Westmount School receive Flames visit

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

A very lucky Grade 4 class at Westmount School won the chance to play floor hockey with Calgary Flames alumni Jeff Shantz and Harvey the Hound, while also receiving new floor hockey gear for the school through the Flames at School program sponsored by Chevron on April 2.
“So what it is, is an online learning program, we’ve worked with teachers and groups that help us build programs for students that are curriculum-based,” said Tonya Young, representative from Flames Foundation for Life.
“Kids from the school division could go online, log on, their teachers can download an online program and there’s a wide variety of different programs from math to stretching, gym to teamwork, all based on hockey.”
Young admits that some of the courses are not all that appealing, but when you add hockey to the program it becomes more enjoyable.
“The numbers are not all that interesting but when you put hockey facts in it, they can be,” said Young. “Every time one of the teachers downloads and completes program in their class, they were entered in a draw to win and we had two grand prize winners and Westmount was one of the grand prize winners with a brand new set of floor hockey equipment.”
She stated that it was important to reach out to the rural area and they were very excited when a Strathmore school was announced.
“We were really excited, we think the rural and small towns that are surrounding Calgary are super important for so many different reasons,” said Young. “It was a random draw done by a group in Ontario that controls all the data so we had no idea until we saw the address of the winning school.
“To have a group like this outside the city that we can come out here and get everybody involved and to bring the Flames atmosphere out here was awesome.”