www.worsleyschool.com What's been updated, or added in the past while, in addition to our regular updates. Check this page often! WCS OnLine provides information and resources for students, parents, and teachers, an on-line Yearbook and newsletter, and fun things to do. At over 2500 pages, our site is updated daily with new projects, activities, interactive pages, lessons, and photos! Our first Time Capsule has been released! This one was made by the 1997 Grade 9 class; copies of their DVD movie are now available. Find out more here. Check out our new 2008 Worsley School calendar ... it makes a great gift! Science and Math Newly added material: Learn how to find the area of a ring using the length of a chord. Discover what causes stars to explode as supernovas. Students in Math 8-10 can review and practice solving linear equations. Find out how we measured basketballs to check their 'bounciness' using a simple formula. Physics 20 students can learn how to calculate displacement from a velocity graph, or review the difference between average speed and average velocity. Learn about what causes lightning, and how dangerous it really is. We show you how to build three different motors that run on static electricity from your TV ... check out a simple pop can motor, a coffee cup motor, and a paperclip motor. Revisit our section about the eye and watch as we dissect an eyeball. Learn how to take great photographs. Find out what the Cassini spacecraft has shown us about Saturn and its moons. Discover how chromatography works. Revisit our Extreme Machines page to learn about the world's biggest aircraft carrier, and the world's largest farm tractor! What makes the glow worm candy light up? We investigated; find out what we learned. Zoom in on Worsley using satellite photographs. Read about the deadly giant Japanese hornet. Science 10 students can learn about biomes; Chem 20 students can explore oxidizing aluminum at high temperatures. Language Arts, Social Studies, and the Arts Newly added material: Read about the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, who gave us the word 'rubenesque', and view some of his most famous paintings. Make your own topographic map and learn how to read one. Use photo essays in Sr. High English to illustrate themes and emotions. Discover all the everyday phrases we use or read, that were first penned by William Shakespeare! Language Arts and English students can learn about symbolism ... what it is, and how to use it in their writing. We also have a page explaining synonyms, antonyms and homonyms, with examples. In Social Studies, we completely rewrote our page about the Canadian Shield, with more information and pictures. We also have information about Canada's favourite tourist spot, Niagara Falls, as well as coal mining in Estevan, Saskatchewan, and the unique Grad ritual of Kenmare High School in North Dakota. Visit our K-12 student Art Gallery for art projects by our students. We have art from students at all grade levels, in various media. Don't miss the Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 string creations and 3D art! Information We now have a selection of forms on-line for your convenience. Get yours in early! Grade 12 students and their parents can now access information about how to help finance a college or university education, and about specific bursaries and scholarships available to our students. Newly added to our Science section is information about various legal and illegal drugs and how they are used, including photos and descriptions of their effects on the body. This information is designed for concerned parents. Students can also learn about sexually transmitted diseases in Alberta, and how to avoid them. Our annual photography contest, sponsored by Worsley OnLine, has winners for 2006-7. First Place was awarded to Bill Willis for his picture of a woodpile. Second place went to Rick Carleton, and Honourable Mention to Kimberly Rossworm. Have a look at the winning entries, and find out about our judge. Then send us your own photos for our 2007-08 contest! Awards Night took place on Oct. 22; you can see all the winners in our Yearbook, or check out the list of winners on our Awards page! Find out results from our team games on our Sports page. Check out our new 2008 Worsley School calendar ... it makes a great gift! We have a wonderful collection of old volleyball and basketball uniforms that we need help identifying. Visit our Wildcat Sports History page to see them on display; one might be your old uniform! Tell us what you remember! We were visited recently by Kenda Lubeck, Heather (Sargeant) Morrow, Cliff Ducharme, Benji Basnett, Blanche Basnett, & Justin Jensen; see the messages they left on our Old Friends page. Plus we added more great old pictures to the Vault. Our website and on-line yearbook are ten years old To help celebrate, we've released a new yearbook CD containing all of our old yearbooks, from 1997-98 right up to last year's 2005-06 edition. Each yearbook on the CD contains all the original material that was online, including complete Grad sections, and all of the free extras to download. This new collection is available now. Order yours here. The cost is just $20. They make great gifts. And not just for dummies! Parents can learn why calculators are important in the classroom ... and when they shouldn't be used. We also have information about calculators needed in Jr. and Sr. High Math courses. Yearbooks Our Yearbook contains photos of events and activities here at WCS. It's not linked from this site; you must know the address. ... if we know you, we'll send it to you. If you live in the Peace River region, you can access our Yearbook directly here. We recently discovered stacks of old hard-cover yearbooks from 1993 through 1997, and we're selling them! Find out more here. Fun Stuff and Free Downloads Now on our Free Stuff page: high-quality paper models for you to download, print, cut out and assemble, including a spectacular Wildcat! We also added some new free games to download ... Dots and Boxes, Baseball and Snowboarder. Read what kids have to say about dating and marriage. Revisit our ThreeDee page to see fantastic 3D pictures ... newly added: Evan Emily, Colby, Renessa & Ashley. Try the World's Hardest Spelling Test ... you'll fail! An anagram for Levi is evil ... find the anagram for your full name! Check out some amazing optical illusions. Play TicTacToe with your friends' faces. Play our newest game: CSI: Worsley ... it's just like the TV show! Visit What I Did This Summer ... find out what your friends were up to! Or read Jenna's Jokes and send her yours! You can Give Melanie a New Hairstyle ... scary! Or Use Your Computer as a Camera ... new technology! We've added a whole bunch of great prizes to the Prize Points section ... go have a look! If you are a student at Worsley School in grades 5-12, you can win prize points by entering contests, or submitting answers to questions and quizzes in our Math & Science and Social Studies & Arts sections. Like the fly? Get your own here. Put it in someone's startup folder and drive them ... buggy! Worsley School Content, graphics, & design by © 1996 - Wunderland Website Design