Our small
and mighty school has yet another reason to be proud! Vic West Elementary teacher,
John DiCicco, along with Esquimalt High School teacher, Trevor MacKenzie, are the
recipients of the Parents Choice Award in this year’s Victoria Confederation of
Parent Advisory Councils (VCPAC) annual awards.
Mr. DiCicco
and Mr. MacKenzie were recognized at a ceremony Tuesday night at Lambrick Park
Secondary School for the literacy program they developed between Mr.
MacKenzie’s grade 12 English students and Mr. DiCicco’s grade 2 class. Students
paired up to read together and explore story-telling, culminating in a story
book told and illustrated by the younger students and written up and assembled
by their grade 12 buddy. This meaningful program between our two schools was such a success after one
semester that it was expanded to include two more classrooms at Vic West.
This
district-wide honour was the most-nominated category at this year’s VCPAC
Awards, and our school PAC is incredibly proud that this wonderful program is
part of the learning that goes on at Vic West.
Read more
about this inter-school literacy program and the lessons that were learned by kids big and
small (and their teachers, too!) on Mr.
MacKenzie’s blog.
We were also
celebrating our PAC President, Mercedes Calvert, on Tuesday night! Mercedes was
recognized as a nominee for the Gail Edwards Memorial Award, an honour that
recognizes a parent or guardian in our school district who has made a
significant contribution to improve the quality of life in the school, who
also gives unconditionally to the success of our children, and who inspires others
to make a commitment to volunteering. Mercedes is all of these things and so much more,
and we are incredibly fortunate to have her on our team of parent volunteers at
Vic West.
Congratulations
to Mercedes, John and Trevor!
