Kapawe’no First Nation – At our Buffalo Bay Academy’s Grade 10-12 programs, Mr. Joe Kavanagh’s balanced, dynamic and multifaceted approach gears students up for their diploma exams and connects classroom learning to real-world scenarios.
“Mr. Joe’s innovative and passionate teaching style empowers students to excel academically while fostering a lifelong love for learning”, said Principal Ms Sherry Bellegarde.
Our Biology 30 students have spent the last few weeks studying cell division and Mendellian genetics. We have been talking about chromosomes and genes, and learning how we (and other organisms) inherit these genes from our parents by looking at the DNA molecule and discussing reproduction. The diploma exam is on June 20th!
In Math 30-1, students have finished their exploration of exponential and logarithmic functions, making connections to where these apply in real life (such as population growth, or the decrease in value of a car over time). We have now moved on to trigonometry, where students are learning a new system to measure angles called radians. They will then use this to solve problems and create graphs of the 3 primary trigonometric functions. We will then end our discussion of trigonometry by proving trigonometric identities.
The diploma exam is on June 17th!
For Science 24, students are working at their own pace and so are at different points in the curriculum. Some are studying chemistry in everyday life by looking at some important reactions, while others have moved on to studying energy use in everyday life and are learning some new ideas such as kinetic and potential energy. There is no diploma exam in this course.
Last modified: May 23, 2025
