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Masks on faces, markers on floors to keep kids apart and a ban on singing. Endless squirts of hand sanitizer and field trips conducted on video screens.
This school year has been like no other as elementary and high school students and teachers attend classes in the shadow of a pandemic.
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It’s been stressful and sometimes scary. Cases of COVID-19 have popped up at many schools in Ottawa.
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Masks on faces, markers on floors to keep kids apart and a ban on singing. Endless squirts of hand sanitizer and field trips conducted on video screens.
This school year has been like no other as elementary and high school students and teachers attend classes in the shadow of a pandemic.
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It’s been stressful and sometimes scary. Cases of COVID-19 have popped up at many schools in Ottawa.
But it’s also been a year of invention and hope. The routines and traditions of school continue, if modified. Teachers have created new ways to learn, from pool-noodle tag in gym class to performing O Canada in sign language.
OTTAWA More students in Ottawa were treated to Christmas turkey and a surprise Tuesday, thanks to a local restaurant owner. 140 students at Dr. F.J. McDonald Catholic School took part in their Christmas tradition, and all of them were treated to a $15 McDonalds gift card, courtesy of Gregory Aboukheir of Reynolds Restaurant. Last Friday, Aboukheir surprised students at St. Elizabeth School when he covered the cost of their catered Christmas lunch and gave a McDonalds gift card to each of the students. His restaurant did its own fundraising to purchase the gift cards and, when he ended up raising more than the $5,000 needed for that school, he decided to surprise another one.