Honouring 215 children
#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....
Blogs
The Beauty of Butterflies
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. https://youtu.be/QH_G1dSdPes We then talked about...
We Can All Be Water Guardians and Keepers!
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...
How To Save our Planet
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...
Paper Tower Structure Building Challenge
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...
How We Express Ourselves
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...
Places of significance during COVID-19
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...
Outdoor Learning
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,...
A community of active and compassionate citizens
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At Richland Academy, we work together to define education for a changing world so that our students are deeper thinking, confident and world ready. We are a community of learners who are active, responsible,...
Online Safety & The Impact of Communication Technologies on Our Lives
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...