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24 BRAESYDE AVENUE, LONDON, ONTARIO N5W 1V3 WINTER2018
CONNECTED
COVER STORY
Urban Roots
Project p6
Authentic Learning
with Sustainable Impact.
LONDONCHRISTIANHIGH.CA
CONNECTED 2018 - 2019
WINTER2018
UPCOMING
Principal Reflections p2 EVENTS
Upcoming Events p3
Some New Faces p4
CURLING
Urban Roots BONSPIEL
PRINCIPAL
p6
February 16, 2019
Project
The Butterfly Effect p8
p9
REFLECTIONS
Art Room Reno
Learning to Love our p10 SEUSSICAL
Muslim Neighbour Shows March 25-30, 2019
Boys Volleyball p11
Dinner & Show March 30, 2019
Word on the Street Back Cover
MAKING
CONNECTIONS
As we head into the winter In this issue of ConnectED, you will read stories about our NIGHT
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
students hard at work developing a deeper sense of purpose New Grade 9 Students
Corrina Cameron, Ena Weverink,
Svenja Christina Photography,
season at London Christian High, in their lives, for Christ. Our Gr. 9 Tech class is hard at work in May 24, 2019 - 5:00 PM
Mikaelee MacDouell, David Verbeek there are many exciting things a really meaningful partnership with Urban Roots, a non-profit
focused on sustainable food sources for underprivileged
going on around our building and people. Our Gr. 12 Resource Management class is busy
in our wider community. implementing small changes in their local communities that can
lead to a large change across our region. Our World Religions
CELEBRATION
In particular, we are excited about learning that takes our and English block class is developing relationships with our OF LEARNING
students on a journey of discovering their purpose in Christ. neighbours, including a trip to a local Islamic high school. June 6, 2019
This is not an easy thing to measure, but we do know that Finally, you will read about our Construction Tech. class leading
learning opportunities that connect God’s Word to needs in an overhaul of our art room including design, project proposals,
24 Braesyde Avenue, our broken world are a good place to start. Through rigorous revisions, estimates and the actual construction work.
London, Ontario N5W 1V3
academic learning and skill development, through faith
Phone 519-455-4360 | Fax 519-455-4364 formation and Christian guidance and through real-world We hope you enjoy reading these stories of our students
Email info@lchonline.ca learning experiences, our students are equipped to face the using their gifts, talents and abilities for the glory of God and
future that God is calling them towards. for His purpose. Happy reading! GRADUATION
londonchristianhigh.ca
June 21, 2019 at North Park
Tim Bentum, Principal
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NEW FACES @ LCH
Hannah Park Phil Hosmar
Hannah Park is a new addition to London Christian High, Phil Hosmar is in his 20th year of teaching, but his first year
Stephanie Barker teaching ESL, Math, and Marketing. She completed her at London Christian High. He comes from a Middle School
Stephanie Barker is covering for a maternity leave Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies at elementary background where he taught mostly grade seven
position this year and she is teaching grade 9 Geography, Western University, where she also completed her teaching and eight. At LCH, Phil is currently teaching grade 9 Science
grade 10 History, and grade 12 Families in Canada. degree. Hannah has spent the last few years working and is co-teaching the Integrated Technology block. It has
Stephanie comes to us with eight years of teaching at London Life and Western University. She attends the Nicole Davidson been a pretty smooth transition to high school so far for Phil,
experience in the public system. She has a passion for London First Presbyterian Church and is involved with Nicole Davidson is a recent graduate from Western and he has enjoyed getting to know all the grade 9 students
building community and fostering positive relationships in mentoring young women in the congregation. She grew up University where she studied Disability and Mental right away. As he comes to LCH with expertise in IT, Phil will
her classroom. Over the past year, Stephanie also worked attending Christian school in Toronto and is thrilled to return Health studies. Nicole is passionate about assisting all also be assisting Mark Sumner with various technology needs
as Frontline Ministries Director for Forest City Community to Christian education as a teacher. In addition to teaching students in finding success in their academic work and around LCH. In addition to his teaching and IT duties, Phil will
Church during the start up of their East Campus. She is at LCH, Hannah also coaches cross country and helps out social relationships. Nicole serves as an Educational also be helping coach the Junior Girls Volleyball team. He is
excited to be at LCH and for the opportunity to teach in a with our rental and international student administration. Assistant at London Christian High and is excited to enjoying the different pace that high school has to offer and
school that recognizes and values the spiritual dimension Her greatest joy in teaching is building relationships with join the staff team at LCH and work alongside students is very excited about the new and challenging opportunities
of her students. students and watching them learn and grow. and teachers in a supportive capacity. ahead with London Christian High.
