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A few pictures of our permaculture garden!

Last Friday was open day and many parents came to visit the school garden. 

As you can see, our garden is a permaculture designed garden: no digging, the pupils just made lasagna-beds and grew plants and vegetables on them!

What do you think?

Look at the nice radishes we got !

The students also sold some plants to the visitors and displayed the work they did in sciences.

Here are two photos of students (and teachers) planting in our garden!

Lundi en musique

La plupart de nos élèves âgés de 11 à 13 ans ont participé dans cet événement formidable! Tout le monde était ravi de chanter avec Chris Hadfield quand il était sur la SSI!
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Is somebody singing (Chris Hadfield)

On solid fuel and wires

Turn the key and light the fire!

We’re leaving Earth today!

This rocket's burning bright

We’ll soon be out of sight

And orbiting in space

Pushed back in my seat

Look out my window

There goes home

That ball of shiny blue houses everybody anybody ever knew

So sing your song I’m listening out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our Nation from the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

Eighteen thousand miles an hour

Fueled by science and solar power

The ocean's racing past

At half a thousand tons

Ninety minutes Moon to Sun

A bullet can’t go half this fast.

Floating from my seat

Look out my window

There goes Home (There goes home)

That brilliant ball of blue

Is where I’m from, and also where I’m going to

So sing your song, I’m listening, out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our Nation from the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

All black and white just fades to grey

Where the sunrises sixteen times a day

You can’t make out borders from up here

Just a spinning ball within a tiny atmosphere (atmosphere)

Pushed back in my seat

Look out my window

Here comes home (ho-ho-home)

What once was fueled by fear

Now has fifteen Nation orbiting together here.

So sing your song I’m listening, out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our Nation from the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon (get back soon)

You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)

You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)

You’d know why I want to get back soon (getting back to you)

You’d know why I want to get back soon

Source: LYBIO.net

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The Grade 6's mini garden! Un "jardin à la française" !

The mini garden designed by the Grade 6 students, with their maths teacher...
(photo taken on May 2nd 2013)

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How are you? What's up? We are back from the holiday.

We got your e-mails; thank you very much. We are very happy! We are writing letters to you at the moment...

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Look this is us ! It was cold when the photo was taken !

Who was Anne Frank?

Annelies Marie Frank, plus connue sous le nom d'Anne Frank, est née le 12 juin 1929 à Francfort-sur-le-Main, en Allemagne, sous la République de Weimar. Elle a vécu la majeure partie de sa vie aux Pays-Bas et est décédée en mars 1945 (environ deux mois avant la capitulation allemande) à Bergen-Belsen en Allemagne nazie.

Cette adolescente allemande juive a écrit un journal intime, "Le Journal d'Anne Frank", alors qu'elle se cachait avec sa famille et quatre amis à Amsterdam pendant l'occupation allemande durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans le but d'éviter la Shoah.

La famille quitte Francfort pour Amsterdam à la fin de l’année 1933 afin d'échapper aux persécutions nazies à l'encontre des Juifs, qui se multiplient depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir d'Adolf Hitler en janvier. Alors que les dangers s'intensifient à Amsterdam occupée par les Allemands depuis mai 1940, les Frank se cachent en juillet 1942 dans un appartement secret aménagé dans l'Annexe de l'entreprise Opekta d'Otto Frank, le père.

Anne a alors treize ans environ. Après deux ans passés dans ce refuge, le groupe est trahi et déporté vers les camps d'extermination nazis. Sept mois après son arrestation, Anne meurt du typhus dans le camp de Bergen-Belsen, quelques jours après le décès de sa sœur Margot.

Son père Otto, l'unique survivant du groupe, revient à Amsterdam à la fin de la guerre et apprend que le journal d'Anne dans lequel elle relate sa vision des événements depuis le 12 juin 1942 jusqu'au 1er août 1944 a été préservé. Convaincu du caractère unique de l'œuvre de sa fille, Otto décide de la faire éditer et le texte original en néerlandais est publié en 1947 sous le titre Het Achterhuis : Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (L'arrière-cour : notes du journal du 12 juin 1942 au 1er août 1944).

