Category: School
Thank you, Mrs. Walsh
Author:
Ashley Hayward
Teacher's name: Mrs. Walsh
Teacher's school: St. John Bosco
As I am graduating high school this year, I can say that for the four years I had Mrs.Walsh as an English teacher she left a huge impact on my life. Mrs. Walsh is the quintessence of an outstanding educator. Growing up in a small community and going to a K-9 school with a student […]
Thank you, Mr. Thomas
Author:
Julia Anne Hickey
Teacher's name: Mr. Thomas
Teacher's school: G. C. Rowe Junior High
Mr. Thomas is the most inspirational, caring, trustworthy, respectful teacher I have ever met. He puts in endless hours of work into his job. Mr. Thomas has taught me so many things in the past year and a half, and I will remember each thing I have learned. Mr. Thomas is the reason I want […]
Sheldon Critch is a math and physics teacher at Botwood Collegiate. But not only is he that, he’s a friend to each and every one of his students. He makes learning fun and entertaining, and encourages everyone to do their best. He helps his students in their other subjects, never turning away a student in […]
Thank you, Mr. Wall
Author:
Kayla Colbert
Teacher's name: Gord Wall
Teacher's school: Mobile Central High
I entered junior high school as an awkward, slightly overweight, still-trying-to-find-my-place teenager. I was welcomed to grade 7 by a sports enthusiast for a homeroom/LA teacher. I thought there’d be no way to find common ground with someone like him. After a few days, Mr. Wall had proven me wrong. Through his humor, compassion and […]
Thank you, Mr. McDonald
Author:
Michael Pickard
Teacher's name: Derm McDonald
Teacher's school: St. Bonaventure's
No teacher ever took an interest in me the way Mr. Derm McDonald did when I was in grade 9 – the year that everything changed for me. I guess I was doing OK before I met him, but I lacked confidence. I feel like my life could have headed in one of many directions…not […]
Thank you, Mr. Spurrell
Author:
Megan Stuckless
Teacher's name: Mr. Todd Spurrell
Teacher's school: Botwood Collegiate
I was blessed to have been taught by Mr. Spurrell throughout high school. He was creative and talented in the most unassuming of ways. Mr. Spurrell consistently invested in his students. He made a concerted effort to encourage and teach – but his lessons were not confined to the four walls of his English classroom. […]
Mr. Park is a chemistry teacher but he’s not just a chemistry teacher in my eyes. He’s a kind hearted man that cares deeply for his family and for his students. The past few years were quite difficult on my part and last year was especially a terrible year. I had an eating disorder which […]
Sister Mary Jellybean
Author:
Mike
Teacher's name: Sister Mary Jellybean
Teacher's school: St. Bernard's Primary
A Jellybean made the difference. Childhood was traumatic. Growing up in a home impoverished and devastated by alcoholism and violence was not what any child should have to endure. School could be very difficult for a child who has not had food for breakfast or slept the night the night before because of violence in […]
As a little girl, I loved to write. But, like many little girls, I was unsure of myself and my talent. Was it even a talent? I liked to write poems and stories, but didn’t everyone? Where would this get me in life? I remember one of the first teachers to tell me I was […]
Thank you, Mrs. Tobin
Author:
Charlene Power
Teacher's name: Marilyn Tobin
Teacher's school: Sacred Heart Elementary
In 1986, I was a chatty but sensitive 6 year old as I entered the grade one class of Mrs. Marilyn Tobin at Sacred Heart Elementary in Tors Cove. So many years later, I can still visualize that room. I can still see her wooden stool and hear her voice as she read stories and […]