Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a lovely weekend (a long weekend for the students). Friday was a provincial Pro-D Day and Shortreed staff were busy learning and collaborating about reading and writing instruction, Indigenous teachings and perspectives, and supporting all students in an inclusive setting. Thank you to...

Families of Shortreed, Although it was a shortened (and wet!) week, there was no shortage of exciting learning opportunities for our kids!  We definitely exceeded our goal ($800) for our Terry Fox Fundraiser as we approached $1000 earlier in the week. We will send out a total this week. We...

Families of Shortreed, We hope you had a chance to enjoy some time with family and/or friends during this beautiful Thanksgiving weekend. Thank you for all your support of our Terry Fox Run and Fundraiser! We are getting so close to meeting our goal of $800 so if you have...

Families of Shortreed, It was a powerful week of learning and action at our school on our journey of Truth and Reconciliation. We hope you and your families took some time to remember, reflect, and honour on Thursday and that the pamphlet that was sent out helped to give you...

Families of Shortreed, As we near the end of our first month, we can look back with many smiles on the successful start we have had to the 2021-2022 school year. Students have settled into their new classes and there is great, positive energy in the school again this year....

Families of Shortreed, We hope your children all had an awesome first week in their "official" classes for 2021-2022 (and all our K students had an awesome first week)! For those who are new to the school, each Sunday night, I send out our newsletter that shares some good things...

Families of Shortreed, We hope your child(ren) had a wonderful first week full of care and connection at Shortreed! It was so great to see all the smiles and excitement about the first week of school and to see our new Eagles soaring into Shortreed. In addition to teaching and...

Families of Shortreed, Welcome to another exciting year at Shortreed Community Elementary! To all those new families, welcome to our community.  This year's startup will be back to a more typical start so we are thrilled to have the kids and the families back at Shortreed. We are so excited...

Families of 2021 Kindergarten students at Shortreed, Thank you for coming to our Welcome to K event this year. Although it was adapted to align with physical distancing rules, we were very pleased to spend a few minutes with each and every family that was able to attend. Starting on...

Families of Shortreed, We made it! It was not the year any of us expected but we all rose to the challenge in so many ways and had another very successful year at Shortreed!  Thank you so much to the entire community for all your flexibility, patience and support this...