{"id":7490,"date":"2024-06-18T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2024-06-18T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:55:26","slug":"north-queens-community-school-among-innovation-fund-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/06\/18\/north-queens-community-school-among-innovation-fund-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"North Queens Community School among innovation fund winners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Queens Community School in Caledonia is one of the recipients of the new School Advisory Council Innovation Fund. (NQCS Facebook page)<\/p><\/div>\n

North Queens Community School in Caledonia is one of 26 schools across Nova Scotia awarded funding through the new School Advisory Council Innovation Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fund is sponsored by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It provides grants of up to $10,000 to test an idea that could be expanded to other schools. The province announced the program in December to encourage new and innovative projects to support student achievement and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am so impressed with the creativity and commitment to bettering schools that SACs showed in their applications to the innovation fund,\u201d said Becky Druhan, minister of education and early childhood development.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe councils really demonstrated their deep understanding of their school communities and the things that get students engaged in their learning experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The North Queens Community School\u2019s project is a W\u2019koum (wigwam). Led by a community elder, students will sustainably collect materials to build the structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Primary to Grade 12 school plans a community celebration when the W\u2019koum is finished and it will be incorporated into the school\u2019s outdoor learning environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

School advisory councils are volunteer-driven and usually include parents and guardians, school staff, students and other community members.<\/span><\/p>\n

The province received 128 applications for funding. More than $250,000 was awarded to recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n

Projects will be featured at the first provincewide SAC conference in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the other successful projects include: hydroponics to expand school gardens; a model apartment for students with special needs; and a \u201cright to bike\u201d program, which supplies students in grades 3, 4 and 5 with larger bicycles and safety equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Queens Community School in Caledonia is one of 26 schools across Nova Scotia awarded funding through the new School Advisory Council Innovation Fund. The fund is sponsored by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It provides grants of up to $10,000 to test an idea that could be expanded to other schools. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[400,358,542,765,2358,2359,2357],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-becky-druhan","tag-caledonia","tag-department-of-education-and-early-childhood-development","tag-north-queens-community-school","tag-school-advisor-councils","tag-school-advisory-council-innovation-fund","tag-wkoum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}