Lakewood is raising money for the Terry Fox Foundation and the Tour de Rock!

This Friday Sept 20^th is our annual Terry Fox run, and students are encouraged to bring a toonie to school this week as we work towards our goal of raising $1000. Alternatively, donations can be made through this link to our school fundraising page:

https://schools.terryfox.ca/74112

Thank you for your support!

Please see the note below from our SD62 Na’tsa’maht Indigenous Education department. 

Welcome back!

I hope you had a restful and rejuvenating summer.  Here is some important information for the beginning of the year:

• School starts Sept. 3rd and is a half day only,  please arrange pickup at 11:38 on Tuesday.  New Kindergarten students start on Friday as per the email sent out in July.
• Your child will go back to their last year’s teacher,  this will allow us to look at the best class placement for this year for your child.
• If your child is new to the school,  please go to the gym,  we will place your child with their peers until we switch classes later in the week.
• There will still be active painting next week and possibly the week after.  All of the painting, while the children are at school should be done by brush and roller.
• We will not be starting our school crossing guard until the construction is complete on Treanor.  Then we will have a crossing guard at the marked crossing on Treanor,  this will be a great place to drop off your child and they can walk up the back driveway to the school.
• The back parking lot is for STAFF only,  no pick up or drop off in this parking lot.
• There has been an update to our policy around the bus ring.  No vehicles are allowed to travel in the bus ring for pick up and drop off.  Only busses are allowed.  Please remember to park legally on the road when you are picking up and dropping off and be kind to each other and our neighbours.
• We are looking forward to working with all of your children and connecting with you.

We worked with Jamin Zuroski, an Indigenous artist,  to update the logo at Lakewood.  This is part of the Truth and Reconciliation pathway.  Each child, at Lakewood, had a chance to design, or colour our design.  The child created design was picked by the students and Jamin helped to add formline elements and shapes to the design.  We are very grateful for his help.  As you can see we have four versions.  Staff will be showing off the new logo at Beach day.   Next year we will be putting out a clothing order with the new logo.

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We are offering during Pride month, just like we have in past years, age appropriate activities celebrating acceptance and diversity including a rainbow heart activity,  be you, be unique day,  friendship bracelets,  walk a mile in someone else’s shoes activity and rainbow day.  We are very proud of how we encourage individual strengths at Lakewood Elementary.

Please go to https://schoolstart.ca/

You will need to sign up and choose Lakewood.

• Kindergarten – Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals
• Grade 1- Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals
• Grade 2 – Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals
• Grade 3 – Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals
• Grade 4 – Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals
• Grade 5 – Lakewood Elementary (Victoria) – 2024 School Start Finals

Great fun was had by all!  Thank you for all of you coming out.  We had the most amazing week!

We are very excited to be in concert week.  The students are ‘tuning’ their songs and are ready to go.  Both of our concerts are ‘sold out’.   On each day we have a limit to how many people we can have in the gym due to fire regulations.  If you requested them (a message was sent out through email),  you should have received your tickets through your child’s teacher.

A huge thank you goes out to our Music teachers and the staff who have supported them.  See you at the concert.

Our ‘kick off” assembly was last week and Lakewood is hoping to raise $5000 this year,  our 24th year!  Please go to

https://www.jumpropeforheart.ca/donate  to donate on behalf of Lakewood.  Thank you!

Our students decorated paper bags for The Market at Millstream for Earth Day.   What a wonderful job they did!

School is out early on Thursday April 18th,  the bell will ring at 11:38AM.  Please ensure you have arranged pick up for your child.  There is also a Professional Development day on April 19th so there will be no school for our students.  See you Monday.