At Heritage Elementary school, grade 5 and 6 classes get to takes an
educational trip to Quebec City each year. Usual activities include tours of
different museums and other educational tours to complement their studies
throughout the year. This year, teachers decided to add a trip to the
Huron-Wendat Village cultural site.
CLC Coordinator Jayme McClintock stated that a goal was to get students
out of their usual environment to help teach them more about history and topics
they’ve learned int eh classroom. They also wanted to address the goal
“Students are informed, engaged and caring citizens. There are many Aboriginal
communities’ nearby to the school, but not much understanding or connection
between them and the mostly non-Aboriginal school population.
In grade 5 & 6 social
studies class students looked at some of the history of traditional and
contemporary living of the Inuit People and Mi’kmaq First Nation. Neither of
these cultural groups are in the area of the school, but teachers liked the
idea of exposing students to a more regional history to build on what they had
learned in class. This was a good first step for students and teachers in what
may prove to be a growing interest in better understanding their First Nations
neighbours.
