Student Council September September activities included Grade 9 Orientation which had a fantastic turnout and a welcome bake sale in the first week of school. This was followed by volunteering at Culture Days (Student Council received a $100 honorarium) and participating in Dancing Down Main Street (Hapnot won a $300 prize for participation). October​
- Our big October event was the ​
We Scare Hunger Food Bank Campaign​
through Free the Children. The Student Council at Hapnot teamed up with Ford during the month of October to participate in the Free the Children We Scare Hunger campaign. At the beginning of the month they made the goal of filling up a Ford F-150 truck with food bank donations by Halloween. Students went to Ecole McIsaac School, Ruth Betts School and Cranberry Portage Elementary School to ask for support and received lots of donations! Some Student Council students also helped collect donations at a Bomber Game and by holding a Halloween Haunted House at Hapnot (Oct 26)! In the end they were able to meet their goal and are estimating that over 1000 pounds of food was delivered to the foodbank on November 4th! We Day (October): ​
4 staff and 21 students headed to Winnipeg on Oct 28th and 29th to attend We-Day at the MTS centre! An amazing and inspiring experience for all! We-Day is a event put on by the Free the Children foundation which encourages youth to be empowered and affect change in their communities and around the world. There were a wide variety of musical performances and fantastic speakers including Mary Robinson (President of Ireland and past UN High Commissioner), Craig and Mark Kielburger (Founders of Free the Children and We Day), Kweku Mandela (social advocate and grandson of Nelson Mandela)​
, Dr. Dave Williams (Canadian astronaut and speaker) and many others! A particular highlight for our students was Travis Price – Co-founder of Pink Shirt Anti-Bullying Day - who saw our group’s Pink shirts all the way up in the upper bowl while he was speaking and took the time to come up and have a private chat with our students, sign some shirts, take some pictures, and inspire them to go out and stand up for others! Another fantastic We-Day trip! Student Council also hosted a Halloween Costume Contest in October - lots of students came out dressed up and prizes were given after judging by teacher volunteers. November & December In November, Gina Broughton and Abby Janz represented Hapnot at the community Remembrance Day Service. Student Council also entered a float in the Santa Claus parade at the end of the month. In December Student Council organised Santa Visits to the elementary school to give out candy and reindeer food. Xmas Xcitement also took place in December, which included comedy acts, singers, piano players, dancers, the Hapnot Choir, a musical performance by the staff and even live art. January to April We managed to get the hallway tvs working after Christmas in order to display announcements in the hallways. We also discussed participating in the Blue Dot Campaign. We had a Valentine’s Day Bake Sale and sold crush cans. Our biggest event in this period was We Are Silent (Free the Children) with which we raised $692.50 for Education in India. We worked in conjunction with the ESJ/GSA on this event. May:​
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n May Student Council hosted Spirit Month. Each Wednesday Student Councils Members hosted an activity to go with the week’s theme (e.g. Quidditch for Harry Potter week, Mario Kart contest for video game week, tie-dye and Dance Dance revolution for 60s/70s week) and encouraged students and staff to dress up according to the week’s theme on Fridays. Students who participated in dress-up or activities received a ticket to put into the month-end draw for a movie night hosted by student council. Our other big May event was the Skate Competition, BBQ & Craft Fair. Funky Threads in The Pas helped to host the Skate Comp, Eddie’s Family Foods sponsored our BBQ (Which was run by student council members and volunteers Grace and Gary Bridgeman). Proceeds went back towards the student council budget. We also hosted a Craft fair with various vendors where the ESJ/GSA and Student Council hosted a bake sale and where the Student Council also sold rafiki bracelets and hosted a raffle. The Craft Fair brought in a total $400 for the Free the Children Year of Empowerment which helps families overseas purchase goats and develop sustainable family economies. Looking forward: We are currently planning the 15/16 Grade 9 Orientation, thinking about elections for September, and re-organising how Student Council functions in itself as well as with other groups. Also we will be passing off most Free the Children activities to ESJ/GSA for next year. French Immersion​
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​his year with the French Immersion students we attended the year-end meet-up event in Dauphin at the end of May. 13 students from Hapnot attended the “Survivor” weekend. It was a team competition with students from Dauphin, Swan River, The Pas and Flin Flon. Flin Flon had the most participants other than the host school in Dauphin. Plans also continued to be made for the Spring Break 2016 trip to Montreal, Québec and Ottawa. We also had 5 grade 12 students complete the grade 12 French Immersion Provincial Exam and 1 student (Jeff Odegaard) will be graduating with their French Immersion Diploma. Flute Ensemble The Hapnot Flute Ensemble had a good year this year. We had rehearsals Mondays at lunch all year long (and extra rehearsals before performances. We also had “Hapnot Flutes and Veggies” shirts made by Ped’s Threads. Students performed 3 selections in the Christmas concert and two selections (one arranged by Student Mikylo Odut) in the spring concert.