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Earth Day Hooray!

On Thursday, April 20, Redfish School was out in the neighbourhood for the annual community clean up. This year the students worked in their multi-age groups to clean up the playground and the neighbourhood, plant pumpkin seeds for the school pumpkin patch, and create bird feeders using nature-based materials to feed the local birds.  

The theme for Earth Day 2023 was “invest in our planet,” and Redfish staff supported the students to consider ways they can help.

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SD8 School Leadership Changes for Upcoming School Year

School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) announced today that the following school principal and vice-principal transfers, appointments and retirements will come into effect August 1, 2023:

District-Wide

Principal Ken Wiens is leaving Erickson Elementary to take on the role of district principal for SD8’s online learning programs including Elev8 DESK – a Provincial Online Learning School (POLS) - and the hybrid online/in-person program, Homelinks. Principal Wiens will take over from District Principal Rob Simpson who is retiring in 2023.

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SD8 School Leadership Changes for Upcoming School Year

School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) announced today that the following school principal and vice-principal transfers, appointments and retirements will come into effect August 1, 2023:  

District-Wide

Principal Ken Wiens is leaving Erickson Elementary to take on the role of district principal for SD8’s online learning programs including Elev8 DESK – a Provincial Online Learning School (POLS) - and the hybrid online/in-person program, Homelinks. Principal Wiens will take over from District Principal Rob Simpson who is retiring in 2023.

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Board of Education Meeting Highlights - March 14, 2023

An overview of discussion items and major decisions of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake).

Noon Hour Fun and Games!

Ms. Bradshaw, a school district social worker, has been at our school on Tuesdays. We have had parent volunteers as well as Ms. Bradshaw facilitating noon-hour games for interested students.  

Whatever the weather, there is lots of fun learning to be had at Redfish!

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A young, female adult wearing a burgundy toque leading school children in play in a snowy winter schoolyard

Board of Education Meeting Highlights - February 14

An overview of discussion items and major decisions of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake). For meeting agendas/minutes and a schedule of upcoming board meetings visit our meetings page.

October Happenings and Falling Into Nature

Redfish staff welcomed UBC’s West Kootenay Teacher Education Program (WKTEP) teacher candidates back to our school on October 5 when we held our annual Fall Into Nature for which WKTEP has been joining us for more than 7 years.

First Colour Group Activity of the Year

At Redfish School, to foster that strong sense of family that exists, not only are our classes multiage but we frequently engage in multiage activities in our colour groups. 

For our first colour group activity of the year, we created a beautiful bulletin board of a school of fish noting similarities and uniqueness of the fish, swimming together.

 

SD8 Communicating Student Learning

Please see this pamplet from the district to help understand how SD8 Kootenay Lake will 

Communicate Student Learning this school year.

Grade 4/5 Track and Field Day!

A great day with 250 grade four and five students from all over Nelson, Salmo and the valley!
Huge thanks to our PAC and community volunteers for making the day seamless!