Grade 4 students at Dorothy Peacock Elementary used Valentine鈥檚 Day to show a little love for Indigenous students in Canada, while teaching their schoolmates about inequality that exists in parts of the country.

The initiative 鈥� which includes weeks of learning, as well as the creation of two bulletin boards in the school 鈥� is part of Have a Heart Day, which is a youth-led reconciliation movement, observed every Feb. 14, that brings together Canadians to help ensure First Nations children have the opportunity to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and be proud of who they are.

鈥淚t鈥檚 empowerment. It鈥檚 giving them the opportunity to realize that they have a voice, and their voice matters,鈥� said Grade 4 teacher Tanya Fenech, who first learned about Have a Heart Day while working at Shortreed Elementary before bringing it to Dorothy Peacock last September.

Have a Heart Day was brought to Shortreed by teacher Jessica Bedard. This year, Shortreed challenged all Grade 5 classes in the district to be involved in Have a Heart Day by sending a letter to each school.

In preparation for Have a Heart Day, students at Dorothy Peacock learned about Indigenous history, and about certain initiatives that aim to improve equality in Canada for young First Nations students.

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鈥淲e did a couple weeks of learning on this, at various levels. So, first we learned about equality and equal rights,鈥� said Grade 4 teacher Megan Enns.

鈥淎nd then we kind of stepped it up and learned about Shannen鈥檚 Dream, which is about a young student from Attawapiskat First Nation (in Ontario), who advocated for her own school, and now there鈥檚 a movement, and then we learned about Have a Heart Day, specifically.鈥�

The students鈥� message went beyond the walls of their school, too.

Students in both classes were given the opportunity to write postcards to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, each with a personal message, 鈥渢o explain why these issues are important, what he can do, what they thought about it, and essentially advocate for people that weren鈥檛 getting fair treatment and a fair education,鈥� Enns said.

Copies of some of the postcards, along with other drawings, were used to create two bulletin boards in the school.

Each class designed its own board with a large heart full of puzzle pieces as the centrepiece. Each puzzle piece includes something students want to see change or improved, with notes reading 鈥淢ore School Supplies鈥� and 鈥淐lean Water鈥� among them.

鈥淚 just want my students to have an understanding of what happens in this world that I didn鈥檛 have as a child,鈥� Fenech said.

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 learn these things growing up in school, so I鈥檝e kind of taken it on, as my job as an educator, to teach the truth, and teach what鈥檚 happening in our country and in the world.鈥�

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