Blog Posts

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.  

SD8 students from kindergarten to grade 12 as well as families and staff are one month into the school year and settling into the rhythm of a new season, new classrooms, new and returning classmates and so much energy and enthusiasm as thousands of learning journeys are underway.

A warm welcome to the 2024-2025 school year. 

On September 3, about 4,700 children will leave home in the morning excited to see their friends, full of anticipation and maybe even some apprehension about beginning a new year, a new classroom, or a new school. 

Hello Blewett families!

We are excited to start the 2024-25 school year at Blewett!  There is much information to share with all of you.  Please read carefully and help your child get ready for the first day of school! Ways you can keep on top of what’s happening at our school include: