<p><b>Co-curricular Activities</b></p>

<p>We offer a variety of field trips for students in our program.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the past three years students have had the opportunity to go on the following field trips:</p>

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	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Black Creek Pioneer Village</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>McMichael Art Gallery (Group of Seven, Inuit and First Nations art)</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Markham Fair</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>CN Tower</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Film Festival at the Markham Theatre</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Powwow and Hike </span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>The Warsaw Caves</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Petroglyphs Provincial Park </span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>The Peterborough Canoe Museum</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>The Markham Museum</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>The Toronto Zoo</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Tubing at Lakeridge Ski Resort</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Angus Glenn Recreation Centre and Library</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Workshops at the Immigrant Youth Centre</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Distillery District and the St. Lawrence Market</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Bluma Appel Theatre</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Young People's Theatre</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt">In the past few years the following clubs have been made available to our English Language Learners.&nbsp;&nbsp;The number of clubs offered each year depends on student interest and the availability of supervising teachers:</p>

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	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Newcomer Orientation Program (NOW)</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>NOW Peer Leadership Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Hong Kong Cultural Association</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Anime Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Gaming Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Movie making club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Humanity Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Mandarin Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Friday After School Immigrant Youth Centre Homework Club and Social Circle</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Morning Homework Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Peer Tutoring Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Cantonese Club</span></li>
	<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:17.25pt"><span>Drink the Freshness</span></li>
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<p><b>School Based Resource People</b></p>

<p>We are fortunate to have a Chinese settlement worker at the school every Thursday and Friday and a Chinese social worker on Tuesdays.&nbsp;&nbsp;Students may sign up in the guidance department if they or their families would like to meet with the social worker.</p>

<p><strong>Community Based Resource</strong></p>

<p>The Immigrant Youth Centre is a community resource centre where students may work on their English conversation skills, get assistance with homework, film projects, and resume writing, gain volunteer experience and leadership training, participatein table tennis, board games, sports programs, and music lessons, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;it is located at 5284 Highway 7 East, Unit 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;The phone number is 905 294-8868.</p>

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<p><strong>Volunteer Opportunities</strong></p>

<p>For those students interested in earning volunteer hours they may participate in the peer tutoring program.&nbsp; Students are placed in a variety of subject area classroom to assist the teacher and students in that class by translating, clarifying instructions and providing academic tutoring.&nbsp; Many of our ELLs enjoy this opportunity to help a fellow student develop their language skills.</p>
