Two schools on the Bruce Peninsula are getting a special designation.
On Monday, Bruce Peninsula District Secondary School in Lion’s Head, and St. Edmund’s Public School in Tobermory, will be the first schools in Ontario to be recognized as UNESCO Associated Schools.
Chairperson of the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association, Sean Liipere, says the schools have been working toward achieving the designation for the past six years.
He says the schools have enhanced the curriculum to address four themes of study under UNESCO – world concern and the role of the United Nations; human rights, democracy and tolerance; environmental concerns; and intercultural learning.
Liipere says students get unique opportunities to take what they’re learning in school, and apply it in real life situations that get them to think globally and act locally.
He says that could be a small classroom exercise of choosing a world issue to write a letter about, to larger fundraisers like the GuluWalk (a worldwide fundraiser for kids in Uganda), or their annual Footprints conference, which highlights careers in the environment.
UNESCO officials will attend a public ceremony at Bruce Peninsula District Secondary this Monday night (JUN 2) at 5 pm to officially give the two schools their designations.
From there, Liipere hopes the schools can go on to achieve national and international UNESCO designations in the next three years.c.
On Monday, Bruce Peninsula District Secondary School in Lion’s Head, and St. Edmund’s Public School in Tobermory, will be the first schools in Ontario to be recognized as UNESCO Associated Schools.
Chairperson of the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association, Sean Liipere, says the schools have been working toward achieving the designation for the past six years.
He says the schools have enhanced the curriculum to address four themes of study under UNESCO – world concern and the role of the United Nations; human rights, democracy and tolerance; environmental concerns; and intercultural learning.
Liipere says students get unique opportunities to take what they’re learning in school, and apply it in real life situations that get them to think globally and act locally.
He says that could be a small classroom exercise of choosing a world issue to write a letter about, to larger fundraisers like the GuluWalk -a worldwide fundraiser for kids in Uganda, or their annual Footprints conference, which highlights careers in the environment.
UNESCO officials will attend a public ceremony at Bruce Peninsula District Secondary this Monday night at 5 pm to officially give the two schools their designations.
From there, Liipere hopes the schools can go on to achieve national and international UNESCO designations in the next three years.
