Rainbow District School Board welcomes Student Trustee for 2010-2011

Rainbow District School Board Director of Education Norm Blaseg welcomes Sloan Boyd of Sudbury Secondary School to the Board as a Student Trustee for the 2010-2011 school year.

Sloan Boyd, a Grade 12 student at Sudbury Secondary School, will serve as Student Trustee on the Rainbow District School Board for the 2010-2011 School Year. She was sworn in at the Board meeting on Monday, August 30, 2010.

“We are delighted to welcome Sloan Boyd as a Student Trustee,” said Rainbow District School Board Chair Tyler Campbell. “Rainbow Schools are all about students and Sloan Boyd will bring the student perspective to the table.” He added: “Her involvement will give us an opportunity to develop our future leaders and will give her an inside look at democracy in action.”

Sloan Boyd looks forward to fulfilling her role as a Student Trustee. “I have had the privilege of being a member of the Rainbow District School Board’s Student Senate during the past school year,” said Boyd. “As Secretary of the Student Senate, I took on quite a few responsibilities and I am certainly ready to take on more. I am so proud to be the voice of students and I know I can make an important contribution as Student Trustee.”

Sloan Boyd is enrolled in the Arts Education Program at Sudbury Secondary School where she is majoring in dance.  She has been an active member of Sudbury Secondary School’s Student Parliament since Grade 9 and served as Deputy Prime Minister during the past school year.

Sloan Boyd plans to pursue her postsecondary studies in law and political science at Laurentian University.

The new school year begins the day after Labour Day. The first day of school will be on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 for all area school boards, including Rainbow District School Board, the Sudbury Catholic District School Board, le Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario and le Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario. There will be no early dismissal on the first day.

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Nicole Charette, Senior Advisor,

Corporate Communications and Strategic Planning,

Rainbow District School Board, 674-3171, ext. 7217.