Woodlands School Council

On Thursday, December 9th, the Music department put on their annual Snow Show, which showcased all of the talented instrumentalists and singers at the Woodlands.

After months of early morning sectionals and afterschool rehearsal, the Woodlands music students and teachers came together to put on a spectacular night of music.

• The Intermediate Jazz Band and the Senior Jazz Band both wowed the audience with amazing solos from the brilliant musicians and their jazz renditions of Christmas songs, especially the Senior Jazz Band’s performance of “Sugar Rum Cherry” from The Nutcracker Suite.
• The Concert Choir treated the audience to a unique performance of “Three Japanese Songs” and the gospel style “Hark! The Herald Angel Sing”, accompanied by the talented Brian Cho.
• Megan Kuhrt and Mr. Marjanovic played a special harp and cello duet that was undeniably one of the biggest highlights of the show.
• The Elementary Strings Ensemble, the Intermediate Concert Band, and the Senior Concert Band all filled the cafeteria with amazing music that comes with the hard work and dedication that all Woodlands music students put into their practice.

Thank you to Mr. Mootrey, Ms. Koehnen, Mr. Marjanovic, Mrs. Locke, and the MAC for all their hard work.

Submitted by Carol Ding

Students were expected to make a windmill that would create the most power.  However, the final prototype was only worth 10% of their final grade.  40% was their presentation to the expert panel and 40% aesthetics.  The purpose was for the design and the design process. 

We came in second place and fourth place out of 31 teams.

2nd place team:
                              Charlie G.
                              Gordon Y.
                              Cheng Z.
                              Dickson W.
                              Steven L.

On June 1st and June 2nd, Ryan L. and Stefanie L. competed in the provincial tennis championships in the Mixed Doubles Division at York University.  On the first day, Ryan and Stefanie won their first two matches with an amazing comeback in their second game.  Both cruised through the quarter and semi quarter finals advancing to the gold medal game at centre court of the Rexall Centre.  Ryan and Stefanie saved their best game for last and won the gold medal match 6-2.  This is Ryan and Stefanie's second provincial gold medal within a month, having won badminton gold in May.  Congratulations on an amazing season and representing The Woodlands so well!

 The Woodlands' students have done it again!  In the Grade 10 Michael Smith Science Challenge out of UBC: of 876 students writing nationwide, Woodlands' standings were as follows:

2nd overall Cheng Z. - $250 cheque

1st in Ontario Charlie G. - $100 cheque

Top 10% (overall)- Jim C., Helen S., Claire D., Dickson W.

Top 25% (overall)- Shannon W., Steven L.

Some clarification, Cheng beat Charlie, so technically, he won Ontario.  However, since Cheng won a national prize, they gave Charlie the Ontario prize. So we proudly have the #1 & #2 contestants in Ontario.

OAPT - Grade 11 physics contest:

Out of 1116 students writing province wide, Tina X. place 7th overall.  

Guelph Science Olympics:

Over 30 high schools from Ontario participated

1st - Teacher competition - Mr. J. Rosenblood

1st - Circuit Sleuths - Adam M., Ahson K., Vishaal P., Raghav G.,

2nd - Math Gladiatorials - Ahson K., Ke L., Andrew D., Zheng W. 

3rd - Survivor Biology - Marcus H., Roshan Dal., Jeremy H., Beini W.

 Well done everyone!

During the week of May 11th, The Woodlands School was well represented at MusicFest Canada, a National Music Festival where music ensembles from across Canada perform after qualifying at the regional level.  Six of our ensembles were invited to perform and we are excited to report on the outstanding results of the dedicated work of our Woodlands' Students.  Our Chamber Choir earned a Bronze standing, the Intermediate Concert Band, Chamber Strings and Senior Jazz Band all earned silver standings and the Senior Concert Band and Wind Ensemble both earned Gold Standings.  Honour Awards were presented to Karen W. for her work in the Choir, Tappy H. on cello for her dedication in the Chamber Strings, Phoenix Z. on Oboe for her work in the Intermediate Concert Band, Le L. on clarinet for his leadership in the Senior Concert Band, Jonathan W. on euphonium for his outstanding musicianship in the Wind Ensemble and Sally K.  on drumset for her leadership in the Senior Jazz Band.  Congratulations to all the students and Kudos to Mrs. Barber Kahro, Miss.  Devenish,  Mr. Marjanovic and Mr. Mootrey for their dedication and hard work in making our students shine. 

Congratulations to Tina X. for being selected to participate in the Shad Valley program this summer.  Being a member of Shad's alumni community is a significant springboard to future success.  Well done Tina! 

The Junior Badminton team competed brilliantly in the LYNX Tournament held at Lincoln Alexander Secondary School. 

Congratulations go to all the quarter finalists: Kitty C., Janet L., Weiwei L., Lydia W., Amy X., Andy X., Jack Y., and Christine Y.

Special congratulations go to:

Our mixed doubles players represented by Liting L. & Daniel T. and Mehwish P. & Jason C.  Leting and Daniel won 5 straight matches and took the gold medal by winning all their matches in two games.  Mehwish and Jason finished in second place.

The two girls singles players represented by Helen Z. and Kathy L. also defeated all players from the other schools in 2 games and finished by taking the gold and silver medals respectively.

Last but not least, the boys doubles made up of Victor H. and Michael L. blitzed their way through the five matches and earned the well deserved gold medal.  The other two boys doubles teams consisted of Ben H. & Hank X. who finished in second place and Saad S. & Daniel M. placed fourth.

Congratulations to all the players for their great effort.

Grade 12 Computer Engineering Students attended the Peel and Dufferin Peel Regional Robotics competition last week.  Twenty schools attended to compete in three challenging Line-following competitions.

Michael M. and Vishal P. represented the Woodlands school with excellent showings in all three levels of difficulty.  Michael M. won the silver in the most difficult challenge Zip Line Rescue with a flawless run of 62.37 seconds.  Well done! 

Congratulations to all the students who were involved in a very successful Jazz Night.  Musicians from the Intermediate and Senior Jazz Bands and Choir entertained an enthusiastic audience of family, friends and some of our supportive teachers – Mr. Dewar, Mr. Crane and Mrs. Perugini.  Brilliant solos were performed by Omar M. on trombone, Brian C. and Cheng Z. on alto sax, Rachel W. and Ji Sang H. on tenor sax, Natasha C. on baritone sax , Arthur L.,  Alex K. and Emily L. on trumpet, Matt T. on guitar, Dan M. on bass.  Also heard were the velvet voice of James E.,  the creative improvisational talents of Forest L. and the multi talented drumming and vocal solos by Sally K. 

Many thanks go to the Music Activity Council whose efforts made the evening a total success as they waited hand and foot on our guests, serving them delicious desserts and coffee throughout the evening. We are very proud of the talents of our music students and teachers here at The Woodlands and wish them well as they move ahead with their preparation for the upcoming MusicFest Nationals in May.

Congratulations go to Ms. J Farrow on being awarded the Peel Board Award of Excellence.  Well done!