Victus Academy showing their support on Orange Shirt Day
On September 30th, 2020 Victus Academy showed their support for the Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools. Orange shirt day was created in 2013 to educate and promote awareness about residential schools and the impact it has had on the Indigenous communities, we have this day on September 30th as it was around this time of the year that the Indigenous children were taken away to residential schools. We wear an orange shirt because Phyllis Webstad was given one by her grandmother on her first day of school, when she got there they took away her clothes and never returned them to her and now the colour orange always reminds her or her experiences she had at the residential school. Teacher Alissa Koth said “Victus Academy recognized Orange Shirt Day on September 30 as a way to honour residential school survivors, those who did not survive, and their descendants.”
