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LE MOT JUSTE

Administrators’ Message

R. Cadieux and M. Williams

Spring break affords us the opportunity to recharge and to resume the final academic months with renewed energy and opti-

mism.

CPET students and staff have been involved with various activities over the winter…they include the MUNCH mentorship

program, the open house evening for 2016-17 prospective students and parents, ice sculptures and voyageur games during

the Festival du Voyageur, an upgraded recycling initiative, course selection and registration day, a police presentation to

students and staff on drug awareness, ongoing staff professional development, music-related events, and the numerous

clubs and committees working behind the scenes enriching our school community. Some of our athletic seasons have re-

cently ended while others are just beginning. Go Canadiens!

France Trip 2016

We have a group of students and staff who have just returned from a rewarding excursion in France. I can share that the

terrorist attacks in Paris and more recently in Brussels just prior to the trip had many people rightfully concerned about stu-

dent safety. Manitoba school divisions’ responses were varied: some cancelled trips outright while others continued to sanc-

tion them. The most common denominator was the cancellation of trips that saw students go through Brussels and Belgium,

which was never part of the CPET itinerary. The decision to continue or cancel was never a ‘no-brainer’ situation for our

school division …to the contrary - much work and deliberation was done by trip coordinators, administrators and superinten-

dents to arrive at the most promising outcome. In the end, the trip was sanctioned, itineraries were slightly altered, and par-

ents were given the final tough call on whether their child would attend or not.

Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Spring Edition April 2016

If we had no winter, the

spring would not be so

pleasant: if we did not

sometimes taste of ad-

versity, prosperity would

not be so welcome.”

- Anne Bradstreet

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Chers Canadiens,

Profitez de ces derniers mois

d’école pour relever les défis

et de réaliser des succès.

Vous n’êtes pas seuls…vos

enseignants sont là pour

vous appuyer jusqu’à la fin.

Un dernier effort soutenu et

vous aurez l’occasion de

célébrer à la fin de juin!

MESSAGE DU

DIRECTEUR

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need some-

thing scary to overcome.

~ Margaret Atwood

Since our students came home unscathed and unharmed, it would be easy to say:

“You see? We made the right decision!” But maybe we got lucky. Maybe we require

the same luck or divine intervention every time we walk the streets of Winnipeg, or

drive the highways of Canada, or visit the cities of Europe? Admittedly, the threat of

terrorist attacks is a rather nasty reality to contend with whether they are in the guise

of European airport bombings, South American vehicle hijackings or…shudder…

North American school shootings… all of which could qualify as some of Margaret

Atwood’s monsters. We don’t need to be heroes, but we must overcome.

A big Merci! to our trip coordinators and chaperones for minding the students over the

spring break!

Moving forward

Your administrators are in the process of planning the upcoming 2016-17 year and

preparing for the third reporting period and parent-teacher conferences. It won’t be

long before we’re penning our graduation speeches in preparation of dismissing for a

final time CPET’s Class of 2016. We’re excited about finally getting a decent audiovis-

ual system installed in the library and a few other little surprises planned for our stu-

dents as Student Council and the UNESCO committee gear up for year-end activities,

projects, and conferences.

We invite you to read on. Hopefully this edition of the Mot juste

will relate some recent highlights and situate us for the remain-

ing months leading up to summer.

The UNESCO committee is ramping up to host its

annual 1800-minute famine. The famine will begin on

April 21st at midnight and last until 6 am on April 22nd.

Students will not eat all day and spend the night at

school participating in a wide variety of activities. The

activities will include board games, video games, mov-

ies and a talent show with a lip synch battle. Students

will be expected to bring a sleeping bag and a pillow.

Friday morning, there will be a breakfast potluck and

students will be expected to leave the school by 8:15

am. All students who participate will be expected to

raise a minimum of $50 that will be donated to the

Stansberry Children’s home. Those interested in a tax

receipt can write out their cheques to Stansberry Chil-

dren’s home. An income tax receipt will be sent back

to you by mail. Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau has

been involved in fundraising for the Stansberry Chil-

dren’s home since 2000. Students and staff have par-

ticipated in a number of special events and fundraisers

for Stansberry along the years including Bolivia nights,

Bud Spud and Steaks, the annual famine and Stand

Up for Stansberry. The UNESCO committee is excited

about the possibility of a trip to Bolivia in 2016 and

hopes the famine will help promote this important

cause. For more information about Stansberry please

visit: http://www.stansberrybolivia.com/home.htm

- E. Miron

Famine 2016

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UNESCO

Siloam Mission This year our school had the pleasure of volunteering on two

separate occasions at Siloam Mission.

