Hello Families,

We have had another learning-filled week at Andrew Sibbald School in our Grade 2 classroom.

This week at school students were invited to wear Orange for Orange Shirt Day on Thursday for our day of honouring Truth and Reconciliation week at school.

Our Learning Intentions for the week were;
  • I can appreciate multiple points of view, languages, cultures, and experiences within groups and communities. (Grade 2 Social Studies)
  • I can reflect of healthy relationships with one another, my community, and with nature. (Grade 2 Wellness)
  • I can express the benefits of different cultural communities keeping their identity and creating a sense of belonging. (Grade 2 Social Studies)
We are committed to helping staff and students deepen their understanding of Indigenous cultures at Andrew Sibbald School. Our school has committed to acknowledging and supporting the TRC's Calls to Action. Using the Wholistic Lifelong Learning Framework, we committed to building staff and student capacity for intellectual understanding, empathy, and mutual respect. We are committed to:

  • Building our collective understanding through stories and picture books.
  • Encouraging holistic teaching and learning to thrive while learning from the land in our learning grounds and nearby Fish Creek Park.
  • Creating a cultural space and learning documentation panels to honour the work and our commitment to truth and reconciliation.

Students participated in tasks, discussions, and read-alouds this week to gain a deeper understanding of Indigenous cultures, appreciation of different perspectives, and some unfortunate consequences of Residential Schools.

We focused on Phyllis Webstad's words, "Every Child Matters" and talked about what that really means. Students created their own Orange shirts using loose parts and then drew and wrote about their shirts and why they were important. As well as read Shi-shi-etko's story and created our own memory bags in our visual journals.

On Thursday, the entire school community came together in the learning grounds to acknowledge the land with the Morning Cree song and the Children's Treaty 7 Land Acknowledgment.






Also just a reminder that this Friday is the Terry Fox Run!

We hope you have had a wonderful weekend with your families, I will see you all on Tuesday morning!

Ms. Craik



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