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Youville Celebrates Summer

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Each year as summer school comes to a close, we hold a BBQ Fun Day and Showcase for our summer school students and their children.

Work from the two summer courses, Visual Art and Dramatic Arts is displayed and showcased prior to heading outside for a BBQ and some fun outdoor activities. This is a wonderful opportunity for our summer school students to celebrate their achievements, and to enjoy a special event with their children.

The BBQ Fun Day included children’s games, pony rides, a visit from local firemen and their truck, a fun photo booth, and a delicious buffet of burgers, salads, watermelon, ice cream cones and refreshing beverages.

Youville Centre volunteers as well as volunteers from MBNA and TELUS helped us to make this day special for our young moms and their children.

We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations whose donations helped to make our Summer BBQ Fun Day such a success:
• Papa Jack Popcorn
• MBNA, A Division of the Toronto-Dominion Bank
• GMSPC
• PEPSI Beverages Canada
• Whole Foods Market Lansdowne
• TELUS Ottawa Community Ambassadors
• Ottawa Police Service
• Ottawa Fire Services
• The Smith Family
• Youville Centre Volunteers and Board Members

Please enjoy these photos from the event!

Visual Arts students displayed their paintings, drawings, and sculptures:

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Dramatic Arts students put on a series of short plays for their children:

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Youville’s infants and toddlers enjoyed outdoor games, water play, and pony rides:

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Local Fire Station #13D visited with their truck and were a big hit with our toddlers:

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Youville Centre volunteers and guest volunteers from MBNA and TELUS joined in the fun and helped make this event a huge success:

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And everyone enjoyed a delicious summer BBQ meal with burgers, fresh salads, cool drinks and of course, ice cream:

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Our Little Artists

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At Youville Centre, we have 55 little artists from the ages of 2 months to 2.5 years. Yes, even the 2 month old babies can experience art!

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Within our Child Development Program and our ELECT Framework (Early Learning for Every Child Today), our infants and toddlers participate in a wide range of art activities using many different mediums. Please note that we use only non-toxic paint.

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Our youngest babies love to fingerpaint and squish the paint around in their toes, sometimes on top of bubble wrap for an added sensory experience.

Baby Foot Art 2

Our toddlers love to make crafts for their moms, and they enjoy working on their fine motor skills by using glue, paintbrushes and crayons.

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I think our favourite art activity might be our “baby painting” game where we place paper on the floor, add globs of colourful paint, and allow our toddlers to play, creating beautiful swirls of colour — although most of the paint ends up on our toddlers rather than on the paper!

They love this activity!

Full Body Painting

At Youville Centre, art is a sensory experience where our infants and toddlers can utilize all of their senses to create something. We allow the children to explore different mediums, and our activities are always open-ended to promote creativity. During art activities, a greater understanding of spatial and colour concepts is gained by the children, and the beautiful finished products are hung around the centre and given to mom to take home.

We are so very proud of our little artists!

 

Young Moms Show Creativity at Summer School

Summer is here and Youville Centre students are just wrapping up their final summer school assignments. This summer our young moms worked toward a credit in either Visual Arts or Hairstyling & Esthetics. Brand new to our summer school programming, the Hairstyling & Esthetics Course was run through the Ottawa Catholic School Board’s Continuing Education Department and taught by Fay Campbell, Continuing Education Teacher who also teaches at Algonquin College.

Fay teaches students how to properly cut hair

Delivered part-time at Youville Centre and part-time at St. Nicholas Adult High School, where there is a full salon setup on-site, this class allowed our young moms the opportunity to develop skills and techniques such as:

  • manicures and pedicures
  • haircuts (in particular “the bob”)
  • paraffin wax treatments for hands
  • shampooing and hair styling
  • curling hair with rollers and hair straightening
  • makeup application with different colour palettes
  • client service and professionalism
  • proper hygiene
  • respecting  others

The culminating task in this course was a “Spa Day” where students had the chance to practice their newly learned skills by giving hand massages and manicures to staff, volunteers and guests. Staff and volunteers also benefitted from hairstyling and paraffin wax treatments.

A guest from MAC Cosmetics demonstrates proper makeup application

Hand massages and paraffin wax treatments were a welcome treat for hardworking staff and volunteers

In our Visual Arts course, students learned the following:

  • sketching
  • painting: acrylics, watercolours
  • portraiture
  • sculpture
  • photography (including working in a darkroom)
  • mixed media
  • colour theory
  • perspective
  • Ikebana (Japanese Flower Arranging)
  • Japanese ink painting
  • a collaborative mural project

The class also took a field trip to the National Gallery of Canada and enjoyed learning from guest instructors. The culmination of this course resulted in an art show where our young moms proudly displayed their work for volunteers, staff and special guests to enjoy.

Youville Centre would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their support of our Summer School program:

  • The Knights of Pythias, Aurora Lodge #53
  • City of Ottawa Lemieux Island Water Purification Plant Employees
  • Angela Lariviere, who visits each year to teach our young moms how to draw a portrait of their baby
  • Tim Desclouds, Art Teacher at Cantebury High School who provided instruction on watercolour painting
  • David Wilson, Photographer and student at the School of Photographic Arts — Ottawa
  • MAC Cosmetics
  • Rebecca, who provided instruction on Ikebana and Japanese ink painting
  • Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
  • Ottawa Catholic School Board — Continuing Education Department

Summer School Teachers

Summer Success at Youville Centre

Everyone is familiar with the phrase, “school’s out for summer”, but here at Youville Centre our young moms soldier on through the month of July to earn one more Ontario Secondary School credit and enjoy a few fun, memorable experiences.

Each July, our students have the opportunity to earn a credit in one of two courses, this year’s subjects being Visual Art or Phys. Ed. Summer school is a great opportunity for some of our students to catch up, and for others to get ahead moving into the new school year in September.

The artwork that our young moms created this year was visually stunning and emotionally powerful — especially the portraits of their children. In addition to Art History and studio work, our students were also fortunate enough to visit the National Gallery of Canada.

We’d like to thank our Art Teacher, Sarah, as well as everyone who contributed their time, supplies and services to help make our Art program a success:

Phys. Ed. was a very busy program, with our students participating in everything from aquafitness to zumba, yoga and health studies, dragonboating and swimming, and other fitness-related activities. One highlight of the Phys. Ed. program was a day trip to a local splash pad where our young moms enjoyed a swim with their little ones!

Many thanks to our Phys. Ed. Teacher, Laura, and to everyone who made this program possible:

If you’d like to donate to next year’s summer school program, please contact us at communications[at]youvillecentre[dot]org.