Resolute (Feb 06/06) - It's rare a week that goes by without an event worth talking about at Qarmartalik school in Resolute.

In the last two weeks, there's been three!

Tracey MacMillan, outreach co-ordinator, says community literacy and elder appreciation are always on the staff radar.

So on Jan. 27 - Family Literacy Day - both priorities were fused for one event.

Family Literacy Day was picked to promote reading and improve skills among youth. Qarmartalik's version was to invite a bunch of people from the community to read with students, to show how gratifying it is.

"We are proud of the service provided to our students by the members of the community," says MacMillan, considering a bunch of people showed up for the event.

Meanwhile, students learned serving up a feast for their elders can be gratifying, too.

Treated with extra courtesy, elders ate caribou stew, homemade baking and, of course, drank tea. While munching away, they shared stories with those around them.

Principal Brian Manning, was more than pleased with the event. "The principles of Inuit Qaujimajattuqangit are very much alive and practised in Qausuittuq," he says.

"From our elders we learn from the past, and bring to the present the high ideals that are held by the elders of our community."

The following Monday was the opening of a week-long recognition of the importance of the Inuktitut language in the school curriculum.

Every day of the week a set of two students read Inuktitut poems over community radio.

Monday, Valerie Amarualik and Beth Kheraj Idlout were the featured readers.

On Tuesday, Moses Allakarialak and Justin Nangmalik piped up. Wednesday, Amanda Anaviapik and Ragilee Attagootak made themselves heard.

On Thursday PJ Attagootak and Sylvia Kalluk recited poems. Letia Paniloo and Amy Salluviniq closed the show on Friday.