The junior varsity girls had another successful volleyball season with a great group of girls. We had a young team of eight grade 9s and two grade 10s, and they worked hard to progress their skills and be a competitive team.
Our first tournament was in Dauphin. We lost in our semi-final game after a power outage cut the lights in the school for about three hours. Nonetheless, the girls worked on their rotation, corrected their positioning and learned how to play with each other on the court.
Our second tournament took us to Thompson for their invitational, where we came in first place after a fantastic final against Norway House.
Our third tournament was in Gimli, where we placed first place after a barn-burning final against Murdoch McKay. The girls really came together as a team during this tournament.
The fourth tournament, which was our last one before zones, took us to Roblin, Man. We finished in ninth place at that tournament.
This year we were fortunate to host Junior Varsity Volleyball Zones here at Hapnot, so we were excited to play in our home gym in front of all our families and friends. We won first place in the final against Thompson, which qualified us for provincials in Virden.
At provincials, the girls had a tough pool consisting of Linden Christian, Neelin, Louis Riel and Landmark. Our first game against Linden Christian was a loss, as they are an extremely strong team (who went on to win the provincial banner).
Our second game against Louis Riel was great – we took them to a third set and lost 15-13. Nonetheless we showed that we could compete at a high level.
Our third game against Landmark led us to a win, and our last round-robin game against Neelin was successful in the fact that we almost beat them in the second set but lost 25-21 (and they went on to play in the provincial final against Linden Christian).
When the girls played together as a team on the court, they really could compete against those city teams. Our playoff game was against Virden, which we lost both sets and sent us home.
Overall, provincials was a positive experience for the girls, as they played at a higher level to compete against those strong teams.
Art
Once again, Karen Cornelius, printmaker from Winnipeg, visited Hapnot and helped us to create collographs, alumi-graphs and electro-etching in copper plates.
Electro-etching is a newly revised technique developed by Thomas Spencer in the 19th century, and Hapnot was one of the first schools to experiment using it in the classroom.
The prints have been displayed at both NorVA and local Flin Flon Arts Council theatre productions.
The students are now working on some amazing murals for Hapnot as well as the school board office. You can view last year’s murals in the main stairwell of Hapnot.
French Immersion
A group of French immersion students met up with students from Swan River, Dauphin and The Pas to travel to Winnipeg in early November. Students took a tour of Universite St-Boniface, did a workshop with one of the editors of La Liberte newspaper, had a question period in the NDP caucus room of the Manitoba legislature with Greg Selinger (in French!), and visited the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Museum of Human Rights. They also got to go bowling and play some laser tag.
Arts smarts
Grade 11 and 12 students in French immersion are currently working on a mosaic project through the arts smarts program. The topic of discussion and artistic expression was healthy relationships, and we are hoping to display our finished artwork in somewhere in town.
Student Events Committee
In October, students organized a costume contest as well as a pumpkin-carving contest. The costume contest included about 20 students and the pumpkin-carving contest had 13 teams of two to four students sign up.
Winners of the costume contest were Naomi Rempel, Jack Fitzpatrick and Matt Bighetty. Winners of the pumpkin-carving contest were Anne-Catherine Renard, Hanna Baynton, Andie Shaw, Naomi Rempel, Brooke Johnson and Jodryn Petryk.
In November, students represented Hapnot at the community Remembrance Day ceremony.
The Student Events Committee also planned several days of holiday fun for the last week of school, including PJ and Christmas Movie Day as well as Ugly Sweater and Christmas Headgear Day.
Student representatives were to visit McIsaac and Ruth Betts schools on Dec. 20 to do Santa visits for kindergarten to grade 2 students, and drop off holiday treats for students in grades 3 to 6.
Hapnot students Kiele Kittle, Hanna Baynton, Mikylo Odut, Andie Shaw, Danielle Nelson and Anne-Catherine Renard represented Hapnot at the Santa Claus Parade of Lights down Main Street this year. Andie Shaw was the organizer.
– Submitted by Hapnot Collegiate staff
