News & Newsletters

 Good Things and the Week Ahead – April 8-12, 2024

April 7, 2024

Families of Shortreed, I hope you had a lovely weekend! For those in our community celebrating Eid this upcoming week, Eid Mubarak! We hope your child(ren) has(have) settled back into their routines again since Spring Break. The menu and ordering information for our new Friday Hot Lunch Program (we will...

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 The Week Ahead – April 2-5, 2024

April 1, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Welcome back, and we hope you had a wonderful spring break and a lovely Easter. This week's newsletter will be a brief one with just some reminders for the week and month ahead (my internet is down, so I don't have much access). We will get back...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – March 11-15, 2024

March 10, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Ramadan Kareem to all our families who honour this important week! Friday was International Women's Day, and we are so thankful to have so many strong, dedicated women on our staff, our PAC, and in our community! Thank you for being such wonderful role models for our...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – March 4-8, 2024

March 3, 2024

Families of Shortreed, As March 2024 entered our lives, I don't think snow was on our minds but it looks like most of it is coming to the mountains (yay!) and just a little mix of rain/snow is coming to us here. A reminder thatSIC starts this week; this is...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2024

February 26, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely weekend! Thank you to everyone who signed up online for Student Inclusive Conferences. Our teachers are reaching out to those who have not yet signed up for a conference to ensure that we try to get all our students to have...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Feb 20-23, 2024

February 19, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had an awesome weekend and had a chance to enjoy some time together today for Family Day! Our school spent a lot of time focusing on families this past week through reading, writing, and art. The link to register for Student Inclusive Conferences was...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – February 12-16, 2024

February 11, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a great week and weekend (sorry, Niners fans!). I loved seeing and hearing the excitement with Club Wednesday last week... especially as kids left the school and shared about it with their parents/caregivers. I also loved seeing our students and staff embrace Lunar...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – February 5-9, 2024

February 4, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you enjoyed the beautiful day today and had a lovely weekend. We are excited to offer Club Wednesdays again this term, with the first session starting this Wednesday at 1:15. We tried to get all students into their first or second choices, but this was...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Jan 29 – Feb 2

January 28, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a nice weekend and enjoyed having the kids back in school for a full (and very soggy) week! :-) We were excited to send out our Club Wednesday sign-up sheets last week, with almost all our students returning them. We will now take...

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 The Week Ahead – Jan 22-26, 2024

January 21, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Well... I think I recall saying that January was a great month to get back into learning routines at school... and then we were hit with a power outage, extreme cold, 2 snow days, and an ice day! Thank you so much for all your patience and...

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Shortreed Community Elementary

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