South Hull Elementary School’s Orange Shirt
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These shirts are available by pre-order only. We will not keep any in stock. This is the only chance to order.
Orders will be open until Thursday, September 5th. NO EXTENSIONS.
Shirts will be distributed to students by Wednesday, September 25th for Orange Shirt Day September 30th.
Orders will be open until Thursday, September 5th. NO EXTENSIONS.
Shirts will be distributed to students by Wednesday, September 25th for Orange Shirt Day September 30th.
Designed by our First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students
The circle represents many things such as the medicine wheel, four directions and sharing. It also represents community and togetherness.
The first section was designed by kindergarten children, followed by first cycle (grade 1 & 2), then second (grade 3 & 4) and third cycle (grade 5 & 6), then assembled to foster a sense of belonging.
Our Kinder student drew the turtle from the Turtle Island story.
Our kindergarten student chose a turtle for the design. Turtle was chosen because of a story he heard regarding Turtle Island (Creation)
Cycle one and two chose to draw mountains, Ojibwe flowers, totem pole, drums, inukshuk, goose, fish, hunting and teepee as a reference to their community.
The moon represents the 13 moon cycles that help identify the change of seasons and are heavily relied on for agriculture.
At the end, we have cycle 3 who chose the dream catcher with the seven feathers to teach us the Anishinaabe tradition to live by. Each feather represents an animal with a teaching value of how to live our lives by respecting animals, people, the environment and every living thing.
In conclusion, the full circle represents the increase of maturity as they realize the importance of their culture, resources as a way of life. A reminder that land provides and is to be taken care of. The students worked hard in collaboration to promote their cultures and are incredibly happy with the outcome!
The first section was designed by kindergarten children, followed by first cycle (grade 1 & 2), then second (grade 3 & 4) and third cycle (grade 5 & 6), then assembled to foster a sense of belonging.
Our Kinder student drew the turtle from the Turtle Island story.
Our kindergarten student chose a turtle for the design. Turtle was chosen because of a story he heard regarding Turtle Island (Creation)
Cycle one and two chose to draw mountains, Ojibwe flowers, totem pole, drums, inukshuk, goose, fish, hunting and teepee as a reference to their community.
The moon represents the 13 moon cycles that help identify the change of seasons and are heavily relied on for agriculture.
At the end, we have cycle 3 who chose the dream catcher with the seven feathers to teach us the Anishinaabe tradition to live by. Each feather represents an animal with a teaching value of how to live our lives by respecting animals, people, the environment and every living thing.
In conclusion, the full circle represents the increase of maturity as they realize the importance of their culture, resources as a way of life. A reminder that land provides and is to be taken care of. The students worked hard in collaboration to promote their cultures and are incredibly happy with the outcome!
Our commitment
When planning the South Hull Orange Shirt the Home and School Executive considered the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation that is the focus of the Orange Shirt day.
We wanted the project to be driven by the indigenous students in our community. We gave them full control of the design and our role is to fund and implement the execution of printing and sales. The program leaders consulted local indigenous elders on the creation and meanings in the design to ensure the interpretations were accurate.
Our goal is also to give back to the First Nations, Metis and Inuit program. We will be donating the proceeds the sales from these shirts to the program to pay for resources and activities to improve their learning and promotion of their indigenous cultures.
We also sought out an indigenous owned supplier for these shirts. We are sourcing them from Anish Branding, an indigenous run business which donates 2% of their sales to First Assist (a charitable organization that delivers on-site education and sport integration programming for underserved youth in northern Indigenous communities across Canada).
We have aimed to focus this project in supporting indigenous communities as a part of bringing to life the commitments of our land acknowledgement statement. It is an effort to be mindful that a land acknowledgement must be more than words and should be backed by action.
We wanted the project to be driven by the indigenous students in our community. We gave them full control of the design and our role is to fund and implement the execution of printing and sales. The program leaders consulted local indigenous elders on the creation and meanings in the design to ensure the interpretations were accurate.
Our goal is also to give back to the First Nations, Metis and Inuit program. We will be donating the proceeds the sales from these shirts to the program to pay for resources and activities to improve their learning and promotion of their indigenous cultures.
We also sought out an indigenous owned supplier for these shirts. We are sourcing them from Anish Branding, an indigenous run business which donates 2% of their sales to First Assist (a charitable organization that delivers on-site education and sport integration programming for underserved youth in northern Indigenous communities across Canada).
We have aimed to focus this project in supporting indigenous communities as a part of bringing to life the commitments of our land acknowledgement statement. It is an effort to be mindful that a land acknowledgement must be more than words and should be backed by action.
Land acknowledgement
We acknowledge that the South Hull Home and School operates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. We encourage you to take a moment to reflect on and acknowledge this.