My journey with the New Frontiers School Board did not start here at the Chateauguay Valley Career Education Centre. I am a graduate of the Secretarial Program at NOVA Career Centre, and completed a contract with them not too long after receiving my diploma. In early September, I joined the CVCEC team and soon noticed...Read More
In February, CVCEC entered the Regional Skills Olympics. Two carpentry students and two teachers participated in the event. Training the students and bringing them to the competition was a great learning opportunity. I sat on the organizational board of experts to design the tasks to be accomplished at the competition. On that same board was,...Read More
One of our four Carpentry groups just finished the floor framing module! This is the first of the three framing modules. It is followed by wall framing and roof framing. It is during this period that students learn about the techniques needed to build the structure of a house. Many students dream of building their...Read More
As we begin the month of March and having witnessed the installation of the “Our House” prefabricated housing units on the job site, the drafting students from the Residential and Commercial drafting program here at CVCEC were very familiar with the house because they drew a version of it in their Multi-Family dwellings course. The...Read More
The Government of Canada suggests that the best way of preventing the spread of influenza is by getting a flu vaccine every year, especially for people who are at risk and for those who work within the health care field. As a teacher within the health care program at CVCEC, I made an appointment for...Read More
The big day has arrived for our four modules to leave our centre and start their journey to their new address. Join us for “The MOVE” (part 1 of 2) as the modules get loaded onto trucks in preparation for the big day. Our staff and students talk about this milestone day in the Our...Read More
What a day, what a day, what a day!!! A day full of skill, perseverance, pride, lots of emotions… and oh yeah, we can’t forget the extreme cold. Today the ‘Our House’ CVCEC (New Frontiers School Board) team and our partners secured the two Habitat pour l’humanité Québec homes at their new address in Ormstown. Congrats to everyone involved....Read More
My journey at CVCEC started with the Assistance in Health Care Facilities program where I truly found my calling. For the past five years I had been taking care of family members and decided to get certified. After an amazing seven months, the option of taking the Home Care Assistance extension came up. I figured...Read More
It’s like that old saying “together we stand” however, in our case, it’s “together we feast!” CVCEC had it’s annual student and staff Christmas turkey lunch fundraiser on December 21st. The fundraiser is organized to help send our students in the Health Assistance and Nursing program go on their international stage to the Dominican Republic...Read More
Ok, imagine your first day of school in carpentry. Maybe you have already some experience under your belt, but, like most of the students, it might be one of your first opportunities to work with wood. Most of what you will do, you will be doing it for the first time. Then, imagine one year...Read More
