News Stories

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

Communicate Student Learning this school year.

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!

Please see our full text version of our Living and Learning Protocol based on the Ministry of Education Core Competencies.

Our Living and Learning Protocol is posted around our school - please come by to see it!