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Our Children | Summer 2020
Students from the Millwood High School in Sackville have been creating special projects to support the community. During the holidays they wrapped gifts for seniors.
STRONGER TOGETHER
WE Schools @ Home complements curriculum and helps parents, teachers, and kids connect and stay socially engaged By Crystal Murray
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pen almost any publication or news site and you’ll see the physical impacts of COVID-19 quantified into understandable units. Infection rates, cases resolved and death toll. The numbers and the evidence are updated hourly but other aspects of the pandemic aren’t as easy to plot on a graph or pop into a spread sheet. We’re learning that just as quickly as the pandemic overturned our typical daily routines, the impacts on mental health were as immediate, troubling and hard to contain.