News Stories

From All of Us to All of You – Happy Summer!
 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful summer holiday. Together we have made it through another challenging year – but we did it together, as a community supporting each other. Thank you for your support through the highs and lows. We look forward to seeing everyone back on September 6th!

Year in Review Video

A $239 million-dollar balanced operating budget for the 2022-2023 school year was approved by the Abbotsford Board of Education on June 14, 2022, at their last public Board meeting for the current school year.

As summer break approaches, Minister Jennifer Whitside, Ministry of Education and Child Care, expresses her gratitude to everyone in the education system for their extraordinary efforts and accomplishments during the 2021-2022 school year.

Thank you letter to school staff

As we continue to celebrate National Indigenous History Month, we invite you to take part in a learning opportunity.

In 2018, Robert Bateman Secondary offered a unique Art Activism class, which empowered students to become leaders in their community through art. Every year students take on a different social issue and seek to make a difference and promote awareness through community art fundraising events.

The Abbotsford Board of Education regularly meets throughout the school year. Agendas and minutes from the public Board Meetings can be accessed through the District's Electronic School Board. Below is a summary of highlights from the meeting. 

*Please note, that there were audio and video issues for the entirety of this Livestream Board meeting.

As the 2021-22 school year comes to a close, we are congratulating our retirees from the Abbotsford School District. This year, we will see 55 employees retire from our schools and district sites. They have served as teachers, maintenance staff, custodians, clerical, youth workers and principals. And each and every day, they have made a difference in the lives of our students.

May is our last month for Star Students! The year has gone so fast! Every student in the school is chosen once in the year to be a Star Student but we know that, at Swift, all of our students are Star Students Every day!
Congratulations to these children for their hard work in the month of May. (Some classes have already celebrated all of their students so do not have any listed for May)

At the May PAC meeting, two new PAC Executive members were acclaimed for the 2022-23 year.
A big thank you to Michelle Forrest and Evelyn Whitehead for all their hard work on the PAC Executive for the last few years. They have spent countless hours serving our school community and we are very thankful for them.

This week marks the first anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of over 215 children’s remains at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, where the former Kamloops Residential School was located. Since then, Indigenous investigations across the country have found evidence of more than 1,800 confirmed unmarked graves at former residential school sites, with thousands more anticipated to be discovered in the months and years ahead. 

The Abbotsford Board of Education regularly meets throughout the school year. Agendas and minutes from the public Board Meetings can be accessed through the District's Electronic School Board. Below is a summary of highlights from the meeting. 

Presentations

Student Presentation: Students from Nights of Music

A few students who participated, accompanied by their school administrators, talked to trustees about their experiences playing for a live audience for the first time in over two years.