Please find our February newsletter with upcoming events and information on Pink Shirt Day, Strong Start and Cabin Fever Days : Â February Newsletter
Please also find attached a pamphlet advertising a parents session with Mr. Dan Vecchio, called “Saving our Boys” on Tuesday, February 11th at 6:00 p.m. at Bert Bowes Middle School. Â In this workshop/lecture, teachers and parents will learn how fundamentally important it is to engage and nurture the boys in our schools to find their emotional voice (emotional literacy.)
Far too many boys believe that the only acceptable emotions for them in our society are anger and aggression; far too often these boys grow up to be men who are angry and aggressive. Our boys carry with them the invisible code of “manhood†and it is an impossible for any of them to live up to this cultural creation of a masculinity that still values and encourages boys to use power, strength, domination and control over others; a culture that does not nurture boys to express a broad array of healthy emotions so that they can live full and happy lives.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn how and why boys are getting a “raw deal†in schools and what they can do in their school communities and with the partnership of parents, to raise emotionally healthy boys who grow into healthy men.
For more information, please contact Principal Wade Hart at 250-785-6717 or whart@prn.bc.ca