Welcome to all of our new students, families members, and returning folks from last year! Our Division 5 learning community is already hard at work investigating these questions:
- What is a school? What does a school ‘need’ to have?
- How can we make our classroom a safe and caring space for everyone?
- Why do we come to school? What is the purpose of school?
We also read Grandmother School by Rina Singh, the true story of the Aajibaichi Shala (a school for grandmothers and elderly women) in India. This school was created to provide an opportunity for the grandmothers to learn literacy and numeracy skills. Many of these women were not able to attend school as children. and now take pride in learning alongside their grandchildren.
Check out the video below for more information on the amazing students of the Aajibaichi Shala!
We will continue to explore schools around the world, both in the past and in the present, and what our ‘perfect’ school would look like, feel like, etc.
Wishing everyone well,
Ms. Ward