Chateauguay Valley Regional High School students took part in a field trip to the NOVA Career Centre and Pearson Adult Career Center during the month of March. CVR students had a fantastic day, taking part in hands-on activities which created an opportunity to explore multiple vocational programs for possible future post-secondary career options.Read More
TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW in Construction Business Management. Extra benefit of completing this course: those who want their RBQ (Régie du bâtiment du Québec) license will be exempt from the general contractors course. Course cost: $250 (450 hours of class). Tentative course schedule: Saturdays: June 4th & 18th, July 9th, August 20th (8:00 am-4:00 pm) September – (Tuesday &...Read More
After months of planning, packing and Spanish lessons, a remarkable team of 8 licensed practical nursing students, Jesse, Tania, Lindsey, Haley, Luzbita, Brandy, Shelly-Ann and Jessica, headed off to San José de Ocoa (Dominican Republic) on an experience of a lifetime. Arriving with 15 hockey bags rim-filled with donations ranging from vitamins to school supplies...Read More
The Healthcare team at CVCEC have been very active in the community over the last two months. In March, a very well attended babysitter course was given to an enthusiastic group of 12-14 year olds. The program involved a lot of discussions and hands-on activities related to the care of babies and children. In April,...Read More
Gault Institute students Abby and Malorie will take you around Gault’s Career Day event. Students learned about Cegep, vocational trades, firefighting, police work, playing professional football for the Montreal Alouettes and everything in between. Career Day gave the students an opportunity to get some hands-on experience and ask all the questions they could think of. A...Read More
There’s a lot more to carpentry than learning how to hammer in nails, because if that were the case, the program would only take a day to complete. Calculations play a crucial role in a carpenter’s day and they are often required to layout the geometry from a set of plans. Once during a geometry...Read More
Become a draftsperson in one year! The Residential and Commercial Drafting program is now being offered at CVCEC in Ormstown! The First group starts on Monday, May 16th (2016) program ends in May 2017. Monday through Friday – times: 8:00 am to 5 pm. Cost: 620$ (video above: a few of our students in the program...Read More
Every year we have new students joining our various committees along with staff members within our school at CVCEC. I would like to mention one of our committees in particular as I have been part of the Health and Wellness Committee for the past 3 years. The main goal of this committee is to provide...Read More
This year our Construction Carpentry program had the privilege of participating in the “Skills Olympics” – a chance for our students to compete with other Centres to accomplish a practical task within a fixed timeframe. Skills Olympics happen in all programs every two years and this year, some of our Carpentry students expressed an interest...Read More
The Landscape Shop is humming! The concrete has been placed. Lumber is being cut and frames are being pieced together. Stone is being chipped into shape and walls are going up. Discussion and problem solving is ongoing as the students move on to the next step in the construction of the landscape project in progress....Read More
