Walking Together

The Challenge Committee at 1972 Memorial High School is proposing a new initiative to promote, support, and develop student well-being, called “Walking Together”. The program will consist of weekly activities intended to support a personal commitment to a good life, free of drugs and alcohol.

Weekly activities will focus on promoting and maintaining personal health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and will concentrate on self-identity, self-esteem, building relationships, and a personal commitment to refrain from drugs and alcohol, recognizing that these substances distract us from true success and happiness. Weekly activities will include: Homework Club, Meal Preparation, Opening Physical Activity, Meal, Weekly Activities including both a drug/alcohol prevention lesson and a fun recreation activity.

Student participants will be assigned to groups or villages, with a staff mentor, who will guide and support students in their personal goal setting and with challenges as they arise. Students, themselves, will support their peers in this journey, as the relationships between students develop and as their shared commitment to living in a good way is nurtured.

Community organizations and programs in Oxford House will be invited to participate and to support as appropriate. For this first 12 week session, the Youth Coordinator for Bunibonnibee First Nation (Oxford House) will facilitate the Aboriginal Shield program developed by the RCMP.

The program will culminate with a Community Feast at which the student participants will be honoured, as well as their personal Role Models. The Student Participants will showcase the personal Shields that they have created as part of this initial 12 week session.

Update (May 25, 2012)

The Challenge Group has continued to meet weekly, adding some Sunday sessions to our schedule. The staff have students have been challenged to answer the question..."Who Am I?"
To that end, the staff and students in the group, have participated in activities and have created several projects to answer this questions.

The students have created a painted canvas and added a photo of themselves. They have chosen one word to describe themselves. Photos of these canvases will be available shortly.

The students have identified one of their role models and are in the process of taking photographs of their role models. Photos of their posters will be shared shortly.

The students are also creating a scrapbook to continue to represent who they are, right now.

The work that the students have done will be showcased at a Community Feast and plans are underway. Both the students and their role models will be celebrated and the entire community will be invited.

More photos will be shared soon.