Over 800 students and staff submitted written responses to the following questions via Microsoft forms:
What words have you heard that relate to residential schools?
To show that I am listening, I must…
My action for reconciliation will be…
These responses or words were then captured and will create three banners that will hang in our school. With the gracious approval of artist Simone McLeod, we have changed her painting titled, “Caring for mind, body and spirit…our children, our future” into a powerful visualization of words. The size of each word is proportional to the number of times it appears in our responses.
ECS will continue to Hear, Listen, and Act.