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Welcome back KDSS Knights. Glad to see you all back for another year and a welcome goes out to the  new students! We hope this year is even better than last! Check out our Facebook Page and Twitter Feed for upcoming school events.

BAM DAY!

Roselyn Hurst displaying a finished product!

Teachers are always trying to prepare their students for college or university, and rarely bring in real world applications as the still have post-secondary school to teach them what they need to learn. On Monday June 4th and Wednesday June 6th that all changed. KDSS helped their first ever BAM day.


Thought up by KDSS business teacher Roselyn Hurst, BAM day takes the talent and skills of the Business students, Art students as well as the the Media students.

The finished products!!!

Hurst had her grade 12 business class create a company and a product. The business students sat down with their computer art partners who then created a logo, magazine ad and the packaging for the product for their "clients".

The business students also worked along side the media students who produced a 45 second commercial for the product.

On Wednesday June 6th the business students presented their product, commercial, and print ad to the rest of the business, art and media students as well to a panel of judges during the BAM Den, taken from the popular television show Dragon's Den.

This was an amazing way for all the students to get a real world understanding of what they might experience if the pursue a career in business, art or media.

Knights get their art on at the Bluewater Art Show!

The Owen Sound library is home the the 2012 Bluewater Art Show; a showcase of all the artistic talent of the students of the BWDSB.

5 students and KDSS's two art teachers, Cati VanVeen and Erin Thompson attended the opening night (see right). About 30 KDSS students have their masterpieces displayed at this artshow.

Grade 12 student Shelby Boyd designed the show's logo as well as it's poster.

Pieces such as, canvas, totem poles, self portraits, pastels, still life and many other types of art work was at the show.

KDSS paintings and canvases.  

KDSS is very proud of the students of KDSS for their skill and talent and this is a great way for everyone in the BWDSB to see how talented we really are.

Great job to everyone who had work displayed at the show.

The Bluewater art show runs until Saturday night at the Owen Sound Library.

Prom 2012!

Prom Enchanté - Prom 2012 was an amazing night! 

On Saturday May 26th, KDSS held their annual prom. A formal dance to celebrate the graduation of the grade 12's. 

This year's theme is Jardin Enchanté (Enchanted Garden). The Pavilion (location of Prom) has decorated beautifully with trees, flowers, vines and candles. 

Students first gathered at the Rock Gardens beside the Pavillion for photos with friends, family and peers. 

Once their "photo session" once complete, students made their way over to the Pavillion where the "party" began. 

The students danced the night away with the music provided by Main Event Entertainment. 

 2012 Prom Award Winners are:

Award Winners

Best Dressed Male:

 Keegan Jones

Best Dressed Females:

 Jessica Winterburn & Cheyenne Hunter

Best Male Dancer:

 Francis Lozada

Best Female Dancer: 

Blaire Courtney

Best Matched Couple:

 Hayley Stewart & Sanjay Nema

Best dressed to the Theme:

 Rachel Karsten 

Prom King & Queen:

 Paul Boyadjian & Kortney Watson 

A huge thanks goes out to the prom committee for such an amazing night! 

Visitation & Funeral Information for Michelle Taylor

Michelle Taylor (Meredith)

May 8th 1959 - May 22nd 2012  

First Visitation: Friday May 25th 2pm - 4pm

Location: The Anglican Church of the Messiah (421 Russell Street)

Second Visitation: Friday May 25th 7pm - 9pm

Location: The Anglican Church of the Messiah (421 Russell Street)

Funeral & Reception: Saturday May 26th 2pm

Location: The Anglican Church of the Messiah (421 Russell Street)

Officiating: Rev. Rob Hiscox

Interment:

Kincardine Cemetery

KDSS & the Kincardine community mourns the loss of an amazing teacher.

On Tuesday May 22nd KDSS tragically lost one of the most amazing teachers we could ever ask for for.
Michelle Taylor, 53, died at the scene of a head-on crash when her grey Buick Regal collided with a burgundy Ford pickup truck at on Highway 9 east of Kincardine near the hamlet of Kinloss.

