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After over a year’s worth of preparation and anticipation, John completed the sacrament of First Reconciliation tonight. It was remarkable to stand just outside the heavy wooden of the doors of our…
Orange Shirt Day is based on Phyllis Webstad’s story of entering an Indian Residential School in 1973 as a six-year old girl and having her shiny new orange shirt stripped from her. Orange Shirt Day is observed each September 30 to honour residential school survivors, those who did not survive, and their descendants. Their slogan is Every Child Matters. It is an opportunity for First Nations, schools and communities across Canada and beyond, to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope. Use the following pages to create posters for your school or community event. Click here for the french version. ____________________________________________________________________________ In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada made 94 Calls to Action. These resources were created in response to the Commission’s 62nd and 63rd Calls to Action: Introduction to Residential Schools for Kids Unit One: Shi-shi-etko Introduction to Residential Schools for Kids Unit Two: Shin-chi's Canoe (part of the Teach for Justice collection) Meet Tom Longboat-Indigenous Hero: freebie (part of the Teach for Justice collection) Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation: Inquiry Images ____________________________________________________________________________ Thank you for taking an interest in Orange Shirt Day! I encourage you to learn more about residential schools and hope that these pages will be helpful to you and your students. All the best, Bryn The Primary Patch on Instagram The Primary Patch Blog The Primary Patch on Facebook
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We are still preparing for Lydia's First Reconciliation at home, but Reconciliation is a Sacrament that we and our children should be receiving often. It's never the wrong time to be learning more about the
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. Many of the children were abused. 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. Orange Shirt Day was started in 2013 by residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, who went to a residential school in Williams Lake, British Columbia. The day is named after an experience she had on her first day of school when she was just six years old. She arrived wearing a new orange shirt that her grandmother had bought her, but school staff stripped it from her. 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.” The event takes place on Sept. 30 every year because it’s the day that many Indigenous children were forced to leave their homes. The message that Phyllis wants to pass along on Orange Shirt Day — and every day — is that every child matters. Orange Shirt Day was started by Phyllis to educate people about residential schools and fight racism and bullying. Many schools across Canada now recognize Orange Shirt Day. All students and staff wear an orange shirt. This year, every homeroom in our school received a large t-shirt cut out of orange poster board. My class (Grade 6) went with the idea of "Students at school should feel...." They brainstormed different words. I printed out a template of feather shapes. I used the template found HERE from the Wedding Chicks website. Then tinted them a natural colour using liquid watercolours. Students wrote their words on the feathers and cut them out. I then glued them all over the t-shirt. Please visit https://www.orangeshirtday.org/ for more ideas on how to get involved in this day.
Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit while teaching my children (and a class) all about Reconciliation I have come up with a few ...
We are preparing for the Sacrament of First Reconciliation at home this year, and it's coming up for Lydia very soon! I made a printable set of the "5 Steps To A Good Confession" as
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Years ago (at least 8) I was teaching the creation to the Primary children and came up with these two activities. The first is a basic wheel that spins to show what was created on each day. Just cu…
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