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West Vancouver students get animated for class photo

They couldn’t get together for a full group shot, but Ms. Lyric’s Grade 7 class at West Vancouver’s Caulfeild Elementary will still have a cool class photo to take with them as they head off to high school.
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The Div. 2 Grade 7s at West Vancouver's Caulfeild Elementary pose for a class photo in Bitmoji form. image Jessica Lyric

They couldn’t get together for a full group shot, but Ms. Lyric’s Grade 7 class at West Vancouver’s Caulfeild Elementary will still have a cool class photo to take with them as they head off to high school.

With COVID-19 restrictions preventing the class from gathering for a photo, teacher Jessica Lyric decided to go virtual this year. She tasked all of her students with creating a Bitmoji of themselves and sending it to her. Lyric then spent hours sizing the student creations and fitting them together into a digital class photo, complete with school mascot and the ubiquitous brick background of photo day lore.

“It was just something I wanted to do as this was my first year as a generalist after many years teaching high school,” Lyric told the North Shore News. “I was sad that we were all going to miss out on the experience of a whole class photo.”

The project was a labour of love, says Lyric.

“It took a few weeks to gather them all and many hours of resizing images, but I’m really happy with it!” she said.