Pictures from our last Saturna adventure!

Working with our SEEC leaders in our arthropod session Friday morning: 

Exploratory time on Thursday afternoon: Cooking with Cam and Painting with Liis!

Info for our next SEEC adventure!

Next week, we'll all be on Saturna for the 13th and 14th.

Our travel times will be the same as last month:

Departing Thursday morning (Nov 13) by water taxi:

GANGES HAWK

(Mayne) Depart Miner’s Bay 9:15

(Galiano) Depart Sturdies 9:25

Arrive Lyall Harbour 10:00

GRADUATE 

(Phoenix) Depart Ganges 8:45 a.m.

(Pender) Depart Port Washington 9:20

Arrive Lyall Harbour 10:00

Returning Friday afternoon (Nov 14) by ferry*: 

Arrive on Mayne at 4:45pm

Arrive on Galiano at 5:45pm 

Arrive on Pender at 6:40pm

*Phoenix will take the regular water taxi run back to Salt Spring arriving at 6:30pm. 

(When travelling on the water taxis students who weigh 80 pounds or less MUST have their own lifejackets.)

Here is the SCHEDULE for the two days and the WHAT TO BRING LIST*.


*NOTE ABOUT FOOD: Please bring with you a lunch as well as snacks for you and snacks to share. If you would like something different than what is offered for dinner on Thursday, or for breakfast or lunch on Friday, please bring that with you as well.

Our Next OIMY Session

Our next OIMY session is coming up pretty fast, it will be Thursday, November 13th and Friday, November 14th on Saturna. We expect that the travel times will be the same as our last SEEC adventure. What will be different this time is that all OIMY students will receive Exploratory selections next week, so we can all sign up for our preferred activity, whether that is cooking, art and nature, geocashing, etc.

An updated schedule of events will be posted here next week as well!

The main building at the SEEC site on Saturna

Travel Times to SEEC

Here are our arrival and departure times for next week:

Departing Wednesday morning (Oct 15) by water taxi:

GANGES HAWK

(Mayne) Depart Miner’s Bay 9:15

(Galiano) Depart Sturdies 9:25

Arrive Lyall Harbour 10:00

GRADUATE 

(Phoenix) Depart Ganges 8:45 a.m.

(Pender) Depart Port Washington 9:20

Arrive Lyall Harbour 10:00

Returning Thursday afternoon (Oct 16) by ferry*: 

Arrive on Mayne at 4:45pm

Arrive on Galiano at 5:45pm 

Arrive on Pender at 6:40pm

*Phoenix will take the regular water taxi run back to Salt Spring arriving at 6:30pm. 

(When travelling on the water taxis students who weigh 80 pounds or less MUST have their own lifejackets.)

OIMY @ SEEC for Term 1 of 2014

For Term 1, OIMY is teaming up with SEEC! SEEC is the Saturna Ecological Education Centre, a unique program in our district. Last year OIMY students travelled to Saturna to get a taste of what SEEC offers; this year we'll get a much more comprehensive experience.

OIMY students will travel to Saturna Island, where the SEEC high school students will pair up with our OIMY students to explore and experience ecological learning. The OIMY students will work through a process of developing leadership skills that can be applied to leading ecological learning activities on their home-islands. This year's program will consists of two back-to-back days with an overnight camping experience. Such a format will create the opportunity for rich place-based learning, integrating academic competencies, explorations, physical education, and significant social opportunities. The first session of this year's OIMY program will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, October 15 and 16, 2014. Here is a link to an outline of activities and the "what to bring list".

Also check out the SEEC site to learn more.

Group challenge at SEEC Spring 2014. 

Final Projects

Check out this beautiful record of all of the projects completed in our last term of OIMY. Thank you so much for orchestrating and coordinating all of this magic Deblekha!!

Here is the link: https://vimeo.com/100522931

Thursday, June 5, 2014

What a great wrap up to our four days on Galiano for this term! Coming soon: the slideshow and photo of our final art designs.

