This page is intended to inform students and parents of the important dates and leadership opportunities that are taking place at Westwood Collegiate. 1)  Westwood Student Advisory Comittee held it's first meeting on October 26 with 17 students attending. The mandate of the group is to:         Advise the administration and staff on issues taking place at Westwood Collegiate,.         Provide leadership opportunities in the form of conferences away from school and as well as committees and functions at the school.         Administer a Youth in Philanthropy Grant. Interested students should see Mr. Lockhart. The next meeting is Wed November 16 at 12:15 in the library. A third Advisory council meeting was held on January 24 at noon. Discusssion included: - the S1 safe school survey with ammendments to the survey suggested by students - Review of comments from students from previous meeting. - New opportunities available   - Youth Violence Prevention Symposium in Wpg March 21-23 - See Mr. Lockhart for Info                                         - Global Youth Service Day                                         - Rotary Adventure in Citizenship Program - Trip to Ottawa - Opportunities for students to Facilitate presentation  Feb 23 RCMP Crystal Meth Presentation                                                                         April 21 Mother Against Drunk Driving Multi Media Presentation                                   - Youth in Philanthropy is administerinfg this fund and are looking at Charities around the division to contibute to. See Mrs. McCormick for mor info. 2) Youth Parliament of Manitoba -  Congratulations to Tiffany Ryner who was accepted into the Youth Parliament that took place at the Legislative buildings over the Holidays. As it was Tiffany's first time with theb group she was a back bencher but made ammendments to policy that were accepted by the house. Way to go Tiffany! 3) Westwood Unites will be taking place this semester. This is an opportunbity for students to be involved in a series of information sessions on topic that may be of interest to youth. This is the 4th year that Westwood is running this event. 4) STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD- For June 2006  Nominations need to be in by January 2006. The Canadian Association of Principals and Premiere Schools Agenda Ltd. are proud to sponsor this award. The purpose of this award is to afford principals the opportunity to recognize one of their student leaders and to enter that student as a nominee for a national scholarship. The C.A.P Student Leadership Award scholarship is designed to provide the broadest possible base upon which to evaluate candidates. Twenty-one scholarships of $500.00 each will be awarded. Only students graduating in their final year of high school are eligible for nomination. Each school that wishes to participate in the scholarship program is asked to nominate one student leader who demonstrates outstanding leadership. Nominees should be in the top 20% of their class. We have not had a nominee from Westwood in the past couple of years. We hope that that changes this year.