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In a continued commitment to supporting the educational success and cultural identity of Indigenous students, the Abbotsford School District has signed the 2025-2030 Enhancement Agreement for Indigenous Students. The signing took place during a luncheon event on June 17, 2024, attended by representatives from the Semáth First Nation, Mathxwí First Nation, Fraser Valley Métis Association, the Abbotsford Board of Education, and district leaders, staff, and students.

As summer break approaches, Minister Rachna Singh, Ministry of Education and Child Care, expresses her gratitude to everyone in the education system for their hard work and the milestones they have reached during the 2023-2024 school year.

Our last Funky Friday dance party included the added fun of glow sticks! 

Total raised throughout the year from the dance parties comes in at $3242.99! Wow! 

And as an added bonus, playground crew arrived this morning and are working on it now.

Thank you for your continued support! Next year fundraising will be for phase 2 of the accessible playground addition.

26June2024: Updated with additional photos. Installation is moving along quickly!

Students and staff wore orange today to recognize and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day and Mrs. Ellis led Metis jigging during recess. Metis jigging is a style of dancing that is part Powwow and french styles of dancing. The kids learned the basic step, the bunny hop, and the wolf and rabbit dance. Mrs. Ellis loved teaching your kids another form of dancing from the Canadian plains.

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.

The Abbotsford School District proudly celebrated its 2024 retirees with a memorable retirement dinner on June 5, 2024, at the Clarion Hotel. This special event celebrated the outstanding contributions and unwavering dedication of those retiring from education leadership, operations management, administration, teaching, and support staff roles.

Students in multiple classes have observed the butterfly life cycle over the past few weeks. The butterflies in Division 6 have now fully developed and were released last week.

This week four of our intermediate classes went on separate waking field trips from the school over to 7-11 to get Slurpees and other treats. Everyone had a great time. Some were even lucky enough to have sunny weather, some were not as fortunate. 

At the beginning of the year the PAC decided that their fundraising goal was $80,000 for an accessible playground addition. Unfortunately, even with generous private donations they have not been able to hit that goal so they have pivoted to a two phased approach.

Our grounds crew has prepared the foundation and the latest update is that phase one playground equipment is to arrive at the end June! So many events have taken place to make this happen.

It was a cold, wet and dreary day but the Suns persevered and had a fun day at the zone track meet. Thank you to all the athletes, staff, parents and grandparents who came out to Rotary Stadium. A special thanks to Coach Smith and the other school Coaches for organizing this annual event.