{"id":47,"date":"2024-10-18T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/multisite-dev2024\/basic-school\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:00:27","slug":"staff-contacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/contact-us\/staff-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Administration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Principal:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:jlekakis@sd40.bc.ca\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:jlekakis@sd40.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Lekakis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vice principal:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:mferris@sd40.bc.ca\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:mferris@sd40.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melissa Ferris<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Secretary:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:kjackson@sd40.bc.ca\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:kjackson@sd40.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katherine Jackson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Secretary:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:mpolok@sd40.bc.ca\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:mpolok@sd40.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michelle Polok<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"column-2\"><strong>Email<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"column-3\"><strong>Position<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"column-4\"><strong>Division<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"column-5\"><strong>Grade<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"column-6\"><strong>Availability<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Athanasia Ventouras<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:aventouras@sd40.bc.ca\">aventouras@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">1<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 8<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Ruth Moore-Hogan<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:rmhogan@sd40.bc.ca\">rmhogan@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">2<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 8<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Glynda Tentes<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:gtentes@sd40.bc.ca\">gtentes@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">3<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 7\/8<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Taylor Jeske<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:tjeske@sd40.bc.ca\">tjeske@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">4<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 8<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Riel Villeneuve<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:rvilleneuve@sd40.bc.ca\">rvilleneuve@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">5<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 6\/7<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Apinder Sekhon<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:asekhon@sd40.bc.ca\">asekhon@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">6<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 6\/7<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Angie Takhar<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:atakhar@sd40.bc.ca\">atakhar@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">7<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 6<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Colleen Carrington<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:ccarrington@sd40.bc.ca\">ccarrington@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">8<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 6<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Marc Rouleau<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:mrouleau@sd40.bc.ca\">mrouleau@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">9<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 7<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Heather Shcarf<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:hscharf@sd40.bc.ca\">hscharf@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">10<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 6<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Gurmeet Grewall<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:gurmgrewall@sd40.bc.ca\">gurmgrewall@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">11<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 7<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Brittany Sidhu<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"mailto:bsidhu@sd40.bc.ca\">bsidhu@sd40.bc.ca<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Classroom Teacher<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">12<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Grade 5<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Monday to Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Peter Ha<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a 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