2024 -2025 Grade 8 Complementary Program Overview

Art 8

While considering the elements of art, students will explore a variety of media including but not limited to, clay sculptures, glazing, water colour paint, grid work, still life composition, mixed media, and acrylic pouring. Students will learn new skills and techniques and be able to reflect and communicate about their composition and intentions.

Concert Band 8 – Woodwind (Full Year Course)

Band 8, a continuation of Band 7, is a great opportunity to further develop the beginning skills on one's chosen instrument. Learning opportunities include more interesting music, a THREE day band camp, clinics with guest musicians and conductors, and performances at concerts and music festivals. Anyone with previous experience playing a woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument are welcome to take Band 8, BUT even if you're new to Band you can still take this course!

Concert Band 8 – Brass and Percussion (Full Year Course)

Band 8, a continuation of Band 7, is a great opportunity to further develop the beginning skills on one's chosen instrument. Learning opportunities include more interesting music, a THREE day band camp, clinics with guest musicians and conductors, and performances at concerts and music festivals. Anyone with previous experience playing a woodwind, brass, or percussion instrument are welcome to take Band 8, BUT even if you're new to Band you can still take this course!

CTF Computing Science 8 - Minecraft

Minecraft Education is an open world game-based learning tool that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination. Students will complete tasks and challenges by creating and interacting with each other in different worlds. No Minecraft experience necessary. There is also the opportunity to participate in the CBE Minecraft Challenge.

CTF Construction 8

Career and technology foundations is a framework that supports learning experiences that allow students to explore occupational areas common to career and technology studies. In Construction 8 students will be required to use materials, machinery and tools to develop woodworking projects such as a sanding block, coat rack, or a pencil truck. These projects will develop the required skills necessary for students to design, construct, articulate and appraise a group catapult challenge modelled from the popular game Angry Birds.

CTF Design Studies 8 - Digital Art

The world is filled with so many different forms of art – including digital art. In this course, you’ll explore this special genre of art found in everything from advertising to animation to photography and beyond. You will use iPads to explore the tools, basic concepts, and techniques artists use to create digital art. Digital art software such as Procreate will be used to create digital artworks and grow artistically as you evaluate and respond to your own work.

CTF Foods 8

CTF Foods 8 is a Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) course. Through CTF, students explore their interests and passions as they learn about various career possibilities and occupational areas. Foods 8 focuses on kitchen safety, appetizers and desserts. Typical recipes may include cakes, dips, pasta, pizza, tacos, pastries, specialty drinks, ice cream, crepes, tarts, and pies. Students also complete a project where they choose their own group members, and what they want to cook. Students work together to find recipes, create a grocery list, and plan their remaining Foods class periods. This final challenge allows students to use all the knowledge and skills they learned throughout the course while working with their friends to make their favorite foods.

Drama 8

Let’s create together! We will first learn how to control and then change our voices through an accent unit, and from there will be performing using improvisation - a fun style that blends comedy and the skill of thinking quickly. We will then create and perform in masks to bring to life characters with different visual styles. Finally, we will look at theatrical design and how costumes, sets, sound, and lights all have an impact on theatre.

Guitar 8

Students will have an opportunity to develop skills by learning more chord progressions and rhythms. Students will also have an opportunity to explore some of the more advanced techniques such as riffs, picking and leads. Through various songs, students will gain an appreciation for music genres, song structure, and creating music for performance purposes.