By Chris Brown

'Missing you all'

Prairie Rose teachers, staff post video message to students

Apr 29, 2020 | 12:09 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – Around this time in a normal year students would be starting to count down the days until summer break. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this year has been anything but normal.

In the middle of March, classes were cancelled in Alberta as the pandemic began to take hold. Students, teachers and other school staff have done what they can to make the best of the situation, moving learning online.

But that’s not the same as in-person and Prairie Rose School Division teachers and staff have sent video messages to their students to let them know they are missed.

“I’m really missing you all these days and I hope you’re hanging in there in these tough times,” says Elaine Terry, family school liaison worker for Seven Persons School and Schuler School.

Terry then quoted Winnie the Pooh.

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“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.”

Margaret Wooding School and I.F. Cox School music teacher Ron Mason sang “The Bare Necessities.”

Some teachers are looking to the good times ahead.

“I can not wait to give hugs, high fives, fist bumps, be in connection with kids, getting to see them one-on-one, showing them how to do things, doing fun experiments,” says Shawn Y from Irvine School in the video.

There is a total of 31 videos posted, and you see them all here.