Heritage Walking Tours in July
This Summer, experience the Courtenay of 100 years ago. The clues are there just waiting to be discovered when you join a Heritage Walking Tour hosted by Courtenay and District Museum guides.
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Category: Education
A Comox Valley Educator Teaches Students to Honor Indigenous Language
One man’s legacy and one Indigenous language will forever be preserved in a beautifully crafted children’s picture book. Nineteen young Indigenous students from Puntledge Park Elementary have transformed the First Nation’s words of a song written and gifted to Comox Valley Schools into a colourful picture book.
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Strathcona Wilderness Park is Now Open
Winter is receding at Paradise Meadows, and it is time to start planning summer visits to the Strathcona Provincial Park. Strathcona Wilderness Institute has now opened the Strathcona Park Wilderness Centre at Paradise Meadows for the summer season, with normal operating hours of 9 am-4 pm.
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Fall the Wall and SaveSalmon at Kus-kus-sum
Project Watershed’s latest fundraising endeavor “Sponsor a Salmon at Kus-kus-sum” combines education and stewardship. Students from Queneesh, Arden, Brooklyn, Puntledge and Royston Schools have participated in estuary presentations given by staff and volunteers of Project Watershed.
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Board of Education Announcement Regarding Superintendent of Schools
The Comox Valley Schools Board of Education announced to all district staff Friday the resignation of Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Dean Lindquist.
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Cycling the Silk Road
Do you enjoy fascinating cycling stories? Interested in education in the developing world? Join Brenda Trenholme and the Kenya Education Endowment Fund (KEEF) at Comox United Church on Monday, June 3 to hear about her experience of cycling the Silk Road; a 13,000 km journey across 10 countries in Asia – from Beijing to Istanbul.
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COURTENAY TEACHER RECEIVES PRIME MINISTER’S AWARD
Canada’s outstanding educators inspire the next generation of bold innovators. Kara Dawson from School District #71 teacher in Courtenay has been awarded a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in STEM, Certificate of Achievement.
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New Sport in Comox Valley Schools Earns a Bullseye in Student Approval
Valley students were introduced to the sport of archery for the first time thanks to a new community partnership with the Courtenay Fish and Game Club.
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Board of Education Establishes Charitable Gift Giving to Support Education in the Valley
Comox Valley Schools has partnered with the Comox Valley Community Foundation to establish a new education enrichment fund to support pedagogy and learning for students and educators.
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Comox Valley Schools Begins a Public Conversation to Address Space Constraints Facing the District
Comox Valley Schools is beginning a conversation with the public to address enrollment pressures that will impact the placement of students in neighbourhood schools by fall 2020.
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