Day: May 3, 2022

MUN Junior Band Camp

Monday, July 25 to Friday, July 29, 2022
Every day 9:00am-4:00pm
$275 per student

MUN Junior Band Week is a week-long summer program for band students in grades 4-9. Students work with MUN professors, educators, and professional musicians to hone their musical skills. Activities include small group coachings, improvisation, private lessons, and band performances.

Junior Band Week offers a Fast Track program for outright beginners designed to teach them what they need to know about their instrument of choice in order to succeed in the first year of school band.

Whether you want to keep your chops up over the summer or get a head start on a beginning instrument, Junior Band Week has something for you!

Registration deadline: Friday, July 8

For more information, email juniorband@mun.ca.

Indoor Triathlon – Saturday, June 4

Are you a school athlete looking for a new challenge? You might be interested in the Indoor Triathlon on June 4th.

Date & Time: Saturday, June 4, 2022 9 AM – 1 PM
Eligible Athletes: Grade 7 – 12 (Born 2005 – 2010)
Place: MUN Pool & Field House, Westerland Road, St. John’s

Categories:

  • Junior Girls (13 – 15 years)
  • Junior Boys (13 – 15 years)
  • Senior Girls (16 – 18 years)
  • Senior Boys (16 – 18 years)
  • Individual champions in each category
  • School champions in each category based on teams of three
  • Swim 15 minutes, Spin 15 minutes, and Run 15 Minutes (10 minutes each for Junior category)
  • Earn points for distance completed – most points wins!
  • All you need is swim suit and running kit, or tri suit; swim goggles

What is Indoor Triathlon?
Similar to an outdoor triathlon, indoor triathlon is a multi-sport event with swim, cycling, and running components. The swim is conducted in the MUN pool, while the Field House is the location for the cycling component on spin bikes, and the run using the indoor track.

There is a 12 minute transition between swim and bike, and a 3 minute transition between bike and run.
The athlete’s competition is completed in 1 hour. Athletes will compete in groups of 10, called waves.
Indoor triathlon is well suited to novice athletes in triathlon. There are minimal equipment requirements
– basically swim suit and goggles, and running kit. Concerns about large groups in open water, or road
cycling are completely avoided. This event is well suited to athletes with good endurance.

For more information, click here to see the Athlete’s Guide, the information poster, and the participation advisory.

This event will be limited to 100 participants. The registration fee is $10.00, plus associated fees.

Click here to visit the registration website (Note: this is an external site and not related to NLESD)

Grade 9 Carnival Updates

The date of the Grade 9 Farewell Carnival is fast approaching! On the evening of May 26th, Grade 9 students will come together in the school to have a fun time with friends, activities, and food! This is a non-academic event where the Grade 9s will come together as the graduating class of 2022!

For more information and the permission form, click on this link.

We are asking parents to make sure the permission forms and the $20 fee are returned to the homeroom teachers as soon as possible.

As well, if you are able to donate gift cards that will be given away to students during the event, please send them in to the office.

Every year, Mme. Quann puts together a slideshow of our graduates to show at the carnival. We are asking all of our Grade 9 students to submit a baby picture to Mme. Quann, either by email at colettequann@nlesd.ca, or by bringing in a physical picture that will be scanned and returned to the student. The deadline for submitting a picture is Thursday, May 19th.