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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, June 25, 2010 · 12 SALE Sale prices on all Mattresses & Furniture Reduced in-store until June 27th or while quantities last Cushion Top Comfort Sleep 229 269 389 379 419 649 25-HR. 25 . Fri Sat Sun $ 5 Yr Warranty Teacher challenged students History Television program Ancestors in the actually looking at cenotaphs and connecting Attic became involved and helped two students with the names, who those people were, finding track what happened to two OTHS soldiers out who they were in the community and giving whose fates were unclear. The information that was uncovered was her students a sense of ownership to carry on conveyed to the families of these fallthe legacy of individuals from their en soldiers ending, for them, decades community not only helped them to of wondering what had happened to develop a real, direct and meaningful their loved ones. connection to those events in the Calvert followed this project up in past, but also gives them empathy 2009 calling upon her students to because in many cases these kids in conduct research into the lives of the Grade 10 could have been the same First World War soldier's on the age as some of those people they're school cenotaph, as well as other researching about. I think that really OTHS alumni who fought in the puts it in a perspective that changes Pam Calvert Great War. the attitudes of some of these kids as Calvert said this class also entered into a to why they need to know history." Calvert said her approach of getting students partnership with the Oakville Museum and to look into an individual soldier's life and death shared their projects, posters, poems and videos began during one Remembrance Day ceremony with the staff and patrons there. These projects are now on file at the musein which students heard the stories of D-Day um, she said. veteran Lieutenant Commander Gordon While Calvert may have come up with the Hendery. projects, which are now being recognized, she The students listened intently to these stories and even wrote Hendery letters afterward credits her students with executing them in stating the tales of what he went through on D- such a fantastic way. "They are the ones who honestly deserve the Day had made history come alive in a way a textcredit because they have done such incredible book never could. "He encouraged us to find out more stories projects and things, which have connected because he was there on D-Day and he saw the them to the community," said Calvert. "Now these stories are not lost. Family and young men leaving his landing craft and some anyone else who wants to know about Oakville of them not even making it to the beach," said history can now find that information online." Calvert. The judging to narrow the 25 finalists to the "He kept saying to me, `You can't forget six award recipients will take place over the these stories. Kids need to hear them and understand the sacrifices.' He was the catalyst, summer with the awards ceremony occurring and the kids' response to him, that got this all in Ottawa in November. During this ceremony the Governor General going." will present the six recipients with the awards. In 2008 Calvert followed up on Hendery's This is not the first time Calvert has been request by challenging her students to uncover recognized for her teaching abilities. the stories behind the names of the Second Last year she was among the 25 finalists for World War soldiers on the school's cenotaph. the Governor General's 2009 Awards for Using the Internet, the military service records, archives and a host of other sources, Excellence in the Teaching of Canadian History. She also won the 2007 Alan Skeoch Award. Calvert said, the stories of OTHS' 35 Second The Ontario History and Social Science World War Cenotaph soldiers came to life. Teachers' Association (OHASSTA) presents the Students were able to learn how old the soldiers were when they enlisted, what jobs they Alan Skeoch Award to any teacher, at both the had held before the war, if they were married, secondary or elementary level, who shows excelwhat role they played in the war, where they lence in teaching by showing scholarship, sensitivity to students of all levels, collegiality, enthuserved and how they met their end. The project went one step further when the siasm and going beyond the classroom to further the education experience. 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