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VIDEO: Innovative trades/tech project at local school benefits the entire Cambridge-Narrows community

Middle school students from Cambridge-Narrows Community School took part in an innovative project during the 2024-2025 school year. They researched the tree species in the community forest pathway behind the...

11 Jun 2025 District News

The 2025 Excellence in Education Award recipients.

ASD-W educators recognized for Excellence in Education

Three ASD-W educators are among 11 recipients of the 2025 Excellence in Education Award! Congratulations to MacKenzie Bell (Devon Middle School), Nicole McGillicuddy (Harvey High School), and Brennan Foley (Hubbard...

5 Jun 2025 District News

Ryan Stacey and his daughter, Grade 12 John Caldwell School student Chelsea Stacey.

Patience, persistence pay off for Woodstock and Bath-area Turnaround Achievement Award winners

Patience, persistence, and a belief in oneself. That’s what it took for a select group of Woodstock and Bath-area students to reverse underachievement in their personal and academic lives, and...

30 May 2025 District News

Liverpool Street Elementary School Grade 2-5 students learn the history of treaties between Indigenous communities and colonial/Canadian governments with the help of a giant treaty map. The map enables students to "explore" the country to examine this history. Photo Credit: Katie Hoedl.

Giant map engages students in a lesson on difficult history

History is complicated. And the teaching of history can be fraught with culture-war issues, especially in our current politically charged climate. But Anglophone School District West’s teachers are skilled at...

26 May 2025 District News

(L-R) Garden Creek School Grade 5 students Sydney Pearce, Lucy Spink, and their teacher Jacqueline Saunders in front of the mural they helped paint at the school.

Garden Creek students paint mural for future Creekers to enjoy

It’s probably safe to say that the concept of legacy might be a bit abstract for most elementary students, especially with the twin realities of lunch and recess so readily...

20 May 2025 District News

(L-R) David McTimoney, superintendent of Anglophone West School District; Thomas Geburt, chair of the district education council; Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Claire Johnson; Jason Burns, principal; Luke Randall, minister responsible for economic development and small business; and Darla Day, the district’s director of schools, in front of the district's newest school, Sunset Acres Elementary School. Photo Credit: GNB

ASD-W has a new school!: Sunset Acres Elementary School

Our newest school is scheduled to open this September on the grounds of the old McAdam Avenue Elementary School. Sunset Acres Elementary School will open for the 2025-2026 school year,...

16 May 2025 District News Media Release

Grade 9 FHS student Pranav Shukla explains his project on gilli danda, the traditional Indian game that forms the basis of both cricket and baseball, at the 2025 Regional Heritage Fair at Fredericton's Grant Harvey Centre, on Wednesday, May 7.

ASD-W’s Regional Heritage Fair participants get the facts right

At a time in history when misinformation and disinformation quickly spread with the ease of an app tap, our Anglophone School District West students proved that verified sources and accurate...

13 May 2025 District News

Chipman Forest Avenue School (CFAS) Grade 12 student Quinn Lavigne and CFAS Principal Yvonne Caverhill greet NB Education Minister Claire Johnson, Kingswood Past President Brian Johnson, and ASD-W Superintendent David McTimoney at last night's Turnaround Achievement Awards ceremony at the Fredericton Inn.

Hard work yields positive results for local Turnaround Achievement Award winners

Parents, educators, and provincial dignitaries gathered last night at the Fredericton Inn for the 31st annual Kingswood Turnaround Achievement Awards. The awards honour local students who overcame genuine adversity in...

8 May 2025 District News

Students explore future job options at hands-on career expos

Students in some of the district’s upriver schools had the opportunity to sample career paths during two agriculture and trade expos held in March. During events at Perth-Andover Middle School...

5 May 2025 District News

Students from Nackawic and Harvey high schools learn about the province's agriculture industry on a tour of Fenwick Farms on Wednesday, March 26.

Student farm visits highlight local agriculture industry’s inner workings

New Brunswick’s agricultural sector is a substantial earner for the province, bringing in $884.8 million in 2022, according to the most recent Statistics Canada data. So, on Wednesday, March 26,...

30 Apr 2025 District News

Elementary students marvel at the a “personal porcupines” they created at an intergenerational skilled trades activity designed to expose kids to the trades-- specifically carpentry--at Fredericton High School on Thursday, April 17.

Fun learning activity offers elementary students an introduction to the trades

Canada needs skilled tradespeople! There is an anticipated need for more than 222,000 Red Seal-certified tradespeople nationwide between now and 2028, according to Employment and Social Development Canada. One way...

28 Apr 2025 District News

Students react favourably to motivational speaker Ian Tyson at the district-sponsored Youth Empowerment Summit at Cambridge-Narrows Community School, on Thursday, March 27.

Youth Empowerment Summit inspires local students

On Thursday, March 27, 35 students from three local schools—Minto Elementary Middle School, Gagetown School, and Cambridge-Narrows Community School (C-NCS)—gathered at C-NCS for a district-sponsored Youth Empowerment Summit. The event—co-sponsored...

17 Apr 2025 District News

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