News Stories

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.

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.

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. 

Wow! Over $1200 was raised for the PAC. The funds will go towards a 2nd water bottle filling station for the school. It was $1 per Rule or $5 to Break them All. It was so much fun!

• Wear a Hat
• Wear P.J.’s
• Wear a Disguise
• Use a Pen instead of a Pencil
• Wear a Costume
• Wear your clothes backwards
• Change your name (must wear a name tag)

The Grade 5 students at Sandy Hill elementary didn’t know they were capable of such big things.

That was the resounding message from the kids as they filled 500 bags with personal hygiene products for refugees last week.

Over 500 hygiene packs were made by 94 grade 5 students for refugee and immigrant families coming through Archway Community Services for our community service project! What a great experience for our students to make a difference in our community! Abby News came and interviewed a few of our students - see the link below. Thank you to all the Sandy Hill families and Refine Orthodontics, Dedicated Dental,  Venier Dental Group,  Clayburn Dentistry, Home Depot, and Medora Dental for all of your donations!!