It's a gorgeous day on campus and I am sure most Ridley students have been looking longingly outside. A few Lower School classes were lucky enough to take advantage of the nice weather and read poetry outside in the Reading Garden.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Perfect Weather
It's a gorgeous day on campus and I am sure most Ridley students have been looking longingly outside. A few Lower School classes were lucky enough to take advantage of the nice weather and read poetry outside in the Reading Garden.
Campus Watch: Church Parade
Come out to the annual church parade this Sunday. Starts at 10 am. The Cadet Corps and Marching Band, with a police escort will proceed from Ridley College south on Henrietta Street, east on St. Paul Street over the Burgoyne Bridge, north on Ontario Street, west on College Street, south on Yates Street (this is where the Cadet Corps does a traditional "eyes left" to the original home of Ridley), west on St. Paul Street, and north on Henrietta Street. The 103rd Cadet Inspection is also coming up on Saturday May 15th.
The Houses of Ridley: Arthur Bishop East
This happy and spirited, but not wild house (however, their mascot is a Beast ... get it...A B East) is centrally located on campus and is comprised of 51 housemates. Watch the video below to hear why Gianni B. thinks Arthur Bishop East is the best house on campus:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Houses of Ridley: Leonard House
Each house on Ridley's campus is unique and has its own identity, culture and traditions. Check out Beatrice G. telling us about Leonard House:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
OFSAA Gymnastics
Over the past two days there has been a lot of tumbling, balancing and flipping going on at Ridley--no not just another day on campus! We were hosting OFSAA Gymnastics in our arena--yes you read that correctly in our arena, we melted the ice and over 330 athletics from 44 schools came to compete.
Our girls team showed very well!
Lauren A. received a silver medal for level three vault and the team made up of Lauren, Sarina M. & Rachel R. placed 6th overall. Shane C. was awarded the gold medal for level two beam and Kennedy F. placed fourth in level one vault. Congratulations gymnasts!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Ridley Radio: We're on the Air...Are you?
Ridley Radio launched on Tuesday April 13th and has been going strong ever since. Students have conceived and created individual radio programmes including interview segments, food and cultural reviews, request show, shows that highlight different genres of music, and much more. The programming is really great!! I especially like ‘60 Minutes of Fame’ which showcases Independent music. There are new shows every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Click here to go the Ridley Radio website:
Monday, April 26, 2010
Where in the World is Ridley College?: Dallas Edition
What a four day stretch!
Our matches on Friday were toughly contested, and even though some of our alliance partners were weaker teams, we managed to win them all and sit 2nd out of 100 teams at the end of Friday with just one more match to go in the preliminary rounds on Saturday. The complex scoring system allows teams with similar records to score differently and another good team from Puerto Rico was slightly ahead of us. Friday we celebrated with some excellent Texas steak.
Saturday, the last day of preliminary matches went well. Team 1509 (our best machine) won again for a perfect 8-0 record. 1509R finished 5-3 and 1509B finished 4-4. Because James C finished in the top 10 in the skills challenge, he was given one more opportunity to better his score. James posted a 129 to finish 3rd overall and win our first trophy.
Next we won the innovate award for the most clever techniques and use of VEX material. Following that we managed to win our division of 100 teams and came 3rd overall in the world! To top it all off, we won the most prestigious trophy of all, the Excellence Award, the highest honour at this tournament for overall team play, programming skill, technical excellence and sportsmanship.
Congratulations to the Ridley Robotics team!!
(Update Provided by Coach Rodney Reimer)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Where in the World is Ridley College?: Dallas Edition
The Ridley robotics team has safely made its way to Dallas for the robotics VEX World Championship. Our trip down was eventful - we made special crates for our machines and when we arrived in Dallas, our machines were not in the luggage! After waiting for a second plane arriving later, we FINALLY got our machines.
Our first day of competition was today, and even though our machines had passed size inspections at previous contests, all 3 machines failed the stringent sizing requirements in Dallas. After grinding and refitting, we got all machines to pass inspection and then went out and competed in our first matches of the tournament. There are 400 machines at the competition, many of which are amazing, but we eked out wins in all of our matches (one by only 2 points: 52-50).
Tomorrow the contest really gets going with 6 more matches and stiffer challenges. This 12 hour day was exhausting but tomorrow is the real test. Team 1509, Ridley Rmageddon, did great today and hopefully we will continue our excellent play tomorrow!
(Update provided by Coach Rodney Reimer)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Public Speaking Contest
Congratulations to the students who participated in the public speaking contest! I was very impressed by all the participants. It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of an audience and put yourself out there. As for the hardware, Maddie H. took home the Family Guild Trophy (Junior Division), Joy C. received the Judge Kingstone Trophy (Senior Runner Up) and Dan R. was awarded the W.H. Merritt Trophy (Senior Winner) as well as the English Department Prize for Dramatic Monologue.
Have a look at the videos from the event:
Dramatic Monologues- some of these performances gave me chills...others made me laugh..they were all entertaining:
Senior Competition:
Junior Competition:
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