News Stories

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.

Ski days and swimming lessons are upon us. Each student in Crawford Bay School has the opportunity to participate in one of these events.

Skiing is happening each Monday for 4 sessions total for our Grade 4 to Grade 12 students. Swimming is happening each Friday for 6 sessions for our Kindergarten to grade 4 students.

Our grades 7-9 leadership class is currently working on strategies to improve school morale and help connect all of our students across the grade groups.

One way this will be happening is through spirit days. Each day will be run by our middle school group to celebrate coming together in fun ways.

Welcome back to a new school year.  As the year starts we wanted to remind the community of the free counselling supports available through North Kootenay Lake Community Services.

Family Support Counselling

Please see the PDF below for more detailed information about our safe return to school plan. I will answer any questions about the plan during our parent zoom night on September 8th at 6 pm. 

Thank you. 

Sarah Wick

Principal

"Listen closely, seek truth, walk proudly, share love." 

This year SD8 gave schools across the district special funding to beef up our Makerspaces resources. We spent $7720 on a myriad of tinkering bits and pieces. This article from Education Canada will be a good read for any parents or community members who want to know more about Makerspace.

Indigenous students in British Columbia will be better supported and be more connected in school with the addition of a new professional standard that requires teachers to commit to truth, reconciliation and healing.

Kindergarten Gradual Entry Schedule, 2019-2020

We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming school year. We recognize that you likely have some questions about your child beginning school this September, and perhaps specifically about full-day kindergarten. This letter is to inform you of a few details regarding this.

Fresh from the school garden, staff, students and community members enjoyed spring kale in Tyler's daily salad. The kale was so tasty, our chef could not bring himself to cook it!

Fundraising Chili dinner and Trades program presentation on Wednesday, March 6th raised $401 that will go towards construction of an outdoor classroom! Many thanks to Ms. Bury for her efforts in organizing the event and Brent Firkser for providing information on the Selkirk College Trades program! A big thank you to Sedona, Jesse, Kate and Luka for helping with the dinner!