News & Announcements

Please read an important letter from Chris Nicholson, Superintendent of Schools, regarding the enhanced safety measures for the return to school.

Please read an important letter from Chris Nicholson, Superintendent of Schools, regarding the phased return to school.

As we are about to head into the upcoming winter break, we want to share with you a helpful and clear document regarding the return to school for students, staff, and all other adults, following international travel. If you have plans to travel outside of Canada over the winter break, we recommend that you carefully review the Vancouver Coastal Health International Travel and School document.

The evacuation alerts and orders for the Birken area have been rescinded. We are therefore pleased to announce that BWE will be open tomorrow and that the regular bus service will resume. Our thoughts remain with those families whose properties remain under alerts and orders. Thank you to our staff, students, and families for their support and understanding over the past few days.

For everyone's safety, Blackwater Creek Elementary School remains closed and school bus transportation in the affected area north of Blackwater Creek Elementary school remains suspended.

In response to continuing weather concerns and in an abundance of caution, we have closed Blackwater Creek Elementary School today, December 1st. We have temporarily suspended school bus transportation in the affected area north of Blackwater Creek Elementary school.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Thursday, September 30th, 2021

Based on epidemiological data, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) recorded a further reduction in COVID-19 transmission in Whistler compared to previous reporting periods.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) released data on Thursday, January 14th which indicates a low rate of COVID-19 transmission in schools across its region in the first half of the school year.

Grade 5 and 8 students are invited to complete the MDI during class time between January 11th and March 5th, 2021.