Chris Chadwick Sarah Seitz Ashley Berkelmans
Chris Chadwick comes to London Christian High having Sarah Seitz is an Educational Assistant at London Ashley Berkelmans joins the staff team at London Christian
worked in Human Resources, running his own business Christian High. She is a graduate from the Child and High this year to teach our Drama classes and one Math Christy Groot Nibbelink
and ministering with Youth for Christ for 15 years. He Youth Worker program at Fanshawe College. Sarah is course. She loves using both sides of the brain each day, Christy Groot Nibbelink has taken over all things music
has an M.Div. in Youth and Family Ministry and serves grateful for the opportunity to combine her faith with encouraging students to think outside the box and ask a at London Christian High this year. She works with the
in two roles here at the school. Just prior to joining LCH her desire to support students and use them both to lot of questions! She is also directing this year’s musical choir, praise team, and musical, and will be teaching
as Food Services Coordinator, Chris helped launch the fullest potential at LCH. She takes great pleasure in Seussical and has been enjoying getting to work with such the music side of our grade 9 integrated arts credit
Café Connect at the YFC Building on Adelaide St. here being involved in various classes throughout the day a talented group of students during rehearsals. Ashley is in second semester. After two years of studying and
in London where he provided fresh, made in-house as well as offers support to many students in a variety so excited to be working in a Christian school again as teaching in the US, Christy is very happy to be back
options whenever possible and continues to do so at of different ways and settings. She enjoys learning she began her career teaching at Mount Salem Christian on Canadian soil and teaching in an environment that
our school. Also in his work at YFC, he recruited, trained alongside the students and assisting in shaping their Secondary School before working for a year as a supply allows her to openly integrate music and faith. In her
and led Project Serve teams into cross-cultural ministry young minds both academically and in their faith journey. teacher for the Thames Valley District School Board. She first few months, Christy’s biggest joy has been getting
opportunities. As Homestay Coordinator, Chris is taking Sarah looks forward to continuing to be blessed here loves having the privilege of praying with her students to know the students and their unique personalities
his cross-cultural training and experience and applying it at LCH and in return she strives to be a blessing to the each day, reading the Word aloud and discussing faith and giftings as well as watching students of all grades
to our Homestay Program for International Students. school and its community. matters during devotions and even in class. come together by creating music as a team.
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COVERSTORY
URBAN ROOTS
PROJECT
Authentic Learning with Sustainable Impact
Phil Hosmar, Matt Rock, Mark Sumner, Teachers
All the grade 9 students, along with their course teachers,
educational assistants, and leadership students, meet in the
Performing Arts Room to start each day together. This time
together is developing a wonderful community within the Grade
9 class, and a great start to their high school experience.
After morning devotions, students rotate through three a local organization and learning about their work can
design courses: Technical Design, Communication help students fill an organization’s need with a product
Design, and Construction Design. Each course focuses on or service. This fall, we are partnering with Urban Roots
a different aspect of the Grade 9 class project. Students (urbanrootslondon.ca), a grassroots organization focused
remain in one of the three design courses for about two on revitalizing underused land in London. After harvest,
weeks before rotating to another, where they take the produce is distributed equally between restaurants and
skills from that one course and apply them in the next markets, local social service organizations, and is also
design section. made available to the local community. Our students
are using their newly-developed knowledge and skills
Sixty plus people meeting in the same room One of the goals of the Integrated Tech Block is to make to design and create harvest boxes that will help Urban
learning authentic and purposeful by partnering with Roots live out their mission more fully. Our students
to start a class seems like a lot of energy in local organizations and causes. Our hope in developing will also develop and build countertop compost boxes
that will sustainably promote Urban Roots’ work by
one place at one time - and that’s exactly these partnerships is to have students understand that
their work has potential beyond achieving a certain grade encouraging and supporting all community members
what we’re after with our Grade 9 Integrated or a finished project - their work has the ability to bless
other people. As a Christian school, we believe we are
in making choices that will benefit the environment.