Approximately 30 students and 4 teachers were taken to the

location on Princess Street to volunteer for a two-hour shift.

Students worked in the kitchen prepping food and in the base-

ment sorting donations. Students were also given a tour of the

facilities. It really opened their eyes to the reality of the people

living on the street in Winnipeg and the types of support that

organisations such as Siloam can offer. The staff and other

volunteers at Siloam were very friendly and helpful.

The students that participated were sincerely moved by their

experience and are planning on returning to volunteer again.

The students of the UNESCO committee would like to thank

Siloam Mission for giving them the opportunity to see how pov-

erty and homelessness is fought in our city. CPET is proud to

have participated in this experience and will surely continue to

send students to Siloam in the future.

- E. Miron

CPET is proud to announce its

partnership with the Recycle Eve-

rywhere team.

The UNESCO committee and the

leadership class has come togeth-

er to bring our school’s recycling

to the next level. This spring more

than a dozen different recycling

bins have shown up all around the

school. CPET will pledge to fight

against used beverage containers

ending up in the trash. Our goal is

to drastically increase school recy-

cling inside and outside of the

school. A special thanks goes out

to Grace Dowler and Taylor Franks

for spearheading this project.

Dear Siloam Mission,

Our school, College Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau has visited you

twice over the course of this school year. We would just like to

thank you for the chance you gave us to work with you and the

chance to help battle the fight against poverty in our city. The

group of around 30 people that visited really enjoyed their visit

to Siloam Mission. None of the students that visited had any

negative comments on your behalf. Your volunteers and

employees working on Princess Street, work in a very

professional and respectful manner. They are kind to all the

other staff members and to the people that enter looking for

help. This created an environment where we could work in a

very efficient and tranquil manner. None of our students

hesitated to ask questions about the volunteering program

because your staff is filled with very helpful and genuine

people. Our UNESCO school really appreciates the fact that

Siloam Mission offers a temporary and long term solution to

those who experience poverty and homelessness our city. You

offer these people a warm bed, a warm meal, clothing, a place

to sleep, a place to receive health care and the hope that they

can get back on track. Siloam Mission is also a place where

people can get help in looking for a job, to earn a wage and

help get proper housing. Poverty is a big problem in our city

and around the world, Siloam Mission is ready to help solve

this problem, and we thank you with all our hearts. We as a

UNESCO school look forward to working with Siloam Mission

in the future.

Sincerely,

Connor McCorrie

Club d’échecs CPET Chess Club

The CPET Chess Club continues to meet Mondays in Room 107 during the lunch

hours. Lately our fledgling grandmasters have been playing in a school-based rat-

ings tournament to determine the four finalists for the annual Omnium d’échecs

trophy which recognizes the school’s yearly chess champion.

Quillon Simmons is serving notice that he is a player to be reckoned with based on

his latest speed-chess results. He is the winner of both the February and March 5-

minute blitz tournaments.

As always, students are welcome at any time to join the club to play either casually

or competitively. Given we will be losing a number of Grade 12 players at the end

of the year, we are already looking to build on our program by encouraging the

remaining students to enjoy and learn the royal game.

- R. Cadieux

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Students along with tour guide Antoine at Château Beynac (Beynac, France)

France 2016 A group of 28 students were accompanied by 4 staff members during their 10-day whirlwind tour of

France over the Spring Break. Landing in Paris, we immediately toured this historic city and started to

take in the many sights and tastes. After spending only 2 nights in our hotel that offered a beautiful view

of Montmartre and the Sacré-Coeur Basilica from the roof-top terrace, we quickly moved on to the

southern part of France. Stops along the way included the medieval city of Sarlat and the castles of

Castlenaud and Beynac, as well as prehistoric caves in Padirac and Pech-Merle. Our next stop was in

the fortified city of Carcassonne, which is now a UNESCO heritage site. We eventually made our way to

Arles, a city founded by the Romans as was evident in the architecture and ruins of the massive arena

that once hosted gladiatorial games. The oldest city in France, Marseille, located on the shores of the

Mediterranean, was to be our last stop before finding our way back home.

Of course, students were able to use their French language skills throughout the trip and they left

France with many great memories of the sights, history, culture and food that had to be experienced

first hand as photos and textbooks do not come close to describing these. Quite a few students were

already talking of wanting to return and spend much more time discovering France and the rest of Eu-

rope.

