Sprott-Shaw Blog

The Maple Ridge campus is well into the Holiday spirit, all the students and staff deserve a pat on the back for getting into the spirit of giving this holiday season, so far this year we have accomplished the following:

Christmas Food Drive Competition–> Congrats to the CSWSS class for accumulating the most donations for the Maple Ridge food bank. Overall, we managed to raise over 400 items so far in less than a month.

Adopt a Family –> Maple Ridge would like to thank the Cythera Transition House Society for recommending a family in need. This year the Maple Ridge campus adopted a single mom who is just recovering from surgery and needed some assistance providing a good Christmas for her kids, a 14 year old son and a 19 year daughter who is expecting her first child in April.

The Maple Ridge Campus raised enough money to buy everything on their Christmas Wish List!!!

Salvation Army Blankets and Clothing Drive –> This has been an overwhelming success, raising over 70 items so far, again Maple Ridge would like to commend the students and staff at the campus for being in the spirit giving.

Both the Food Bank and Salvation Army drives are continuing throughout the holiday season.

More exciting news for the Maple Ridge campus include:

Congratulations to Director Rick to being elected to the board of the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce

Congratulations to the staff and students of the Maple Ridge campus PN program for achieving a 100% pass rate on the National exam!!

Season’s Greetings!!

♥ Doll

In early October the New Westminster campus had been nominated for the annual business excellence award in New Westminster. Annually, the Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Celebration of Business Excellence competition process, in which companies are nominated, submissions are made and adjudication is done by five judges from the business community. This process culminates in a gala dinner at which the winners are announced.

The New West campus felt good and quite gratifying about being nominated. But winning is better!! The New West Campus won the award for Business excellence in New Westminster for 2009, and they received their plaque at the Chamber of Commerce-sponsored dinner. There were five other nominees including the Boat House Restaurant at the Inn on the Quay!

Doug the Director of the New West campus is very proud! Doug thanks his outstanding New Westminster team! From the superlative and absolutely exemplary job of Ursula, she always does from the time of admission and throughout the year, with the help of Ed and other PN advisers, and with the caring and upbeat assistance of Swashna and Doreen, through to the professional competent, and supportive teachers like Barb, Mitch, Terry and her ECE staff, Gail and her PN staff, Judith and her clinical instructors – and others who have taught for us – and finally to the job preparation stage and beyond with New Westminsters GSR Lindy, the satisfaction and success of the New West students and clients have been at the heart of everything the New West campus does. And this is true throughout Sprott Shaw College.

“Proudly serving the New Westminster Community for Over 15 years”

Congratulations to the New West campus, we are very proud of you!

Winner of the 2009 New Westminster Business Excellence Award

♥ Doll

I find that some students do not take advantage of our guest speakers and do not understand the importance of networking! A Nanaimo student just got HIRED!! Here is the e-mail she sent our Marketing Rep Yolanda:

“Yesterday I was interviewed for a receptionist position at R.W Wall Let and they offered me the job; which of course I accepted! I start on Monday

As far as I know, the job wasn’t advertised, but Lee Mason passed on my name. I renewed my acquaintance with her when you had her in as a guest speaker, and she suggested I keep in touch. When I completed my studies, I let her know I was looking for work, and this is the outcome. Lesson Learned! Networking works!…” Patricia T

The fact is a lot of the time when applying for a job it’s not what you know but who you know! Congrats to Patricia and to all of our SSCC students when guest speakers come in make the effort to ask questions and a good first impression. Who knows what could happen.

Yolanda (Marketing Rep) and Patricia (Nanaimo Alumni)

♥ Doll

As most of you may know on April 30, 2009 the Kelowna campus took part in a fundraiser called Have a Heart Radiothon. This event is made in order to raise money for Kelowna’s General Hospital’s Neo-Natal Unit. The Neo-Natal Unit is very important to the hearts of the Kelowna community and Sprott Shaw is very honoured to help with such a cause! The Sun FM made a promo video in order to get more volunteers for next years fundraiser.  This year they raised $3600.00 for the Neo Natal Unit!! With more volunteers next year, who knows how much more they will raise. Check out the promo video –>  http://www.vimeo.com/5171763

♥ Doll

Last year Sprott Shaw opened its first campus in the Philippines in partnership with the Far Eastern University in Moyrata, Manila. To date their are over 130 students attending Sprott Shaw’s RCA health program. Upon the last visit to the Philippines in March 2009, the campus received more computers, LCD projectors, additional Internet connections and of course the Sprott Shaw job bell to hang on the wall, not to mention a couple of goodies for the students.

On April 23, 2009 it was Sprott Shaw’s 106th birthday and the campus in the Philippines celebrated Sprott Shaw’s birthday with contests and games with the Far Eastern University staff and two extremely large cakes!! The campus was able to feed five other departments within the Far Eastern University! How big was this cake… makes me wonder!

