News Stories

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.

Division 13 was visited by one of this year's Cops for Cancer Tour De Valley participants who is also a parent!

Cops for Cancer is a fundraising event that includes law enforcement and emergency services personnel who cycle across regions and engage communities en-route. Tour de Valley 2022 is scheduled for September 21 - September 29, 2022. For more information please visit their website.

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

All of our grade 4 and 5 students spent a day out in the rain for track and field at Rotary Stadium last week. It was a cold and wet day but everyone still had a great time. Thank you Coach Smith and well done Sandy Hill Sun's!

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 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.

We celebrated a super year with super friends in Superhero costumes! 

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.

Today some lucky Grade one students got to meet a real beekeeper and one of his hives!

Mr. Jones, a beekeeper from Aldergrove came to Sandy Hill to share his expertise on bees! We learned a lot, did a fun role play, got to see real bees, bee hives and other cool bee things! 

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.