Together, our Grade 9 students are engaged in
Technology Block. called to love, serve and support our neighbours. The meaningful, beautiful work that will have a long-lasting
grade 9 class is currently exploring how partnering with impact on others and our community.
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BUTTERFLY
THE
BUTTERFLY ART
EFFECT Making a Meaningful
ROOM
RENO
Impact on the Local
Mikaelee MacDouell, Teacher Environment
Students in the grade 12 Environment and Resource
Management course have been working on a large scale
project which will culminate in a presentation at the Celebration
of Learning in December. Students are working on how young
people can make a meaningful difference in environmental
sustainability within their own communities. The title of the project
is The Butterfly Effect, taken from the iconic metaphor created
by Edward Lorenz in the 1960s, which describes how seemingly
small actions can create meaningful change.
In this project, students are grappling with the Christian
Matthew Ypma, Student
responsibility of stewardship by discovering what sustainability
issue is present in one of their own local spaces. Each student
is working on finding an actionable way to create sustainable
change and build connection and partnership with someone Every year in Senior Construction Technologies, students solve. After brainstorming various ideas on how to tackle
in their local community in order to have ownership of their are given a big project to do for a real client. This year the these challenges, we presented our ideas to our clients.
personal impact on the environment. Senior Construction Technologies class was tasked with We received feedback and then went to work on refining
renovating the art room for our clients, Ms. Cameron and Ms. our ideas. When we finished design revisions, we then
For inspiration, we began by visiting people and places around MacDouell, the art teachers at LCH. The art room renovation worked on creating our final design drafts, blueprints, and
London that are also implementing meaningful change in their project was chosen as this year’s project for two reasons: cost estimates. Once we received final approval from Ms.
own spaces: Urban Roots (an urban farm that shares its produce the first being that the old fixtures (tables, chairs, cupboards, Cameron and Ms. MacDouell, we began the building phase
with local businesses and community members), a local recycling faucets, and plumbing) were worn and needed replacing of the project.
facility, Growing Chefs (a local charity that connects food, or a facelight; the second being that the needs of the room
growing, and education), and Reimagine Co. (a pop-up shop that have changed significantly since it was last updated in the When the building phase is complete, the grade 12 art
runs zero-waste workshops). 1970s. In the postmodern era, exploration of diverse art students will get their own workspaces, all of the desks
media require flexible spaces as well as independent work will be convenient to move and work from, the cabinets,
Students have researched and developed a plan of action areas for Senior Art students. The art room reno addresses countertops, and plumbing will have had an update, and
and presented their projects to local community members both the need to update what is worn out and create an there will be a new teacher’s desk. This renovation will give
at a collaborative working space called Innovation Works. environment conducive to teaching art in this new era. the teachers and students a place where they can learn and
Students are now working on the implementation phase of their create art in a flexible environment for years to come.
assignments and look forward to sharing more of their work soon! Throughout the design phase of the renovation, we were
faced with different challenges that we needed to problem-
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SPORTS
In addition to learning the facts of Islam, as a class,
we read The Kite Runner, a novel that brought our
knowledge of Islam from our heads to our hearts.
In The Kite Runner, we learned about the culture of
Afghanistan and we dealt with challenging topics
such as rape, death, and war-filled countries. We
really enjoyed reading this book. It was a great way
not only to learn about Islam, but also about the
struggles of the poor and homeless in Afghanistan,
as well as the internal struggles of the main
character. These struggles included a desperate
search for atonement, dealing with decades worth
JUNIOR BOYS
of guilt, and a painful journey of self-discovery.
The final component in our adventure of learning
VOLLEYBALL
to love our Muslim neighbours was meeting them.
We visited the Al-Mahdi Mosque and listened to
Shahin and Ali, two people who are passionate
LEARNING TO
about their religion, talk about the similarities
and differences of Christianity and Islam. We Steve Wassing, Coach
also interviewed high school aged students at
LOVE OUR MUSLIM
Al-Taqwa Academy about their religion. Out of
these interviews came a whole new empathy and
understanding for the Muslims in our community.
