Schools

Channi Gonzales went back to school and got her Dogwood Diploma 23 years after dropping out at 14. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

23 years later, B.C. mom graduates from high school

Channi Gonzales received her Dogwood Diploma last June after deal with sons

 

Grade 12 students Jenna Hampton, left, and Sheridan Sinow, were drawn to the aerial rings, part of the aerial setup that also included a stable trapeze and silks. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

VIDEO: Circus art the focus of phys ed at Lower Mainland high school

Cirque Jeunesse B.C. makes second visit to Maple Ridge Secondary School

 

Davie Jones Elementary and Pitt Meadows Elementary were placed under a hold and secure while various police squads responded to a suspicious call regarding the 19300-block of 121st Avenue in Pitt Meadows on April 10. (Davie Jones Elementary/Special to The News)

Pitt Meadows schools placed under hold and secure due to suspicious call

RCMP held Davie Jones and Pitt Meadows Elementary on Wednesday afternoon

 

Ridge Meadows RCMP had a strong presence at Garibaldi Secondary on Tuesday, April 9 after a student made a threat on Snapchat. (Brandon Tucker/The News)

Social media threat brings RCMP to Maple Ridge school

Garibaldi Secondary student allegedly threatens on Snapchat to ‘paint the walls red’

Ridge Meadows RCMP had a strong presence at Garibaldi Secondary on Tuesday, April 9 after a student made a threat on Snapchat. (Brandon Tucker/The News)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to ten year old Chakai as he cuts fruit next to chef Jason Simpson while preparing food for a lunch program at the Boys and Girls Club East Scarborough, in Toronto, Monday, April 1, 2024. Trudeau says the upcoming federal budget will include funding for a national school food program that aims to provide meals to 400,000 more kids per year across the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Federal Liberals announces $1B national school food plan

Trudeau pledges to feed 400,000 more kids with 5-year program starting in this year’s budget

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to ten year old Chakai as he cuts fruit next to chef Jason Simpson while preparing food for a lunch program at the Boys and Girls Club East Scarborough, in Toronto, Monday, April 1, 2024. Trudeau says the upcoming federal budget will include funding for a national school food program that aims to provide meals to 400,000 more kids per year across the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Retiring Beairsto Elementary School teacher Anita Baturin held her last dragon parade at the school to celebrate the Lunar New Year Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)

Retiring B.C. teacher relishes one last Lunar New Year dragon parade

Anita Baturin has been sharing her Chinese culture with her Vernon students since 2002

Retiring Beairsto Elementary School teacher Anita Baturin held her last dragon parade at the school to celebrate the Lunar New Year Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)
Cherryville youth were left waiting for a school bus that never showed up Jan. 12, in -28C weather. (Charlie Redstone photo)

Kids wait in -28 C cold for Okanagan school bus that never came

Route 42 was cancelled, but some had no notification

Cherryville youth were left waiting for a school bus that never showed up Jan. 12, in -28C weather. (Charlie Redstone photo)
This screen shot of a YouTube video posted by Big Tree View shows Vernon School District staff and board members walking out of a board meeting while a protester sounds off. The video was posted Dec. 15, 2023, two days after the school board’s most recent meeting. (YouTube image)

VIDEO: Protesters shut down B.C. school board meeting

A recently published YouTube video shows a woman going on a lengthy diatribe at a Vernon school board meeting

This screen shot of a YouTube video posted by Big Tree View shows Vernon School District staff and board members walking out of a board meeting while a protester sounds off. The video was posted Dec. 15, 2023, two days after the school board’s most recent meeting. (YouTube image)
Vancouver Police seized a vintage firearm, pictured, at Lord Byng Secondary School Dec. 21, 2023 after a man was seen carrying it into the school. The man is a staff member at the school and was bringing it in for a school presentation, police said. (Vancouver police handout)

Rifle-toting man was just bringing it to B.C. school for presentation: Police

Vancouver police say the school was locked down, emergency response team dispatched immediately

