About POWER Alternate Secondary School
New Westminster Schools is home to the POWER Alternate Secondary School, an innovative and unique learning opportunity for high school students. POWER Alternate Secondary School offers students high school graduation with the Dogwood Diploma and incorporates academic opportunities and individualized support and instruction, as well as recreational and artistic experiences.
Find out what makes us unique.
We invite you to view our POWER School Learning Plan 2023-2024 and discover how we can meet your learning needs.
In addition, POWER Alternate Secondary School offers a variety of structured and self-paced courses, each following the prescribed BC Ministry of Education curriculum. Each term, a different combination of grade ten, eleven and twelve courses is offered. Students take all of the required courses for their high school diploma. The school’s educators are certified by the BC College of Teachers.
POWER Alternate Secondary School offers…
- High School Graduation in a smaller supportive environment with flexible individualized schedules and timetables
- Three terms per year, each with a different set of structured courses. Equal semesters offer students a chance to focus on fewer courses each term, while still completing numerous courses in a school year
- A sense of community through the sharing of breakfasts, lunches and celebration meals, as well as through various fun activities, events, field trip and outings
- Regular meetings between student and teacher that fosters an understanding for individual circumstances and monitors attendance and progress
- Personal counselling, as well as connections to external resources
- Recognition Day – a celebration in June for all students who have completed courses and special recognition for graduates
At POWER Alternate Secondary School, education isn’t done to you, but done with you!
Address
200 -1065 Columbia Street
New Westminster, BC V3M 6H7
Columbia Square Plaza – across from Boston Pizza and just two blocks west of the New Westminster Skytrain Station
Contacts
| General Information & Front Office Phone: 604-517-6141 | ||
| To Report Absence or Illness, call or text: 604-219-2892 or use the form provided on this page: https://newwestschools.ca/our-schools/alternate-programs-in-new-westminster/rcap/absence-report-power-rcap/ |
| Staff Name | Position | Phone | |
| Jim Russell | Vice-Principal | 604-517-6349 | jrussell@sd40.bc.ca |
| Tim Dang | Teacher (Art, Social Studies, PE) | tdang@sd40.bc.ca | |
| Leif Haensel | Teacher (Science) | lhaensel@sd40.bc.ca | |
| Haley Kwan Yee Lor | Teacher (English) | hlor@sd40.bc.ca | |
| Lloyd Greene | Youth Care Worker | 604-219-2892 | lgreene@sd40.bc.ca |
| Lee Laufer | Indigenous Support Worker | llaufer@sd40.bc.ca | |
| Judy Lizna | School Secretary | 604-517-6141 | jlizna@sd40.bc.ca |
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