6 Must Have Convos Evening Presentation January 7, 2025
6 Must Have Conversations with Your (Pre) Teens
Tuesday, January 7
6 – 8pm at Cortes School
More so than ever before, parents/teachers need to keep up-to-date with current issues in sexual health education. This 2-hour workshop will provide parents, caregivers, counsellors, child and youth care workers and other interested community members a peek into the challenges many youth face today.
Specific topics will include:
- consent
- healthy relationships
- steps to safer sex
- the legal and social implications of sexting
- gender violence
- the impacts of pornography viewing
- gender & sexual orientation
This presentation is for adults – child/youth supervision will take place in a different room.
RSVP would be greatly appreciated.
Creating a Culture of Child Safety Evening Presentation January 8, 2025
Wednesday, January 8
1. Why we need to teach sexual health education early
2. What schools should be offering our primary aged children in terms of sexual abuse prevention
3. Common myths of sexual abuse
4. Types of sexual abuse
5. Statistics of sexual abuse
6. Who commits sexual abuse?
7. Incidences of reporting
8. The difference between a pedophile and molester
9. The profile of a predator
10. Stages of grooming a child
11. What transfer of responsibility looks like
12. Patterns of disclosure
13. Why kids don’t disclose
14. Normal sexual behaviour for preschool and primary aged kids.
15. Signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse
About the Power Up Education approach to sexual health:
At Power Up Education, we believe “sexual health” includes the social, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of sexuality and relationships.
Curiosity is king, and we know that young people have a strong interest and natural inclination to develop their understanding and seek information about sex and sexual health. We believe that we should choose to feed and foster this curiosity in an intentional way to balance and address what children may experience through their online access and social interactions. Our vision at Power Up Education is to create a world where sexual health education is as natural and habitual as brushing your teeth and combing your hair. We are here to positively impact families and educators, leaving each and every one of you feeling knowledgeable, empowered, and inspired.
Community Lantern Walk 2024
Families and Community Members are warmly invited to our Community Lantern Walk preceded by a Lantern Making Afternoon.
An Autumn Lantern Walk is a traditional celebration for children that inspires connection to the rhythms of nature, community and the light within.
Join in one and all for an evening of beauty and wonder! Let’s let our little lights shine together as the daylight wanes and we move into the darkest time of the year. We will walk in reverence and song and arrive at a bonfire to share in more song. Songs and lyrics below.
Lantern Making Afternoon
Saturday, Nov. 23 10:00am – 12:00pm
Pioneer Room, Mansons Hall
Bring your own jars if you have them. +/- 500ml is a good size. Everything else is provided. Come make a lantern and learn the songs we will be singing at the walk. Lyrics and links for songs are below.
Here is a link to make your lantern at home: https://youtu.be/gRh6M4Z9NKA
Autumn Lantern Walk
Tuesday, Nov.26th 4:30 – 6:00pm
Smelt Bay Park
We’ll begin near the farthest parking lot and our lantern walk will lead us to a bonfire.
Our intention is for a quiet reverent evening. Please make sure your little ones stay right with you.
Weather permitting.
Everyone and all lanterns welcome.
Contact cortesfsc@gmail.com if you would like to help out.
Lantern Songs
***We especially hope you’ll learn the songs asterisked in red.
***LANTERN WALK SONG MELODY / VIDEO
*****LANTERN WALK SONG LYRICS
I go with my bright little lantern,
My lantern is going with me.
In heaven the stars will be shining,
On earth shines my lantern for me.The lights grow dim as we go in
La-bimba-la-bomba-la-boom
The lights grow dim as we go in
La-bimba-la-bomba-la-boom.
AUDIO – Lantern Songs: 0:00 Down with Darkness, 0:32 *****My Lantern, 1:00 Fire’s Burning
DOWN WITH DARKNESS -Hebrew chant
Down with darkness
up with light
up with sunshine
down with night
each of us is one small light
but together we shine bright
go away darkest, blackest night
go away, give way to light
*****MY LANTERN, trad.
My lantern, my lantern
sun and moon and starlight
through the darkest night we go
glow my little lantern glow
FIRE’S BURNING – trad campfire song
Fire’s burning , fire’s burning
draw nearer, draw nearer
in the gloaming
in the gloaming
come sing and be merry
GLIMMER LANTERN GLIMMER MELODY / VIDEO
GLIMMER LANTERN GLIMMER LYRICS- trad
Glimmer, lantern, glimmer,
Little stars a-shimmer,
Over meadow, moor and dale,
Flitter, flutter elfin veil,
Pee-witt, pee-witt, tick-a-tick-a-tick,
Rou-cou, rou-cou.Glimmer, lantern, glimmer,
Little stars a-shimmer,
Over rock and stock and stone,
Wander tripping little gnome,
Pee-witt, pee-witt, tick-a-tick-a-tick,
Rou-cou, rou-cou.
AUDIO – Let Your Little Light Shine – Ysaye Barnwell arrangement
LET YOUR LITTLE LIGHT SHINE LYRICS Trad Gospel
Let your little light shine, shine, shine
let your little light shine , oh my Lord
’cause there may be , someone down in the valley
tryin’ to get home
Well it could be me or it could be you
could be your brother or your sister too
yes there may be, someone down in the valley
tryin’ to get home
We are grateful to be living and offering these programs in the ancestral and unceded territories of the Klahoose, Tla'amin, and Homalco nations.