News Stories

Uzume Taiko
November 17, 2023

Uzume Taiko

Sandy Hill staff and students enjoyed a drumming performance from Uzume Taiko. The drummers perform choreographed martial arts based on taiko drum songs. Ask your child(ren) about it!

Uzume Taiko
Rick Hansen Bhangra Dancing Team
November 14, 2023

Happy Diwali!

Sandy Hill was very lucky to have Puneet, Avneet, Keerit and Alisha from Rick Hansen Secondary's Bhangra dance team dance for our school wise assembly and teach us a dance. They also taught us a little bit about Diwali and shared some of their family traditions on Diwali. 

Rick Hansen Bhangra Dancing Team
Students at Assembly
November 9, 2023

Remembrance Day Assembly

Thank you to the students and staff who prepared a song or poem for our school wide assembly. Our trustee liaison, Stan Peterson, was so impressed with the performances, student behaviour and the whole assembly. Also thank you to Mrs. Phillips for organizing the lovely assembly. 

Students at Assembly
November 7, 2023

Highlights - Board Meeting - November 7, 2023

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

Yale Secondary - Student Voice Inquiry

Students from Yale Secondary speak to trustees about their Student Voice inquiry journey over the last few years and their ideas for this school year.

Students Playing Volleyball
November 6, 2023

Volleyball

All classes have been covering some very basic volleyball skills and Grade 5's had a chance to try games during the lunch hours. I think our record was six times over the net in one rally!

Coach Smith

Students Playing Volleyball
Star Award
November 3, 2023

Student Recognition

We are always proud of our Sandy Hill students. This past month our students earned some wonderful compliments from the Mountain West photographer. When he came to take retake photos, he told us that the other Mountain West photographers were envious he was assigned to Sandy Hill because the students are so polite and kind. As well, Yukon Dan was a guest in our school for 2 days, presenting on gold mining to our Grade 5 students. Yukon Dan told us that Sandy Hill students are amazing and awesome and  he loves coming to Sandy Hill as a result.

Star Award
Kindness Brag Tags
November 3, 2023

Caring and Connectedness

This year, Sandy Hill students and staff are working on increasing student connectedness to school. One of the ways we are doing this is by having monthly assemblies where we focus on a character trait and then the following month, we recognize those students who have been nominated by their teacher for demonstrating that character trait in the last month. During the month of October we focused on Kindness and in November we will focus on Empathy. All students will have an opportunity to earn at least one brag tag during the school year.

Kindness Brag Tags
Female holding a book and a male pointing at the book 2024 Prime Minister Award Banner
November 2, 2023

Nominations Open for 2024 Prime Minister’s Award

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Prime Minister's Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates exceptional educators across Canada. Since 1994, these awards have acknowledged over 1,800 outstanding educators who have gone above and beyond to create safe spaces for their students, continue to work hard to make learning fun and inspire the next generation to be bold innovators and creators.

Female holding a book and a male pointing at the book 2024 Prime Minister Award Banner