Many students have been sharing their thoughts on the ongoing refugee crisis. “They already have everything taken away from them because of the war raging on in their country, and now they have nothing left. It’s really terrible.” Fynn, a Grade 9, seeks to highlight the bleak reality of the Syrian situation. “It’s really saddening and really upsetting. It’s incredibly unfair that I have more than what I need and they hardly have anything. It’s really terrible that they have to go through all...

    We can make a difference by celebrating this day! This phase from Seungyeon's poem really illustrates the optimism we need to keep in dealing with such potentially dispiriting stories.   "There are bombs all over the air / You are running for your life / Blood all over the streets / And friends are dead" However in contrast Liv's poem represents the reality of the situation - the world of the refugees is not one of peace, or calm, it is a long road, littered with pitfalls...

Today is World Refugee Day! To kick start our event we invited the Grade 3's to share their learning and poetry on Refugees! The Grade 3's have been spending the past few weeks studying migration, and have just completed their unit. They studied the causes and effects of migration and they talked about forced migration, and they studied a few example stories. One of the stories was about a young Syrian girl called Malak. "They are not an issue, they are people." The children had recently...