News & Newsletters

 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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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Jan 15-19, 2024

January 14, 2024

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a wonderful weekend in the sun while also staying warm! We had quite the first week (weather-wise) as we had snow, a power outage, and extreme cold! Just when we said we could settle back into routines, we had a few distractions outside!...

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

January 7, 2024

Families of Shortreed, Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your friends and family, including some downtime and rest! January is a slower month around the school and this is a good thing for getting school and classroom routines back in place so the students can...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – the final week of ’23!

December 17, 2023

Families of Shortreed, Well, here we are... the final week of school for 2023! This is a really exciting week because it is Christmas Concert Week! For the concert, we encourage you to bring cash donations or non-perishable items to be donated to Sources Food Bank. This is a reminder...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Dec 11-15, 2023

December 10, 2023

Families of Shortreed, Welcome to our 2nd last newsletter of 2023! We hope you had a great weekend and maybe even some fun in the snow! Seeing so many families at our Santa Breakfast on Friday was wonderful! There is something so special about this event; we have "community" in...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Dec 4-8, 2023

December 3, 2023

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a great first weekend of December! Thank you so much to everyone who has been able to make to the Student Inclusive Conferences so far. I know the students and staff have appreciated the chance to share their learning with you! Thank you...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – Nov 27-Dec 1

November 26, 2023

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely week and weekend in the beautiful weather that has been around for the past week! It was great to see many of you at the Aldergrove tree-lighting event tonight too! This is a big week for our students, families, and staff...

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 The Week Ahead – November 20-24, 2023

November 19, 2023

Families of Shortreed, Thank you to everybody who helped celebrate Diwali at our school last week! We had several classes paint diyas and share the importance of Diwali and how light (and kindness and positivity) can conquer darkness (negativity) in our world. It was a busy one last week and...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – November 14-17, 2023

November 13, 2023

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a wonderful weekend and had a chance to take a moment to honour those who have served our country. If you celebrated Diwali on Sunday, we hope you had a fantastic day and evening... Happy Diwali! Our signups for Student Inclusive Conferences will...

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 Good Things and the Week Ahead – November 6-10, 2023

November 5, 2023

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a good weekend and took advantage of that "extra hour"... I don't say "extra hour of sleep" because, as parents, we all know that doesn't happen! It was quite the week at Shortreed, with many fun Hallowe'en-inspired activities and events taking place in...

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Shortreed Community Elementary

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