Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 9, Part 2: Let's Learn More About Ramadan: Our Traditions and Beliefs, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our @Bellmoore_HWDSB Student Voice & Leadership Team leaders and hosts, Lucy, Sydney and Armaan, sit down with our students experts: Sufyann, Zaara, Yara, and Omar, to learn more about their family traditions and beliefs during Ramadan. Our students help us learn more about their faith and how they practise, pray, and fast with their families during Ramadan. We also learn more about why Ramadan is important to our students and their families. This is the second part in a 6-part series focused on learning more about Ramadan from our student experts. We will share each part in this series over the few weeks during Ramadan. Part 3 is coming soon! BIG shout out to our Student Voice and Leadership Team leaders, Lily, Mahveeen, Taylor, and Zaina for producing this series and making it happen! We are so proud of your leadership. Special thanks to our AMAZING technology team for supporting this learning opportunity for our students, educators, and community. 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 9, Part 1: Let's Learn More About Ramadan, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our @Bellmoore_HWDSB Student Voice & Leadership Team leaders and hosts, Avery and Brynn, sit down with Grade 5 students, Labibah, Talin, and Aimal to learn more about the history of Ramadan. Our students help us learn more about their faith and how they practise, pray, and fast with their families during Ramadan. This is the first part in a 6-part series focused on learning more about Ramadan from our student experts. We will share each part in this series over the next month during Ramadan. Part 2 coming soon! BIG shout out to our Student Voice and Leadership Team leaders, Mahveen, Zaina, Lily, and Taylor for producing this series and making it happen! We are so very proud of your leadership. Special thanks to our AMAZING technology team for supporting this learning opportunity for our students, educators, and community. 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 8, Part 2: Let's Celebrate Black History, Joy & Excellence, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, @Bellmoore_HWDSB students from Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Donn’s grade 2 classes sit down to learn more about our HWDSB Superintendent, Mr. Gerry Smith. Our grade 2 students, Ayo, Finn, Sariyah, and Anahat, share more about their learning and our celebrations focused on Black History, Joy and Excellence. During this episode, students share their questions and gain insight to better understand how our history helps us understand who we are, where we come from, and who we want to be. Superintendent Smith inspires us all to recognize our history and celebrate Black Canadians who demonstrate Black Excellence and Joy. Thank you for inspiring us to celebrate Black History, Excellence, and Joy in February and every day, Superintendent Smith. So much appreciation to our AMAZING technology team for supporting this learning opportunity for our students, educators, and community. 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @GSmith_ @Director_HWDSB @HWDSB

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 8, Part 1: Let's Celebrate Black History, Joy & Excellence, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our @Bellmoore_HWDSB Grade 8 Student Voice & Leadership Team Leaders and hosts, Makayla and Makenna, met with our HWDSB Superintendent, Mr. Gerry Smith, to deepen our learning and celebrate Black History, Joy, and Excellence. During this episode, we learned more about Superintendent Smith's path, and his celebrations as an HWDSB leader. Superintendent Smith inspires us all to come to school every day and be our true, authentic selves. Thank you for inspiring us! Special thanks also to our AMAZING technology team for supporting this learning opportunity for our students, educators, and community. 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 Part 2 coming soon! We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @GSmith_ @Director_HWDSB @HWDSB

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 7, Part 3: Let's Meet Women Leaders in our Community, featuring our City of Hamilton Mayor, Andrea Horwath, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our Grade 8 Student Voice & Leadership Team Leaders & hosts, Taylor, Mahveen & Zaina, met our City of Hamilton Mayor, @AndreaHorwath to celebrate women on International Women’s Day and to learn more about how, as girls and women, we can achieve success. Mayor Horwath encourages us to “take up our space because we belong and have so much to offer.” When reflecting on our Bellmoore mission statement, Mayor Horwath encouraged us to continue to LEAD with Humility - “I believe the best way to lead and the best way to create a positive future is to acknowledge that one person can’t do it alone, one person can’t achieve success or a vision by themselves. The best way to lead is to bring people together – to come together, EVERYONE, to collaborate with humility.” May we all remember these words so we can achieve the greatest possible outcomes for our students, our staff, and our school community together because EVERY voice matters. Today and every day, we celebrate you, Mayor Andrea Horwath, and our HWDSB girls and women, today on International Women’s Day, and every day. May we continue to aspire and achieve to ensure the very best outcomes together. Special thanks also to our AMAZING technology team - Technology Managers and Editors: Evan, Alana, Keaton, Gurkirat, Jack, Easton & Dawson 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindnessand empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @cityofhamilton

