News & Newsletters

 The Week Ahead – September 16-20, 2024

September 15, 2024

Families of Shortreed, I hope your children enjoyed the first week in their new classes. We know that sometimes it is hard to leave their former classmates, teachers, and support staff, but seeing all the smiles in the classrooms throughout the week was great. Our kindergarten gradual entry is complete,...

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 The Week Ahead – September 9-13, 2024

September 8, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope your child had a positive first week of 2024-2025. We loved getting to see the kids again! We also enjoyed seeing some of you at the Cruise-In event this past weekend! We know it is a bit more challenging in the first week as they...

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 Welcome Back and First Week Info – 2024-2025

August 28, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Welcome to another exciting year at Shortreed Community Elementary! To all those new families, welcome to our community. We are so excited to continue to serve this community and humbled to be a part of the incredible team we have at Shortreed. We will continue to work...

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 Kindergarten Gradual Entry 2024

August 27, 2024

Families of 2023 Kindergarten students at Shortreed, Thank you for coming to our Kindergarten Welcome event last year; we hope you enjoyed the chance to meet some of the staff and see the classrooms and some of the school. We were very pleased to spend a few minutes with each...

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 Final Newsletter of 2023-2024

July 9, 2024

Families of Shortreed, It has been such an honour to serve this school for the past six years and I am thrilled and thankful to get another year with all of you at Shortreed. I am also relieved and excited to be able to work with Mrs. Tarasoff as VP...

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 Good Things and the LAST Week Ahead – June 24-28, 2024

June 23, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Can you believe it??? We are in the FINAL week of school for the 2023-2024 year. Embrace these moments... these "lasts"... as it will be a whole new and different year next year. Last week was another wonderful (and busy!) week at Shortreed, another week that filled...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – June 17-21, 2024

June 16, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely weekend and found a way to stay dry. Happy Father's Day to all those dads and father figures in our school community! Thank you to everyone who came out for Sports Day and Diversity Day! We love seeing parents and families...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – June 10-14, 2024

June 9, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you enjoyed that sunshine and heat this weekend! It has been rare over the past month with not much more in the forecast. We hope your students enjoyed riding your bikes and scooters this past week. We encourage you to keep this going through the...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – June 3-7, 2024

June 2, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a great weekend and either jumped in those puddles or found some fun indoor activities! June marks the start of National Indigenous History Month and Pride Month. As we have done throughout the year at Shortreed, we will continue to learn about and...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – May 27-31

May 26, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Here we are in a very soggy final week of May! We are so thankful the rain held off on Friday afternoon for our annual PAC Fun Fair! Thank you so much to all who could attend and help make this another great success for our community!...

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Shortreed Community Elementary

27330 28 Avenue, Aldergrove
BC, V4W 3K1
Phone: 604-856-4167
Fax: 604-856-7523