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Specialized Programs 

 Learn, implement and promote our Mi’gmaq heritage. With Ancestral knowledge following seasonal traditions through hands-on Mi’gmaq art forms.

CULTURE

CULINARY TECH

Students learn the basics of cooking and food safety. Including learning how to cook traditional foods such as salmon, moose, lusgnign, etc.

Learn how to identify, grow and care for plants. Other topics include food sovereignty and security. AGS also has its own growing dome greenhouse.

HORTICULTURE

OUTDOOR EDUCATION

CULINARY TECH

Culinary Tech classes teach students how to prepare food.  Following Safety, Sustainability, Seasons, Growing & Harvesting. We make land and food connections with classroom concepts. Students learn the whole cooking process, from choosing a recipe to preparing the ingredients and finally sharing the food. With the accessibility of 4 well equipped workstations, for 3 students per station. 

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Harvesting Food

Curriculum 

Using the High School curriculum from Manitoba and BC allows us to have a complete view on our lesson plan. We have adapted the unit's delivery to follow the seasons and what our students harvest with other specialized programs. Including and incorporating the Mi'gmaq language. 

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We also enhance and connect to what student are learning in class, procedural writing, fractions, etc.

Grade levels

Culinary Tech classes teach students from K4 to Grade 8 how to prepare food.

Topics

Family recipes, student ideas, invited guests Bottling and jarring food Harvesting food Sustainability – picking only what you need Herbs and growing station Wall space and labels

Food Safety & Health

Students also learn the importance of food safety, including knife safety, handling, storage, etc.

Goals & Values

We want our students to have life-long cooking skills. Continuing to build their independence in a kitchen, from choosing recipes to making healthy choices. We share the food with other students in the school to instill in them the importance of generosity, pride and community.

CULTURE

The objective of the culture program at the Alaqsite’w Gitpu School is to learn, implement and promote our Mi’gmaq heritage. Students can expect to utilize ancestral life skills for survival following seasonal traditions through hands-on Mi’gmaq art forms. Students identify plants and animals, compare past and present customs of the Mi’gmaq, and share and exchange acquired knowledge with family members. 


The program gives students from Nursery to Middle school the opportunity to grasp traditional concepts and life skills. The teachings acquired are vital to the survival of our Mi’gmaq culture.

Mi'gmaq Heritage

Claudia Gray

Claudia Gray

Culture Teacher

418-788-3100

cgray@lete.listuguj.ca

Audrey Mitchell

Audrey Mitchell

Cuture Assistant

418-788-3100

amitchell@lete.listuguj.ca

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LIFE SKILLS

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OUTDOOR EDUCATION

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"Outdoor education goes far beyond teaching a fixed curriculum with specific criteria and standards. In their time outdoors, children have the opportunity to develop a sense of self and community by connecting to culture, nature and language."

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Outdoor Education focuses on Land-Based Learning. The program is directly connected to the community of Listuguj and follows the seasonal opportunities to connect students with hands-on, culturally relevant lessons that reflect the community.

 

This program provides opportunities, such as year-round fishing and hunting, hide tanning, beekeeping, bow making, foraging, fire making, medicine making, snowshoeing, maple tree tapping, and so much more. 

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Current Programs:

Jonathan Barnaby

Jonathan Barnaby
Outdoor Education Coordinator
Grades 5-8

418-788-3100

jbarnaby@lete.listuguj.ca

HORTICULTURE

The Alaqsite'w Gitpu school has a vested interest in improving food security locally. The link between food sovereignty, food security, and co-management rely on the ability of communities to access resources that allow them to lead efforts towards local fresh vegetables.

 

We have invested in a Growing Dome to help facilitate local food production along with increasing student academic success. The program will provide students with experiential learning opportunities which give youth tools and hope for successful futures and refocuses their efforts into opportunities that go beyond academia. Studies have shown that children involved in extracurricular activities tend to perform better in academics than children who don’t participate or have access to extracurricular programming.​

 

The Horticulture program started in late 2020, so stay tuned for more updates as our program develops!

STEAM

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math

The STEAM Educator promotes 21st-century curricular innovation throughout the school by facilitating professional learning, co-teaching, and empowering teachers to develop skills and plan projects that use innovative learning approaches, including using digital tools. The STEAM educator promotes students' empowerment and active learning environments (differentiated instruction, project-based and inquiry-based learning experiences). The STEAM Educator establishes connections between 21st-century innovations and traditional Mi'gmaw technologies, ways of learning, knowing, and being. 

TREATY EDUCATION

Performing Arts

AGS students in all grades participate in a music-focused program with some elements of acting/scripted performances (e.g., video projects). Throughout the year, the program provides lessons for various instruments: recorder, ukulele, guitar, and percussion. Students will engage in video projects, music composition recordings, and other creative avenues. The Performing Arts program enables students to find avenues of expression through music and performing arts; the students build new skills helping to make their vision of the identity they are discovering for themselves.

 

There is a Kiddy Keys program for the elementary grades, Performing Arts programming for Grades 4-8 and the Mi’gmaw Immersion classes. The Performing Arts program offers hand drumming classes to keep Mi’gmaw songs alive. Students can sign up for after-school guitar lessons. There is a Creative Group that works on exploring different avenues of creativity.  

SPORTS & RECREATION

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The Sports program encourages students to participate in physical education.  Movement is health, Sports & Recreation is more then only a few hours in gyms, some practice and tournaments. Teamwork, respect, discipline and responsibility is key to - Feeling of belonging - everyone is part of something bigger. Proud, acheivement. 

Having the right equipements, arriving smiling and on time, 

folding laundry, preparing bags, actively being part of the team, strategy, 

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The Sports Program is in constant need of Volunteers. Are you interested in coaching our young athletes? 

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Check out Gitpug Productions on YouTube!

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Jennifer Morrison 

 

Tyler Gideon

418-788-3100

418-788-3100

JMorrison@lete.listuguj.ca

tygideon@lete.listuguj.ca

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