Life In Our School - Seven Oaks School Division
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2020 - 2021
Life In Our School...
École Rivière-Rouge The Giving Cart
Main Street Project - Mme Smith and her grade 3
students planned a school initiative to support
Winnipeg citizens who have less than us.
All our ÉRR Families
gave generously.
Our students and their families gave us encouragement
and hope through this ever-changing school year.
Developing Leaders of Reconciliation
Cartes avec COEUR Every year, on Orange Shirt Day, we gather to honour children lost
to the Residential School System.
Mme Marquardson and her grade 1 students
In May and June, we
started by creating cards for residents in long
honoured the 215 Tk’emlúps
term care homes. They extended the project to
te Secwépemc children who
the whole school who crafted beautiful,
lost their lives to Residential
hand-made, non-denominational holiday cards
School in Kamloops, BC.
which were purchased by our families.
Our families donated pairs of
All proceeds went
shoes and placed them on
to holiday hampers
our Heart Garden for one
for our school
week.
community.
The lessons of
giving continues to .
grow with the ÉRR
Cards for Medical Professionals
community family.
Mme Proulx and her
grade 5 students showed
their appreciation for
hospital staff at Health
Sciences Centre who
worked tirelessly
throughout the pandemic.
L BUILDING SCHOOL CULTURE
Jordan’s Principle
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Composting
Main Street Project
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Red River Cart of Giving
Manitoba Theatre for Young People
• Oui 2 We Club
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School
• Anti-racism assemblies
• Terry Fox Walk & Run school-wide
event
• Jordan’s Principle
I • School-wide virtual assemblies
GRANDMA JOYCE
Maple syrup taffy
n on the snow knits 60 tuques for extra
Orange Shirt Day warmth for our students.
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LIFE SKILLS
r Students participated in Project 11. They
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learned that lessons in living are about being
polite, developing empathy, showing kindness
and cooperating with one another.
S THANK YOU
FOR OUR PARENT SUPPORT
c especially this year as you
supported all the changes we MATH & SCIENCES
• Math Learning Carpets
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went through to make our
Life in
school as safe as possible. • Reduce Reuse Recycle Repurpose
• Outdoor Learning
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o VIRTUAL SCHOOL-WIDE
ASSEMBLIES
l THE ARTS •Welcome Assembly
• Orff-based music program for K to Grade 5 •Orange Shirt Day
• Recorder program for Grades 3-5 •Remembrance Day
• Fiddling program for Grades 2-5 •Anti-racism
• Virtual Music Monday 2021 •Festival du Voyageur
• Seven Oaks Divisional Dance Day •Pink Shirt Day
• Jigging clubs •Black History Month
• Campfire
sing-a-longs
AANII STORIES L
Each month, classrooms
receive a book that
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supports developing a
shared vision of our
community,
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Life in
« avec C.O.E.U.R. »
COMPOSTING
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Mme Francis’ grade 3 students learned about composting
and how to recycle organic matter to enrich the soil. With
RESPONSIBLE CHILDREN n
• Anti-racism
this knowledge, they advocated to get a composting bin for
• Students On Patrol
our school's Three Sisters Garden and they educated peers
and together as a school, they led the composting initiative. • Tall Prairie Grass Garden
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Three Sisters Garden
Composting
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• Butterfly Garden
LITERACY
• I Love to Read Month
ADVANCING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
• Story Time r
our
• Three weekly pre-school bilingual Story Time Programs
• Monthly Aanii books
• Festival du Voyageur - week of festivities
• Chromebooks in every classrom
• Welcome to Kindergarten Open House virtual tour
• Anti-racism literacy in library
• Meet and Greet Kindergarten families outdoors
• Connecting families with learning
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• Indigenous literacy
• Grades 1-3 gift of books for summer
reading
EXTRACURRICULAR
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
This year, our physical education
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School
team’s focus was on keeping our
students healthy and safe. That
meant spending as much time o
as possible outside. We took
countless community walks, o
including participating in the
Terry Fox Walk in the fall. When
the snow fell, we brought out the
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snowshoes and sleds for winter
fun. When physical education
classes were indoors, students
had opportunities to develop a
ELDER MARY
wide range of skills in a variety of
Shares her guidance and
physical activities and games.
encourages us on our
journey toward
Truth and Reconciliation
in person in a virtual
whole-school assembly.
Reflections on 2020-2021
Patrols River Ridge II Seniors’ Home
Community Connections
This is a special Mme Sukich and her grade 1 students made
honour, reserved for our special pop-up holiday cards for the River Ridge II
oldest students. residents to share the care.
It requires commitment,
responsibility and dedication.
Black History Month
Students
developed an
understanding of
racism and how Three Sisters and Butterfly Gardens
to become their
Students create sustainable and meaningful connections to the
best selves.
land through hands-on learning experiences.
Mme Prairie and her grade 4 students planted the Three Sisters
Garden with corn, beans and
squash. These three crops
The Wall-Sharing Stories complement one another as
three sisters do, a First Nations
Students shared their family traditions. belief and practice. Our rabbit
community is very partial to the
beans and squash seedlings.
Mme Thompson planted
milkweed seedlings to create
the Butterfly Garden. Milkweed
is a host plant for Monarch
butterflies. The addition of a
plum tree which is typical to the
Manitoba landscape will attract
birds seeking food and shelter.
Jigging Club with Mikey
The Club de gigue enjoyed a successful 5th year.
Mikey Harris of the Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers
returned as instructor for a 3rd year. Students
performed for the virtual Graduation Pow Wow
and the Play Patrols
Divisional
Day of
Dance.
Outdoor Learning Classrooms 2020 - 2021
Learning Outdoors can improve emotional, intellectual and behavioral development. Students learning outdoors develop
their creativity, problem solving, independence, confidence and so much more...
Playing in natural spaces supports a child's sense of self, allowing children to recognize their independence alongside an
interdependence and connectedness with their ecological worlds.
Terry Fox Walk/Run
Aki Centre - Pilot School 2018
2020-- 2021
2019
Our school was chosen as a pilot school and given the amazing opportunity to visit the Aki Centre repeatedly throughout
the year. By being able to return to the site several times, children were able to build a meaningful connection to the
space and the landscape. Children looked forward to returning to check on trees they remembered, observe changes in
the pond, and spend time around the campfire. During visits, classes had the opportunity to climb and sled on the big hill,
walk and tour the grounds and learn about indigenous plants species. We prepared seeds for spring gardening, learned
about composting, safely learned to build a fire, among other amazing land-based learning experiences.
ÉRR is thankful for this opportunity and we are so excited to return to the space over the years as the Centre continues to
thrive!
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