a profession, skill, hobby, craft, sport, area of passion, knowledge area or special experience that you could speak about in our 5B class. Don’t be shy—you are more fascinating than you realize! Hearing from passionate experts about their fields is one of the best ways to inspire learners to expand their horizons, and we thank you in advance for your gift of time and wisdom!
In Art class, students explored their creativity by starting to make Halloween pop-up cards and spooky haunted house watercolour scenes! We will finish these projects on Monday.
Tiffany Poirier 