This week’s #ocsbFridayFeeling is a celebration of everything this year has grown. With the school year winding down, our schools have been harvesting more than just lettuce from their gardens. They have been gathering a whole season of learning, connection, and community.
A season of planting, tending, and waiting paid off this week when students harvested fresh leaf lettuce from their school vegetable garden. There is something profound about feeding yourself with something you grew with your own hands. That is not just gardening, it’s a life lesson.
Elsewhere, Kindergarteners spent a wonderful morning at a farm, students ventured into the marsh at Bill Mason Centre to learn bird calls and discover salamander larvae, and others explored the Science and Technology Museum with curiosity leading the way.
Community took centre stage too. Students created a calendar of spirit days, worked together to beautify the front of their school through the Roots to Trade program, and put up a collaborative art display made by many hands with one shared vision. Dancers brought joy to the hallways and a soccer team headed out to represent their school with pride.
This year planted something in every student who walked through our doors. As we move through June and celebrate Pride Month, we are reminded that every student deserves to feel seen, valued, and celebrated. Some of what this year grew is already visible. Some of it will take years to fully bloom. But it is there, rooted deeply, reaching upward. What a year it has been 🌱📚🌿⚽✨
