Donation to the Art Class

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You never know what kind of connections you will make. At our recent Student Art Sale fundraiser at the Central Y, Academy art students met Alta, a YMCA member and artist, who was perusing the art for sale. A couple of weeks later, she emailed art teacher Alexi to see if the program could use some supplies she didn’t need anymore. Yesterday Alta arrived at our school with her car full of calligraphy ink and pens, unused pastel sets, tubes of acrylic paint, piles and roles of paper, art books, paint brushes, professional pencils, drafting tools, and many, many more generous offerings!! We promised to gives these donated items a second life in the art room. Thank you, Alta, for your amazing generosity!

Feast of Thanks Celebration

The YMCA Academy cafeteria during the Feast of Thanks celebration
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YMCA Academy students and staff during the Feast of Thank celebration
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YMCA Academy students enjoying a meal during our Feast of Thanks Celebration
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YMCA Academy students enjoying a meal during our Feast of Thanks Celebration
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YMCA Academy students enjoying a meal during our Feast of Thanks Celebration
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We enjoyed yet another hugely successful Feast of Thanks today at the Academy in honour of Canada’s Indigenous people. We welcomed Darlene as our special guest from the Native Women’s Resource Center in Toronto. A big thanks goes out to everyone who contributed and especially our amazing staff, students and volunteers who did everything from oven heating duty to photography to set up and clean up. We are grateful for our harvest, our friends and family and especially our Y community. Happy fall!

Check out the rest the rest of the pictures on our Facebook page!

We Went to WE Day

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We went to WE Day and

  • WE danced
  • WE sang
  • WE sat
  • WE cheered
  • WE lost our voices
  • WE heard about some sad stories
  • WE lunched
  • WE saw a lot of celebrities
  • WE saw Carly Rae Jepsen and Hozier
  • WE screamed for Demi Levato
  • WE became “Imagineers”
  • WE had fun
  • WE lost our hearing
  • WE used our phones as flashlights
  • WE took pictures and videos
  • WE were in a huge crowd
  • WE ate Ben’s Cheetos
  • WE learned many new things
  • WE were educated
  • WE saw inspiring people like Spencer West
  • WE thought about going from ME to WE
  • WE got gift bags
  • WE got sunglasses
  • WE got “We books”
  • WE had the so much fun with Peggy, Rein, and Siobhan
  • WE had the time of our life!

By Siobhan’s Ontario Literacy Skills class

Pajama Day at The YMCA Academy

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Today was Pajama Day at The YMCA Academy — our first spirit day of the year. Students dressed in their finest and coziest jammies for the whole day, and gathered for a photo op in the cafeteria at lunch.

This event was planned and carried out by the school’s new Student Advisory Council. It’s the first of many special happenings that the SAC will organize for and with their fellow Academy students.

Jim Adams Visits the Academy

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On Monday, September 21, Jim Adams came and told us stories while we were sitting in the library at our school.

Jim is a Native story teller and singer. He comes to our school once a year to share his stories about lessons and history. Jim comes to the Academy to teach us about different types of cultures, so we can know about the world a little more.

I like hearing his stories. It wasn’t like other stories that I normally listen to.

By a Gr. 9 YMCA Academy student