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Ambitious target for food campaign Comox Valley Food Bank will benefit from efforts of provincewide drive to collect food RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVOR Melvin Price is wrapped in a blanket by École Puntledge Park Elementary students. The school honoured five residential school survivors during a special assembly on National Aboriginal Day. PHOTO BY ED CARSWELL
Elders honoured by students on board to create a video documenting the project. Visit the Comox Valley Record’s Facebook page for a link to the video or visit the Comox Valley School District website at www.sd71.bc.ca. According to Carswell, the film
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into each of the classes and played the character of a young girl at a residential school as she taught students about the history École Puntledge Park Elethrough age appropriate storymentary students learned about telling in circles. residential school history and “From those circles it inspired honoured survivors in their a lot of questions and from school community as part their questions came an of a three-month project. The idea (of the project) is that inquiry in various classAboriginal kindergarrooms, and the classrooms ten/Grade 1 teacher Susan when we acknowledge our shared all went in different direcLeslie came up with the history then we can come together tions trying to research idea for Project Heart last … and all walk forward with a new and answer the questions spring. that they felt were really “Something I always shared understanding, supporting important to their learning,” wanted to do was talk and caring for each other with an recalls Leslie. about residential schools in open heart. “Some children knew a litschools because it seems to Susan Leslie tle, some children knew a lot be taboo,” recalls Leslie. and some knew nothing. But “The idea (of the project) is that when we acknowledge our will be presented at the 2014 every child wanted to know why. shared history then we can come World Community Film Festival It was really difficult for them to understand how this could have together ... and all walk forward in Courtenay. Leslie, who is Mi’kmaq, pre- been the law.” with a new shared understandResidential school survivor ing, supporting and caring for sented her idea to school staff, and 15 of the school’s 21 classes Verna Flanders, who spent 10 each other with an open heart.” Parent Ed Carswell, who is a joined in to learn about residen- years of her childhood at residenlocal filmmaker, quickly jumped tial school history. Leslie went ... see WE CAN ■ A2 Renee Andor Record Staff
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