News & Announcements

Our Annual Terry Fox Run is taking place Friday, September 20 at 9:00 am in our Mamquam School Community.

Kilometer Club
On Monday morning, we are kicking off our Kilometer Club as a lead up to the Terry Fox Run. Monday to Thursday next week students are welcome to participate in the Kilometer Club at recess and lunch. Students will run around the school field. For every two laps of Mamquam field, students will receive a popsicle stick for 1 kilometer run. Students are encouraged to collect pledges and set a goal for themselves. Our school goal is to collect $1000 for the Terry Fox Foundation.

Terry Fox Run
On Friday morning at 9 am, we will be running through our local neighbourhood participating in a 2 kilometer loop for the Terry Fox Run. We need parent volunteers to stand on course for safety for our grade 1-6 students. Our kindergarten students will stay on site and participate on the school field.
If you have a few hours on Friday morning to support our run, please email [email protected] or Shannon Clegg at [email protected]

We would like to invite everyone to our Welcome Back BBQ on Tuesday September 17th from 3:30-5:00pm. Come meet some of the staff and mingle with other families in our garden, playground and field. We will be grilling hot dogs and veggie dogs and will also have the Book Fair open in the Library.

All of B.C.’s provincial education partners for K-12 schools, joined by Minister Rachna Singh, are standing together in solidarity to ensure every school is a place where all students feel welcome, included and respected in a safe learning environment while being fully and completely themselves. Read the Joint Statement on Safe, Caring and Inclusive Schools by clicking on the headline.

Minister Singh wishes everyone in the K-12 system a great start to the 2024/25 school year. Read the Back to School Letter from the Minister of Education and Childcare by clicking on the headline.

We look forward to welcoming all students back to school on September 3, 2024. Please take a moment to explore the Back to School Package for the 2024/25 school year. It includes welcome messages from the Board Chair and the Superintendent of Schools, along with important information about our school district.

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This year, our first day of school is on Tuesday, September 3rd , 2024. If your child will not be attending that day please email Jenny at [email protected].
All grades 1-6 students will attend from 8:48am to 10am on Tuesday. Our new Kindergarteners do not come on that day (More details about Kindergarten start-up will be sent to Kindergarten families in a separate email).

On the first day of school, students are to go to the same teacher/classroom that they were with last year.

All new students will go to the Library, where a staff member will greet them and take them to an assigned classroom to connect with their same age/grade peers.

Wednesday September 4th- Friday September 6th
For the rest of this week students will stay in these classrooms. Staff have planned a variety of community building and learning activities, where students will get to re-connect and learn with their classmates from last year. This promises to be a fun and engaging welcome to the school year!

Staff will be working outside the school day during the first few days to plan the class configuration and class lists. We plan to have students in their new homeroom classes for the 2024-2025 school year by the end of the first week (likely end of the day on Friday). This is a structured process and takes considerable time and energy to ensure we have built classrooms that are balanced and will work in a cohesive manner.

Our usual registration process for new students is currently closed. During this time, families can fill out the webform and then make an appointment to finalize registration when the school re-opens on August 26th. Call Jenny at 604-898-3601. The webform acts as a placeholder and will be time and date stamped. The web registration form can be accessed at https://www.sd48seatosky.org.

Please note school supplies (materials used throughout the year) can be purchased trough the school in September at a discounted bulk order price of $50 per student. Students in grade 3-6 will also be supplied an agenda for $8.

Please check out the 2023/24 End of Year Letter from the Superintendent of Schools, Chris Nicholson. Wishing you all a wonderful summer!

We had the Squamish Public Library in on Thursday June 20th to speak with each class about their Summer Reading Club. See the attached poster for more details.

Ms. Reed, Ms. Lock/Perkins and Ms. O'Neill's classes spent a beautiful sunny day at Porteau Cove for their year end trip.