Start of a packed semester
By fireball | September 10, 2011
A new school year is underway.
Three weeks of the fall semester have already gone by. In addition to packing lots of learning into every school day, we have packed our whole elementary school into the high school gym and balcony while the other building is completely renovated. There is also a temporary house in one half of the gym where all the construction workers are living. It is a very different situation, but we are off to a good start.
Jori Grant and Catherine Thomascheske have joined Joe Quinn, Willis Ferenbaugh, and Principal Sandra Quinn on the teaching staff. Becky Kunayak and Andrea Soolook are helping to teach, Kyle Okpealuk is the cook, JR Seetok is working with the elementary school, and Orville Ahkinga and Dennis Soolook are keeping things running.
Look for more pictures of our current sardine setup ~~ coming soon.
And here is a photo of a barge delivering building materials in late August.
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Class of 2011
By fireball | May 12, 2011
The school year is almost over, and we just had a graduation ceremony for two of our graduating seniors.
Sam Ahkinga and Ahna Ozenna
We are moving the entire elementary school into the high school for upcoming construction, so the school year is ending with an especially big bang of activity. Planes quit flying a couple weeks ago, and the ice runway is about to melt back into the sea. Today, the helicopter made its first flights of the season.
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Middle school NACTEC Session is a success!
By Meredith | March 19, 2011
Four Diomede middle-school students were accepted to attend a week-long session at the Northwestern Alaska Career and Technical Center. “NACTEC was designed to provide Bering Strait School District and Nome Public Schools high school students with the necessary resources and skills for employment opportunities, the pursuit of postsecondary education, and independent living skills through instruction in four focus areas: career and technical skills, career exploration, life skills, and work readiness skills.” You can learn more about this program at www.nacteconline.org.
The students at this particular NACTEC session were from the villages of Diomede, Shaktoolik, Gambell, and Nome. During the day, the students learned about a variety of career options and interviewed representatives from different careers. They also had the chance to meet students from other villages and make new friends!
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This is where the students stay during their NACTEC session. |
| Students also have chores at NACTEC. Everyone helps out with preparing for dinner and to clean up afterward. In this picture, you can see one of the Diomede 8th-graders helping out by chopping up the olives for dinner! |
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One of our 7th-graders says, “NACTEC is awesome because you would like to do some of the jobs when you get older.” |
| One of the other 7th-graders said about her time at NACTEC, “I liked doing the cleaning until I’m done, and I like to meet new friends.” |
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A Great New Start to the Year
By sahkinga1 | September 28, 2010
We’ve had a great start to the new year. This year, a few new ECE students and two new teachers joined our school. The new teachers and teachers from the previous year arrived on the Inaliq crab boat two days before school started. The new teachers are Miss Beck from Tennessee and Miss Lee from California. Along with the season, teachers, students, and the new year, herds and herds of walruses have been passing through from north, heading down to the south. This fall season, about a hundred walruses climbed on the rocks around the first cliff on north side of Diomede. Twelve walruses were caught while they were resting on the rocks. Not only the walruses were exciting, the weather was beautiful. The sun stood out for at least five days and many of the students got to go hiking over the weekend and people got to go back and forth from Diomede to Wales by boat. During the day the middle and high school are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. The book is about an African-American family that are being treated unkindly. The students have been learning a lot about segregation and equal rights from the book. Other than that, wrestling and co-ed mixed volleyball has started and cheerleading will start soon.
-Sam Ahkinga
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Congratulations, Class of 2010
By fireball | June 7, 2010
Class of 2010 - Dawn Ozenna and Kristy Kunayak
Happy summertime to everyone! The school year is over, the teachers have left the island, the ice has (almost) all melted, and it stays light all day.
We had a great spring semester with good attendance, a great high school trip to California and Hawaii, and a graduation ceremony for the two newest graduates from our school. Good luck with everything you do in the future, Dawn and Kristy!
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“Island Living” celebration
By squinn | February 3, 2010
Parents were invited to classrooms, got 2nd quarter report cards, and met with the whole school in the gym at our first ever “Island Living” celebration that took place January 25th. Students and staff celebrated the progress made through the BSSD levels the first semester. Teachers started the celebration off with their “Island” version of Kokomo. Everyone in the school wore their Diomede School “Island Living” shirt made especially for the event. Fruit salad was served.
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Diomede Dateliner Cheerleaders
By squinn | February 3, 2010
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School Wide Project – CPR and First Aid
By squinn | February 3, 2010
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Fall Semester 2009
By squinn | November 30, 2009
It is almost Christmas and time has flown by. It seems like just a few days ago that Diomede citizens were meeting us on the helicopter pad. Patrick was formally welcoming us to Diomede and the children were calling out “teamwork” as they helped us with our belongings. I remember the students lining up the first day of school and singing the Star Spangled Banner.
The following pictures highlight activities that took place this fall.
Students school-wide worked together on PROJECT BASED LEARNING PROJECTS.
CULTURAL AWARENESS CLASS Students bead and pull porcupine quills from a hide.
DIOMEDE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES: Students were able to observe the community project of making an omiak (walrus skin boat).
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A new school year
By fireball | August 26, 2009
Everyone at the Diomede School is looking forward to a great new year. Principal Sandra Quinn joins returning teachers Pam Henderson, Katie Mecsey, and Willis Ferenbaugh. Her husband, Joe Quinn, will be teaching grades 3-5. Orville, Dennis, and Dora are back, and Andrea, Becky and JR have joined the crew to help.
The school district newsletter, Strait Talk, has a little story about how the teachers got out to the island this year: http://blog.bssd.org/2009/09/08/crab-boat-to-dio
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