{"id":42859,"date":"2022-09-13T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:56:41","slug":"school-closure-mourning-of-queen-elizabeths-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/school-closure-mourning-of-queen-elizabeths-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"School closure: Mourning of Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear students, staff, parents and caregivers,<\/p>\n<p>As announced today, in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/releases\/2022PREM0063-001379\">the Premier\u2019s statement on the national day of mourning to mark the Queen\u2019s funeral<\/a>, the Province of BC will be following the lead of the federal government in honouring the passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by observing a national day of mourning, on the day of her funeral.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The observance of this one-time holiday will include closing all K-12 public schools in British Columbia on Monday September 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We recognize that any school closure can impact families, which is why we wanted to inform you as early as possible. We thank you for your understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nKarim Hachlaf<br \/>\nSuperintendent of Schools \/ CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SchoolClosureQueensFuneral.pdf\">PDF: Statement on the closure of schools, regarding the national day of mourning to honour the Queen&#8217;s funeral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear students, staff, parents and caregivers, As announced today, in the Premier\u2019s statement on the national day of mourning to mark the Queen\u2019s funeral, the Province of BC will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-events","category-events-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42862,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/42862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}