Global And National Actions

This year our Grade 6 classes have informed the Grade 5 students about the importance of the Sustainable Global Goals. Both classes took introduced the importance of sustainability to make change about every day habits towards the environment, local and global equity.

In teams we also built water filter to share our innovations with the First Nation communities who have been living under mercury pollutants and water advisory.  We researched about the history and the unsustainable infrastructures and living standards. We had 2 engineers from the University of Ottawa to visit us once a week for feedback about the process of the water filters designs. We fund raised to purchase coding kits to send to schools for students designed by the University of Ottawa.

Bake Sale and Water filters

We connected online via hangouts about World Water Week.

We also connected with an elder and visited Indigenous education week to connect with FNMI cultures.

Green Squad

   The Green Squad and Nature Club have been working on exciting projects to help the environment and raise awareness of how important nature really is for us and the world.
   Near the beginning of the year the Green Squad worked on a Waste Free Lunch Campaign.  They created posters and put them around the school to promote healthy and waste free lunches, for example, less plastic bags, plastic water bottles, and wrappers.

Guardians of the Grove started around the middle of May, to promote safety and following the rules in the grove. Students in Green Squad created cool, attractive pinnies to make the guardians stand out too! Talk about dedication! To add onto that, when the cold winter season subsided, the Green Squad took away their time to clean and repair the grove!

We had the school take a pledge to protect the grove, and with that the green squad made a giant tree poster! Now the school is officially eco-friendly!

That concludes the recent projects the Green Squad and Nature Club did during 2017.  Remember, we can all make a difference!

WE SCARE HUNGER

Not everyone lives a privileged life like you do. Some are living on the streets, finding food by digging out of trash cans. Some are terribly ill without any money to get a doctor or medicine. Did you know that 21,000 people die each year from hunger? Many people are aware of this circumstance, but many are not as well. We have started to make a change in many different ways.

Play For Change

PLAY FOR CHANGE!

WE made the arcade games

EACH and every one!

SO you give change but

CAN still play our

AMAZING self-made games!

REMEMBER, it’s a win-win!
EVERYONE is affected well! You get fun, they get a better life!

HUNGER will fall with P4C (Play For Change)!

UNDERSTAND 1 out of 4 people are starving!

NOTHING should be wasted when you finish your dinner

GO and make sure there’s dinner on their table
EVEN 25¢ is enough to play, whatever it takes to help!  

REMAKE their lives by donating!    

Protect.

Lead.

Accomplish

You can help.

Grade 6 Empathy and Compassion

The Grade 6 students this year continued to be active with our school community from environmental issues to world issues.

We have spent time developing an eco program through the Green Squad groups who met twice a week all year. We gave improved the outdoor grounds and the indoor daily awareness from recycling to litterless lunch and energy conservations.

We have also explored design thinking and integrative thinking throughout the year from issues on terrorism, Aboriginal Peoples voices and the Global Goals.

We have designed conceptions that informed our school community about the Global Goals. This playlist had the links to all of the videos. Playlist of the designs We coded and programmed sensors for the interactive designs. 

During our inquiries this year we connected with the Canadien UN  Military representative in the Congo and learned about forced and child labour as well as the students' life in the Congo. 

We created a Congo Escape Journey to build understanding, compassion and empathy for developing nations. We invited the Junior students to learn with us from Grade 4 to Grade 6

Our end of year Bake Sale was a success and we collected over 700$.  Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of the day as it was busy and the last week before school ends June 22nd.

We Are Silent

On Monday November 23rd the Grade 6 students participated at We Are Silent Campaign during the 2 nutrition breaks. 

Leah's initiative

I raised money for free the children by doing chores around the house and finding change around my house. I raised $9.10 for free the children and am still going to collect through out the year.