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Art GallerySg  the lightSg  the lightCELEBRATION OF LEARNINGJANUARY 2024Belong. Believe. Succeed.Look inside to see samples of the beautiful and creative work our students make.DisplayBodyBiographiesDemonstrationProjects onDisplayVideoPostersMagazineComputer SimulationInteractive DisplayReflecting creativitySeeking wisdomBuildingcommunityShaping cultureWorshipping GodDiscovering orderCaring for creation

Sg  the lightSg  the lightSTORYBOARDS & POETRY IN MOTIONGRADE 9 ENGLISHDriving Question: How do we use figurative language and images to tell stories? The Big Idea: Using our creative abilities to give pictoral representations of storyline and to play with language to paint poetic pictures in the reader’s mind.The Product: Storyboards and poetry anthologiesThe Audience: The school communityWorshipping GodDiscovering order

Reflecting creativitySg  the lightSg  the lightCREATED TO CREATEGRADE 9 EXPLORING TECH:CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGYDriving Question: How can we use our God given talents and creativity to design and make excellent things?The Big Idea: Using our woodworking skills to construct and assemble a variety of beautiful projects, cornhole, Muskoka Chair, and long boards.The Product: Long boards, Muskoka chairs, cornhole gamesThe Audience: The school community

Sg  the lightSg  the lightCREATED TO CREATEGRADE 9 EXPLORING TECH:FOOD & NUTRITIONDriving Question: How can we use our God given talents and creativity to design and make excellent things?The Big Idea: Students in the kitchen applied skills they learned and followed the steps in the design process to plan and create fondant cakes that represented a memory, a personal interest, or a God-given gift. The Product: Fondant cakesThe Audience: The school communityReflecting creativity

Reflecting creativitySg  the lightSg  the light30.11.2023Emma & Libby Brooke2 0 2 3B R O O K E H A A N S T R APhoto BookCREATED TO CREATEGRADE 9 EXPLORING TECH: COMPUTER TECHNOLOGYDriving Question: How can we use our God given talents and creativity to design and make excellent things?The Big Idea: Students in the computer and communications portion of Exploring Technologies learned how to use various technologies and software to design and create a variety of projects. The Product: 3D designs and prints, photos and photo books, one-minute highlight videosThe Audience: The school community

Sg  the lightSg  the lightSCIENCE IN ACTIONGRADE 9 SCIENCEDriving Question: How can science reveal patterns and order in the fabric of nature?The Big Idea: Students will lead guests in activities designed to highlight patterns, showcase knowledge, or demonstrate natural phenomena. The Product: Trivia contest, Vandegraaf generator, sand pendulum, hovercraftThe Audience: The school communityBuildingcommunityDiscovering order

Sg  the lightSg  the lightDRAGON’S DEN BUSINESS PROPOSALGRADE 9 MATHDriving Question: How can we use graphs and linear relations to communicate a business proposal? The Big Idea: Students in Grade 9 math learned how to identify, create, and explain linear relations. Students created and applied their learning to create a business proposal for the show Dragon’s Den. The goal was to use graphs to show a successful (but fake) business idea. The Product: Google presentationsThe Audience: The school communitySeeking wisdomDiscovering order

Sg  the lightSg  the lightFINDING MR. BREUKELMAN — CANADIAN EDITION, EH?GRADE 9 GEOGRAPHYDriving Question: How does each ecozone in Canada reflect the creativity and order of God? The Big Idea: Every landform region and ecozone has a particular “signature” that God has placed on it, and we can identify it by decoding the clues He has left behind. The Product: A slideshow quiz to identify locations across CanadaThe Audience: The school communityDiscovering orderCaring for creationReflectingcreativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightLETTERS TO PEN PALSGRADE 9 FRENCHDriving Question: Comment est-ce q’on parle avec un nouveau ami?The Big Idea: Students worked through a common challenge of making friends by exchanging pen pal letters with students in the Grade 9 French class at Quinte Christian High School. The Product: A series of five or six letters, in French, exchanged with with a pen palThe Audience: Grade 9 French class at Quinte Christian High School in Trenton.Reflecting creativityShaping cultureBuildingcommunity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightOUR MUNICIPAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNGRADE 10 CIVICSDriving Question: Can we experience what it would be like to organize and participate in a municipal election?The Big Idea: Students engaged in a municipal election process where the Niagara Region and Haldimand became one municipality with various wards. Students worked in groups to run a candidate for a councillor position in one of the wards or in the mayoral election race. Students created campaign portfolios, crafted speeches for election rallies, participated in a candidate debate, and voted in a polling station. Student leaders organized and led the entire process. The Product: An election campaignThe Audience: Grade 10 Class Shaping cultureBuildingcommunitySeeking wisdom

