Blog Posts

We are grateful to have a provincial curriculum that prioritizes the intellectual, human, and social development of each of our children. In addition to ensuring our students master the critical literacy and numeracy skills necessary for success, we have time, space, and tools to develop each student’s understanding of themselves, others, and the world around them. In a world of increasing complexity and polarization, building these core competencies has never been more important.

A member of our District's Pandemic Response Team recently congratulated us on our "one year anniversary" of the weekly meetings we have been hosting since COVID-19 took its place in our collective consciences. It took a while for it to sink in, but it dawned on me that we have been working at this for what seems like several years. This time last year, the World Health Organization declared that we were amidst a "global pandemic." We hosted a meeting with all school district leaders at the Abby Arts Centre to map out how we would tackle this emerging threat after Spring Break. 

February is Black History Month, a time to honour and celebrate the contributions of people of African heritage. Black History Month was first celebrated in the United States, and it is now formally observed in Canada (for over forty years), the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands.