Moose Factory Ministik School
Kindergarten to Grade 8
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Moose Factory Ministik School is so incredibly proud of Ministik alumni and former Ministik teacher, Dr. Candace Linklater as she has recently completed her PhD.
You are an inspiration to so many 👩🎓💖I completed my PhD!!! I am now Dr. Candace Linklater 🤩
Rez kids, you can do ANYTHING 💫💫
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My Heartfelt Acknowledgements:
To my loving Alex, my sweetheart: you have been my soft landing, my courage, and my steady heart. Your faith in me brought me here, to this moment, and I am endlessly grateful. You are my everything, and every step of my study’s journey was taken with you devotedly beside me.
I extend my heartfelt gratitude to my parents, my sister, and my best friend. Your relentless support and love have been my anchor, and your compassion flows through this work, filling it with care and depth.
To my community, Moose Cree First Nation—the People, Land, and Waters: thank you for keeping me grounded and loved. And of course, I acknowledge, with so much love, all my previous students. You are in every word, every essence of my work.
To those who resisted the birth of this study: I acknowledge you too. I hope that one day, you open yourself to the kind of love that extends beyond walls of bigotry. Despite your resistance, here my work stands—alive, breathing, and complete.
Lastly, to the moss—the inspiration and quiet teacher of my study’s journey. I will keep learning from you, and letting your quiet resilience guide me. This work, like you, stretches forward, rooting, nurturing, and reaching toward light.
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My PhD dissertation’s title is Pedagogy of Moss in School Leadership for Indigenous 2SLGBTQ+ K-12 Students.
My committee members will be nominating my dissertation for an award, and I can’t wait to share it with you all!
It will be available in the coming weeks–I’ll make an announcement when it’s published!
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At the core of my study is an invitation to honor humanity and embrace relational growth, understanding that transformation, much like moss, unfolds slowly and steadily, even within moments of disruption.
Just as moss turns what seems barren into something alive, the process of collective actualization allows us to transmute our shadows—our fears, our discomforts—into alchemy. Growth is holistic; it comes with stumbles, yet we can grow regardless.
Each student, each educator, and each connection are an essential part of a larger, interconnected whole, like the spectrum of colors that blend into one. If you see only five colors, you’re blind to the full rainbow; if you hear only five sounds, you’re deaf to the full symphony. Similarly, when we restrict human expression and love to rigid binaries, we limit our own humanity, disconnecting ourselves from the oneness of all experiences.
We must open our eyes, ears, and hearts to the full spectrum of human expression—embracing the complex, fluid, and expansive ways we all exist. By doing so, we create spaces where all forms of expression are celebrated, just as moss nurtures life in its quiet, resilient growth.
Through honoring each other’s aliveness, we invite a new vision of education and the world: one that nurtures, connects, and transforms. Just like moss.
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I cannot imagine getting upset with moss
For not growing like the trees.
I cannot imagine telling moss
That it needs to look more like the flowers.
Gender expression and identity
Attraction and love
Are like the moss.
Expansive. Non-binary. A forest.
So why
Oh why
Are you upset
When someone doesn’t grow
The way you want them to?
Try getting mad at moss
For not being the grass.
Or yelling at the moss
For not being like the vines.
Let moss
Be moss.
Let humans
Be human.
Let love
Be love.
An Invitation to Love by Dr. Candace Linklater
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Photographer: My sweetheart, Alex Manitopyes @alexmanitopyes
MUO: @amavi_beauty
Hair: @sydironstarbeauty
Set Assistant: @twospiritsonelove
Wednesday January 15 day 88⛅️dress for the weather!
🤢🤧😷we continue to experiences slightly increased illness in our school community. Please adhere to the guidance shared from the Northeastern (formally Porcupine) Heath Unit regarding illness and school - see attached poster
⚠️use extreme caution when travelling to and from school everyday -drive for the conditions- leave extra time and space… and SLOW DOWN in the loops!!
⛔️our loops are one way only!
🚌MCEA BUS SERVICE: two buses, two routes 🧡💙
📲Questions/concerns? Contact heather.moore@mcea.ca 705-658-4726 Ext 251 Cell: 705-698-7846
🚍interested in becoming a school bus driver?? Connect with Heather!
⏰Classes start at 9am & 1pm - -supervision 8:45am, 12:45pm each school day
-lunch dismissal 11:55-12:05
-end of day dismissal 3-3:10
📞please call the school office BEFORE 11:30am and 2:30pm with transportation changes & confirmations ‼️
❌🚌mfidsab little bus is not on the road. We do not have an expected start date but will provide an update when new information becomes available.
🥤👟🎒
Q- what does my child need for school each day?
A- indoor shoes, morning snack, and a refillable water bottle - students in kinder and grade one should also bring an extra set of clothes - in a backpack
🚘 please be a little extra cautious as you approach the school in the one way only loops 👀 eyes on the road and off your phone 🚫📱
🚶♂️always use the walking path when walking to pick up or drop off students
🚫yelling for your child to run through traffic is dangerous
⛔️no one is to be crossing the small loop on foot except at the designated cross walk location and times
‼️All dropoffs: please use the large loop💖
Professional Development Day 5: Friday January 17
Teachers are working on term one report cards,
Support staff are training in first aid & CPR/AED
📲 👀 Have you downloaded our app??
visit www.mfidsab.ca for app download links
Moose Factory Ministik School was so fortunate to welcome guests to our community today.