Sg  the lightSg  the lightVOCATIONAL WAYFINDINGGRADE 10 CAREERSDriving Question: Considering your interests, desires, gifts, influences and life experiences, what might your life look like as you work towards making your imagined career a lived reality and how will you budget for it? The Big Idea: Created with a purpose for a purpose. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” - Ephesians 2:10The Product: PostersThe Audience: Peers & school commuityShaping cultureBuildingcommunityReflecting creativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightSYMBOLS IN ART AND FAITH - A RICH HERITAGE GRADE 10 ARTDriving Question: How can we use traditonal Christian symbols to create visual rhythm and share faith? The Big Idea: Students researched symbols used by the early persecuted Church to communicate their beliefs, and, with one chosen symbol, created a variety of visual rhythms. The Product: Carved lino-blocks and several lino-print art worksThe Audience: The school community and the school oce (for stationery).Worshipping GodDiscovering order

Sg  the lightSg  the lightWW I TRENCHESGRADE 10 HISTORYDriving Question: How did trenches and their design lead to a defensive war?The Big Idea: The inventions of weapons such as the machine gun led soldiers to fight a more defensive war creating the need for trenches. Trenches would lead to other problems—disease and miserable conditions.The Product: WW I model trenchesThe Audience: The school communityBuildingcommunityReflecting creativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightMEASURE THE UNREACHABLE!GRADE 10 MATHDriving Question: How can we determine the height of an inaccessible object?The Big Idea: Find the height of an inaccessible object using right angled trigonometry and similar triangles.The Product: Posters showing math calculations and reflectionsThe Audience: Anyone who wants to know the height of a ceiling (or any object) without getting on a ladder.Reflecting creativityDiscovering orderSeeking wisdom

Sg  the lightSg  the lightBECOMING JUSTICE-SEEKERSGRADE 10 BIBLEDriving Question: How can we seek Biblical justice in our local and larger communities?The Big Idea: Students studied the Scriptural view of justice. They reflected on how they can put this into practice in their own lives and researched and reported on an organization that seeks justice in today’s world.The Product: Poster displayThe Audience: Peers and school communitySeeking wisdomBuildingcommunityShaping culture

Sg  the lightSg  the lightBARREN GROUNDS BODY BIOGRAPHIESGRADE 10 ENGLISH APPLIEDDriving Question: How can students use visual artwork to display their understanding of the main themes and ideas in the novel, Barren Grounds, by David Robertson?The Big Idea: Exploring themes and characterization in Barren Grounds through body biography posters.The Product: Students created “body biography” posters to depict some of their enduring understandings about their favorite character in the novel, Barren GroundsThe Audience: Peers and school communitySeeking wisdom

Sg  the lightSg  the lightEMBRACING THE “OTHER”GRADE 10 ENGLISHDriving Question: How can we use media to show how stories help us to embrace the “other” in our communities?The Big Idea: Students used media to reflect on how the study of the memoir, Homes, and the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has impacted their perspective on those who live dierently in their communities.The Product: Various media projectsThe Audience: Peers and school communityReflecting creativitySeeking wisdomBuildingcommunityShaping cultureClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightSTUDENT-WRITTEN SHORT PLAYSGRADE 10 FRENCHDriving Question: How can we use our developing knowledge of French to create authentic entertainment for each other?The Big Idea: Students were given a “story start” (En Safari) and creatively extended the story using concepts they learned in class.The Product: Four short playsThe Audience: Their peersReflecting creativityBuildingcommunityShaping culture

Sg  the lightSg  the lightCO-OP PLACEMENTSGRADE 11 & 12 CO-OPDriving Question: How can I use my gifts to serve God and neighbour?The Big Idea: Co-op placements allow students to discover and develop their gifts, in hands-on work environments.The Product: Posters showing students at placementThe Audience: The communityBuildingcommunityClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightDIGITAL IMAGESGRADE 11 INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHDriving Question: Can we express ourselves fully with just pixels?The Big Idea: Capturing the analog three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional digital image. Images capture a moment in time. Post-processing can enhance that image to be more accurate, or more artistic. Enjoy the gallery of student-created images.The Product: A gallery of digital imagesThe Audience: School communityReflecting creativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightBON APPÉTIMS!GRADE 11 FRENCHDriving Question: How is food related to language and culture?The Big Idea: Let’s explore French food through baking, cooking, eating, and serving. Welcome to our French café. Please enjoy the experience of ordering some food in French and the joy of eating it.The Product: A French caféThe Audience: Anyone with an appetite!Buildingcommunity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightGREEN CANADIAN COMPANIES ON A MISSION! GRADE 11 CHEMISTRYDriving Question: How is a fast-growing company in Canada pursuing green practices?The Big Idea: Being able to access food locally, to live and travel without creating pollution, to use and reuse resources sustainably — these are all challenges that many fast-growing Canadian businesses are tackling in innovative and successful ways. The Product: Posters, slide presentations, or videosThe Audience: School communitySeeking wisdomCaring for creationBuildingcommunityReflecting creativityShaping culture

