Posted: Mar 12, 2021 8:00 AM NT | Last Updated: March 12
Teacher Ches West dresses in pirate garb for his social studies class, where he showed how his family tree has connections to Newfoundland privateers.(Ches West/Twitter)
It s a story of ragged corsairs traversing the open seas, their ships laden with Spanish gold, returning to Newfoundland to replenish their stores before sailing back to terrorize the Barbary Coast.
With nearly 100 per cent student attendance in his social studies class, it s a story that Ches West thinks might captivate his students attention, and help them to get excited about their own history.
Dressed head-to-toe like the legendary pirates who once called Newfoundland home, the Macdonald Drive Junior High teacher has found a way to get his students online in an age of digital learning, where getting students to log on is half the battle.
Posted: Jan 13, 2021 5:11 PM NT | Last Updated: January 13
A special poppy pin commemorating Pte. Michael Jackman, who died in the First World War, was donated to The Rooms on Tuesday. It was made from brass shell fuses that were collected from the former battlefields in France. (Darryl Murphy/CBC)
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