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#EveryChildMatters Our school week in Grade 5 was given the title of ‘Orange Shirt Week‘ to honour the 215 children who lost their lives at a Residential school in ​Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in western Canada. Students and teachers wore Orange Shirts to show their support. 
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Our Junior Kindergarten children were excited to begin learning about butterflies. We began by looking at a video that mentioned that there were over 20,000 species of butterflies in the world. We then talked about how beautiful butterflies really are and how none of them 
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The Grade Two students had a chance to welcome Asha Frost, an indigenous healer who talked to us about the importance of water and how sacred this resource is to the survival of Living things and therefore our planet Earth. The big idea of honouring 
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In collaboration with the Grade 2 IB theme Sharing the Planet, the grade 2’s viewed the David Attenborough video entitled “How to Save Our Planet”. We connected to how our actions affect the quality of air and water and it’s ability to sustain life. We 
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Our grade 5 students put the learning theory of constructionism into practice by building knowledge through the construction of paper tower structures. Their task was to create the tallest tower possible with only 15 sheets of paper and within a 15 minute time frame. Our young 
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This week’s blog author is from a Grade 4 Student. ​The central idea for How We Express Ourselves is, “ Light and sound can be expressed in a creative way.” For our first Line of Inquiry, we are learning about the properties of light and 
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Below are the Grade 7/8 architectural pen and ink drawings of Hospitals. “This is relevant because it shows the different hospitals that are taking care of people during Covid-19, and how the streets are so empty because of it.” ​”My pen and ink drawing shows 
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With the beautiful spring weather arriving last week, we took the opportunity to take the children outside to do some inquiry work. We have been thinking about how humans and animals help each other, and what we could do to help by designing a garden 
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The Grade 5 students investigate into the third line of inquiry (using technology safely in our lives) brought them to learn about cyberbullying and the impact it can have on the target, victim, bystanders and ‘upstanders’. Students took action and created Public Service Announcement (PSA) 
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