Upcoming LD & ADHD Workshop

ADHD and LD Naturally

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Guest Speaker: Dr. Joseph Steyr

Do you want to know more about natural treatments for ADHD and Learning Disabilities? Dr. Steyr is a Naturopathic Doctor and also has been diagnosed with a Learning Disability since he was a young child. His talk will start with a short introduction to what is Naturopathic Medicine and continue to a discussion of the biology of ADHD/LD. Using that foundation of understanding we will then go over ideas of how nutrition, herbal and homeopathic medicine is used to help support and treat people living with ADHD or LD.

Date: Thursday January 15th, 2015
Time: 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Location: The YMCA Academy
Fee: $5.00

RSVP by phone 416-928-0124 Ext 0 OR email: reception@ymcaacademy.org

Classes resume January 5th!

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our Students, Parents, Guardians and Friends of The YMCA Academy a wonderful and safe holiday!  And we’d like to thank you for your continued support over the past year.  We value the relationships we have with each of you and look forward to working with you all in 2015!

Please note: The school will be closed for the Holiday Break from December 20th, 2014 to January 5th, 2015.

Wishing you a joyous and peaceful holiday season!

Best Wishes,
The YMCA Academy Staff

YMCA Academy Talent Show 2014

There’s no way to celebrate the holidays than a good old fashion talent show!  YMCA Academy students performed some incredible acts this afternoon on our fourth floor stage including singing, magic tricks, instrumental music, drama skits and films for our 6th annual Holiday Talent Show and Celebration.  Special thanks goes out to our techie superstar Riio, our consummate emcees Tristan A. and Mahadir, Zee’s Health Care class for making special goodies for the pot-luck, Greg at Central Y for supplying an awesome sound system and all our families who contributed generous snacks for the party.  We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a happy and healthy 2015!  See you in the New Year!!

Check out the rest the rest of the pictures on our Facebook page!

Holiday Gift Exchange 2014

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 the students from the YMCA Academy did the Gift Exchange in the cafeteria.

We hung out in the cafeteria for a bit, then Avery (a student at the YMCA Academy who organized it) gave our gifts to us.

The rules about the gifts were we had to keep them a secret, and we could not buy gifts because it’s not fair to other people. I gave my gift, which is an origami flower that I made. Some people got books, food and art.

It’s fun because we don’t get to do this everyday. We do things like the gift exchange because it is fun and we get to see each other open presents.

By Patricia R.

The Academy visits CBC News

Students from the Grade 9 English and Grade 10 Communications Technology classes went on a field trip last week to CBC News. We went there so we can see the jobs they have at the CBC, and maybe think about working there some day. At the CBC we met a lot of people, and visited a lot of newsrooms and a big elevator.

Some of the highlights of our trip included:

  • David Common doing a live broadcast and telling us about his life (Zachary)
  • when we went the radio station (Patricia)
  • when the class went in the green screen room and played with the green screen (Lucas)
  • everything, especially the robot that goes around delivering mail to people in the news station (Adam)

We learned a lot about the different jobs you can do at CBC.

  • The job I would like to do at CBC is being a radio announcer host. (Zachary)
  • The job that I most like to do at the CBC is being the news reporter, because I like doing the news so people can find out what’s going on in the world. (Patricia)
  • The job that I most like to do at the CBC is being a radio announcer or host because I like being on the radio. (Lucas)
  • I would like to be a camera operator because you work with cameras. (Adam)

Field trips like this are good because we can experience more. Reading gives you some details, but going to a place actually gives you more details. We get to live the experience of seeing people doing their jobs, and choose a job you want to do off of that.

Thanks to Mark and everyone at the CBC for welcoming us!

Written by:

Zach DS.
Lucas H.
Patricia R.
Adam V.
and Todd Harrison