District Highlights

Put on your dancing shoes and come out to Garibaldi Secondary’s annual dessert and dance event this weekend featuring live music from its junior and senior jazz bands. Garibaldi Secondary  read more

Edith McDermott teacher-librarian Krista Kong recommends Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito in honour of Black History Month. This picture book tells  read more

Deputy Superintendent Cheryl Schwarz recommends When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby for the International Day of Education. As we celebrated education around the world this week, we also  read more

District helping teacher for Grade 6/7 inquiry, K-7 numeracy, and ADST (applied design, skills and technologies), Yas Mann, recommends The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires for Kid Inventors’ Day  read more

Laity View teacher-librarian Natalie Clark recommends Elves are the Worst! by Alex Willan just in time for winter break. Elves are the Worst!, the fourth book in Alex Willan’s enchanting  read more

Students across the Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows School District got into the spirit of giving this holiday season by putting on food drives, collecting donations for hampers, and making  read more

Grade 6/7 students at Laity View Elementary learned a new skill for a good cause this holiday season. Kirsten Bailey’s class of 21 students knit 85 hats to donate to  read more

Students from Kanaka Creek Elementary are using their Halloween candies this year to make Christmas a little sweeter for seniors living in centres and community members in need. The school  read more

Albion teacher-librarian Jennifer Mountfort recommends The Christmassy Cactus by Beth Ferry for Christmas. Beth Ferry’s new picture book, The Christmassy Cactus, is a delightful story about an adorable tiny cactus  read more

District teacher-librarian Leanne Dunbar recommends Our Table by Peter H. Reynolds just in time for Hanukkah and the start of the holiday season. I love the story Our Table by  read more