Sprott-Shaw Blog

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

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On Thursday September 24th, 2009 the New West campus held their hot dog student appreciation day. The New West staff provides free hot dogs, pop, chips and music and always sunshine!! It is held in the parking lot between 12:00pm and 1:00pm. The director Doug and advisor Ursula serve the students and let them know just how special they are to us.

Doug the Director of the New West Campus cooking up some Hot Dogs

New West Students enjoying the free lunch! All smiles

What a great turn out and idea!! Good job Doug, Ursula and all the New West staff!!

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On Wednesday May 27 the New West Minster Campus held their Student Appreciation Day. So the barbeque came out of retirement and the hot dogs were thrown on the grill!! There were snacks and pop and the weather was great for the event! As you can tell from the pictures! The Director of the New West Campus was barbequing, while Ursula (advisor) and other staff members were making sure all the students were enjoying themselves. I heard it was a great success! Congratulations to the New West Campus for another great event!

New West Students

Doug the Director, Ursula the Advisor and Eduard Advisor

Director of the New West Campus Doug, bbq'ing some hots dogs on the grill!!

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I was invited to attend the New Westminster’s monthly Assembly today. It was great to experience the assembly first hand. During the assembly Doug, the Director of the New West campus had mentioned that Ursula and he have been holding these assemblies since April 2001, so 8 years.

Initially these assemblies were meant to introduce the new students to the campus as well as say good bye to the graduating students. But from attending an assembly it is easy to see how the assembly has evolved into something much better.

Today’s assembly Doug introduced the new students to the campus, while Ursula said farewell to the graduating Business and LPN students. Whenever it is a student’s last day with their program they wear a red rose. To show staff and students that this will be their last day at the campus! The LPN students will be writing their National test next Wednesday, good luck to you all! Sprott Shaw wishes all graduating students the best with all their future endeavours. After much applause the stage was turned to me. This caught me off guard to be quite honest; I introduced myself and what my job entails at Sprott Shaw Community College. Hopefully I did ok! :S

One of the reasons why I find these assemblies unique is they have a talent show segment, if you have any talent from dancing to singing you are more than welcome to take the stage. Today we had a student named Ritchie M; she is a tiny woman who by appearance seemed quite shy. But when she took the stage I could honestly say she blew me away! The voice that came out of that little woman was amazing.

After the talent segment there were some house keeping topics to be discussed such as the big graduation ceremony coming up next week. Door prizes were given out and the winners, who both happened to be new students. All a coincidence!

I would like to thank the New West Campus for inviting me to the assembly, it was great! Thank you to Doug, Ursula, staff and students!

♥ Doll