Community News

This Wednesday Sexsmith Elementary opened its doors to the school community to invite them to celebrate Lunar New Year. The elementary school gym came alive with a dozen and a half student dragon dance. Students also visited ten stations manned by parent volunteers.

On January 20th, Renfrew Elementary School celebrated Lunar New Year with a special assembly, which featured a recorder song, arts and crafts and even a dragon dance.

Churchill’s drinking water situation is about to get a whole lot better. A new initiative spearheaded by a Youth4Tap, a group of 30 to 40 students from all grades, is aiming to replace the schools old and awkward water fountains with several new state-of-the-art refillable water stations.

A new program spearheaded at King George Secondary is blending sustainability, multiculturalism and bike mechanics into something particularly unique and special.

It’s time to take stock of what we offer and determine what programs and opportunities should be prioritized now and into the future in order to create the best possible learning environment. It’s a big task and a major part of the process is our new website called Our Future. The site has three sections: Your Schools, Your Community, and Your Voice.

This year's Fall Extravaganza was the third community event organized and iniated by the Engaging Neighbourhoods Initiative, a partnership between local secondary students (many of whom hail from David Thompson Secondary), UBC, South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, DTCST, Fraserview Boys and Girls Club, BC Housing at Orchard Park and Vancouver Middle Childhood Matters coordinator.The project is sponsored by the United Way. 

Alisha Fredriksson is heading south this winter – way south. The Grade 11 Prince of Wales Mini School student is one of 60 students from around the world selected to participate on a scientific exploration trip to Antarctica.

Community-minded youth from Killarney Secondary’s Student Street Squad group were on the streets of the Downtown Eastside yesterday morning to hand out 500 care packages to the less fortunate.

This fall the members of our secondary student leadership group, the Vancouver District Students’ Council (VDSC) gathered together at the Education Centre for a day of team building and planning.  The students were led by a team from Free the Children who engaged the students in activities which would help them to grow as leaders.  While some of the games were less than conventional, the results were amazing.