Principal's Message - June 19

Dear HWW Students, Families, and Community members,

This week we honour National Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Along with celebrating the Summer Solstice, we will also revisit our Truth and Reconciliation commitments as a staff. We have been so grateful for the support of our Indigenous Education Team and our Indigenous Education Strategist Kathleen Wells as we continue to walk forward in a good way to honour Indigenous Ways of Doing, Knowing, Being and Belonging. We wish Kathleen all the best in her next steps.

For 2024-2025, we are addressing Call 65: Advance understanding of Truth and ReconciliACTION with students, staff and families. Two actions we have selected include:

Heart - To Belong: Identify places across curriculum where Indigenous ways of being, belonging, doing and knowing can be weaved in and then design learning tasks.

Body- To Do: Plan with intention to build and nurture relationships, and gather voices from Indigenous students and families through hosting events such as a Commūn-I-Tea.

In addition, we will continue to reflect on our professional practice and inter-nal biases, for each staff member to create their own truth and reconciliation commitments.

Our exam session is well underway. A warm thanks to our wonderful School Council for the Fuel Your Brain snacks. Students were delighted to be treated to freshly popped popcorn and cold drinks and felt well celebrated at last week’s Student Appreciation Event.

Please take note of the credit recovery opportunities for students throughout the exam schedule. Teachers are reaching out with invitations to attend.

A few calendar dates ahead of note. Report cards will be live on Wednesday, June 26. Mark appeals are Thursday, June 27 from 8am-noon. This time is dedicated to any calculation errors or questions. If you have questions now, please reach out directly to your student’s teacher.

There will one final Wednesday Warrior on June 26. The office will be closed for the summer on June 28 and re-opening on August 20. Please watch your inboxes for summer Wednesday Warriors on July 10 and August 14.

Best to our Warriors for an outstanding exam session,

Aileen Smyth

Principal