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Under the current FFSD plan, no classes at all will take place for Kindergarten-Grade 8 students from Ecole McIsaac School and Ruth Betts Community School. All those Kindergarten-Grade 8 classes will fully move to remote learning May 26. "This proactive shift to temporary remote learning can cause additional stress, however, we want to assure you that our staff across the division are here to support you," said FFSD superintendent Tammy Ballantyne in a letter sent to parents and media May 22. "Working together, we can ensure your children's education continues as smoothly as possible throu...

Joanna Majoko is one of the participants in this year’s Searchlight competition - the former Hapnot Collegiate student, now a professional jazz singer in Toronto, entered with the song “Where You Are”. Majoko moved with her family from Germany to Zimbabwe to South Africa to Manitoba in her childhood, living in Flin Flon and Thompson before embarking on her musical career. Majoko is now a vocalist, composer and bandleader in Toronto and just released her first EP, No Holding Back, in March. No artists currently based in Flin Flon are taking part in this year’s Searchlight competition...

“The school is working closely with public health officials and is following their recommendations. Close contacts have been identified and are advised to self-isolate along with their household members,” reads the letter. “If you have not been contacted by the school stating your child is a potential close contact and a public health official has not contacted you, your child has not been identified as being exposed to COVID-19 from this/these cases.” Anyone who was in the cohort, including staff and students, is asked to self-monitor for the now-traditional COVID-19 symptoms, ran...

Hapnot recently became the first school in the province to integrate virtual reality – commonly referred to as VR – in an educational capacity. Over the past two months, nine students in Hapnot’s Grade 10 computer science class have been getting hands-on experience with virtual reality, and are teaching the school’s teachers how to use it in their curriculum to provide hands-on learning to students. At the centre of the experience is the HTC Vive, a virtual reality headset which, when connected to a computer built by the class, transports the user into a different visual world. Head...

The biggest changes announced were for Manitoba’s two largest cities. As of May 12, all K-12 schools in Winnipeg and Brandon will move to full remote learning until May 30 at the earliest. “While schools have done an excellent job of protecting staff and students throughout this pandemic, we see a great deal of community transmission right now. This community transmission is affecting schools, particularly in Winnipeg and in Brandon. Moving these schools to remote learning will help address some of that community transmission. We need to act now to break these transmission chains,” Ro...