- J. Mousseau

CPET Canadiens Hockey

2015-16 Season

The CPET Canadiens have completed a successful 2015-16 Winnipeg High School Hockey League season and were seeded

5th going into their ‘Price’ Division playoffs. CPET posted 40 points as a result of a regular season record of 12 wins, 7 losses and

3 overtime/shoot out losses, which was virtually identical to last season’s record. Where the Canadiens differed from last year’s

team was in the playoffs…what a run!

Playoffs The Canadiens earned a direct bye into the best-of-three quarter-finals against the Linden Christian Wings. The Wings’ home-ice

advantage wasn’t a factor as the Canadiens stunned their opponents with a 5-0 victory and followed up with a convincing home-

ice win to sweep the series.

The Canadiens then followed up with a semi-finals series against the heavily-favoured first place Beliveau Barracudas. And once

again, the Canadiens stunned their adversaries with a very hard-fought series sweep. The Barracudas had the Canadiens on

their heels at times but stellar goaltending, disciplined team play and simply overall effort and desire helped them earn a berth in

the Price Division finals against the John Taylor Pipers.

The Pipers proved to be the better team in game 1 of the series and they finally bested the Canadiens in game 2 of what proved

to be a near-epic battle. The two teams could not settle a 3-3 tie in overtime and so the victory was only decided after a five-round

shootout. The loss stung, but in time, the players could appreciate what coaches and parents immediately felt: pride not only for

their on-ice success, but satisfaction in overcoming all the obstacles that are part of any team’s journey to the final game.

The boys didn’t come

home empty-handed…

they brought home a

WHSHL Price Division

Finalists banner that will

soon be displayed in the

gym to constantly re-

mind of us of the special

season and team that

was.

On behalf of staff and administration, I congratulate all the players and team officials for an outstanding season. For example,

Brandon Zastre finished the regular season with the most goals in the Division at 37 while goalie Treyton Blank distinguished him-

self with the lowest goals-against-average in the Price Division playoffs. An especial thank you to our grade 12 players (Brandon

Melnick, Ben Naaykens, Luke Moslenko and Brayden Murray) for their commitment to the hockey program over the past years.

Also, I would like to thank this year’s coaches (Mr. Menard, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Baril) and team officials (Ms. Trudel and Mr.

Suggitt) for their valued contributions.

We now have a full contingent of nominees for various WHSHL awards and scholarships based on criteria such as ability, leader-

ship, improvement, character, and academics. We wish the nominees well and will update later.

- R. Cadieux

CPET Canadiens 2016 WHSHL Price Division Finalists

We now turn our attention to the twenty grade 9 and grade 10 players on the roster for the

22nd

HomeRun Sports-Sisler Rookie Classic tournament. We wish them luck and fun during

the April tournament.

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Summer School Many school divisions are rolling out their summer school programs and schedules. RETSD will be offering a repeater summer school from July 4th to July 26th (8 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.) at a cost of $190 per course. Subject to sufficient enrollment, the following classes will be offered: Grade 9 : Language Arts, Math Grade 10 : English, Math (Essential, Intro to Applied and Pre-Cal) Grade 11 : English, Math (Essential, Applied, Pre-Cal) Grade 12 : English, Math (Essential, Applied, Pre-Cal) Registration forms are available in Student Services.

Other popular summer school programs: Louis Riel School Division Summer School (for students needing to repeat Français credits) https://www.lrsd.net/What-We-Offer/Summer-School/Pages/Summer-School-Store.aspx Winnipeg School Division Summer School https://www.winnipegsd.ca/PROGRAMS/summer-session/Pages/Default.aspx Inform Net Online Summer School http://www.informnet.mb.ca/ Questions or concerns should be directed to Mme Klausen (204-958-6888 or lklausen@retsd.mb.ca).

Return to B’nai

Brith Camp The staff at Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau are

thrilled to be offering camp for Grade 9 students.

For the past 14 years, we have been attending

camp B’nai Brith, located on Town Island, ap-

proximately 10 km south of Kenora, Ontario.

This camp has proven to be very successful.

Students are able to socialize in a non-

academic environment, to practice their French

in a social setting and to make new friends; all

while enjoying great outdoor activities.

This year we have reserved the following dates:

(Wed – Fri) June 1-3, 2016. This outing is a perfect way for all the grade

9 students to come together, celebrate their successful integration into

Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau and lower stress moving into final exams.

Many students in grade 10 ask if they can go back to BB-Camp and al-

most every grade 12 student has a special BB-Camp story that helps to

bring them back to the beginning of their journey at CPET.

