Welcome to the school year 2011-12

My prayer is that this school year will be an excellent year of growth spiritually and intellectually. I know there will be lots of learning going on.  I will look forward to talking to you and getting to know you better in this school year.

SKYPE

A great way to contact me for quick answers to questions is by SKYPE.  It is a free service that you can download pretty quickly and allows us to instantly chat back and forth, as well as talk if you have a microphone with your computer. As long as I am in front of my computer I will see your text.  Just go to skype.com to download this program.  You can ask me to add you or you can look me up using Gotzy or Lgotzy.

Scripture Memory Contests (and Honor Roll)

We have several ongoing contests with Anchor Academy. Please see our handbook for complete details

But the first semester scripture memory contest and the second semester contest can be downloaded.

Learn Now BC

This is an excellent resource to help students in many topics.  Students need to just go to the website, pick "Study Centre - 21 courses" and then sign in (getting a login is free for BC students)

Once into the site, you can scroll down to the course you are needing help in and then click on the "success checker" for multiple quizzes on each topic you have learned.    You can also watch tutorial on each topic in math and science in the "charged up" section. 

http://www.Learnnowbc.ca

Side Bar

Please see the side bar on the right for all my courses and all important information pertaining to those courses

Getting Started

I encourage you to make a school duo-tang with one divider for each course. It is good to keep the DL calendar at the front of this book for quick reference. You can print off the course outlines so you have quick easy access to all the time lines for each course.  Also, you can record all pace tests marks on those course outlines.   That way if a test gets lost or misplaced, you can always look up the mark there.  We will need to know that you have started the course or that you are seriously planning on doing it this term. So all teachers will ask for a first assignment to know that the student has started the course.

Pace work

Each ACE or SAICS workbook comes with a test and an answer key.  So Make sure you remove the tests from the middle of the paces or from the package of SAICS and put those tests in a safe place.  You can also put all the answer keys somewhere safe.

Honor roll

To attain honor roll, the student must memorize the monthly scripture memory, get a B average or higher and complete at least a terms worth of work in each course. With the scripture memory, there are also scripture memory contests which you can read more about in the School Handbook.

Transcipts

The Ministry of Education has launched online Transcript and Certificate Ordering.  British Columbia secondary school graduates may now order their transcripts and/or graduation certificates at the following website:  www.bced.gov.bc.ca/transcript

School Calendar

We have altered the school calender slightly from the elementary school because of the need to get the marks into the ministry of education in a timely way.  We will need you to stick to the schedule tightly.  If the work is not sent into the teachers at the end of the term promptly, it will not get on the student report card for that term.  Download the calender in PDF here.

Student ID Cards 

Email your student photo to anchorstudentid@gmail.com and request a student ID card. These had to be in by friday the 16th.   However, we will do a second run in October, so if you missed the first run, then still submit your picture.

Provincial Exams

The school has a strict policy when it comes to provincial exams.  Please make yourself familiar with this policy if you are taking a provincially examinable course, for more information, see the sidebar. 

Financial Aid

www.scholarshipscanada.com  

     information on searching all scholarships 

www.canlearn.ca

     Information about loans, financial advice and more