C.I.E.S. ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY
The C.I.E.S. annual Christmas Party took place on December 17th and 18th 2009. This is a time when everyone of the C.I.E.S. Family, including the board members, managers, teachers, students and kids, gather together and celebrate. Mr. Salim Sindhu (Executive Director) gave the opening speech and recognized the great contribution made by the board members, management team, and teachers. Gifts were given out as a way of showing appreciation to everyone’s great work throughout the year.The Christmas legendary figure, Mr. Santa Claus also presented at the party and delivered gifts to all the lovely kids.Teachers and students work as teams and delivered great performance to the audience. Performances include singing, in English and other languages, dancing, riddle solving, etc.At the parties, people brought in delicious meals from their home country to share so that everyone had a chance to try out food from all over the world, which made the event even more fun and meaningful!This event created a perfect opportunity for people from different counties with different and unique culture backgrounds to share experience and knowledge, and to learn from each other, to work as a team.
Santa (Rachel Stapfer) welcomes everyone and gives gifts to the kids.
Students singing
C.I.E.S. staff arranging potluck
C.I.E.S. hosted its first Summer Festival / Open House on August 13
C.I.E.S. hosted a Summer Festival / Open House on August 13, 2009. It was a very successful event as all the students, teachers, volunteers and staff enjoyed it very much. The students and teacher worked as an effective team to decorate their booth and classroom.
The students best dressed themselves and also they played music, danced, played games and soccer as well as worked on the riddles. Prizes were given to individual student or team for their outstanding work or performance. These awards namely are “best dressed”, “best inspiring person”, “best C.I.E.S. representation”, “best booth”, etc.. These students come from different ethnic backgrounds and this event created a very good experience for them to learn cultural acceptance and harmony, mutual understanding, respect and cooperation, which are valuable experience and knowledge outside of the books. Moreover, the students cooked different kinds of ethnic food and made some crafts for sale on that day for raising funds for our second new building. With all the efforts and enthusiasm from all the participants, especially Eva Su ~ Manager of ESL and Volunteers, we raised an amount of $660 from this function, which will become a regular event in every year!
Honourable Jason Kenney, Federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism visit to C.I.E.S. on July 10,2009.
The Calgary Immigrant Educational Society was honoured to have the Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to announce a $9.5 million funding plan for language training programs in the city on Friday July 10, 2009.
The Minister met with Board members, staff members and all the students at C.I.E.S. He visited class rooms and was very impressed by programs and services C.I.E.S. has been offering to newcomers and disadvantaged Calgarians for the last 21 years. The students were also very pleased to talk to the Minister.
As Minister Kenney said, "Newcomers have a right to be different, but a duty to integrate. They also have to take the initiative," hence the Calgary Immigrant Educational Society is pleased to continue its tradition in offering its training programs to help newcomers integrate into Canadian society.