Kerrisdale Elementary Annex is a Primary school for the English Program -Kindergarten to Grade 2 students in the Kerrisdale Elementary School catchment. The students and staff are fortunate to be learning together at a school with a beautiful outdoor learning space (the school is situated next to Malkin Park) which includes an expansive field, trees, a playground and a large under covered area. This outdoor space is used to extend and enhance student learning. 

With deep gratitude and respect, we are honoured to be learning and unlearning on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and the students make this acknowledgement during morning announcements. The school currently has 4 divisions with 70 students in attendance. Fifty seven percent of Kerrisdale Annex students are English Language Learners with Armenian, Bengali, Cantonese, Croatian, Kurdish, Turkish, Dutch, Korean, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin, Persian, Filipino, Spanish, Vietnamese and English among the first languages spoken by our families. 

Kerrisdale Annex provides a safe and connected learning environment where all staff know the names of the students and work together to create a sense of belonging that respects and nurtures the development of the whole child as outlined as a primary goal in the District’s Education Plan. 

The staff work collaboratively to build strong foundations in Literacy and Numeracy, and they are also focused on strengthening the social emotional wellbeing of the students. Emotional literacy is explicitly taught, and students are called on to support each other in creating a home away from home where all are happy to spend their days. Effective classroom literacy programs are supplemented with the Reading Recovery Program and One-to-One Reading program which currently benefits from 2 community volunteers. 

Opportunities for student leadership include daily announcers, MCs at assemblies and playground helpers. Opportunities for curricular and extracurricular enrichment are available and over a third of our student population were on the cross-country team and are presently involved in floor hockey intramurals twice a week after school. The library is open to students and their families on Wednesday afternoons, and you can see parents, grandparents and caregivers enjoying a book together with their child/ren.

Kerrisdale Annex is a tight knit community with actively involved families and a hard-working PAC that strives to provide fun and engaging opportunities to build further connections between Kerrisdale Main School and the Annex as families often straddle the two campuses.