The Ripplers been exploring some pretty important local and global issues these past few weeks. We’ve needed to stretch our thinking and wrap our minds around many new ideas presented to us. So, today, I thought a few moments of just plain “fun” was in order. I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely more [...]

This year is the 21st anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child Convention (CRC) and we need to ask ourselves: Are children’s rights around the world being respected? There are over 1 billion children living in poverty today. Hunger, child labour, exploitation, discrimination, lack of education and a lack of medical care [...]

Since the beginning of this year, Division 2 has been learning about our rights and responsibilities as Canadian citizens. They are outlined in our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which was added to our constitution in 1982. Our Prime Minister at the time, named Pierre Trudeau, had a vision of a multicultural country based [...]

Fall is harvest time for farming towns in British Columbia. Our community is no exception, although here it has an alternate meaning as well. During September, Harvest the Valley begins – only residents of our community aren’t necessarily out harvesting the fields. We pull together to stock the shelves of our local food bank and build awareness [...]

It’s already starting to be a glorious week for the Ripplers! Within the next few days you will begin to see our newest student blogs emerging. Division 2 has been busy learning how to be Internet savvy and how to write quality comments because we all know that commenting is the backbone of blogging. Without [...]

Remembrance Day is important to me. This is largely why I volunteer my class to organize the assembly each year. WWI and WWII seem unimaginable to my students. It was so long ago and most of them do not feel impacted by war or military operations. That’s a good thing in some ways because it [...]

In February of this year, the last Canadian World War 1 veteran passed away at 109 years of age. Did you know that? I didn’t … at least not until I began conjuring up different ideas about our Remembrance Day assembly this year. This last Canadian WWI veteran’s  name was John Babcock and he was [...]