Every Child Matters

Colony Schools throughout the Interlake School Division worked together even though  kept apart by Covid, to show respect and empathy for the loss of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Each school honored the children and their families by coloring a feather drawn by Michelle Stoney, a Gitxsan artist. Michelle had shared her drawing through different social media posts and asked that it could be used to demonstrate understanding of the loss. Schools colored a combined total… Read More

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Hands-On Learning at Lightly School

On Wednesday, March 17th we had a chance at some hands-on learning when Leo Wilzer from Star Brite popped in for an encore electrical workshop. His goal was to teach our eager students how to install a 3-way switch and to wire a transformer for a doorbell.

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St. Patricks’ Day at Mallard School

The students at Mallard school did some Lucky Charms graphing. They sorted and graphed the marshmallows bit pieces. They calculated the cereal piece mass and the percentage of total  marshmallow bits per box.

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Activities at Mallard School

Character Day! Mallard students and staff dressed up as their favorite characters. I Love to Read Month  “Cat in the Hat” ~ Dr.Seuss~ We read Bartholmew & The Oobleck and experimented with Oobleck    

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Omega School

Omega students got creative using sticks and yarn and made these unusual, colorful stick people!

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Lightly School

Students were able to get in some skating during the beautiful January weather. A great way to get some exercise!

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Kelsey School

“Calendar Math” Everyday we use the date to come up with as many number sentences as possible! On January 12th, the kids worked together to come up with 32 different ways to make the number 12. ” Solids ” We have been learning about the States of Matter in Science and had a brainstorm session where the students came up with 49 different examples of solids that they find in their everyday lives.

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