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 7, Part 2: Let's Meet Women Leaders in our Community, featuring HWDSB Chair Maria Felix Miller and HWDSB Trustee Amanda Fehrman, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our @Bellmoore_HWDSB hosts, Zaina & Mahveen, sit down with our HWDSB Chair Maria Felix Miller and Trustee Amanda Fehrman to learn more about how we can support and celebrate one another to feel a sense of belonging - to really feel seen as our true selves with HWDSB’s core guiding values: Dignity, Compassion, Trust, and Joy. We have so much appreciation to these inspiring women for providing such incredible advice and insight to our girls, young women, and women, learning and leading in HWDSB. As our HWDSB Chair reminds us, “be YOU fully and authentically. Excellence comes with being YOU.” May we all be open to new experiences, to pushing ourselves, to learning, and growing together. We celebrate these excellent, authentic women today, on International Women’s Day, and every day. May we continue to feel inspired by strong women in our community and show up as our true, authentic selves to learn, lead, and grow together. Part 3, featuring our City of Hamilton Mayor, Andrea Horwath, our final part in this 3-part series, is coming soon! Special thanks also to our AMAZING technology team - Technology Managers and Editors: Keaton, Dawson, Gurkirat, Jack, Evan, Easton & Alan 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 💛 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @mfelix_miller @Alfehrman

Our PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore, Episode 7, Part 1: Let's Meet Women Leaders in our Community, featuring HWDSB Director Sheryl Robinson Petrazzini and HWDSB Superintendent Michelle Lemaire, is now LIVE. 🤩🎙️🎙️🎙️ On this episode, our @Bellmoore_HWDSB hosts, Mahveen and Taylor, sit down with HWDSB Director Sheryl Robinson Petrazzini and HWDSB Superintendent of Program, Michelle Lemaire, to learn more about HWDSB’s new Multi-Year Strategic Direction, our new Be YOU, Be Excellent mission statement, and gain inspiring, heartfelt insight about how to lead and learn with Compassion, Dignity, Trust and Joy as girls, young women, and women, in our community. We are so very grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow together with these incredible HWDSB leaders. As our Director reminds us with her powerful words, "recognize your gifts and talents and understand the difference you can make." We celebrate these excellent, authentic women today, on International Women’s Day, and every day. May we continue to feel inspired by strong women in our community and show up as our true, authentic selves to learn, lead, and grow together. Parts 2 and 3 in this series coming soon! Special thanks also to our AMAZING technology team - Technology Managers and Editors: Easton, Keaton, Dawson, Evan, Alan, Gurkirat & Jack 🙌🏾🙌🏼🙌🏿 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏾 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💚💛 At Bellmoore, we GROW together to: THINK creatively and collaboratively.💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 💛 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @Director_HWDSB @MsLemaire

We are so very proud of these students and their learning about Black History, Joy & Excellence! Our Student Voice & Leadership Team continues to provide opportunities for our Bellmoore students to share their learning with our community with our podcast, PODmoore: Voices at Bellmoore. Their questions for our Superintendent, Mr. Smith, were insightful and thought-provoking. Special thanks to our students and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Donn for leading this learning. Thank you also to Superintendent Mr. Smith for inspiring us with your visit. We can’t wait to share this episode soon! 🐾💛💚 Shared with permission.

Meet our PODmoore: Voices at @Bellmoore_HWDSB Marketing & Advertising Team! 🌟🌟🌟 These INCREDIBLE, INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE student leaders met with Mrs. Cote from the Hamilton Community Foundation earlier this week to discuss ways to seek sponsorship and donations from our community to further develop our school podcast. They shared ideas about their plans to GROW our podcast to elevate even more student voices at Bellmoore. 🙌🏿🙌🏻🙌🏼 When speaking about an upcoming podcast focused on Ramadan, Jack spoke about how more than 40 Bellmoore students would like to be involved. He spoke very honestly about how we don’t have enough equipment yet to support all of these students as one of the reasons we are seeking support from our community. Jack explained it perfectly: “Think about the 40 students who want to be involved in our next podcast about Ramadan. How can we turn any of these students away? The simple answer is: we can’t.“ You are right, Jack. We can’t and we won’t. This learning opportunity for this group of grade 6, 7, and 8 students was so very impactful. They learned about how to build sponsorship packages, what language to use when seeking donations, and even how to follow up with potential supporters. THIS is learning that will prepare our students for opportunities beyond Bellmoore. We are so very proud! 💫💫💫 We thank Mrs. Cote for taking time to guide our students. Your advice and support is so greatly appreciated. Our students are so inspired to continue this important work so they can drive positive change, and amplify student voices so Bellmoore IS a place where every student feels safe, happy, and knows they belong. 🙏🏼🙏🏿🙏🏼 We also thank Kate McCullough and Cathie Coward from @TheSpec for inspiring these students to think of new ways to grow PODmoore. Your visit and advice truly inspired this work. We are so grateful to be surrounded by such incredible leaders in our knowledge building community. 🙏🏽🙏🏿🙏🏼 We see you. We appreciate you. We thank you. 🙏🏼 Bellmoore is better with you. 🐾💛💚 Together at Bellmoore, we GROW to: THINK creatively and collaboratively. 💭 ACT with kindness and empathy. 🫶🏽 LEAD with humility. 🙏🏾 Shared with permission. @SMilinovich @HamCommFdn @amyleamingcote @katejmccullough