June 7, 2017
NWSS Events Update: How about a little Jazz? Bandcamp? Musical Theatre?
June 7, 2017 – Check out some great musical performances as NWSS Band students fan out into the community to perform, play a little jazz, and liven up community events this week. Or sign up for NWSS Summer Bandcamp and perform in… more
May 19, 2017
Standing for Truth: A Call to Save Residential School Records
Artist Carey Newman was a keynote speaker at New Westminster Schools in February. Here, he stands in front of a projected image of his nationally celebrated art installation project, the Witness Blanket, honoring the children of the Indian… more
May 18, 2017
Heartfelt Sorrow: Lethal street drug takes life of student
May 29, 2017 – New Westminster Schools is devastated after a 16-year-old female high school student died of a drug overdose and a second was hospitalized on Friday. Both were victims of what police described in an urgent warning as a… more
May 18, 2017
Making music with Ukuleles and Friends…
Something for everyone…and fun from day one
Students at École Qayqayt Elementary School are making music with 30 ukuleles and a whole group of after-school friends thanks to a new program supported by local community… more
May 12, 2017
A Question of Survival: NWSS Students Engage in the Darkest Chapter of Modern History
May 11, 2017 – NWSS Students encountered one of Vancouver’s last remaining survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of World War Two this week during the school’s first-ever Symposium on the Holocaust.
Hundreds of grade 11… more
May 12, 2017
Gold Medal Baking with Shoshawna Patel
For Shoshawna Patel, a cake is an artist’s canvas. The New Westminster Secondary School grade 12 student won gold in the baking category at the Skills Canada B.C. competition in Abbotsford last month. Now she’s off to Winnipeg for… more
May 11, 2017
May Day in the Park 2017: You’re Invited!
The 2017 Royal Suite: Samantha Black, Christina Hodges, Kisa Gavac, May Queen Zoe Bishop, Jadyn Gibson, Emma Vanderven, Victoria Reina and Charlotte Johnson
This year will mark the 147th May Day celebration in the City of New… more
April 28, 2017
Reading Oasis – Drinking in the wonder of books!
The United Way Reading Oasis at Lord Kelvin Elementary School: an anonymous gift opens doors to literacy
A fabulous landscape for reading…
April 28, 2017 – An oasis is usually a water source in… more
April 27, 2017
Let’s Walk! Join the Walk New West Challenge – April 3 to May 28
Calling all students, staff, classes, families and teams: the Community Challenge is on!
New Westminster is one of the most walkable cities in the region – with an average Walk Score of 70 — and students, staff, teachers and the whole… more
April 27, 2017
A chance to shine: Syrian school children share their culture
It was a chance to shine and they took it with pride: Syrian children in New Westminster shared their culture at Massey Theatre last month – dancing, singing, acting traditional stories, and enjoying food together with their… more