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Riverview Hutterite Colony School
Riverview Hutterite Colony School
"Unity in Diversity"
Congratulations to the students and staff at
Riverview Hutterite Colony School on this national award. Your
contributions have inspired our school division and our nation. Great
job!
Email the
Principal/Teacher
Mr. Howarth
Cummings: howie.cummings@spiritsd.ca
A Day in the Life
*Each
paragraph represents a separate student response.
At our school we are
taught to have friendship with everyone and trust.
This is the most important thing to learn.
We are taught to do our work the way we want as long as we get it done.
We get taught about wilderness and living off the land.
I like this very much because it is very close to us and we have lots of
land around us to explore. We all
try to work together at becoming adults and solve problems together the way
people should do when they are older. Our
teacher is a big help with this by helping us to figure out as much as we can
and then shares advice.
Well, we get up at 6:30 AM and get dressed.
We dress dark. I mean that we wear dark clothes.
We do this because it is tradition.
Our ancestors have done it for hundreds of years and we carry our
traditions further. When we go to
eat breakfast, everybody eats together in the kitchen. We do not eat separately in our own homes.
Being a Hutterite is different
than being another person. With
three languages, we can communicate better.
We can switch from one language to another without even thinking
about it. It is sometimes
easier to talk with one language than it is with another.
It makes you feel important.
It is a challenge. Our
languages connect us to our history and our tradition.
Tradition is important because we do not want to upset our
ancestors. Even though they
are dead, the preachers are not. The
preacher reminds us to keep our tradition.
The English world is different, not better or worse. We are lucky to have such a culture and language.
At 7:00 AM is breakfast.
We go eat together in the big dining room until 7:30 AM.
From 7:30 to 8:00 we study our stuff in preparation for German School.
We have to memorize lots of Bible verses so that it comes right out of
our head. From 8:00 to 8:50 we go
to German School and learn about the Bible and the German language.
We learn two forms of German, High German and Low German. We have more schooling in our languages; it is exciting that we
know the other languages when our English teacher does not.
We can talk to each other privately and he does not know the
meaning of what we are saying. When
we have something to discuss, we can discuss it privately particularly
concerning what is going on around the colony.
At 9:00 we have English school
with our English teacher Mr. Cummings.
We begin by reading the newspaper for about 30 minutes.
From 9:30 to about 9:50, each student reports on an article from
either the Saskatoon Star Phoenix or the Globe and Mail to the rest of
the class. We usually try
to discuss these articles and relate them to what we are learning in
social studies about communities. At
about 10:00 AM, Mr. Cummings reads orally to us from a novel that we
choose. We like to read
about the world of nature in our novels and try to pick stories about
the Inuit too.
We read the newspaper every morning and learn about world affairs.
Some of the articles are difficult to understand so we ask
questions and talk about what is going on for a while.
This is an important part of the day because we learn about world
affairs and new words and ideas. There
seems to be lots of different problems in the world and it is hard to
understand why.
Most of our stuff that we do in
school is very interesting because Mr. Cummings uses a different style
of teaching. For example,
he is teaching our youngest student to read using an approach he calls
Montessori. He sits on the
rug with Kenny and uses lots of different word and picture cards.
It seems to really help and they look like they have fun
together. We, the older kids, learn math and study from history.
We also do a journal entry every day and Mr. Cummings replies
back. We sometimes play learning
games such as Payday with the little kids so that they can practice
their math a different way than sitting in a desk with a math textbook
and your nose to the grindstone.
Mr.
Cummings also bought us a special kind of block called Knex.
It really helps us to build or invent something.
It is important to work with your hands so that you don’t get
arthritis like Mr. Cummings. It
is also really educational for the little kids when Mr. Cummings is
reading to us all.
My favorite time during the morning session, is the oral
reading by Mr. Cummings because by this time we have been going to school for a
long time it seems to me and being read to is very relaxing.
I also like the way that Mr. Cummings reads the stories to us.
He uses lots of expression so it helps to understand the meaning of the
story much easier and makes the story more interesting.
Mr. Cummings reads until 10:30. Then it is recess until 10:45.
We try to get back into the school and to work soon after.
At this time we do our journal writing.
This is important to us I think because we seem to do so much of it.
It helps me to be a better writer, thinker and speller.
Sometimes we do grammar or have a spelling test during this time as well.
At 11:45 we go to lunch with the rest of the colony members for about 30
minutes. After lunch break, we go back to school to do math for about
45 minutes each day. Then we either
do social studies, science or arts education.
We do not have a recess in the afternoon because it is
important to us that we leave a little earlier than 3:30 so that can help out
with the chores around the farm. Most
important at this time is the gathering of eggs. Our tradition means that we work together.
Working together means that we help each other out because the job goes
easier and faster. Two hands are better than one.
We also share allot and we do not have to pay for food.
Everything that we want, the colony pays for us.
For example, we get shoes, clothes, candy and pop from the colony.
We receive an allowance once a month.
We get $4.00 per kid and the adults get $8.00.
At 4:00 PM we come back to the schoolhouse again for German
school until 5:00 PM. At 5:00 we
have supper until about 5:30. At
5:30 we go to church for half an hour. From
6:00 PM onward we can do anything we like until bedtime. Bedtime for most of us
is about 9:00 PM. It is a long day
and I am usually tired by this time. This
continues until we are 15 years old. At
that time we leave English school for work training on the colony, but still
continue learning German and studying the Bible for many more years to come.
The
following links are answers to questions posed by other students in the
Grassroots Project to the students of Riverview Hutterite Colony.
A Day
in the Life
School
Learning
School Day Length
Farming
Discipline
Halloween
Travel
Population
Graduation
Colony Life
Languages
Entertainment
Driving Age
Snowmobiles
Clothing
Colony Leadership
Hutterite History
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