Learning the language of the Tabla known as the talking drum @soniclenz Love the relationship between call and respond. Thank you Gurpreet! #AsianHeritageMonth #SouthAsianHeritageMonth Ellen Fairclough PS

‘Your name is too difficult.’ What a school’s hidden curriculum is telling students - The Star apple.news/A9exwmRwgTzWIp…

Staff Ellen Fairclough PS engaged in some great conversations today during our ABR PD! Thanks for capturing our culture trees harpy bahia #ABR #culturetree

Ss started student council today! Our Equity Ss read part of ”A is for activist”! Helping Ss understand what tools they need to be an advocate and looking at things through an Equity Lens! York Region DSB ISCS YRDSB 🏳️‍🌈 @InnosantoNagara #equitysocialjustice #Ally #advocate #studentvoice

Love this by @nktgill! #poetry #spokenword

Author visit Chad Solomon today acting out “Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws” celebrating Indigenous culture #puppetshow #indigenous Ellen Fairclough PS

Our social justice & equity team hard at work today coming up with survey questions about identity. Questions around respect, acceptance & belonging were all areas that Ss felt were issues both in class & around the school #studentvoice #studentcentered Ellen Fairclough PS

Recognizing and celebrating #lunarnewyear Ellen Fairclough PS with a lion dance for the year of the rat with Northern Legs, Southern Kung Fu Club #happynewyear

Ss Ellen Fairclough PS singing Tamil National Anthem with pride for #tamilheritagemonth #language #diversity #mothertongue

Celebrating International Womens Day Ellen Fairclough PS #EachforEqual #becauseofyou2020 #InternationalWomenDay2020 #InspiringWomen #studentwork

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Yesterday was a wonderful evening of collaboration with the Kindergarten Network for EVS! We had opportunities to share our successes, wonders and emerging promising practices. Looking forward to the F2F network tonight! #YRDSBEarlyYears

#YRDSB Kindergarten Educators, check out our upcoming learning opportunities for you! Registration is now open in C2L. Find out more here: bit.ly/KDGYRDSB #YRDSBEarlyYears

Join the EY team for a drop in session to support K-3 educators transitioning to online learning for the week of Jan 4th-8th. This time will be an opportunity to collaborate with other educators, hear about available resources and share questions. #YRDSBEarlyYears

As a reminder, our Early Years drop-in session is today between 4:00 - 5:00pm using the Google Meet code "eychat". We will be joined by members of the @yrdsb_RR Reading Recovery and Supporting ELLs @YR teams to support conversations with #YRDSBEarlyYears K-3 educators.

Looking for support for Term 1 CoL? A friendly reminder we will be offering a webinar for Writing the Term 1 Kindergarten Communication of Learning on the following dates: Wed., Jan 13 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm OR Thurs., Jan 21 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm bww.yrdsb.ca/connect2learn/… #YRDSBEarlyYears

The #YRDSBEarlyYears team looks forward to the “Writing the Term 1 Kindergarten Communication of Learning” webinar happening tomorrow - Wed., Jan 13th, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm. It will be offered again Thurs., Jan 21st, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. Please register here: bww.yrdsb.ca/connect2learn/…

Wonderful conversations and idea sharing at last night’s Kindergarten Network for virtual educators! Take a look at our collaborative outdoor learning Jamboard and educator-generated topics for open spaces #YRDSBEarlyYears

Exciting news! We have special guests from our speech-language pathology services team joining us at our upcoming EY chat! Be sure to stop in and share your questions about supporting oral language and play with our expert S-LP partners! #YRDSBEarlyYears

This week we commemorate #Blackmentalhealthweek as we work to combat anti-black racism and build classrooms that are inclusive, mentally healthy spaces. #YRDSBEarlyYears educators, learn more by visiting blackmentalhealthday.ca