The SENĆOŦEN Survival School and Language Apprenticeship programs value our history and teach the ways and beliefs of our W̱SÁNEĆ homeland and worldview.
SENĆOŦEN Survival School: This program is a fully SENĆOŦEN immersion experience (EWENE W̱ENITEM ḴEN SḰÁL – no English Language is spoken) for Children 5-6 or at the Kindergarten program level. Our program teachers meet the Ministry Prescribed Learning Outcomes of the Kindergarten Curriculum. Children will spend 3.5 hours in classroom Learning the Kindergarten Provincial Curriculum through a SENĆOŦEN medium. For 2.5 hours per day, children will also learn through engagement with nature in the playgrounds and forests around our school and at beaches and culturally significant places. Children can enter the LE,NOṈET Immersion stream at this level.
SENĆOŦEN Language Apprenticeships: The goal of the Mentor-Apprentice Program is to facilitate the development of fluent speakers of SENĆOŦEN language where fluent speakers are partnered with committed learners in an immersion environment in the home and on the land. This is a one-on-one language immersion program. A “mentor” (a fluent speaker of a language) is paired with an “apprentice” (learner).
Organization: | ȽÁU, WELṈEW̱ Tribal School |
Location: | Vancouver Island |
Name: | Renee Sampson & Tye Swallow |
Title: | SENĆOŦEN Immersion Teacher & Director/Facilitator |
Address: |
7449 West Saanich Rd. Brentwood Bay BC, V8M 1R3
North Sannich, BC
V8M1R3
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Email Address: | sxedtelisiye@gmail.com |
Phone Number: | (250) 652-2313 |
Name: | Charity Gladstone |