This school year has been very challenging for our schools across the province. Principals, teachers and school staff have been working extra hard to be innovative with their lessons in order to keep student safety at the top of their priority list. We had the opportunity to chat with some of our teachers to hear … Read more
This school year has been very challenging for our schools across the province. Principals, teachers and school staff have been working extra hard to be innovative with their lessons in order to keep student safety at the top of their priority list. We had the opportunity to chat with some of our teachers to hear … Read more
We are pleased to announce our Christmas Card Art Contest winners! K-Grade 2 – Grace Johnson Grades 3-5 – Joshua Jermey-Ernst Grades 6-8 Jude Masty Grades 9-12 – Desna Doucette Thanks to everyone who submitted artwork!
The weather was perfect during our gathering of elders, knowledge keepers and youth at the Digby Pines from October 14-16. The reason for the gathering was to encourage our elders and youth to spend some time together and come up with ideas on how to develop a “Cultural Nest” for our communities across the province. … Read more
(Story from Chronicle Herald) After 18 months of learning how to care for children in their First Nation communities through a culturally competent lens, a group of women recently celebrated their graduation from a Mi’kmaw early childhood education pilot program at the Nova Scotia Community College. The 13 Mi’kmaq women who participated in the Poqji-kina’masulti’kw … Read more
The province, Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey and Millbrook First Nation have renewed a memorandum of understanding creating a partnership to teach treaty education to children in all Nova Scotia schools. The agreement commits the three partners to teach treaty education in all classrooms and grades and ensures Nova Scotians and the civil service benefit from education about … Read more
Our yoga teachers cohort had a great weekend celebrating the successful completion of their 200 hours of training this month. 17 participants from MK schools started in the fall of 2019 and graduation was supposed to be in June. Sessions that were supposed to be held in the early spring were on hold because of … Read more
During the summer of 2020, Rebecca Scirocco, Wellness Consultant, hosted Wellness camps in our communities across the province. The main purpose for putting on the camps was to help students learn about the new safety measures they will be seeing this year as they return to school, and learning about ways to cope with stress. … Read more