Living Sky School Division No. 202 - Saskatchewan, Canada

Living Sky School Division No. 202 - Saskatchewan, Canada

STUDENT | STAFF | PARENTS

FEATURE STORIES

May is Speech and Hearing Month!!!

Spring is here…and so is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month! Speech and language disorders can take many forms and can limit academic achievement, social adjustment, and career advancement. An individual may be born with a speech and language disorder, or it may be caused by accidental injury or illness.

DID YOU KNOW…

1 in 10 Canadians has a speech, language, or hearing problem
Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic disability among older adults, behind arthritis and hypertension
Communication disorders in school age children are often misdiagnosed as learning disabilities or behavioral problems, and can be very difficult to treat in later years. Children with behavioral problems are 10 times more likely than other children to have language disorders

Speech-language pathologists and audiologists are professionals that identify, evaluate, and rehabilitate children and adults who have speech, language, and hearing disorders. Living Sky School Division employs five speech-language pathologists: Sherry Bockus, Cathy Richardson, Leanne Sargent, Lindsay Zubiak, and Jamie Foster.

For more information visit the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists website (www.caslpa.ca).

Kerrobert Central School Cultural Week

From April 15-19, 2013, Kerrobert School hosted Cultural week for their students to experience different styles of art, dance, storytelling, film and food from a variety of world cultures. Special guests that attended the week long activities included Jannie Corrigal, Sherron Burns, Ashley Johnson, Moe Clark, Joseph Naytowhow, Tyson Wuttunee and the Red Pheasant Dancers and Two Nations Drumming group. Along with the visiting guests, Rehana Sultana, a new teacher to Kerrobert, provided beautiful traditional henna decorations on hands to students and guests throughout the week as a celebration of her Indian culture.

Métis artist, Jeanne Corrigal, visited Kerrobert School to show her film “The Jim Settee Story” about her father. Students learned about his life, the values he teaches and had some hands on activities to engage with the story. On Thursday, students were signed up to work with different guest artists – Moe introduced them to spoken word poetry and her looping machine, Ashley taught social dance with creative dance, Sherron led students in their mandela designs on silk hoops, Joseph told stories and teachings about First Nation worldview and the treaties. The week’s activities capped off with a community Powwow in the gym, with the drummers and dancers from Red Pheasant First Nation and Joseph explaining to the audience what each dance means, and the origins of each. The community was then asked at the end of the dance performances to join in for a community round dance.

Special thank you to everyone that attended to support the week’s activities, the special guests that shared their talents with our students, and Tyson Wuttunee and the Red Pheasant Drummers, Gerald Moosomin, Frankie Moosomin and Ronnie Moosomin and Dancers, Ryan Bugler (Men’s Traditional), Myles Baptiste (Grass), Cyrina Bull (Jingle), Madison Baptiste (Fancy), Marcella Bird (Woman’s Traditional) and of course, Berkley Phillips Wuttunee (Fancy).

Jr. Genius Celebration

On Tuesday April 30th, grade six students at Unity Public School presented their extensive research for the annual Junior Genius event. The school gym was full of life as students presented on a variety of topics under this year’s theme “Under the Sea”.

The students received this assignment in November and since then have dedicated their time, effort and enthusiasm to creating these lavish displays contacting experts on their topic, putting together information, creating models, dioramas, board games, quizzes and photo shopped pictures with their subject.

Each student was able to easily talk about their chosen topic in detail when given questions from supporting guests. Members of the community, parents, teachers and schoolmates came out to support the students and were impressed at the amount of effort that went into the booths. UPS Principal Doug English left a guestbook for visitors to sign and leave comments, which expressed nothing short of amazement at the quality of the projects.