We hope to see all the grade 9 students at camp.

- BB Camp Planning Committee

S. Devion, C. Gusberti, M. Coutu, M. Goulet, D. Lavergne, E. Miron

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Student Services

Scene L. Klausen, M. Goulet

Grade 10 Students Attending Rotary Career Symposium

Wednesday May 4th 2016, all grade 10 students will be attending the Rotary Career Symposium at

the Royal Bank Convention Centre. Students will be bussed from CPET at 9:50 and will return at 2:20. All

students are required to attend their period 1 and period 5 classes. Students are asked to return their

“Parental Informed Consent” forms as well as the $3 fee to their TA. You may visit the following link for

more information about the symposium:

www.careersymposium.ca.

Peer Tutoring Program

A number of peer tutors are available over the lunch hour Monday through Thursday in the Student Ser-

vices classroom. Students requiring assistance with projects or homework assignments or wanting to pre-

pare for tests or quizzes can come by and work with the tutors. Students or parents with questions or inter-

ested in the peer tutoring program should contact Mme Goulet (204-958-6888 or mgoulet@retsd.mb.ca).

Summer School

Many school divisions are rolling out their summer school programs and schedules. RETSD will be offering

a repeater summer school from July 4th to July 26th (8 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.) at a cost of $190 per course.

Subject to sufficient enrollment, the following classes will be offered:

Grade 9 : Language Arts, Math

Grade 10 : English, Math (Essential, Intro to Applied and Pre-Cal)

Grade 11 : English, Math (Essential, Applied, Pre-Cal)

Grade 12 : English, Math (Essential, Applied, Pre-Cal)

Registration forms are available in Student Services.

Other popular summer school programs:

Louis Riel School Division Summer School (for students needing to repeat Français credits)

https://www.lrsd.net/What-We-Offer/Summer-School/Pages/Summer-School-Store.aspx

Winnipeg School Division Summer School

https://www.winnipegsd.ca/PROGRAMS/summer-session/Pages/Default.aspx

Inform Net Online Summer School

http://www.informnet.mb.ca/

Questions or concerns should be directed to Mme Klausen (204-958-6888 or lklausen@retsd.mb.ca).

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GRADE 10 LEADERSHIP CLASS ICE SCULPTING

Our grade 10 leadership class at Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau had just begun in early February. One of our

very first assignments, (although it didn’t feel like a typical assignment), was to do something creative, some-

thing almost no one in our division, and not many in our city had ever done before.

We were granted permission to construct our own snow sculptures in front of our school. We planned for a

couple days what they should appear as and what they should represent, and finally, it was settled, a wolf

(our mascot) and a maple leaf. We then headed outside as a group, to shovel lots of snow into big wooden

cases we set up, to make giant blocks of snow, which would soon be our sculptures. Even though it was

freezing cold, we eventually finished and let them harden over the weekend. We returned and unassembled

the cases, revealing our giant blocks of snow.

We began carving the shape of the maple leaf, and then some others moved onto our wolf. We didn’t quite

finish during our class time, so thankfully we had some generous kids volunteer their own time to invest in

finishing the sculptures. I was one of those people, sadly also one of the few who got to see the final project

standing.

Yes, as we finished off our maple leaf by spray painting it in red, the next morning it was not even standing;

the wolf went the very next day. A sad and tragic ending to all our hard work, but still a very rewarding expe-

rience and a great opportunity to bond with other classmates and develop teamwork; plus, they were almost

as good as the sculptures at the Festival du Voyageur, I thought so anyway!

- Calleigh Gingras

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Soccer season is just around the

corner!

The boys and girl’s soccer teams have been practicing indoors since

March in anticipation for the outdoor season! Now that the snow is gone

(we hope) practices will begin to take place outside.

The boys team will play their first game May 3rd

at the Waverly Soccer

Complex against Nelson McIntyre Collegiate. The girls will play their first

game April 27th, also against Nelson McIntyre Collegiate. Both games will

begin at 4:15 pm. We wish our athletes success in the upcoming season!

GO CANADIENS!

- B. Bamforth

Student Council Stefan Seeholzer

Here at Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau, more than halfway through the full 2015/16 school year, the student

council continues their efforts to successfully make students’ experience at the school as memorable and fun as

possible. The council plans many of the activities such as ‘journée d'accueil’, a welcome day for all the students

after the lengthy summer break, the many grade wars, the end of the year barbecue and also assist in many

other activities in the school.

