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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. To do our part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and for everyone's safety, all public meetings of the Abbotsford Board of Education will be closed to the public and held virtually until further notice. The meetings will also be live-streamed.

Dear Abbotsford School District families,

This past week has been a difficult time with the invasion of Ukraine. Children, youth and even adults may experience a range of emotions when they hear about or see images and videos from these deeply upsetting events. I wanted to reach out to share available supports, should you find them of use.

We are ending our Olympics with the biathlon event and a curling tournament. Each team is over 210 medals!  Coming up next in the Sandy Hill gym is hockey!

Coach Smith

What a nice surprise today! The PAC organized lovely thank you treats for staff from Tim Hortons! Donated by the Tim Hortons on Sumas. 

Thank you PAC and Tim Hortons!

The Abbotsford Board of Education is required to create a calendar that meets the legislated requirements of the School Act, and the Abbotsford Teachers’ Union (ATU) Collective Agreement. The Board of Education is currently seeking public and employee feedback on the proposed calendar for the 2022-2023 school year. The proposed option meets the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer for the 2022-2023 school year.

The “oval” at the Sandy Hill Gym is loud and buzzing! The athletes are learning about the skeleton event at the Winter Olympics and trying our version of it with knee pads and scooters. We are still ending our classes with a friendly “snow ball fight” :)

Sandy Hill Suns are officially on Day 2 of our Olympics! We are starting with “speed skating” on slippery juggling scarves around our homemade oval. Medals and points are collected school wide.

Next event is the skeleton!

The Sandy Hill Suns are completing a three week unit of jungle gym. Since we have no rentals currently we capitalized on the time and extended our gymnastics unit. The first week the students covered jumps, landing, and rolls.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a challenge we must constantly navigate, however, this past week we were able to safely return to in-person instruction for over 19,000 students. As we look forward to the opportunities in the weeks and months ahead, I must again extend a sincere thanks to our staff for getting us through the first part of this school year. What we continue to accomplish in British Columbia, and particularly here in Abbotsford, is truly amazing.

Thank you for your understanding with the delayed start to the school year.  We hope you are all well and were able to enjoy the holiday.

Staff have used this week to meet and understand the enhanced safety measures.   

New or Returning Practices for January 10th