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Welcome back to St. George!

Welcome to and back to St. George for the 2020-2021 year!

Welcome to the home of Mr. MacKenzie’s Grade 5/6 class! On this site, we will be sharing our learning through words, pictures, videos, and (hopefully) podcasts.

We will be connecting with different classrooms in Canada and around the world in various activities and projects that look at our Reading and Writing as well as looking at our SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals - looking to improve the World around us). This will also be the place where we post announcements, links to learning tools and celebrate our class experiences. Hope you enjoy our online space and welcome to the 2020-2021 school year!

For those who want to know a little bit more about me. My name is Calum MacKenzie and I was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I moved to Ottawa 12 years ago and I live here with my wife, 3 year old son (Cillian), who just started J/K at St. George! and now our newest 1.5 year old son (Rafferty). This is my second year at St. George. I have been spent the past 6 years with the OCSB, and have taught in Vanier at St. Michael Ottawa and Assumption and in Kanata at St. Gabriel. I absolutely love teaching and love to leverage and incorporate technology, critical thinking and collaboration skills to my classrooms. We will be doing many different innovative activities this year and I am looking forward to sharing our creations with our parent and school community! Here we are as a family!

This year will physically look different in our classroom but I hope and plan on continuing with engaging and innovative ideas to learning. Our desks may be separated by a little over a metre but I hope to conduct lots of group work digitally and with class building and sharing activities. I will be posting weekly updates on here by means of a Google Slide that will contain links to learning Workspaces and outline what are our goals for learning each and every week! I am going to try and communicate these things with you as best as I can. As always, do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have ANY questions or concerns.