 South Bruce OPP officers attended the scene just after 4 p.m. with the Lucknow Fire Department, Huron County paramedics and Bruce County paramedics. OPP Technical Traffic Collision investigators were called to the scene to assist the South Bruce OPP with the incident.

Highway 9 was closed from Bushell Street to Bruce Road 1 for the safety of those involved with the crash.
Police said the investigation is continuing and anyone with information is asked to call South Bruce OPP or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
 
Since 1985 Michelle Taylor (Then Michelle Meridith) has been teaching at KDSS as a science and french teacher along side her true love, Jim Taylor, also a science teacher.

Mrs. Taylor has also been actively involved in the school and in the past couple of years has been the teacher rep for the KDSS Free the Children group in which she was very passionate about the cause. Mrs. Taylor would never walk by anyone with out saying "Hello, how are you?". She was the most caring and kind person anyone could ever ask for.

Her love of horses, teaching, frog dissection, and her family will never be replaced.

 We will always cherish the time we had with you Mrs. Taylor. You never be forgotten!

More information on the visitation and funeral will be shared at a later date.

Thoughts go out to the Taylor Family; Jim, Ryan, Jen & Katie.

To share you thoughts and memories with Michelle with the Taylor family please feel free to leave a comment or post on the facebook page

OSAID brings a powerful speaker to KDSS

 By: Joshua Howe (Grade 12). Special to Life of the Knights

Members of KDSS OSAID and Paul Christie (3rd from right) 

Every year at KDSS we have a sort of tradition, if you will, of bringing in a guest speaker just before the long weekend in May. You may ask, why do we do this? Well, it’s for one simple reason.

To help the students make good decisions over the break.

And of course, to many students this assembly is nothing more than a get-out-of-class-free card. People look forward to the assembly just for the fact that the day is shortened. However, it is quite rare that our school receives so strong a story as the one told by Paul Christie this past Thursday.

Going in, it wasn’t possible to guess what was going to come out of Mr. Christie’s mouth. He looked like a normal man; someone you would pass on the street and never even give a second glance. But his story was anything but normal.

It was clear from the moment he began speaking that he had told his story many times and yet there was still that feeling of tension in the KDSS gymnasium that only comes with a story being told from the heart. It didn’t take long Mr. Christie to captivate the students and faculty with his jaw-dropping tale of despair and hardship.

His tale was one about the incredibly powerful, albeit horrible effects of drugs on a person’s life. He revealed that he had been shot and stabbed multiple times. He had milked his parents dry of money for years and was a factor in their divorce. He was taken to prison many times and even broke out once by biting a hole directly through his tongue. He lived for drugs and felt as though he needed them and he craved them constantly. He had been wanted in Canada and fled to the United States.

As if all this weren’t bad enough, Mr. Christie then came to the most intense part of his story; that being the part about his son wanting to come and see him one Christmas many years ago.

His son, who lived with his mother, had been so looking forward to seeing his dad on Christmas Day because his father told him that he knew Santa. The kid had been super excited and when he arrived, Mr. Christie had been inside his apartment, lying on the floor, unable to see him because he had just taken more drugs. His son had left crying and had been told by his mother that his dad cared more about drugs than he did about him.

By the time Mr. Christie paused to lead into the final part of his hour-long presentation, the tension had increased ten-fold. No one spoke. No one looked away. All eyes were on this man who had spent nearly all of his life a victim to the sinister effects of drugs.

A living story stood in front of the students and faculty.

By the time questions had been asked and a thundering round of applause had been rightfully given, Mr. Christie had gotten everyone into the mindset that should always be there: Drugs are not a way out. They are extremely dangerous and in many cases, you will not survive.

And with that, Mr. Christie smiled, gave a final wave and took a long swig of water from the bottle that had been sitting on a chair behind him. This had been his last school visit before he got to return home to see his seventeen year old son, who like so many others, had told his father he was glad that he had never given up on him, or life.