🧵Due to expected severe weather conditions, all YRDSB in-person schools will be closed to students and staff tomorrow, Friday, December 23, 2022.
Please DO NOT send your children to school.
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Thank you to our school community for joining our #RemembranceDay ceremony today. The assembly was student-led, with the guidance and leadership of our outstanding staff. Today we #remember the soldiers who fought for our freedom. #lestweforget2022#yrdsb#Remembrance
The Holocaust was the systemic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its allies, and it’s critical that we not allow this cruel chapter of modern history to fade from memory. #Holocaust#HolocaustEducationWeek#yrdsb
Happy #Diwali! Diwali: Festival of Lights. In India, one of the most significant festivals is Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. It's a five-day celebration that includes good food, fireworks, colored sand, and special candles and lamps. #Diwali2022#DiwaliSpecial#yrdsb
#YomKippur is the holiest, most important day of the year in Judaism, known as the “Day of Atonement.” It begins at sundown October 4, and ends Wednesday evening, October 5th—the last of the ten days of penitence that began with #RoshHashanah (the Jewish New Year). #yrdsb
Why #OrangeShirts? The msg that Residental School survivor Phyllis Webstad wants to pass along is that #EveryChildMatters. Phyllis started the wearing of Orange Shirts to educate people about residential schools and fight racism and bullying.#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
Today is the start of #RoshHashanah, also known as the #JewishNewYear. The millennia-old holiday is an occasion for reflection and is often marked by prayer, symbolic foods, and the blowing of a traditional horn called a shofar. Happy Rosh Hashanah to those who celebrate! #yrdsb
Here at WHPS, we have a designated #safespace called “The Wolf’s Den”. This space provides an alt recess exp where Ss may come to relax, talk to a friend, or confide in staff. A safe envirmnt for Ss is critical in building a foundation for learning. #yrdsb#MentalHealthMatters