The students absolutely love the program and the Canadian style of teaching in the classroom! The first set of RCA students have finished their clinical with GREAT reviews; well they are SSCC students! A clinical is when they go to hospitals under supervision and get hands on work/practise; basically a practicum. The next class heads out to do their first clinical in Manila this month!! We at Sprott Shaw wish you all the best!

To all the instructors and staff in the Philippines keep up the hard work, you have made the campus great!! Maraming salamat sa iyo ang lahat ng!

Hopefully I will come down to visit

Stayed tuned for more information regarding additional programs launching in the Philippines and the newest Sprott Shaw campus opening in Quezon City!!

♥ Doll

On Friday June 26, 2009 the Prince George campus will be celebrating the grand opening of their new campus! Prince George’s local radio station The River, the Citizen news paper, representatives of the Northern Health Authourity, local employment services as well as students (present & alumni) and instructors. There will be draws, give aways and a barbeque for the general public! 

Congrats to the Prince George campus, I can’t wait to see all the pictures!! 

♥ Doll

Our Duncan campus will start their Resident Care Attendant (RCA) program at their satellite campus in Salt Sping on June 1.

Our Resident Care Attendant (also known as Long-Term Care Aides, Orderlies, Geriatric Aides and Health care Workers) represent a large and growing job group. The inclusion of a community training home support section in this program is valuable because of this area of care has a high employment rate for Sprott Shaw graduates.

With this program you can provide all aspects of personal care to patients in nursing homes, extended care facilities, rehabilitation centres, hospitals and community health agencies. As a worker in this field, you would require good physical health, stamina and a genuine desire to be a care giver. Patience, understanding, emotional stability, dependability and team spirit are all traits that can help you excel as a Resident Care Attendant.

**CPR, First Aid, Food Safe and Basic WHMIS will be completed during the program.

If you want more questions call 310 Hire or check out our website http://sprottshaw.com/

♥ Doll

 

Dean the President of Sprott Shaw collecting donations for the Have a Heart Radiothon!

Our Kelowna campus had an amazing day on April 30, 2009 collecting money for the Neo-Natal unit for the Kelowna’s General Hospital. The sun was out, smiles were made as well as money for the great cause!

 Dean, the President of Sprott Shaw Community College was helping the Kelowna campus collect donations from many drivers for this important cause. “It was an honour to have Dean come to Kelowna to help us” one of our advisors told me. She also went on to say Dean was quite into as well; weaving in and out of traffic, collecting donations, smiling and thanking people for their donation. Thanks Dean for coming out and helping from the Kelowna campus!!

The Kelowna campus also had the pleasure of having some Alumni students return to volunteer this year. Obviously, this cause is near and dear to the hearts of a lot of people… it is for the kids!

A sincere thank you to all who donated their time, money, enthusiasm and expertise to make this a great success! The end result was a WHOPPING $3600.00!!!!  

Great job guys, what a great cause!! 

Have a Heart Radiothon

♥ Doll

The Burnaby Campus Student/Alumni Society will be holding their meeting tomorrow; May 1.

During the last meeting on April 24^th the Society came up with some possible activities, they divided the activities into three different categories: Student Support Activities, Student Involvement, and Students and Instructor Involvement Activities.

For Student Support Activities:

• Inviting Guest Speakers
• Arrange field trips to help course learning

For Student Involvement:

• Sports
• Karaoke
• Movie Nights
• Lunch/Dinner
• Beach Activities (volleyball, etc)
• BBQ at society member’s house

For Student and Instructor Involvement activities it includes:

• Coffee Day
• Instructor performance day (more like a talent show for instructors)
• Student/Faculty competitions (a division of two teams, students vs faculty, and games would be made to test team’s Team Work, individual agility, brain storming etc)

These are only a few of the activities, during the next meeting members will bring in more ideas to contribute to the list as well as make goals and missions for the Society.

♥ Doll

On Tuesday April 28 more than 45 students will be receiving their diplomas and certificates. Graduates are being recognized in all the major programs such as Practical Nursing, Administrative Assistants, Legal Secretary, Community Support Worker, Spa Body Therapy and Kamloop campus’ very first Early Childhood Educators program.

It is always such a great evening and judging by the more than 300 guests invited by the graduates, it is such an important milestone in these students life! You can feel the excitement and anticipation in the air, finally all those months of hard work comes down to this one night where the students are recognized for their great accomplishment. Even though you can feel the excitement there is also a bit of fear, fear of leaving the classroom and entering the job force! It is such a big step for students, leaving the classroom and entering into their career. However, I am confident in the students that they will do great things with their life and step into a successful career!

Congratulation graduates! We at Sprott Shaw wish you all the best!!  

♥ Doll