Currently, they are planning a spring grade wars at the end of a spirit week taking place in early May, where the

four grades will compete to steal the title of school champions and receive ultimate bragging rights!

The hard working students on the council are always welcome to new interesting ideas to liven-up their school

and also graciously take donations to cover some of the costs that accompany events, such as the cost of food

or renting inflatables, and assure that they will not cease to ameliorate CPET students’ time at their fantastic

school.

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Grade 9

A. Altomare

C. Anderson

M. Blank

P. Brodoway

A. Bukowski

R. Desrosiers

G. Dupas

M. Dyck

A. Ellis

M. Gervais

C. Hendry

Q. Hiebert

A. Higgins

K. Howell

C. Kokolo

J. Kowaluk

M. Lameg

K. Lavallee

M. Liske

S. Lower

H. Marshall

H. Martin

T. McConnell

H. McCorrie

L. McPhail

C. Mitchell

M. Mora

L. Moslenko

J. Neufeld

V. Penner

A. Perzel

S. Pinder

M. Rogerson

M. Rollwagen

S. Romaniuk

J. Romero

S. Sauvé

A. Smith

E. Smith

J. St. Laurent

K. Thorne

S. Wong

S. Zaenali

Grade 10

K. Alexander

J. Andrews

A. Baessler

K. Bartel

M. Bellec

H. Boone

G. Dauphinais

Z. Delaquis

E. Espey

T. Gillich

C. Gingras

A. Guarino

R. Howlett

E. Klapprat

K. Kruse

A. Lamy

S. Laporte

J. Matabalan

T. Meilleur

K. Melville

K. Morson

J. Norman

J. Ostanski

V. Pottinger

A. Reimer

A. Reyes-Thom

M. Richard

E. Riddell

J. Salem

2015-16 Semester 1 Honour Roll

Félicitations to all of our deserving students!

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E. Shaw

T. Smyth

J. Snare

J. Stewart

C. Stroet

J. Takenaka

V. Tang

D. Tycholis

A. Valencia

N. Vandendriessche

L. Verhaeghe

K. Voth

C. Wootton

K. Zelinsky

Grade 11

L. Adamson

B. Baker

G. Baril

R. Blaquière

A. Bomek

T. Budge

T. Cockle

G. Cruz

G. Dowler

C. Hadaller

B. Hawkins

M. Kolody

F. Koroma

C. Kowaluk

H. Langford

T. Laroche

H. Mantik

A. McColm

L. Perrier

C. Pharand

S. Phommarath

M. Pilcher

D. Poiron

R. Randall

I. Reimer

A. Sarmiento

S. Seeholzer

G. Suggitt

L. Trudel

A. Vieira

A. Viloria

Grade 12

K. Altomare

C. Beauchesne

S. Bériault

R. Carrette

C. Delaquis

B. Donnelly

J. Dupas

R. Ellis

L. Grace

E. Granger

G. Hayek

A. Ilchena

P. Marshall

H. Melville

J. Menard

L. Moslenko

J. Painter

A. Reimer

C. Rivest

M. Santos

P. Schneider

K. Shebaylo

M. Sobotkiewicz

J. Tang

S, Tycholis

J. Valencia

M. Vandenbussche

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Beating Stress Stress is a physical, mental, or emotional response to external events

that causes physical or mental tension. For many, stress is part of eve-

ryday life. Driving, waiting in line, homework and demands from school,

friends and work can leave students feeling stressed. If not kept in

check, stress can become overwhelming.

Students who suffer from chronic stress may require a more intensive coping program, but for everyday

stress, try one or more of the following breathing exercises:

Deep breathing

Take a deep breath into your belly, inflating it like a balloon. Hold for a few seconds then exhale, pushing the

air out completely by deflating your stomach.

Wave breathing

Fill your stomach with air, then fill your lungs with air. Hold for a few seconds. Exhale the air in your lungs,

followed by the air in your stomach. Start this breathing exercise off slowly to avoid becoming dizzy.

Rhythmic breathing

Breathe in normally for a count of 2. Hold for a count of 2. Exhale for a count of 4 (work up to a count of 3-3-

6, then 4-4-8, etc.).

Other strategies include: Drinking lots of water (rehydrate), decluttering your room/locker/car, exercising,

keeping a journal, getting a massage and laughing. Laughter reduces pain by releasing endorphins that are

more potent than equivalent amounts of morphine. So, take a deep breath, drink some water, go for a walk

and enjoy a good comedy...your body and mind will thank you for it.