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The Abbotsford Board of Education regularly meets throughout the school year. Agendas and minutes from the public Board Meetings can be accessed through the District's Electronic School Board. Below is a summary of highlights from the meeting. 

Presentations

ASIA Sumas Mountain: Jazz Ensemble

 A small cohort of students from The Abby Flats, the school’s big band and vocal jazz ensemble presented some holiday cheer to trustees for the last board meeting of 2022.

Spotlight on Learning: Career - Life Education

Thank you to Ms Fillion for inviting us into her classroom this week.  She writes:

It’s the first day of school and as the latest CLE 10 students tumble into the portable, you can feel the room filling with anxiety.

“Why do we have to learn about careers?”

“I’m too young to know what I want to be when I grow up!”

“How am I supposed to know what career I want?”

“What if I don’t end up being what I pick right now?!”

On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, flags at all Abbotsford schools and district sites are lowered at half-mast.

On this day, over 30 years ago, an act of violence shook our country and led Parliament to designate December 6 as The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. As we mourn the ones we lost and remember their lives, we reaffirm our commitment to creating workplaces and schools free from gender-based violence.

Spotlight on Learning: Modern Languages

FRAL 12 Objective: Compare the roles that stories, and the oral tradition play in Francophone and First Peoples cultures

Spotlight on Learning: Foods 9 & 10

From Ms Hoang:

The Abbotsford Board of Education regularly meets throughout the school year. Agendas and minutes from the public Board Meetings can be accessed through the District's Electronic School Board. Below is a summary of highlights from the meeting. 

Spotlight on Learning – Composition 11

It was a full house at the official inauguration of the newly elected Abbotsford Board of Education on Tuesday night, as seven trustees were sworn in and affirmed for the new term. Three new trustees - Rupi Kanda-Rajwan, Mike Rauch and Jared White - join incumbents Korky Neufeld, Stan Petersen, Preet Rai and Shirley Wilson. The Abbotsford Board of Education will serve from 2022 to 2026.

Spotlight on Learning – Get Started In a Career Today!

Many of our WJM students have been getting a head start in their careers by participating in the Abbotsford School District Career Programs. Students are not only getting early admission but are also taking advantage of tuition-free post-secondary education. The spotlight this week is on the trade programs in partnership with UFV Chilliwack Campus. Students will earn dual credits (high school and Industry) towards their high school diploma and in the trade.

Spotlight on Learning: The 7 Years War in Science Humaines (Social Studies) 9

Mr. Gibson’s French Immersion socials studies class recently finished up their 7 years’ war study and it concluded with a question: What was the most severe consequence for the people groups involved? Students needed to come up with a thesis and a defense of why they thought the consequence they chose was the most severe.