The Grad Ceremony is on Monday, May 28th at 7:00pm at Bill Copeland Arena. Each grad will get two complimentary tickets to the ceremony. Additional tickets are $5 each and may be purchased at the door prior to the event or online here. To view the grad newsletter, please click here.

Students interested in volunteering during the summer can apply for Summer Reading Buddies here and Summer Camp opportunities here.

On May 1, 2012, Alpha's Concert Choir received a Silver Award at the Fraser Valley Kiwanis Festival in Langley. We are proud of this group's accomplishments this year. Congratulations!

Videos of the performances are available by clicking below:

"Homeward Bound", by Jay Althouse. Solo: Emma Jang (soprano)

"All Too Soon" , by Stephen Hatfield

"We Rise Again" , by Stephen Smith. Solos: Matthew Cramb (tenor), and Elisa Colasurdo (oboe)

A 20-year reunion for Alpha 1992 Grads is being planned for Saturday, Sepember 15, 2012 at the Mountain Shadow Pub from 8:00pm to 1:00pm.

Please contact Melissa (Folkett) MacDonald at alphagrad92@hotmail.ca. There is also an Alpha Grad 92 group on Facebook and an event page as well.

The Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair at UBC was a 3 day event in which Alpha Grade 8 students entered 8 projects. Out of 265 projects registered, only 14 received a spot for the Canada Wide Science Fair May 12-18 at Charlottetown, PEI. Alpha is honoured that our very own Samantha Cibere has won a coveted spot and will be attending an all expenses paid trip to PEI.

Samantha's project was entered in the Earth and Environmental Science Division and the title of her project was "Does an electric field affect plant growth?" We congratulate Samantha on her success. Samantha is the first Alpha student to achieve such an honour and is also the only student from the Burnaby School district to carry on to this year's national competition.

Two of our students received an honourable mention in the Health Science Division. Congratulations to Samuel Lee and Calvin Li who's project was "How does music affect working speed?"

We also congratulate the following Grade 8 Alpha Science Fair winners also in attendance at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:

Tomas Lang
Lai-Chen Ma
Olivia Blackwell
Tania Cortes
Diana Yang
Natalie Atherton
Jerry Guan
Marcus Chui
Emily Rose McTavish
Kate Kanariov

The Summer Session 2012 elementary and secondary program brochures are now available on the Burnaby School District website. Registration begins on April 10, 2012. Click here to see the brochures.

The Ministry of Education has removed all of the grade 12 optional exams and has changed their policy on how their $1000 scholarships are awarded. The scholarships will now be awarded based on a student's performance on their 5 required exams (Science 10, Math 10, English 10, Socials 11, English 12). There is an opportunity for grade 11 and 12 students to rewrite their past exams to raise their grades and qualify for a scholarship. You will find a document attached which explains the policy and outlines exam rewrite times as well as exam preparation and study websites. We will be speaking to grade 11 and 12 students about this on January 10th and they will receive the attached document. If you have any questions, please call the school at 604-664-8535. Please click here for new policy.