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Northland School re-instates woodwork
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Grouard Northland School’s woodwork program is in place and the students are eager to start their projects. Left-right are Charlotte Lamouche, Katelyn Nanooch, Jenna Cardinal, instructor Colin MacKay and Ryan Sutherland.
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Mac Olsen
for South Peace News
For five years, Grouard Northland School has been without a woodwork program, but no longer.
Colin MacKay is teaching the program to students in Grades 7-9. He is new at the school and wants to bring out the students’ creative talents.
“There’s a need for tradespeople and I want to prepare the students for high school,” says MacKay.
He has several projects in mind for the first year, including a fisherman’s chair, wooden bench and wood-burned art. He has the students planning their projects by drawing, sketching and measuring them.
Although the woodwork shop has a skill saw and other power tools, MacKay has the students using basic tools like hammers, handsaws and sanding blocks. The emphasis is safety in his choice of tools, but also applying physical effort or “elbow grease.”
“It’s in the beginning phases and has been going well so far,” he says.
MacKay has been teaching for 10 years and is originally from New Brunswick. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New Brunswick, a Bachelor of Education at the University of Maine and carpentry courses at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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