Principal's Bulletin

Friday June 27, 2008

A Year of Accomplishments

This is an exciting time of year at ATC as students complete the ultimate final exam of their program – their work placement. The work placement provides students with the opportunity to apply what they have learned at ATC and get that all important, initial experience onto their resumes. ATC teachers have partnerships with over 140 workplace hosts who provide the placements for students. It was a pleasure for ATC staff and students to express their appreciation to the workplace hosts at a luncheon on June 4th.

In addition to providing work experience through a student work placement, most ATC programs operate as small businesses, with customers and clients from the community providing students with “real” work throughout the year. We are very appreciative of the community support that our programs receive. New programs, such as Hairstyling and Nail Technology, can only be successful with a community clientele so we wish to extend a special thanks to all those who have become clients of the ATC salon.

In this last issue of the Centre Link for the 2007-2008 school year, it is my pleasure to congratulate students and their teachers on their many successes at ATC this year. Those successes include: completing a full program and earning a certificate, completing Part 1 of a program, positive feedback from a work placement, a job!, an apprenticeship, earning a high school diploma or discovering something you are really good at or enjoy doing. Both students and their teachers can be very proud of these and the many other accomplishments this year.

It is a pleasure to extend congratulations to the entire ATC staff whose significant accomplishments in the creation of a positive school climate were recently recognized at a Louis Riel School Division celebration of contributions.

In addition to individual accomplishments, ATC, as an educational institution, has many accomplishments to celebrate. These are outlined in the “Progress Report to the Community 2007-2008” in this newsletter and include preparations to introduce the new Esthetics program in 2008.

Best wishes for a safe and happy summer!

Sincerely

Mr. R. Cordingley
Director