Parcel from Canada!

We had something very exciting happen this week - a parcel arrived from Canada! It wasn't from our link school (Outma Sqilx'w Cultural School), it was from the Kwu Sukwna?qinx Canoe Family who visited Orkney last summer. We feel like our link is with the whole community in Penticton which is great.

We were excited to see what was in the parcel and people had turns of picking things out.

There was a book, so that Mrs MacNab can learn all about how the Penticton Indian Band and Syilx people got their own land. There were some cards and photographs of the Canoe Family. We enjoyed finding out who was who, and seeing them in the Spirit Dancer canoe in Orkney as well as in their own canoe in the Okanagan.

There was also chewing gum. We're all quite excited about it! We won't be eating the chewing gum in school but we'll be given it to take home. The chewing gum has pictures from the Winter Olympics on it as they were held in Vancouver, which is also in British Columbia (where our link school is).

We decided to write letters to the pupils in the school. Here we are working on that. We drafted the letters first ...

... then we got out the laptops and typed them so they can be emailed to the school. We hope the pupils enjoy getting the replies to their letters.

We decided to make a display all about International Education and our link with Canada so that everyone else in the school can see it. We put the display up in time for our Mums and Dads to see it on parents' night too.

We chose what went in the display, and even what colours to use for mounting the pictures on. We made a list to compare things we do in Orkney with what the pupils in the Okanagan do.

We like International Education and we're very proud of our display. Mrs MacNab says it's excellent, and lots of other pupils and staff have already been looking at it. Maybe they'll leave comments for us here?