At Erickson School each class is learning more every year about the former Residential Schools and Erickson School today. They have been talking about how they feel at their school today and how this differs from back then.

Please check out some photos below:

The Gr. 2/3 class with their art projects for Truth and Reconciliation

The Gr.1/2 class in front of their feather projects showing how they feel at their school and their feather display board

The Gr 2/3 class with their orange shirt projects comparing residential schools to their school now and close ups of this project

The K/1 class with the Every Child Matters at Erickson School banner in front of the t-shirt projects that they created with their Gr. 7 ‘Big Buddies’ and  close-ups of some of their work about how they feel in their school.

And a few students from the 4/5 class in front of their display entitled Family Matters, Children Matter, artwork inspired by Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. 

In addition, the Gr. 7 class has been learning to make beaded poppies. 

The Gr. 3/4 class has been learning an Indigenous weaving technique to make their own memory bags.  

Submitted by Janet Zarchukoff, Aboriginal Youth Worker and Family Liaison at Erickson Elementary School