Brentwood College School - Brentonian Yearbook (Mill Bay, British Columbia Canada)

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that fifty-nine successes would be attained when in fact sixty were. So that I suppose this small error was on the right side. Four boys entered for scholarship examinations, and three of them achieved averages of better than 80%, thus winning first-class Government Scholarships. You may remember last year that the school was inspected and a Report was made by Dr. Downey and his Team from the U. B. C. As a consequence of some of their recommendations we have initiated project work in addition to formal teaching in many classes. Grade 11(1), 10(1), and 9(1) for instance have all undertaken projects in English and Social Studies. This involves not mere teaching but independent investigation by the students, and the results have been commendable, and the experience I believe, enjoyable to those involved. One of the more lighthearted projects undertaken by two boys in Grade X was the re-writing oi the school prospectus. The result was quite original and very amusing although the spelling was hor- rendous. They quoted from the prospectus that it is The aim of this College to develop the best that is in the boy, and added the aim of the boy to see that they don ' t. The Science Club has been busy with their weekly meetings. They went down to the Science Fair in Seattle, and they also visited the Boeing plant when they were there. The Poetry Reading Club has likewise been active, and some of our Grade XII bo)s have been doing some teaching in French —this of course, for their own benefit rather than for the bene- fit of the students under instruction. We have had guest lecturers from outer space, that is, not exactly from outer space, but about outer space. We have had people talking about Marine Biology. We have had others talk- ing about Conservation, and we have had others talking about Salesmanship. What we have tried to do, as the Downey Report suggested, was to bring a little bit of excitement and variation to the classroom. We have experimented in Social Studies with team teaching, and although there is a somewhat limited appli- cation for such type of instruction in this school, at least we have experimented. Our boys, unfortunately, still have to write a Government examination because Mr. Bennett in his infinite wisdom has decided that no independent school is worthy of accreditation. The result is that, particularly at the time of year just finished, we tend to do much less education and much more training for examinations. We regret this, but we are stuck with it. Perhaps one day we can persuade the Government that we have teachers who are qualified, who are certificated, who are ex- 6

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SPEECH DAY Headmaster ' s Report It is now time for me to once more present to you what is irreverently described in the staff room as the annual pre- sentation of platitudes. Well, I am glad to report that our nuts and bolts are in good shape, and so is the rest of the school too. PREFECTS Standing (I to r) Bill Winterton, Bruce MacKinnon, Mike Bramall, Bruce Williams, Chris Elwick, Larry Bakos, Ken Richardson, Alan Wilson. Seated (I to r) Mike Hall, Don Hickman, Sasha Angus (Head Prefect), The Headmaster, Dean Sawyer, Glen Hughes, Joe Milner. I should begin, I suppose, with matriculation results last year, and I am happy to report that every boy who went for matri- culation got a matriculation. This is the first time we have had 100% success in these examinations, and I hope it may become the usual thing. I may say too, our forecasts were pretty ac- curate. As you probably know, we are required on behalf of each boy who is writing the examination to submit a mark to the Department of Education some six weeks or two months before the exams are written. The marks which we submit and that which the student achieves are then averaged, and the result is then noted in his official documents. We forecast 5

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perienced, who are proficient, and that it is our job to see students and it is our job to teach them to think and not to just cram them full of facts. Isn ' t education, after all, that which remains after we have forgotten all we have been taught. Of course, it is true we don ' t spend all year training, and that we do this largely in the last few weeks before government exa- minations. But we feel that even this is rather a pity. It is time which I think could be more productively spent. We have done well, too, in sports. Our senior rugby team has for the second year in a row won both the Independent Schools championship, has won the Island championship and has qualified to enter the final of the B. C. championship. Our Colts team ran through the season unbeaten. All teams in fact, in the school, had a distinguished record. I must say the day that pleased me most was the one that occurred early last March when we fielded ten teams against Shawnigan. Now we have 207 boys in the school, 40 of whom were involved in badminton, so that takes them out of the rugby. We field fifteen boys and a linesman on each team, and that means 160 boys were all on the field at the same time. This I suppose is probably what you could call mass participation. If you are careful with your mathematics you will probably realize that this left seven boys to be sick, to be on leave, to be having dent- ist appointments and to be otherwise unproductively involved. Our track team has done equally nobly. The Seniors finished second in the Independent Schools competition, and the Juniors first. The Rowing Team won the Varsity Eight in the Shawnigan Regatta The Sailing Team won the Brentwood Cup for the fourth year in a row. Our Cross Country Juniors and Midgets won their respective classes in the Island Championships, and our Tennis Team continued to take second place in the Independ- end Schools competition. You might be interested to know that we have adopted a new summer sports philosophy wherein there is a free choice of games. It used to be that the track coaches had priority and if they wanted a certain boy for track then they had him regardless of the wishes of the boy. Well, we have changed this this year, and I think everybody is much happier, and the system is working well. We have added new games in lacrosse and badminton, in which I may say that John Gourlay went to the final in the Island Junior championship. And Softball, so that I think our games programme is reasonably rounded. 7