Jason Michaud from Stardust travelled north with two Workplace Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) trainers: Valerie Vanderwyk and Kari Cusack. They have a dual collaboration called Pathfinder. Jason began a series of workshops with our grade 6 students on exploring space, flight and rockets!
Valerie and Kari provide workplace health & safety training and are developing a partnership with our school.
Together, with their WHSC colleagues, they donated over 500lbs of food and winter clothing for our community. Boxes of goods have been shared within Ministik and more boxes were delivered to DDECS this afternoon.
Please see the card they shared with us 💚
Thank you Jason, Valerie & Kari!!!
Tuesday January 14 day 87🌥️dress for the weather!
🤢🤧😷we are experiencing increased illness in our school community. Please adhere to the guidance shared from the Northeastern (formally Porcupine) Heath Unit regarding illness and school - see attached poster
⚠️use extreme caution when travelling to and from school everyday -drive for the conditions- leave extra time and space… and SLOW DOWN in the loops!!
⛔️our loops are one way only!
🚌MCEA BUS SERVICE: two buses, two routes 🧡💙
📲Questions/concerns? Contact heather.moore@mcea.ca 705-658-4726 Ext 251 Cell: 705-698-7846
🚍interested in becoming a school bus driver?? Connect with Heather!
⏰Classes start at 9am & 1pm - -supervision 8:45am, 12:45pm each school day
-lunch dismissal 11:55-12:05
-end of day dismissal 3-3:10
📞please call the school office BEFORE 11:30am and 2:30pm with transportation changes & confirmations ‼️
❌🚌mfidsab little bus is not on the road. We do not have an expected start date but will provide an update when new information becomes available.
🥤👟🎒
Q- what does my child need for school each day?
A- indoor shoes, morning snack, and a refillable water bottle - students in kinder and grade one should also bring an extra set of clothes - in a backpack
🚘 please be a little extra cautious as you approach the school in the one way only loops 👀 eyes on the road and off your phone 🚫📱
🚶♂️always use the walking path when walking to pick up or drop off students
🚫yelling for your child to run through traffic is dangerous
⛔️no one is to be crossing the small loop on foot except at the designated cross walk location and times
‼️All dropoffs: please use the large loop💖
Professional Development Day 5: Friday January 17
Teachers are working on term one report cards,
Support staff are training in first aid & CPR/AED
📲 👀 Have you downloaded our app??
visit www.mfidsab.ca for app download links
Monday January 13 day 86 🌨️dress for the weather!
🤢🤧😷we are experiencing higher than usual rates of illness in our school community. Please adhere to the guidance shared from the Northeastern (formally Porcupine) Heath Unit regarding illness and school - see attached poster
⚠️use extreme caution when travelling to and from school everyday -drive for the conditions- leave extra time and space… and SLOW DOWN in the loops!!
⛔️our loops are one way only!
🚌MCEA BUS SERVICE: two buses, two routes 🧡💙
📲Questions/concerns? Contact heather.moore@mcea.ca 705-658-4726 Ext 251 Cell: 705-698-7846
🚍interested in becoming a school bus driver?? Connect with Heather!
⏰Classes start at 9am & 1pm - -supervision 8:45am, 12:45pm each school day
-lunch dismissal 11:55-12:05
-end of day dismissal 3-3:10
📞please call the school office BEFORE 11:30am and 2:30pm with transportation changes & confirmations ‼️
❌🚌mfidsab little bus is not on the road. We do not have an expected start date but will provide an update when new information becomes available.
🥤👟🎒
Q- what does my child need for school each day?
A- indoor shoes, morning snack, and a refillable water bottle - students in kinder and grade one should also bring an extra set of clothes - in a backpack
🚘 please be a little extra cautious as you approach the school in the parent pick up loops 👀 eyes on the road and off your phone 📱
🚶♂️always use the walking path when walking to pick up or drop off students
🚫yelling for your child to run through traffic is dangerous
⛔️no one is to be crossing the small loop on foot except at the designated cross walk location and times
‼️All dropoffs: please use the large loop💖
Professional Development Day 5: Friday January 17
Teachers are working on term one report cards,
Support staff are participating in first aid & cpr training
📲 👀 Have you downloaded our app??
visit www.mfidsab.ca for app download links
Parent Communication & Reporting
Contact Information
School Address:
Moose Factory, ON P0L 1W0
Phone:
705-658-4535
Fax:
705-658-4024
Principal:
Jennifer Knight-Blackned
Vice-Principal:
Paul Vukovich
Secretary:
Louisa Gunner
Daisy Jolly
School Hours
Morning Arrival:
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Morning Classes Begin:
9:00 a.m.
Recess:
10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.
Lunch Dismissal:
11:55 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Lunch Break:
12:05 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Afternoon Arrival:
12:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Class Begin:
1:00 p.m.
End of Day Dismissal:
3:05pm – 3:15 p.m.
