On March 22 I recognized the Grade Twos at John MacNeil Elementary School in Dartmouth North for their incredible submission to the Delmore "Buddy" Daye Learning Institute's African Nova Scotian History Challenge. This is what I said:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate the Grade 2 students at John MacNeil Elementary School who submitted to the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute’s Awards for Excellence in African Nova Scotian history.
The students spent February learning about inspiring and influential people of African descent and turned those learnings into a beautiful art piece. Each student in Megan Douglas’s Grade 2 class created a puzzle piece decorated with African-inspired patterns and painted the puzzle pieces in the colours of the African-Nova Scotian flag. Then they pasted the pictures of change-makers, alongside words that best described them, to big puzzle pieces. The puzzle pieces came together to make a beautiful mural. The process was captured in a stop-motion video where the students say or sign the names and affirming words.
I am so happy to live in a community where these young leaders and artists are growing up. I ask the House to join me in congratulating them on their inspiring entry into the African Nova Scotian History Challenge.