Category: Education

Comox Valley Schools is seeking participation from the community in the development of their Strategic Plan for the 2019 – 2023 school years.

Eleven teams representing six Comox Valley schools competed in the annual Provincial Destination Imagination (DI) Tournament April 6th in Vancouver. Two G.P. Vanier teams took home provincial champion titles, including DInamic for the Engineering Challenge at the secondary level and Miracle Worms in the Improvisation Challenge, secondary level.

Royston Elementary students participated in a cool challenge with students across the province and came out with impressive results. Cool It! Climate Leadership Training offered by the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA) is a program designed to develop and empower young sustainability champions in schools.

Please join the Comox Valley Child Development Association (CVCDA) as we present AspieComic, Micheal McCreary for his presentation of “Does This Make my Asperger’s Look Big”? Michael McCreary may only be twenty-two, but he’s already well on his way to fulfilling his lifelong, albeit short, dream of becoming a stand-up comedian.

A unique outdoor education adventure for high school female students throughout the province returns this summer to Hornby Island and space is filling up quickly. Following the incredibly successful 2018 inaugural camp, Tribune Bay Outdoor Education Center in partnership with Ocean Wise and Navigate NIDES (Comox Valley Schools – School District 71) are offering another exciting outdoor experience that focuses on environmental stewardship.

Comox Valley Schools will receive new funding for minor capital projects from the Ministry of Education. The Ministry made the announcement recently in response to the school district’s 2019/20 Annual Five-Year Capital Plan submission.

Zakk Davidson might be ill at ease talking in front of a crowd of strangers but give him a table saw or a tail-router and set him free in a woodworking shop, he becomes an entirely different master in his craft. That is because Davidson is quite comfortable and rather skilled in a unique setting that David Randall and fellow teachers Chris Armstrong, Dawson Ross and Troy Dakiniewich created at G.P. Vanier Secondary.

Two Comox Valley Schools robotics teams competed strongly at the VEX Robotics Provincials in Delta, B.C. on March 2nd, earning them each a spot at the World Tournament. NIDES 7842F and 7K were among 40 teams to compete at the provincial tournament, a qualifier for the world competition that takes place in Louisville, Kentucky, from April 24th to the 27th.

There is a lot of fun in store at the museum’s Spring Fling and Easter Things event which runs from 11 am to 2 pm on Saturday, April 6th! The ever-popular petting zoo (courtesy of Shamrock Gumboots 4H Club) gives folks a chance to meet lambs, kids (baby goats), ducks, geese, bunnies and chickens.

Students were in for a sweet treat in February and it has nothing to do with Valentine’s Day but all to do with taking care of the heart. A Salad Bar lunch program launched at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary on February 21st making it the first high school in the Comox Valley school district to initiate a nutritious lunch program of any kind.