The best musicians across the Thames Valley District school board performed at Canada Life Place in downtown London during the annual Variety Is . . . showcase concert. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com
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A major academic building at Western University is closed while London police investigate a suspicious fire that has forced the university to move some exams. London firefighters responded at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the Social Sciences Centre. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but damage was significant and fire investigators were called in, the department said […]
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Thames Valley school board officials have a plan to boost grades, improve student literacy and math scores that haven’t kept up with provincial scotres, according to a report released this week.
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Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
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Tomorrow, the school's Native American Student Organization will host its annual graduation pow wow, open to the public.
London Free Press
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
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Gordon Berg learned about Hospice of Michigan while playing music for small groups at the assisted living facility where his mother lived. When he saw a hospice volunteer playing music for one of the residents, he volunteered to do the same.
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The state House is poised to vote on legislation to allocate $75 million dollars toward recovery efforts following massive ice storms across northern Michigan in March.
London Free Press
Wands casting fire. A spell that lights it up like a flashlight. A staircase that dances on its own.
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Year-end exams loom for Thames Valley District school board students except for those in certain grades and teachers aren’t happy about it.