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Fort McMurray Public School Division (FMPSD) is pleased to receive an $18,000 Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund grant to build resiliency for Indigenous students. The grant will be used for initiatives that will increase self-esteem, and quality of life by providing cultural connections, as well as help build empowerment through mental health, culture and language.
”We are thankful to receive a grant from the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund to offer such important programs for our Indigenous students and we look forward to sharing our successes later in the school year once the programs are up and running,” said Annalee Nutter, Assistant Superintendent of Education and Administration, Fort McMurray Public School Division.
By Jaryn Vecchio
Photo by Harvard Broadcasting
The community is being asked to play a big part in ensuring schools remain open for the remainder of the school year.
Students will officially return to in-school classes on Monday after the provincial government had those in grades 7 to 12 move to online learning at the end of November to help stop the surge of COVID-19 cases across Alberta.
All grades have spent the first week of 2021 learning online as schools prepared for everyone’s return.
“The best place for our students, we know and everybody knows, is in school with each other not only for academics but for the socializing and relationships that are so so important,” said George McGuigan, Superintendent of the Fort McMurray Catholic School District.
By Jaryn Vecchio
Outside of Ãcole Dickinsfield // Photo taken by Harvard Broadcasting staff
Families of students at Ãcole Dickinsfield are being encouraged to keep their kids home as the school deals with a COVID-19 outbreak.
According to the Fort McMurray Public School Division, 10 individuals with ties to the school have tested positive for the school.
The first case popped up on December 7.
The school will remain open for Thursday and Friday for those who canât keep their children at home and canât access childcare on short notice.
Classes are only scheduled for Thursday.
Parents and guardians who decide to keep their children home must email dfabsences@fmpsd.ab.ca.