Royal Bay Secondary Learning Commons
Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents
Staff – for more features and access to the DRC, go to:
library.sd62.bc.ca
(2) Select “Royal Bay Secondary”
(3) Login using network credentials.
(4) In the top left corner click on the three lines, and select Destiny.
Ms. Lockhart has curated a beautiful collection of resources. Go beyond the lesson plans to learn more.
We are excited to roll out our new digital collection of e-books and audiobooks. Download the Sora app to your iphone or Android, log in using your SD62 WiFi credentials, and enjoy instant access to hundreds of books and audiobooks.
If you need support with this, reach out to Mrs. Phillips or Mrs. Martin.
(You will be required to sign in to make a booking – use your SD 62 credentials to sign in.)
**There are 30 Chromebooks in the Learning Commons that you can send students down to sign out on an individual basis (not as a class set). This allows Chromebooks to always be available for students.
Stored Rm 1184 (1st floor, south wing)
Stored in Conference Rm 1173A
Stored in Rm 3150 (please do not book)
Stored in P2 (please do not book)
**There are 9 computers operating on WINDOWS in the Learning Commons and 4 computers operating on WINDOWS in the Counselling area that students can access. This allows WINDOWS computers to always be available for students.***
During the school year, browse our collection online using Destiny Discover and either sign into the system using your SD 62 login credentials and put a hold on the books you would like, or drop us an email with your requests. We will pull these books and have them ready for pick up the next day.
Mrs. Phillips – tphillips@sd62.bc.ca
Mrs. Martin – smartin@sd62.bc.ca
For students to gain access to GAFE, following online forms must be reviewed and signed by both the parent/guardian AND the student.
Click HERE for a users guide to World Book online.
EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.
Historica Canada is the largest independent organization devoted to enhancing awareness of Canadian history and citizenship.
The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history and one of the world’s most respected museums for the study and understanding of armed conflict.
“To enhance Canadians’ knowledge, understanding and appreciation of events, experiences, people and objects that reflect and have shaped Canada’s history and identity, and also to enhance their awareness of world history and cultures.” (Canadian Museum of History Act)
What do you want to learn about British Columbia? Start with a subject, story, time or place.
Check out the BC Archives for a number of primary sources. Click on the link below and use the search window at the top right side of the BC Archives page.
This guide is intended to help researchers locate material on British Columbia First Nations at the BC Archives as well as to provide referrals to related resources available elsewhere.
For more Aboriginal Content Resources:
Current Events, Politics, and Issues Resources
Residential Schools and Colonial Impacts
For access to primary sources, try:This site allows you to search for primary sources. Once in site, scroll down a bit and enter search term(s) in the Search window.
These collections highlight history of the Province of British Columbia and the area generally defined as the Pacific Northwest. See also Victoria and Vancouver Island and East Asian and Asian Canadian Collections.
Local newspapers reflect the social and cultural life of their communities and thus remain a vital source of information for community members and scholars alike. Enhancing access to this valuable information encourages the study of British Columbia history and brings research material to historians across the province and beyond.
The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. Date from 1865 to 1994. Access to the microfilm used to create this collection generously provided by the Royal British Columbia Museum and British Columbia Provincial Archives.
~Open Collections, UBC
For a list of tools to support your research skills click HERE
Looking for an alternative to tictok? Stop by the Library/Learning Commons to select a book based on a couple of intriguing sentences. Sign it out, then open it and enjoy. This way you can’t judge the book by its cover.
To view the results of our student election click here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rHUcCQuPi14_pooN5MGhKFkn4UuBFIIPAz884tKe10g/edit?usp=sharing
Some numbers:
645 students voted
53.9% of our student population voted
15 Rejected ballots
A huge thank you to the teachers that brought their classes down and/or encouraged students to engage in the student vote.
A shout out to Mr. Burgess and Ms. Huculak for recruiting student volunteers to run the election. We had a great team of students that volunteered their time to make this happen.
From the National Student Vote Results:
1,181,053 votes were reported from 7,855 schools, with results from 338 federal ridings.
In the preliminary results, students elected a Liberal minority government: the Liberals won the most seats (110), followed by the NDP (99 seats), Conservatives (94 seats), Green Party (28 seats) and Bloc Québecois (9 seats).
The full breakdown of the results can be found here: https://studentvote.ca/results/canada2019/
Practice mindfulness. Visit the LC to recenter and work on the puzzle.
A huge shout out to the Times Colonist for continuing to support our Library/Learning Commons. This year Royal Bay received a $1900 to continue to build our library collection. Our focus this year is on accessibility. We will be purchasing books of all reading levels, from local book stores in an attempt to support local small business. From home, we will be getting these books ready to add to our shelves so our students can access them as soon as we are back in the building.
The RBSS Student Book Club visited Hans Helgesen Elementary School, during Literacy Week, to share their favourite books and love of reading.
A huge shout out to our devoted RBSS Tutors who made themselves available at lunch on Wednesdays and during Focus blocks to complete their training and facilitate AVID Tutorials. We hope to see those of you who aren’t graduating back again next year!
Zoom into any place on Earth. Or use Voyager to go on a virtual tour.
Explore the far reaches of the world!
Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally! Creative Commons works to increase sharing, collaboration and innovation world-wide. Additionally, access their free tools to inform people how they can reuse and share your creative works.
This publication is focused on authentic Indigenous voices discussing Cultural Rights, Human Rights, Environmental Rights and Equity.
Click HERE to access.
Click the product icon. The username & password are provided in the Learning Commons.
We have had peer tutors creating Breakout EDU challenges for their classes. Breakout EDU, an immersive games platform for learners where players work collaboratively to solve a series of critical thinking puzzles in order to open a locked box.
If you are not sure what to read next, check out EPIC READS for a short youtube video synopsis of many young adult titles. If we don’t have it in the Learning Commons, submit a request – we will order it in for you.
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The LearnNowBC portal offers free services that support student-centered learning for K-12 students, adult learners, parents and educators.
In supporting student-centered learning and flexibility, LearnNowBC provides the following services:
The LearnNowBC portal is managed by the School District 73 Business Company (SD73BC) under an agreement with the British Columbia Ministry of Education.