In the meantime, check out some of the finished projects here:  http://oimyprojects.blogspot.ca/

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Our last session on Galiano is next week (June 4th). Deblekha has arranged the day to be a working morning, then an afternoon of celebrating our students' hard work, creativity and expression, and making connections.

Here is a sneak peak of some of the creations:

(See more works in progress on our "Projects in Progress" (http://oimyprojects.blogspot.ca/) page.

Also, we are asking everyone who has been involved in OIMY to give us some feedback over the last two years. If you haven't been invited to participate in this online survey, please email Jess at jwillows@sd64.bc.ca so I can send you the link!

May 21st, 2014

Some thoughts/quotes/poetry from our academic session:

"Me" Poem

< I am ambitious and enthusiastic >

< I am friendly and kind >

< I am helpful and I am a leader >

< I am me! >

On the topic of digital citizenship (the opportunities we have to use our values to change digital culture): 

A Call for Change

"In the new and advancing world we have many opportunities to do amazing things, yet we squander them for the fear of looking "uncool". We also have access to almost limitless amounts of information, yet we use it to taunt each other and do other useless things." 

Our themes from May 7th

Every student was asked for a word or phrase that was most important to them from our academic exploration of the importance of hearing everyone's voice (groups in society, in our communities, and finding our own voice). The words and phrases were entered into a "wordle" which makes the words or phrases that occur repeatedly or most often larger. This was our result!

Also.. Check out all of the fabulous projects underway at "Projects in Progress" (also one of the page options above).

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Our first of four sessions partnered with HumanEYES on Galiano begins tomorrow!

HumanEYES is a program organized through "Access to Media". Led by Deblehka Guin, founder of Access to Media and a parent in our Galiano community, this year's program will continue to explore our academic theme of peace by focusing on this idea: "me to we - exploring our 'piece' of the peace puzzle". Our four sessions will include writing, interviewing and poetry (focus on literary devices and creative writing); group work (focus on cooperation and communication); and digital citizenship (how our individual values can change online culture). Our last session is a celebration and presentation of our projects.  For more information on our program for Term 3 check out this page: oimyprogram.blogspot.ca/p/humaneyes.html

Here is the water taxi schedule for Term 3 (the Scholarship with pick up Phoenix and Mayne Island students and the Mistaya will pick up Pender students):

Scholarship
Leave SSI 8:30am
Pick up Mayne 9:20am

Depart Galiano 3:10pm
Drop off Mayne 3:20pm
Arrive SSI 4:10pm

Mistaya
Pick up Pender 9:05am

Depart Galiano 3:10pm
Drop off Pender 3:45pm

Saturna Adventures (photos by Liis Graham!)

Saturna Adventures

Here are some pictures of our crew working together and solving problems (that required a lot of strategy!) to complete challenges set by our Saturna Island "Environmentors"on Wednesday, April 9th! What a great way to see how the SEEC program works and learn about a high school opportunity in our school district.

Saturna here we come!!

Our next session is April 9th on Saturna! We'll be taking the water taxi there and back; Mayne and Galiano will be on the Ganges Hawk, Pender and Phoenix will be on the Graduate. Here is the schedule:

Ganges Hawk:
Leave Galiano (Sturdies Bay) at 9:15am
Leave Mayne (Miner's Bay) at 9:25am

Arrive at Mayne at 3:15pm
Arrive at Galiano at 3:25pm

Graduate:
Leave Ganges 8:45am
Leave Pender Island (Pt. Washington) at 9:20pm

Arrive at Pender at 2:50pm
Arrive at Ganges at 3:30pm


Remember to wear good walking shoes and weather - appropriate clothes (we'll be outside rain or shine!). However, we won't be walking up to the school as we did last year, there will be a bus!!

Field trip day! See you all then!

Feb 26, 2014

Our intrepid coach Tim Frick and today's basketball session!

Media Arts Blog

 What letter do you see in this photo?

Check out the assignments our Media Arts students have been working on by reading our blog:

http://oimymediaarts.blogspot.ca/

Enjoy!