Minute of Silence Board Chair Amanda Krebs started the meeting with an emotional minute of silence to pause and reflect on the “devastation and harm every single residential school in Canada inflicted on Indigenous people”. “It is with heavy hearts that we begin our last board meeting of the school …
Starting in the 2021-22 school year, the model for literacy support in SD83 elementary schools will look different. The District would like to recognize the dedication and hard work of educators who were involved with the Literacy Intervention (LIT) Program over the years. The LIT model was very successful for …
A new project that helps students become more physically active and learn physical literacy skills has arrived in our district reports an excited Laura Paiement, the SD83 Healthy Schools Co-ordinator. A goal is for students to develop competence, confidence, and motivation to be active for life, The School Physical Activity and …
The commute to work at North Shuswap School on Fridays is a special one for StrongStart Educator Christy Konschuh. Konschuh, who is the early childhood educator at SD83’s Sorrento, Carlin, Falkland, and North Shuswap StrongStart programs, found that she was getting a little tired of the driving and decided to …
Congratulations to Savannah Lamb, a grade 12 student at Salmon Arm Secondary (Sullivan) who has earned a $40,000 scholarship from the Beedie Luminaries Foundation. “When I heard I won this scholarship, I was so thrilled. The amount of money I’m being given is something I am beyond grateful for and …
The gauntlet has been thrown down! M.V. Beattie staff want to encourage all schools to end the year on a high note . . . or at least a musical bang! They are challenging schools to have a Battle of the Bands Principal Gene Doray comments with all of the …
