SD8 students from kindergarten to grade 12 as well as families and staff are one month into the school year and settling into the rhythm of a new season, new classrooms, new and returning classmates and so much energy and enthusiasm as thousands of learning journeys are underway.

This report is a collection of content from all our schools, where principals, teachers and support staff post, share and communicate key information to students and families so they are set up for a successful class, semester and year. 

You'll read information notifying you about daily topics like upcoming field trips, where to find high school block rotation schedules, what a school's code of conduct asks of students and what activities and learning opportunities are coming up. Principals across the district have been communicating with families and making sure important day to day information is available on school websites and through email as the year progresses.  

This is also the month in which SD8 joins the rest of Canada to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. September 30 honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Activities in schools during the last week of September focused on practices that champion healing, truth and reconciliation and include Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing in our teaching and learning, as well as celebrate diversity. Students and staff mark the day by wearing orange, and recommit to the enduring truth that EVERY CHILD MATTERS, every day and everywhere. 

And finally, please watch a great video that celebrates diversity – the 2024 Nelson Pride Parade that happened on September 1. 

So much has happened this past month. I hope you enjoy this report. 

Warmly, 

Trish
 

Superintendent’s Report – October 2024