Décrit comme le travail d'un esprit mûr et perspicace, l'œuvre donne un point de vue intime et particulier sur la vie quotidienne pendant l'occupation par les nazis et ce journal d'une adolescente au destin tragique a fait d'Anne Frank l'une des victimes emblématiques de la Shoah.

En effet ce Journal a été traduit du néerlandais en de nombreuses langues et est devenu l'un des livres les plus lus dans le monde et plusieurs films, téléfilms, pièces de théâtre et opéras en ont été tirés.

(Wikipedia)

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Voici notre jardin !

Chris Hadfield School community garden

To view pictures of
the harvest, click here

We call our garden “a community garden”, because members of our local community contribute to it.  Students, staff, and community members work together to plant, tend, and harvest.  It is a source of great food! But it is also like a classroom for students, because teachers bring their classes out to work on it, or just to teach their class in a different environment from a classroom.  Teachers take their classes to the garden to teach about ecology, water conservation, local food, composting, plant growth, measurement, art, nutrition, and photosynthesis.

We started our garden last May and we are proud of what we harvested last fall.  We made sauces and salad dressings using produce from our garden!

The garden project was started by teacher Erin Walsh, principal Sean Marks, and parent Bruce McAdams.  They used a 10m x 25m piece of land beside the school.  Secondary school (High School) students from another school in town designed the layout as part of their horticulture program.  Community members built raised beds and filled them with soil and mulch.  In May and June, every student had the chance to work in the garden or to plant a seed or seedling.  Community members continued to care for the garden throughout the summer.

The school successfully grew a variety of: peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, chard, kale, strawberries, onions, spinach, pumpkins, sunflowers, zucchini, Indian karela, eggplant, basil, and nasturtiums.  There were carrots, but rabbits ate them!  There will also be raspberries next year.

Eggplant / Aubergine

Nasturtium

Kale

Ms Walsh likes the facts that the garden will continue to provide an opportunity for students to understand where our food comes from, to raise students awareness of their environment, to feel connected to their local land, and to learn their curriculum in a “hands-on” way.

zucchini

Mr. Marks likes that the garden teaches students the values of responsibility, initiative, and organization.  He says that one obvious benefit has been healthy eating.  Students learn to examine their own food choices and eating patterns.  Then they make decisions and set nutrition goals, including turning to Canada’s Food Guide for help. (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-fra.php)  He also likes that students learn about patience, attention, and perseverance, as they wait for the food to grow.

Indian Karela

As well, students learn about Canada’s First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, how they understood their environment and relied on it to grow food.

Chard

Milton is the fastest-growing community in North America, and its population is very diverse, with many cultures and faith groups living together.  Ms Walsh loves the fact that working in the garden has helped to bring diverse community members together.  Families have a way to be connected to each other and to the community.  This project allows everyone to use their knowledge of food growing from a variety of cultural backgrounds.  It also helps to break down and eliminate barriers created by language, background, age, or socio-economic status.

In October of 2012, we had a “Harvest Day” to celebrate the success of the garden.  A locally famous chef volunteered his time to come into the school and help students to harvest some food and create a menu of meals to sell and serve.  This included making 100 jars of “Hadfield Garden Ketchup” filled with “fall harvest flavours”.  A salad and vinaigrette were also made.  Donations at the celebration helped to buy seeds and seedlings for 2013’s planting season.  The chef hopes that students learn about the value of sustainability and about supporting local farmers.

“We are very grateful to have Chef Jason join us.  He helped the students to appreciate locally grown food.  The harvest celebration helped to bring the entire project “full circle”, from planting to harvesting and then back to planting. 

Nicole Currie, chairperson of the school’s Parent Council, says the garden is going to continue to teach students wonderful lessons.  “It’s a practical learning project – students are planting, harvesting, and cooking the food,” she says.  “The community has totally embraced it.”

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