News & updates

List of 5 news stories.

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  Lake Biodiversity Study

  5/3/2024
  Environmental Science 11 continued Shawnigan’s long-running efforts to help monitor fish in Shawnigan Lake by conducting an annual study of fish stocks and biodiversity.

   

  Students put nets in the water for 24 hours in two separate locations and pulled them up the following morning, then removed the fish from the nets. The next day, Grade 11 classes weighed, measured and dissected the specimens, noting the detailed information, including species and sex.

   
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  May Sports Update

  5/3/2024
  With our spring sports all in full swing, this is a busy time of year on the fields, waters and courts on campus and surrounding the School. Our student athletes have been making impressive progress this season in training and competitions and on tour.

   

  Rugby

   

  With numbers on the rise in girls’ rugby at Shawnigan and across Vancouver Island – Shawnigan alone has more than 40 girls in rugby – schools have begun to establish a junior girls’ league to complement the senior ranks. On May 10 and 11, Shawnigan will host the first-ever Junior North Island Championship with the aim of formalizing the junior league and provide talented young athletes with a top-tier competition.

   
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  Roboteers Make History!

  5/3/2024
  It was a historic weekend for Shawnigan at the 2024 VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas, Texas on April 25-27.

   

  The team of Colton B., Martin H., Dave P. and Zach P. achieved the School’s best-ever result at the world championships, placing eighth out of 82 teams in their division and making it through the first round of elimination before bowing out in the quarter-finals. It was also the best result for a school from Vancouver Island in the past decade.

   

  With more than 800 teams of four divided into 10 divisions, all packed into Dallas’s Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, it would have been easy for the Shawnigan students to get caught up in the hectic atmosphere, but they remained focused and professional.

   
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  Shining at Star Fest

  5/3/2024
  Shawnigan’s rising stars of theatre took their talents to a big stage on April 26-28 at the National Star Festival West hosted by Douglas College in Vancouver.

   

  “The festival is an opportunity for theatre students to perform in front of their peers, test their skills against an adjudication board with the opportunity to receive recognition, and take workshops in many performing arts fields from instructors across BC,” theatre teacher Mr. Sal Interlandi explained. “It also allows them to meet and see what other performing arts students are doing in other schools.”

   

  Four teams of Theatre Company students qualified for nationals through the provincial Star Fest at the University of Victoria last December, where they each performed a single scene from a play: DJ B., Bailey S. and Pascal G. in The Philadelphia by David Ives; Gabe B. and Charlie G. in Lone Star; Reo T. and Aava N. in Fight Over Fuchsia by Lindsay Price; and Talia S. and Sora R. in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

   
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  Hospital Foundation Gala

  4/26/2024
  On Saturday, April 20, Shawnigan had the honour of hosting the Cowichan District Hospital Foundation’s annual Champagne Dinner & Auction Gala, bringing members of the foundation and their many supporters to Marion Hall for one of the Cowichan Valley’s premier fundraising events. Shawnigan is proud to be a long-time supporter of the foundation.

   

  Our incredible dining team and many staff and student volunteers helped create a wonderful evening for the foundation and its patrons.

   

  Among the student volunteers was Grade 11 student Desi S., who was helping at the event for her third year in a row.

   
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