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The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada’s first women-only boxing club, presents a 2012 calendar in support of Shape Your Life. The calendar features 12 powerful images of Toronto’s toughest female boxers, including Richland Academy’s Grade 5/6 Teacher, Megan Cooney. The calendars are being sold at 
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The first arrival of snow caused a flurry of excitement in the SK room.  The large windows in the SK classroom gave them a perfect view as the first snowflakes arrived.  “It’s snowing, it’s snowing” echoed around the classroom, quietly spoken with a sense of 
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Truth’s second session with the Grade 5/6 students was as incredible as the first!  The students presented the “joyful noises” performance poetry pieces they had been practicing and received some feedback on presentation.  Truth loved their work. Students began brainstorming potential topics about which they 
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After having determined what ingredients are needed to ‘Make a Friend,’ the JK boys and girls made their very own ‘Friendship Soup!’ They did make a few alterations to the recipe, but it certainly was yummy.  The children enjoyed making and sharing it with other 
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The SK’s were introduced to the ‘moveable alphabet’ – a box of wooden consonants and vowels that they could use to spell words.  They were thrilled and immediately began spelling their names, and then moved on to spelling words.  They were ‘totally in the moment,’ 
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The Grade 5/6’s are taking their McDonalds hash browns experiment to the next level! Each of the students has chosen a different fast food to experiment with – including items from McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway, KFC – to see how long it will last. Each week, 
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JK student, Sophia, decided to build a bridge using colour cards. Sophia was most proud of her ‘colour bridge’… and even more proud as she learned how to take a picture with the JK classroom’s digital camera and photographed it all by herself!  
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In celebration of World Kindness Week, Richland Ambassadors hosted a ‘Fundraiser for Haiti’ event. As part of the Fundraiser, students took orders for Me to We Artisans jewellery, a line of original accessories handcrafted by artisans in Free The Children countries across the globe, as 
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On November 11th, the Richland Community honoured fallen soldiers in a morning of Remembrance, hosted by Grade 5 and 6 students. It was an inspiring and touching presentation conveying messages of hope, peace and gratitude. Staff, students and parents thought it was “truly brilliant,” “very 
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