News & Newsletters

 The Week Ahead – October 21-25, 2024

October 20, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you were able to stay dry this past weekend (and didn't have to worry about any water damage!). A reminder that there is a Provincial Pro-D Day on Friday, so there is no school for students. We have an updated total for our Terry Fox...

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 The Week Ahead – October 15-18, 2024

October 14, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend with friends and/or family! It has been lovely to hear and see all the gratitude activities from the students this past week. We also hope you enjoyed the Northern Lights last week. Our photo comes from a community member...

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 The Week Ahead – October 7-11, 2024

October 6, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you and your family enjoyed some time in the sunshine this weekend. What a beautiful October day it was today! (Featured image from Mrs. Datema from Sept 26)  Saturday was World Teachers Day so I want to start off by giving a HUGE shoutout to...

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 The Week Ahead – October 1-4, 2024

September 30, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely weekend and had a chance to reflect and learn about National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.  It was a powerful week of learning for us at Shortreed as we focused on NDTR and the stories of the impact of Residential and...

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 The Week Ahead – September 23-27, 2024

September 23, 2024

Families of Shortreed, My apologies for sending this out on a Monday night. I am not feeling great, so staring at a screen is hard. I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed that Saturday sunshine! Thank you to everyone who came out to our Welcome Back BBQ and...

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 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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Shortreed Community Elementary

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