March 5, 2018
Fourth-year teacher candidate, Dave Robinson, with the UBC Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP), and Vancouver School Board Grade 6/7 teacher, Monica Treanor, with Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary School, recently completed a five-month carving project with her class.
Over this period, an 80-centimetre red cedar sculpture was hand-carved and sanded by Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Treanor’s students. The final touch on “Sir Sandford’s Seal,” as the piece came to be called, included an oiling ceremony held on February 22, 2018 at the UBC First Nations Longhouse, which saw each student take a turn brushing it with finishing oil.
Read the Q&A with Dave Robinson on his ‘remarkable’ practicum project
