Blog Posts

We’re a month into 2025, and it’s so exciting to see snow! In schools right now, schools are offering ski trips and other opportunities for outdoor activities with great support from our bus drivers and other transportation staff who make sure children and youth get where they are going and back again safely during and after school hours. 

The students at Blewett Elementary are very excited to be participating in a number of clubs this year. 

Tech Club: Students gather in the Numeracy Nest to play Mindcraft for Education or other school appropriate tech games and activities. Students have access to our basic robotic tools to learn basic programming as well as Lego and other fun hands-on techology.

Our Blewett School community came together a few weeks ago to celebrate the life of our classmate, Everest Conboy. Parents, staff and students all joined in on playing in our first anual "Everest Cup" hockey game. This was not only a fun event, but a healing one as well. Words were spoken in memory of Everest followed by hot chocolate, music, and a great game of hockey. 

Kindergarten Registration at Blewett Elementary School is now open! Download the Registration form today!

Our kindergarten program creates the foundation for your child's positive learning journey - encouraging children to play and learn through a variety of experiential education opportunities to support their emotional, social, physical, intellectual and creative development.

Happy New Year to all our students, families and education partners in SD8 and welcome to the second half of the school year. I wish you a wonderful beginning to 2025.

As we leave November behind us and move into December toward the winter break and the half-way point in the school year, it's a great time to reflect on the past three months and how school communities and SD8 as a whole are supporting each child in their learning journey.

This year at Blewett Elementary, our school community is focusing on integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being, histories, and perspectives into our everyday learning. Our school community has begun and will continue to integrate these teachings through storytelling, art, music, circle, and other traditional practices. 

As we get closer to winter I start to appreciate the fall colours and mild weather more and more. We've had a couple snow falls that excited our students into building snowmen and castles on our top field and our signs of wild life are getting less frequent. Winter is coming!

It's my pleasure to share this month's happenings across our school communities. Throughout the early fall months, students have engaged in a wide variety of learning activities and events from marking Métis Awareness Month by putting up a teepee and examining what learnings come from that process, to incredible Halloween costumes and spirit that delighted staff, students and families.

This last week was an exciting one. We were lucky to be visited by a handful of up and coming teachers from UBC - West Kootenay Teacher Program. Our visitors were very impressed with how our classes are set up with routines that foster a sense of belonging and engagement.