Every year on April 23rd the world celebrates International Children’s Day, a day to reflect on issues impacting our world’s youth. The internationally recognized day actually originated in Turkey, so it was with great pride that Nile Academy celebrated with the families of its students. This past Saturday we held a Children’s Day Festival at our high school location and it was a great success! It featured performances by our school choirs and bands, poetry readings from students, international folk dancers, and even a clown! Performers...
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Exceptional students from Nile Academy presented projects at the University of Toronto Sci-Tech Fair. Students begin with a question, problem, or idea that emerges from their every day experience or through their work at school. With support from teachers, parents, and mentors the students conduct investigations and develop innovative solutions to problems, then prepare a display and presentation of their work. In our senior division, Grade 12students Gultekin Barhudarova and Zeynep Tosun received a very prestigious award for their...
Maple Syrup Festival! Yes, March is the month to celebrate the golden syrup of Canada. The Gr.9+10 French class, along with the Gr.10 ESL Civics class, were fortunate enough to gain hands on environmental education outside the classroom. Our day started off with a fantastic pancake breakfast drenched in locally produced maple syrup directly from the sugar shack. However, before satisfying our appetite, we began to explore the forest through the hiking trails at the Kortright Centre for Conservation, located at Pine Valley Drive. Later on, we...
Native Indian beadwork is a quintessentially Canadian art form that has been a part of Aboriginal tradition since the early European settlers. Glass beads were imported to France from Murano, Italy, as early as the 14th century. Hence, early French settlers introduced glass beads to the Aboriginals in North America. Moreover, the floral pattern was introduced to Aboriginal tribes around the Great Lakes by Ursuline French community. In art class, students had the opportunity to bead seamless flower patterns on leather with sinew – a...
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, March 25th,2012, our secondary school hosted Newruz Celebration. Participants from different communities, such as Ozbekistan, Azerbeijan, Georgia, East Turkey, Uygur, Tatar took part in various performances such as singing, dancing food competitions, etc. Hundreds of people joined the celebrations. There was something for everyone to enjoy there. Great program, delicious food, and bouncing castle for the little ones. Nile Academy’s Elementary Choir took part on the stage as they performed few...
Family Day, February 20th, was celebrated by Nile Academy Graduates of 2011 amongst themselves and their previous teachers. The previous students, led by Furkan Tuzun, organized a dinner event at the school premises to reconcile with their high school peers. Since most of these students were on their Reading Week from University, most of them were able to attend the gathering. Some of them were missing due to being away from Canada, which was unfortunate since it would have definitely been a treat to see them. The Alumni dinner was not made...
Mighty Civilizations! Mysterious People! A Mystical Past! The grade 9 ESL students at Nile Academy had the dazzling opportunity to visit the Royal Ontario Museum, along with its newly constructed 135 million dollar Lee-Chin Crystal addition. Students visited various galleries and exhibits, depicting world history and culture. We visited the Natural History gallery which included hundreds of biodiversity specimens, such as birds, bats, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Students were very excited to see dinosaur skeletons, such as the...
Law, Action and Politics! The Gr.11 Law and the Gr.12 Politics students at Nile Academy had the first hand experience of visiting the courthouse at Old City Hall, in the heart of downtown Toronto. It is one of Toronto’s most prominent structures, located at the corner of Queen and Bay Street, next to the Eaton’s Centre. It was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984. Visiting this civil government building is definitely an enlightening experience, as its magnificent grandeur interior and Romanesque stonework exterior...
