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YMCA Hamilton Burlington Brantford

Butterflies Around The School

Documentation by Emma Daw

YMCA Kinder – Spring Valley School

Spring Valley YMCA Child Care Centre Address: 99 Dunham Dr, Ancaster L9G 1X7

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On the week of imaging the children were prompted with drawing and saying what things they would like to see around their school. Things that make them happy, or even things that they think would make the neighbourhood safer! I split my group in two and I noticed that consistently throughout both of my groups drew butterflies, in the garden, on the windows, so we came up with the idea of a butterfly garden to attract the butterflies.

This to me is a great example of how listening to the children can actually be used as advocacy to support their ideas. With this information maybe in time this is something that we could hopefully see designed around the school!