IMPORTANT DATES

September 30th   Orange Shirt Day

We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, which is the traditional ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

ORANGE SHIRT DAY - SEPTEMBER 30TH

The “orange shirt” in Orange Shirt Day refers to the new shirt that Phyllis Webstad was given to her by her grandmother for her first day of school at St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in British Columbia. When Phyllis got to school, they took away her clothes, including her new shirt. It was never returned. To Phyllis, the colour orange has always reminded her of her experiences at residential school and, as she has said, “how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying and no one cared.”

Residential schools were church-run schools where approximately 150,000 Métis, Inuit and First Nations children were sent between the 1860s and the 1990s. The schools harmed Indigenous children by removing them from their families, forcing them to speak English or French instead of their ancestral languages, disconnecting them from their culture and traditions and forcing them to adopt Christianity in order to assimilate into Canadian society. The government has since acknowledged that this approach was wrong, cruel and ineffective, and offered an official apology to the Indigenous people of Canada in 2008.

https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/what-is-orange-shirt-day

LIBRARY NEWS

Starting on Wednesday, Ms. Demers will be allowing a small number of students into the Library at lunch time.  Students MUST sign up through a google form that can be found on the Library website.  The link is at the bottom of the Astral Drive Homepage. 

Once your name is submitted, you will be placed on a rotating list to allow as many students as possible to access the Library at lunchtime.  Ms. Demers will let you know via your GNSPES email what days you are scheduled.

Seating will be 6feet apart to allow students to take off their masks.  Food is not permitted, but if it is your scheduled day, you will be allowed in after eating.  Social distancing rules will be in effect, so there will not be browsing or moving over to chat with friends. 

Ms. Demers looks forward to seeing many students, but wants to stress that this is a trial run.  If all goes well, more students may be allowed in at one time. 
If you have any questions, please email Ms. Demers at ddemers@hrce.ca.

COMMUNITY NEWS – COLE HARBOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY - Teen Night: New Beginnings

It has been a very strange year so far but we are inviting you back to the Library for some small, in-person Teen Nights.
On specific Thursday's, after the Library closes, we will:
• Create art together, board and video game duels, watch movies & so much more
October 8th & 22nd, November 5th & 19th, December 3rd & 17th
Cole Harbour Public Library

To register, call Doreen at (902) 476-6179
or email at sheado@halifax.ca

POWERSCHOOL – STUDENT SCHEDULES

Our school is on a 10-day schedule; Week 1 & Week 2: 

TODAY IS:  September 28th – Week #2 – Cycle Day F