January 2019 … hit the ground running!

Jan 24 2019

 

Eagle Harbour staff and students have hit the ground running in 2019!  Always excited to showcase our wonderful little school, we invited our very own West Vancouver School District Superintendent, Mr. Chris Kennedy, to come and give each of our classes a basketball skills workshop.  Once a teacher, always a teacher!  The children had a fabulous time and we have already ordered basketball hoop attachments which will make the existing hoops ‘primary friendly’.

Close on the heels of basketball came ‘Rocks & Rings’, a Curling Canada program designed to introduce the Olympic sport of curling to students of all ages.  We now know that curling is:

1. much more difficult than it looks and
2. a lot of fun!

The children will even have a curling tournament on Thursday!

Of course we are about so much more than just physical literacy … how about the Arts?  We have that covered as well, with our Artist in Residence program from January – June led by Haisla Collins, a mixed media Vancouver artist indigenous to territories of Northern BC. In addition to her education obtained at Emily Carr University, Haisla’s work has also been heavily influenced by the contemporary aboriginal arts community, locally and across North America and by tribal peoples all over the world. You may already have seen her work in a Canada 150 mural she led with other artists on Beatty St. at Georgia in Downtown Vancouver.  So far this month we have been learning from Haisla about animal symbology and its significance in Indigenous cultures. Each class has selected an animal that they feel represents their class community and will all take part in sewing a button blanket.  Stay tuned for more upcoming themes and activities that will be taught to the students by Haisla Collins!

Performing arts are also highlighted here at Eagle Harbour – there are so many life skills embedded, not to mention the fact that nothing is more entertaining than an elementary school performance!  We are so pleased that Ms. Hardern has begun her choir program again this year and we look forward to enjoying another wonderful performance.

To everything there is a season and nothing signals the impending arrival of spring better than the arrival of our annual batch of salmon eggs!  Ms. Everett has set the ‘hatchery’ up and we are ready to watch and learn about the salmon life cycle!  This year the tank is in the centre ‘pod’ area, by the primary classrooms.