Vancouver Police seized a vintage firearm, pictured, at Lord Byng Secondary School Dec. 21, 2023 after a man was seen carrying it into the school. The man is a staff member at the school and was bringing it in for a school presentation, police said. (Vancouver police handout)
Students at 35 schools in the Surrey school district had to learn in unseasonably cold weather, as many portables are going without heat. (Sobia Moman photo)

Lack of heat in some B.C. portables has students learning in jackets, gloves

‘It shouldn’t be November 1 and we still don’t have heat,’ Surrey teacher union

Students at 35 schools in the Surrey school district had to learn in unseasonably cold weather, as many portables are going without heat. (Sobia Moman photo)
A secondary school teacher in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School District has received a three day suspension of his certificate of qualification for an incident that happened in 2021. (The News files)

Hitting student in the stomach nets B.C. teacher a 3-day suspension

Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows teacher Randy Peter Faresin will serve the suspension from Dec. 13-15

A secondary school teacher in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School District has received a three day suspension of his certificate of qualification for an incident that happened in 2021. (The News files)
B.C. high school teacher Douglas Andrew Barnim has been suspended for one month for unprofessional communication with a recent graduate student. (Pixabay)

B.C. high school teacher suspended over communication with recent grad

Teacher said they would be friends for life, gave student dating advice

B.C. high school teacher Douglas Andrew Barnim has been suspended for one month for unprofessional communication with a recent graduate student. (Pixabay)
Grade 4 student Finely Comartin is dyslexic and since doing online tutoring he has moved up eight reading levels. (Ella Matte/News Staff)

‘Absolutely unfair’: Families of B.C. dyslexic children spending thousands

Parents are requesting the province provide funded diagnoses and updated learning material

Grade 4 student Finely Comartin is dyslexic and since doing online tutoring he has moved up eight reading levels. (Ella Matte/News Staff)
Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban have banned girls from school for 2 years. It’s a worsening crisis for all Afghans

Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade,…

Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Vernon’s Allan Brooks Nature Centre is launching the first phase of its new online learning platform. (ABNC photo)

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Students are in the classroom for another year

Vernon’s Allan Brooks Nature Centre is launching the first phase of its new online learning platform. (ABNC photo)
Cowichan Valley School District has followed suit, and is also ending their long standing relationship with Camp Qwanoes due to some of their views on what they consider to be sin, and their lack of inclusivity. Seen here, is the entrance sign to Camp Qwanoes. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Third school district cuts ties with B.C. Christian camp over ‘values’

Districts drop relationships with Camp Qwanoes on Vancouver Island due to ‘lack of inclusivity’

Cowichan Valley School District has followed suit, and is also ending their long standing relationship with Camp Qwanoes due to some of their views on what they consider to be sin, and their lack of inclusivity. Seen here, is the entrance sign to Camp Qwanoes. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. Grade 3 teacher Catherine Rioux-Tache leads her students into class at Sainte-Cecile elementary school on their first day back to school in Montreal, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

School boards grappling with AI use in classroom, but formal policies still elusive

There seems to be wide consensus on the need for more guidance and vigilance

Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. Grade 3 teacher Catherine Rioux-Tache leads her students into class at Sainte-Cecile elementary school on their first day back to school in Montreal, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
RCMP vehicles were stationed outside Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon after a hold and secure was reportedly activated Friday, June 2, 2023. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)

Small explosion led to hold-and-secure at Vernon school

Students outside and near Fulton Secondary were behind blast that led to safety measure activation

RCMP vehicles were stationed outside Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon after a hold and secure was reportedly activated Friday, June 2, 2023. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)
(Black Press Media files)

Central Okanagan teacher suspended for 4th time for ‘inappropriate conduct’

Most recently, Justin Enns has been suspended for five days from Jun. 5-9

(Black Press Media files)
Oliver Elementary was the first school in B.C. to trial the Seamless Day Kindergarten. (Google Maps)

B.C. pilot that turns Kindergarten classrooms into daycare spaces deemed huge success

The program integrates before- and after-school care into the kindergarten classroom

Oliver Elementary was the first school in B.C. to trial the Seamless Day Kindergarten. (Google Maps)