News & Announcements

A sand storm left Manquam's Intermediate students stranded in the middle of the desert! They collaborated with their teammates to complete a series of place value obstacles and challengers in order to be rescued! We had a lot of noisy and fast-paced fun during this escape room!

Mamquam Intermediate students participated in the Student Vote today. We had 112 students go to the polls and the results are in:
Armand Hurford - 59 votes
Mike Young - 23 votes
Deanna Lewis - 14 votes
Spoiled - 16 votes
Have a conversation at home about who your child voted for, what a spoiled vote means and please exercised your vote on Saturday October 15th.

Thank you for another full week of Pickle Ball. Every class received 4-5 sessions of the new sport. Nash from Tennis XL, shared his passion for racquet sports with our students. Be sure to hit the courts this weekend, so you kids can share their new learning. Thank you to the PAC for supporting our sport programs.

This is a call out to students who have participated in Mamquam teams and worn a jersey in the past. Please check your drawers and return your black and white school jersey to the school. We feel some jerseys are hiding in closets and need them for our current athletes.

Students in Grade K - 3 read a wonderful story called Oddbird by Derek Desierto about fitting in and being yourself. Students made their own colourful bird and displayed them outside the art studio.

The whole school participated in the Terry Fox Run! We raised over $2200 for the Terry Fox Foundation! Way to go Mamquam!

October 5th marks World Teachers' Day and this year's theme is “The transformation of education begins with teachers.” SD48 would like to send a heartfelt thank you to our teachers for the dedication and support they provide to our learners. Today, we celebrate you! #WorldTeachersDay2022

The first PAC meeting will be a hybrid of in-person and on zoom. We will send the link out shortly.
Topic: PAC meeting
Time: Oct 4, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Pick up is October 6th at 4pm in the Mamquam Parking lot.

Ha7lh skwayel MQE Community,

Today, Sept 29th we have come to school dressed in orange, to recognize and honour our Residential School Survivors, and act in a manner that promotes remembrance of this dark history of our past. Across Canada we will continue the work towards building reconciliation. Residential schools are a part of our Canadian history that requires a humanistic understanding that runs deeper than seeing it as a fact on a time line, or a bump in our past. It requires us to develop a level of understanding that will enable us to see this act for what it was, so that we can start to move forward with understanding equality and social justice. It is about honouring the voices and stories of the past.
“Reconciliation will be about ensuring everything we do today will be aimed at a high standard to restore the balance of the relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples”.
Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake in 2013. It grew out of one survivor’s account of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of school at the Mission, and it has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually. The date was chosen because it is the time of year in which children were taken from their homes to residential schools. It is also an opportunity to set the stage for the coming school year as we look to implement new curriculum material about residential schools and reconciliation. Orange Shirt Day is also an opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and communities to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come.
Truth and Reconciliation
I have added the link to some information and resources put together by our district team. Please visit the link and talk with your children about what they experienced today during our assembly today to recognize tomorrow’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We have also asked each class today to think about an “action” for reconciliation. What work are we going to commit to doing to bring about positive change?
Tomorrow is about honouring and remembering the stories of the past, and recognizing nationally the work we must commit to doing. Every child matters, and every voice needs to be heard.
Please join us today and tomorrow in wearing orange to show your dedication to truth and reconciliation as we work together to towards a better Canada.

Jeff Maynard / Ts̓qáxa7 Sp̓áq̓em
Principal / Mamquam Elementary School
President / stspvpa
School District No. 48 (Sea to Sky) | www.sd48seatosky.org
[email protected] | Cell: (604) 698-8003
We are honoured to be learning on the Traditional Territory of the Sḵwxwú7meshÚxwumixw and St’át’yemc Nations.

* Ts̓qáxa7 Sp̓áq̓em is a Lil’wat name given to me by Tanina Williams. It is a new Ucwalmícwts word that translates into horse flower (dandelion). While these plants are not native to these lands, they are strong, can grow anywhere and have become a resource for the Lil’wat people.