Yukon schools and community organizations receive $200,000 for student attendance projects

• A committee of Department of Education staff and Every Student Every Day Society representatives selected the successful projects. The funds will be implemented in the 2025-26 school year.

Every Student, Every Day - Student attendance projects funded for 2025 to 2026

Del Van Gorder School - Faro
Commercial Dishwasher - $12,000

• Purchase and install a commercial dishwasher in their kitchen to provide better and more sanitary cleanup, while providing employability training to students who work in the kitchen.

Ecole Whitehorse Elementary School - Whitehorse
Projector and Speakers - $5,800

• Install a large projector screen and projector with sound for the gymnasium, which will allow the school to provide visuals during presentations, facilitate parent information nights and engage students during assemblies.

F.H. Collins Secondary School - Whitehorse
Makerspace - $20,000

• This project will renovate a classroom into a makerspace to support students in creative, innovative and design thinking.

Gadzoosdaa Student Residence - Whitehorse
Providing a home-like environment - $10,000

• This funding will go towards making Gadzoosdaa a more home-like environment for its residents and creating opportunities for community recreation and customized activities to meet students' individual needs and interests.

Golden Horn Elementary School Council - Whitehorse
Mobile Kitchenette - $2,923

• This funding will support the creation of a mobile kitchenette that can be signed out and utilized as a hands-on learning tool for classes. This mobile kitchenette will offer students valuable experiences in their life skills, cultural knowledge and harvesting practices, enhancing their education through practical engagement.

Golden Horn Elementary School Council - Whitehorse
Sea Can - $3,000

• Funding will go to acquiring a 20-foot shipping container to serve as a centralized storage solution for a Lending Library, which supports the Great Outdoor and Experiential School (G.O.E.S) program. The container will house pre-prepared bins containing educational resources currently scattered throughout the school, ensuring accessibility and organization for all educators as well as providing shared space for other educational resources to be purchased/donated.

Holy Family Elementary School - Whitehorse
Upgraded Kitchen Facilities - $15,000

• Holy Family will be expanding their kitchen space and acquiring essential equipment, which will create an inclusive and interactive learning environment where students can develop food literacy skills, build confidence in meal preparation, and explore traditional food practices.

Individual Learning Centre - Whitehorse
Attendance Initiatives - $12,000

• Hygiene supplies - Supplies for a cabinet outside the school bathrooms that will be able to be fully stocked with razors, deodorant, shampoo, soap, etc. Each of the individual bathrooms have a small "end-table" stocked with other hygiene products. This funding will also be used to buy pregnancy tests, socks, underwear, vitamins, "boost" drinks, first aid items, etc. which are kept in the counsellor's office and can be accessed when required.
• Art Supplies - Various art workshops targeted to students with interest in art to encourage them to attend classes. They will also have opportunities to work on their First Nations grad regalia - encouraging them to complete their schoolwork while supporting them to practice art.
• Employment Ready - Supporting students to get certifications to help with employment (eg. First Aid) and to get their drivers licenses/learners.

J.V. Clark School - Mayo
Hands-on Learning Supplies - $20,000

• To augment academic classroom environments with hands-on equipment which provides interest to students and motivates them to attend school on a regular basis.

Porter Creek Secondary School - Whitehorse
Attendance Initiatives - $28,000

• Welcoming and Inviting Space - The intent of this funding is to make classrooms at Porter Creek Secondary School more inclusive and welcoming for all students. When looking to the future student populations who attend Porter Creek Secondary School, there is a need for classrooms to be open and inviting, so students are more likely to attend. One way to achieve this is by providing a welcoming and inviting space that students come into every day.
• Improve outdoor space - Transforming an underused outdoor space with picnic tables and sign-out outdoor games. This space will also support flexible learning, allowing teachers to use it for lessons, group work and brain breaks, making school a more engaging and welcoming environment.
• Look Good, Feel Good, Do Good - The funding will go to infrastructure in a classroom to create more space and beauty stations for students to use to make themselves feel better. This initiative would help support a lunch club, the "nail club", where students can access materials and the space during breaks and lunch. With this funding there will be more opportunities to provide students to make themselves feel good through beauty at school.

Porter Creek Secondary School Council - Whitehorse
Kitchen Upgrades - $6,600

• Upgrading classroom kitchen stations, enhancing the foods programming. The funds will support the purchase of modern appliances such as blenders, food processors, and other essential equipment, along with updated kitchen tools. These upgrades will enable a broader range of hands-on cooking experiences, allowing students to develop practical skills for home, career, and academic success. This will foster engagement, creativity and a deeper understanding of food preparation, making the programming more appealing and effective.

Selkirk Elementary School Council - Whitehorse
Transportation to Kids on the Farm - $6,000

• Every Student, Every Day funds will go towards transportation costs to transport as many students to participate in Kids on the Farm as possible. This will leverage transportation subsidies offered by Kids on the Farm and help to avoid charging students transportation fees to participate, increasing the ability of all students to participate.

St. Elias Community School - Haines Junction
Potato Harvesting Initiative - $13,300

• The funding will be used to provide students with the tools and resources necessary for a potato harvesting initiative and will be allocated for interdisciplinary learning opportunities, including a photography class/ club and capturing students learning experiences.

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Secondary School - Whitehorse
Fire Fridays - $13,913

• Fire Fridays is a learner-led initiative to address attendance barriers, increase engagement, and foster a supportive learning environment for neurodiverse and learning-disabled learners. Learners develop essential life skills through hands-on, community-based experiences, build confidence, and connect their learning to real-world applications.

Whistle Bend School Council - Whitehorse
Attendance Initiatives - $8,638.95

• Soccer Nets - Purchase of four soccer nets for the school field to increase physical activity and bring students together by playing soccer.
• Picnic Tables - Outdoor furniture for the school to promote a positive environment that helps students feel supported, safe and motivated to attend school.

Wood Street Centre - Whitehorse
Bicycle Maintenance and Repair - $20,000

• The funding will go toward tools to repair bicycles, and a covered trailer to store tools, parts and bicycles. The trailer will allow Wood Street Centre students to travel to communities outside Whitehorse and help teach maintenance and repair of bicycles throughout the Yukon.
  
  

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