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The beautiful, unseasonably hot weather has brought smiles to the faces of everyone around and has made venturing outside a pleasure! The students at wildflower have been connecting to the world around them by expanding their awareness. 

May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit Peoples (MMIWG2S). It is also known as Red Dress Day. May 1 to 7 is the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Mental Health Week. May is also Mental Health Awareness Month across North America. This report includes articles related to each of these events.

I hope that all of you enjoyed, yet another, stretch of non-interrupted family time this past long weekend. We had some great fortune to welcome to the school a host of bunny rabbits for a visit last week. Absolutely, precious! 

April is a great time to reconnect with one another after spring break, and to reengage with our individual and collective purpose: to support and realize the success of each of our learners as we begin the final three months of the 2022-2023 school year. 

In that spirit of engagement, I am excited to share results from our strategic plan engagement process in this month's superintendent's report. 

Highlights of the process include: 

Hello, All Wildflower families!

A sense of community, an ability to embrace kindness towards oneself and toward others and feeling the joy of physical movement – these are three themes that you will see in this March report. These are also important elements for each child to excel in school and in life. 

Heather's class had an inspiring and thought-provoking lesson from Astrid Heyerdahl, Nelson Museum's Executive Director. She spoke about Museums 'call to action' on Repatriation, about provenance, the origin stories of artifacts. The class was spellbound as they learned about local efforts, on a world scale.

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Here are four great school happenings at Wildflower Nelson this month!

• Valentine's Day
• Venture to the "Big School"
• Cat Café Launches
• Learning Surrounds

Our Indigenous word wall is continuing to grow. Naomi has been offering to each class some words in Michif, Sylix, and Sinixt. The next language to be added is Ktunaxa. This new bulletin board is centered in our school, placed for all to see as they travel to our school gym. Continuing our work towards reconciliation, this past Friday, we began our Professional Development day together in taking some time outside to each draft a Territorial acknowledgement, that evoked the five senses, and our responsibility as educators.