Nova Pioneer loves your mother tongue
NORTH RIDING – The school held a 'love your mother tongue' event which centred around embracing everyone's differences.
Nova Pioneer‘s North Riding and Paulshof campuses recently hosted a ‘Love your Mother Tongue’ event, aimed at observing and embracing diversity through various languages.
Both schools recognise the importance for their learners to grow up knowing their individual identities, including appreciating and learning their mother tongues. “Humans thrive by means of diversity incorporated with unique identities; the more we learn about each other and celebrate our uniqueness as well as richness, the stronger we become as a community,” said Samantha McMillan, dean of students – Nova Pioneer North Riding.
Celebrations unfolded at both campuses in the form of music, dance, poetry and storytelling by the Novaneers, their parents, as well as teachers. The sentiment expressed by the jovial learners resoundingly was, “It was fun celebrating our mother tongue!” This initiative not only encouraged students to share their languages but to also learn new languages.
The school strives to ensure that learners understand that most values, beliefs, and identities are embedded within the various languages. “As a school, we hope to create many more opportunities to celebrate and embrace our diversity and part of it is ensuring that learners, parents, and teachers are equally enthusiastic about all our initiatives,” said Paula Gordon, head of school.
“It is through our languages that we are able to share and transmit our experiences, our traditions and our knowledge and to share it confidently in an open platform strengthens not only one’s confidence in who they are but grants them an opportunity to be open-minded and considerate of others.”
Through such initiatives, Nova Pioneer hopes to impact its learners’ minds as well as their hearts.
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