There were a lot of people stepping inside Island classrooms for the first time last month – but it wasn’t only students. “We’ve hired over 50 French teachers,” says Angie MacCaull, Human Resource Manager for the Public Schools Branch. Earlier this year, the Province made a...
Dianne Hicks Morrow was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2013, serving until January 2016. The Devil Sends The truck dumps topsoil on the grass at the end of our long clay lane, the place the west wind burns by August. Barefoot I jump in the loamy earth, decide to make a rock...
February might be Black History Month in Canada, but at Queen Charlotte Intermediate School it’s celebrated throughout the whole school year. “We remind the students and staff that it’s Black History Month in February—and every day,” says Monia Kayijuka, a Grade 8 French Language...