Dear Families, I hope students are enjoying their first PA day of the school year! That came by quickly didn't it!? I'm sure your child was excited to have a day off to rest and rejuvenate with family and friends. I spent my time collaborating with my colleagues to plan and prep for many more fun learning opportunities for our students! Enjoy your weekend!! Fall is definitely upon us! Bundle up everyone :-) Orange Shirt Day: On Monday, staff and students wore an orange shirt to honour all the Indigenous children who survived the Residential schools and to remember those who didn’t. These schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. We have done a lot of thinking about this experience in class and I am happy to share all my students have such great empathy as they're thinking about the feelings of all those...