Sg  the lightSg  the lightTHE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN 2024 GRADE 11 DRAMADriving Question: How do we practically apply the Ten Commandments to everyday living?The Big Idea: Students wrote short sketches involving their assigned commandment. They had to find and present a modern adaptation and application for that commandment.The Product: Live performances in five-minute intervalsThe Audience: Peers, parents, audience membersBuildingcommunityReflecting creativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightPHOTOGRAPHY 101 GRADE 11 MEDIADriving Question: How do we take better photos?The Big Idea: Unlock the potential of a DSLR camera and your inner photographer by learning how to properly set shutter speed, aperture (depth of field), and ISO (light sensor).The Product: Five favourite photos from each media studentThe Audience: School communityWorshipping GodDiscovering orderClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightTHE SPARKGRADE 11 ENGLISHDriving Question: How can we foster creativity and improve our ability to write clearly? The Big Idea: The Spark – An eye-catching, well-designed school magazine that has an even balance of writing and visuals as well as a variety of articles that encapsulate the given month(s) (e.g. sports, reviews, upcoming events, current school events, etc.).The Product: The Spark is a school magazine written and designed by grade 11 English studentsThe Audience: School communitySeeking wisdomBuildingcommunityReflecting creativityDiscovering orderClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightFUNCTIONSGRADE 11 FUNCTIONSDriving Question: How did God create math to be logical?The Big Idea: Summarize the key ideas we learned about functions.The Product: PostersThe Audience: Class as reviewDiscovering orderClick here to see student work

BuildingcommunityReflecting creativitySg  the lightSg  the lightENGINEERING IN ACTION!GRADE 12 PHYSICSDriving Question: How can we recover a person’s God-given identity with an arm prosthesis?The Big Idea: Injury and disease can cause life-changing loss of limbs, which aects a person’s ability to live fully into their capabilities. By initiating an iterative design and test process, students were challenged to build the most eective arm prosthesis.The Product: Constructed arm prosthesesThe Audience: The school community

Sg  the lightSg  the lightMOLECULAR GENETICS - A TEAM TEACHING UNITGRADE 12 BIOLOGYDriving Question: How can an authentic, student- designed and student-led learning experience help cultivate opportunities for deeper learning?The Big Idea: My deep hope is that students will develop a curiosity and love for God’s good creation, while recognizing in themselves and others, the complexity and connectedness of their physiologies.The Product: Students will create an authentic, rich, learning experience for their classmates, with accompanying handouts and a “try-this” activityThe Audience: Their peers & school communityDiscovering orderReflecting creativityClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightROLLERCOASTER FUNCTIONSGRADE 12 FUNCTIONSDriving Question: How can you smoothly transfer marbles through 10 functions?The Big Idea: Relishing play with a variety of functions and creatively rolling the marbles to their safe ending. While learning, the marbles will fall and meet their demise but the right adjustments will result in a successful roller coaster.The Product: Digital videosThe Audience: The school communityDiscovering orderReflecting creativityClick here to see marble slides in action

Sg  the lightSg  the lightOUR STORIES IN GOD’S STORIESGRADE 12 ENGLISH: UNIVERSITYDriving Question: Is literature necessary?The Big Idea: Students use Leland Ryken’s values of literature, Northrop Frye’s monomyth of one story for all literature, and the Biblical truth of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration to understand how all stories fit in God’s one story.The Product: Posters and projectsThe Audience: The school communitySeeking wisdomBuildingcommunityReflecting creativityClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightTHE HERO’S JOURNEYGRADE 12 ENGLISH: COLLEGEDriving Question: How do stories about heroes, like the ones we read and watch, reflect a biblical narrative arc and display a common pattern of growth and change?The Big Idea: Students will be able to compare and contrast two dierent “Hero’s Journey” films so that they can understand the way stories help us make sense of the world and our place in it. The Product: A physical or digital poster visually comparing two significant “Hero’s Journey” filmsThe Audience: Their peers and the school communityDiscovering order

Sg  the lightSg  the lightKITCHEN CABINETS GRADE 12 CONSTRUCTION TECHDriving Question: How can we use our woodworking skills to bless someone in need with a new kitchen?The Big Idea: Students learned how to construct and install rails-and-stile doors and drawers. The Product: Kitchen cabinets The Audience: Someone from our community received a new kitchen.BuildingcommunityReflecting creativity

Sg  the lightSg  the lightNAVIGATING GEN Z GRADE 12 DRAMADriving Question: What are some of the challenges facing the GenZ generation?The Big Idea: Students are currently facing many of the challenges that the last generation faced. However, there are also new challenges that this generation has to navigate. Students aim to take both a serious and humourous look at some of these.The Product: A dramatic production about issues facing the GenZ generationThe Audience: Their peers, school community and guests.BuildingcommunityReflecting creativityClick here to see student work

Sg  the lightSg  the lightTHE BLESSING OF FOOD ESLDriving Question: How can we steward God’s provision of food well?The Big Idea: Students will explore the value of food as a source of nutrition, and examine the problem of food waste and possible solutions to this problem.The Product: Physical posterThe Audience: Their peers, school community and guests.Worshipping GodDiscovering orderSeeking wisdom