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Proud to be at Lakeside

As members of Lakeside for more than 10 years, we've learned many things about this school.

It's not just recess and lunch that we like, it's the little quirks that differentiate this school from many others.

Compared to other schools, we actually have way more extracurricular activities and outreaches to our local community. Spanning from kindergarten to Grade 8, there are opportunities for sports, musicals and shows, robotics league, Historica, green group and so much more.

Unfortunately our school community was faced with a very tragic death this year. One of our former graduates passed away due to cancer. Lakeside took an unfortunate event and decided to bring our already tight family, even tighter together.

We like the fact that the Student Voice (otherwise known as the student council) has given students an opportunity to influence other kids' lives in other parts of the world.

Also, the school community council (a group of very dedicated parents) allow us to have pizza lunches every month and organize the Fun Fair, which is a yearly tradition.

When most kids think of school, they think of torture, hard labour, lots of work and boredom. However, here it's not like that because the teachers provide us with so much more than a learning environment. You can really get involved here and make your years here special!

By Cassandra Fernandes and Sara VanVugt

Students proud to be a part of its community

Jun 30, 2009 - 02:38 PM

Katelyn Goodyear and Natalie Hunter

AJAX -- For the past 10 years, Lakeside Public School has been our home away from home, filling our minds with knowledge and skills to last a lifetime.

In 1986, the doors of Lakeside Public School opened for the first time, inviting all to come and see what it had to offer. The location of the school played a huge part in deciding upon a name for this new place of learning. The closeness to Lake Ontario inspired the well-suited name of Lakeside Public School.

Since then, Lakeside has grown, recently shown through perseverance while striving for eco-friendliness.

Over the past 23 years, a lot has changed.

We used to be the Lakeside Breakers and had school colours of green, red, yellow and gold. We are now the Lakeside Lions. The new addition that was added onto our school in 2003 was with principal Les Noble.

Then again, some things never change. Looking back into the school, we realized we still do all the same things that the students before us did. We all participate in or watch the talent shows. We have school plays, musicals such as Clowns, Celebrate You and Me, I Need a Vacation, Annie and the Big Bad Musical; and we even used to host art shows.

Everyone also participates in the different charities Lakeside is a proud supporter of: The Terry Fox Run, Fitness Friends, Christmas boxes and more. We used to participate in Jump Rope for Heart, but now focus on just The Terry Fox Run. One year, we even made $10,000 for cancer research through the Terry Fox Run.

Through everything, our school's values have always been the same.

We asked our teacher Mrs. Westendorp what she thought of our school after being here for 19 years.

"Well, I'm still here aren't I?" she said. "When I retire this year, I will miss it."

Throughout our many experiences at this wholesome school, good or bad we have come back to the realization that Lakeside was always there for us. To all the caring staff members who have helped mould us into the people we are today, thank you. We hope you continue to enrich the lives of generations to come.

We stand today in the community as proud of our school as ever and seeking more opportunities to help enhance the wonder that is Lakeside Public School.

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