The Junior Boys Volleyball team
NEIGHBOUR
We learned that the students at Al-Taqwa are
ended an excellent season by defeating
people just like us, and they share the same Monsignor Bruyere 3-1 in the TVRAA
challenges in teenage life as we do, in areas such semi-finals, and then defeating Gabrielle
as family, work, school, and friendships. Dumont 3-2 in the TVRA finals.
Keira Wiersema, Emma Veenstra, Janelle Hamstra, Lyric Huygen, Brooke Boelens, Tamara VanderHeide, Students
Our class has been privileged to learn exactly what These achievements meant we qualified
it means to be a friend and relate to our Muslim for WOSSAA where the team defeated
neighbours through our interactions with them. Dorchester 25-19, 28-26, and 25-9 in
Over the past several weeks, We learned through studying Islam in class, reading The stereotypes and prejudices we may have had the semi-finals, and then went on to
The Kite Runner, and visiting the Al-Mahdi Mosque before have been replaced by a new perspective. win WOSSAA gold by defeating North
our grade 11 World Religions and Al-Taqwa Academy. Middlesex 21 -25, 25-19, 25-23, and 25-12.
and English combined class In class, we learned that in Islam there are five primary We now know that loving
has been learning what it beliefs and five ”pillars” that are essential in a Muslim’s
our Muslim neighbour
These results were a true testament of
faith life. These beliefs and rituals came from Prophet a team effort as all players were able
means to love our Muslim Muhammad, who is the founder of Islam because of the means interaction, to contribute and play in the WOSSAA
neighbours by gaining an messages and visions he received from Allah (God). We
empathy, communication, semi-final and finals. Congratulations
discovered that Muslims believe the atonement of their team on an excellent finish to the
understanding of Islam. sins comes from their own good works. and most importantly, volleyball season!
compassion.
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I began at London Christian High in 2003 as a 14-year-old not
particularly interested in school. Outside of the classroom there was
a lot going on - my mother had recently begun cancer treatment,
transitions were challenging, and I was in search of a place to feel
normal. After stepping off the bus from Woodstock, Ms. Janssens’
enthusiastic welcome to high school exemplified the community,
friendship and love shown by so many at LCH.
Highlights of my time at LCH include winning OFSAA Soccer in
2005 with Mr. Lise, attempts to form punk bands with friends, art and
photography trips with Mr. Boer, and geography class with Mr. Buma
where, beyond the initial “I’ll prove earth is flat” lesson, more influential
discussions on climate change and our responsibilities as stewards of
WORD
creation shaped my worldview beyond LCH.
Combining interests in design and the environment, I studied Urban
Planning and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University and later
received my Master of Architecture at the University of Toronto, where
ON THE
I was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Gold
Medal. My thesis project speculated, through drawings and images, on
how Toronto’s constructed port lands — a unique place between the
STREET
city and Lake Ontario — will be redeveloped.
I now work in Rotterdam with Rem Koolhaas at OMA (Office for
Metropolitan Architecture), designing buildings, master plans, books,
films, and exhibitions across the world. Rotterdam is Europe’s largest
port city and was reconstructed after being obliterated in WWII,
DAVID VERBEEK
resulting in space for more experimental urbanism and architecture. I
cycle everywhere, love being close to the North Sea, visit family in the
Netherlands, and haven’t learned enough Dutch. I’m also fortunate to
have been awarded Canada’s 2018 Prix de Rome in Architecture for
Emerging Practitioners - a prestigious national award presented by
the Canada Council for the Arts, intended to fund travel and research
projects in pursuit of a more outward-looking vision towards the world.
I plan to investigate constructed urban coastlines in transition through
research, work and travel across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
over the next year.
Despite being further from home, I often think of Mr. Roukema’s reminder
before important away games — “don’t forget who you are or where
you came from”. I’m eternally grateful for my faith-centred education at
London Christian High and to be grounded in a community that strongly
influenced the development of my worldview, values, and work today.
To find out more about my work, the Prix de Rome, or to get in touch,
please visit www.davidverbeek.ca
24 Braesyde Avenue, Phone + 519 - 455 - 4360
London, Ontario Fax + 519 - 455 - 4364 LONDONCHRISTIANHIGH.CA
N5W 1V3 Email office@lchonline.ca
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