North Battleford’s St. Mary School recently hosted their annual Project Fair to give students a chance to creatively showcase what they’ve been learning this year.
An annual event now in its fifth year, the Project Fair has traditionally drawn students’ families and friends and other community members to take a tour of the many displays set up throughout the halls and gymnasium, providing students a chance to present on their topic of choice to those in attendance.
However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the event featured a bit of a twist this year. While there were no in-person guests allowed, students of all ages still took part in crafting their various projects, with many classes chosing to present them in their classroom last week, or via video, as posted by the school.
Chalaine Halladay is a teacher at St. Mary, and said it was great to see the creativity on display again this year, amongst the various classes and students.
“The kindergartens were learning how to mix colours, and the Grade 1’s were researching an artist and doing their projects on his works, so it’s been a great mix,” she said. “My class was studying body systems at the time, the Grade 5’s were doing diseases, and the Grade 6 students were doing careers, so everyone could tailor it to what they were doing with their own classes.”
Halladay said while it’s always enjoyable when the whole school can come together on a project, that feeling of unity was as important as ever this year, with many community activities and inter-grade events being put on hold due to the pandemic.
“It really is great to see, and especially because things are so different this year and we can’t share a lot of things that we normally do,” she said. “We can’t get together as a school and have assemblies and things, so it’s just really nice to have something we can share as a school in any way we can.”
Over 80 to 100 students, from kindergarten to Grade 7, participated in this year’s Project Fair.
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