Since November 4th, two current Administrative Assistant students are providing lunch time reception coverage at NFSB Board Office. Chosen by their teachers, the two girls (Jennifer Durand and Chelsea Dion-Koulierakis) will alternate weeks by answering phones, greeting clients, and assisting board office staff. In return, both girls will have the opportunity to gain true life...Read More
Several times each year, health care teachers get together to share ideas, learn new things and support each other. We do this at our Centre of Expertise in Nursing, which happens to be the Pearson Adult and Career Centre in Lasalle. Over the years our CEN has provided many different topics. We have had a...Read More
The new RV Maintenance and Repair group has recently started the program and loving every minute of it! The group is very dynamic, and has a wide array of ages. They are already in the heat of the action, as their teachers Richard Horseley and José Paéz have put them on practical tasks, like carpentry....Read More
The Value of Continuing to Learn Vocational teachers in all areas continue to learn, while they teach. We often learn informally from our students, as we teach them new subjects and concepts. We also learn in more formal settings too. Three health care teachers recently attended the World Parkinson’s Congress, to learn about a disease...Read More
You may have heard that NOVA has a drafting program… Drafting? Conscription? Tour de France technique used by cyclists? In fact, we use the drafting moniker for our Residential and Commercial Drafting program. Wikipedia says it is “the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed. Drafting is the visual language of industry and engineering....Read More
NOVA’s Administrative Assistant program celebrated a long-standing tradition this past Friday: the departmental Graduation Celebration. This is an unique opportunity for the teachers to have a last activity with the finishing groups. As always, graduates came accompanied, and wore their best attire for the event. Program teachers Erma Robidoux, Wilene Cullen, Judy Murphy and Sue...Read More
The RV Maintenance and Repair programme is starting in a few weeks… and spaces are available! This programme offers a great way to dip into different trades without the length of other programmes. The course is 975 hours and it runs from October to April, just in time for the new camping season to start. Many...Read More
At NOVA, we pride ourselves in offering two business technology programs, Secretarial Studies and Accounting. Although the groups are distinct, and even if they closely co-habitate, they don’t really have the opportunity to mingle… So to launch the next phase of their journey in ‘lifelong learning’, teachers decided to address it with a… pizza lunch,...Read More
This year, the NOVA Career Centre teamed up with Howard S. Billings High School in offering the annual community BBQ. This was initiated by parent commissionner Raymond Ledoux, who offered the logistics of the event to NOVA staff and students. This well-attended festive activity was a huge success, with burgers, hot dogs, corn, all spiced...Read More
This year, the Interior Decorating and Visual Display program wanted a bright and colorful window display to outshine all previous ones! The window presents a serious challenge in that the daylight reflection on the glass obliterates many of the wonderful creations designed and installed by the students, and so a special effort was made to...Read More
