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coming soon …
Until March 22, while I am working at both Bishop Pinkham and Henry Wise Wood, I will maintain my blog at: BP Principal’s Weblog. After March 22, I will no longer update my Bishop Pinkham blog and...
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High School Success
The HWW Principal’s Weblog Welcome to the first real post of this blog. A few months after becoming the principal of Bishop Pinkham School, I started a principal’s weblog there. This morning, I...
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A Cosmopolitan High School
Recent Highlights & Upcoming Events Spring in London and Paris: Forty students and six teachers returned to HWW this week after spending the Spring Break in London and Paris. The highlight for...
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Why?
This week at HWW Friday evening, we had the honour of hosting a plaque unveiling ceremony at HWW. The plaque, which was generously provided by Canadian Pacific and will be permanently mounted in our...
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Excellence
This week at HWW Excellence in student achievement was in the fore this week at Henry Wise Wood. Alberta Skills Competition This week, sixteen HWW students joined students from across the province in...
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Graduation
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Time, Pink Floyd The past weeks at HWW Graduation - The big event at Henry Wise Wood in the past two...
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Last Week of School
Impact at HWW of the Flooding in Calgary As a native-born Calgarian, I thought I knew my city. What I have experienced and witnessed over the past three and a half days, though, has shown me that I...
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Update Message
The following message was sent by email to our parents this morning: —– Dear Parents, It is not surprising with an event of the magnitude and complexity of last week’s flooding that some decisions will...
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Update – Text Book Appeal
The following message was sent by email to our parents this evening: —– Dear Parents, With the closure of schools last Friday, the cancellation of provincial achievement tests, and blanket exemption...
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Whew!
A school is not a building. A school is a collection of people brought together for a common purpose. A school is made of the relationships that form among those people and the experiences that they...
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The Peace of Wild Things
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake...
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National Honours
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”...
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Noli timere
Death of a Naturalist All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun....
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It’s an Honour!
“Terry Fox’s legacy lives on. There are over 60 countries that have a Terry Fox run, over half a billion dollars has been raised for cancer research around the world. Here’s a Canadian who has had that...
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Reporting on Student Achievement
“At the end of reason comes persuasion.” Ludwig Wittgenstein - On Certainty the past week This was another busy week at Henry Wise Wood. Alberta Post-Secondary and Career Fair We held a very successful...
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Learning Together
Who Am I? My head knocks against the stars. My feet are on the hilltops. My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life. Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands...
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our...
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Half Awake and Distracted
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. William James, ‘The Energies of Men’ distracted driving at HWW Distracted driving has replaced impaired driving as the leading cause of traffic...
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debating: top 40 under 40
I haven’t let my education get in the way of my learning. Sathak Sinha, TEDxEdmonton 2013 This week, I would like to begin by featuring three HWW students. student success at HWW: debate A week ago,...
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from the love of money to frittered time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you...
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