The Health Care Team at C.V.C.E.C. are ready for another great week. The application forms for the Dominican Republic experience are due this week. We as teachers are quite enthusiastic about the next adventure to the Dominican. The Health, Assistance and Nursing(HAN) students that went last year spoke to our new class last Friday. The...Read More
The evening group of the Construction Carpentry Program at CVCEC is closing in on the end of their year and is presently working on the Roofing module of the program of study. Although the project is a complicated one, it can be very rewarding when the hard work starts to make sense as the project...Read More
Our new Health, Assistance and Nursing (HAN) group began August 27th. Two students volunteered to tell you about their 1st week with us. Natasha Fournier wrote: Being a shy person, I was nervous about going back to school. The atmosphere, staff and students are all so nice at the Chateauguay Valley Career Education Centre (CVCEC)....Read More
Mr. Poya Saffari graduated from the CVCEC carpentry program in 2010. Poya has since gone on to complete a bachelor of arts and is completing a masters at Concordia University. Poya returned to us as a carpentry teacher in the spring of 2013. He has a quiet demeanor, he is patient with the students and...Read More
Motivate and Inform…Blogging at CVCEC In the effort to respond to the new reality of the universal social network, I have introduced a blog as a companion to my lessons. Not being much of a tech kind of guy, this was not an easy transition for me and I had to learn what the...Read More
Jovan Mercier Montminy graduated from the carpentry program in 2010 and became one of our teachers this spring. Jovan brings with him experience in the LEED certification program and ecological projects. Students show great respect for Jovan as he “is one of them”, having been through the program. Tanya Clarke graduated from the Health, Assistance...Read More
The Introduction to Construction Trades program (ICT), a collaboration with the the New Frontiers School Board and the Kahnawake Economic Deveopment Commission (KEDC), closed its activities this summer with the building of home sheds available for sale to the public. This special program, in its second installment, offered clients from KEDC the opportunity to “test...Read More
Three of our current students in the Accounting Programme have tried the Student For A Day activity… and registered shortly after! Student For A Day enables anyone to “sit in” an actual ongoing programme for a day with the teacher and students to get a real feel for the class and allows them to talk to...Read More
Smiles, laughs and a few tears of joy filled the CVR Auditorium as graduates from CVCEC (Chateauguay Valley Career Education Centre) were honoured during their graduation ceremony on May 16th. Over 126 graduates in construction carpentry, assistance in health care facilities, health assistance and nursing, home care assistance, landscaping operations and construction business management were recognized for their hard-work...Read More
Trades in Motion took place under the big top at St.Willibrord from April 9-11 during Adult Learners’ week. Over 3000 grade 5-8 students participated in a hands on experience of 21 trades offered by the New Frontiers and Grandes Seigneuries school boards. On Wednesday evening, children, their parents and community members came to the open...Read More