Our teacher, Johanna, decided that we should do a Trade-it-Forward activity. We all voted and agreed on it… cleaning up the equipment room to make it look cleaner and neat, more enjoyable, and having it back to normal because everybody just put all the equipment in odd places. People just threw things anywhere they wanted;...Read More

Amber Simpson and Tom Pitcairn are just two examples of students who continued with their education at the Huntingdon Adult Education Community Centre (HAECC) to either do some course upgrades or complete courses they needed for their DES (diplôme d’études secondaires) or entry into CEGEP. The philosophy behind Adult Ed for academics is just that… it is...Read More

We have organized a Student Advisory Committee at HAECC.  Our goal is to teach our students how a meeting is run and how to take responsibility for their centre.  One of our first activities was to organize something for Halloween and we had students do the advertising by word of mouth as well as by posters.   This included a...Read More

That was the question that people had to answer. We, the Socio-Vocational Integration Services (SVIS) class at H.A.E.C.C., did the “grateful project” so that people would stay positive about their day, not negative. The posters represented health, friends, family and life. Everyone except one student, that was sick, helped create the posters. We decided to put...Read More

Last week our Sunshine Class (at HAECC) organized two special events. A Halloween party and a Baby & Mom visit. Students planned and organized the entire events; they created the invitations, made lists of materials and bought the food, went shopping, cooked and prepared the lunch and snacks, created decorations and decorated the school and...Read More

The Huntingdon Adult Education & Community Centre (HAECC) took Halloween to a whole new level this year.  The newly formed student council team and many staff members helped prepare a variety of Halloween events throughout the course of the week.  Students participated in pumpkin carving, classroom decorating and costume contests. The week finished off with...Read More

As a school we continue to promote a healthy lifestyle with our students. We have a fitness room that is shared with students, community and Cardio Active. It’s not unusual to see young elementary students using the HAECC gym as part of their sport and recreation program. We have recently included a spinning class that is...Read More

At HAECC we have just received 16 new trees which shall be planted soon by this year’s group. And although today was a windy day, they’ll soon be in the soil and over the next few years we’ll create a small HAECC arboretum. The greenhouse is also slowly filling up, now with some tomatoes and basil. The...Read More

In SVIS (socio-vocational integration services) we talked about setting boundaries and had each student wear a hula hoop to represent what they are responsible for (everything inside the hula hoop). They don’t have control over others or such things as the weather, but they do have control over their own work, reactions, habits and emotions....Read More

Students from Grades 1-2-3 from across the Chateauguay Valley attended a cross country run at the Huntingdon Adult Education Centre (HAECC) on Thursday September 18th. Young runners started to arrive shortly after 9am in order to prepare for the run, but before the first race began all the students gathered together for a fun warm up....Read More