This Pink Shirt Day, our focus is working together and treating others with dignity and respect. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all and shown the importance of helping one another and advocating for those who need it. Help us “lift each other up” and support programs that encourage healthy self esteem and teach empathy, compassion and kindness.
The COVID-19 vaccine is saving lives. Vaccines do more than protect the people getting vaccinated, they also protect everyone around them. The more people in a community who are immunized and protected from COVID-19, the harder it is for COVID-19 to spread.
Canada’s National Observer caught up with Aaren Topley for a chat about school farms, farming on public land and how communicating with municipalities about food can result in change.
Under the updated health and safety guidelines, non-medical masks are required for all staff in all K to 12 schools and all students in middle and secondary schools in all indoor areas, including when they are in their learning groups. The only exceptions are when:
Mask exemptions remain in place for students and staff who cannot wear a mask for health or behavioural reasons.
Even when wearing a mask, staff and students will still be required to maintain physical distance from people outside of their learning group.
Elementary school students are not required to wear masks and it remains a family decision.
If a student or staff member develops symptoms while at school, they must wear a mask while they are preparing to go home. Review COVID-19 mask use information from the BCCDC.