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Summer Language Camp makes learning part of the fun for Woodstock-area newcomer students

As many a New Brunswicker will attest, the Wolastokuk land on which Anglophone School District West sits offers opportunities aplenty for recreation and social connection, especially during the warmer summer...

6 Aug 2024 District News

The St. Thomas University Volleyball Camp at Hanwell Park Academy.

Need a meeting place or activity space for your community group activity? Consider ASD-W

While school may be out for the summer for students, our ASD-W school buildings and grounds continue to serve district residents, thanks to our Community Use of Schools initiative. The...

30 Jul 2024 District News

A still image from a video of students at Carleton North High School performing a choreographed routine by teacher, actor, and choreographer Raúl Márquez, as part of the school's Artists in Schools program.

Innovative phys-ed program gets students moving and learning through dance

When is a regular gym class not just a regular gym class? When it’s a wellness class, an acting class, a dance class. Health and wellness can incorporate these elements...

8 Jul 2024 District News

Onkit Saha (third from left) and Jack D'Entremont (second from right), stand with other participants in the 2024 Canada-wide Science Fair held in Ottawa from May 26 - 31.

FHS students win big at the 2024 Canada-wide Science Fair

If you were looking for the human embodiment of the phrase “going from strength to strength,” you’d find no better examples than Fredericton High School students Jack D’Entremont and Onkit...

17 Jun 2024 District News

Carol Muncer, youth and family programming coordinator with Hayes Farm, helps Gibson Neill Memorial Elementary School Grade 3 students plant food plants at Shannex's Neill Hall on June 10. The students cultivated the plants after learning about food plants in class and during an earlier visit to Hayes Farm.

Students apply their knowledge in the service of area seniors

During their time in school, students in ASD-W often learn skills in class which they are called on to apply in the community, as part of those classes. And the...

13 Jun 2024 District News

Our newest ASD-W school has a name!

On May 29, 2024, officials from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development revealed the name of the newest Anglophone School District West school. The new Cuffman Street Elementary,...

6 Jun 2024 District News

Woodstock High School Grade 12 student Torey Phillips Collier surrounded by her friends (L-R) Leo “Donnie” Gillam and Damien Davenport.

Turnaround Achievement Awards honour grit, determination in WEC-area students

Resilience and tenacity are two qualities possessed in abundance by this year’s Woodstock Education Centre-area Turnaround Achievement Award winners. The awards are given each year to recognize students who have...

6 Jun 2024 District News

A Nashwaak Valley School teacher helps a student stamp his technology passport booklet. Students stamp different pages when they learn something new about the technologies they encounter.

Technology passport program teaches tech-savvy cyber citizenship, coding, and more

Our technology-intensive world offers a lot for which we can be both grateful and wary. The key is knowing the difference between the two, something even adults have a hard...

4 Jun 2024 District News

Nashwaaksis Middle School’s Cyber Dragons won first place in the middle school division again at the Information and Communications Technology Council’s (ICTC) CyberTitan VII National Finals cybersecurity competition, held May 8-9.

Nasis Middle maintains its winning ways with another cybersecurity competition victory

They’ve done it again! Nashwaaksis Middle School’s two cybersecurity teams—the Grade 8 Cyber Dragons and the Grade 6 Firewall Fighters—placed first and second, respectively, in the Information and Communications Technology...

22 May 2024 District News

Female students at Carleton North High School do metal work during a Women-in-Trades event at the school on April 12.

Carleton North Women-in-Trades event expands students’ career possibilities

The percentage of women working in the skilled trades in Canada has been increasing steadily over the past few years, thanks to the federal Women in the Skilled Trades Initiative...

16 May 2024 District News

Piper Austin Chapman leads a procession of Kingswood Turnaround Achievement Award winners into the awards ceremony at Fredericton's Crowne Plaza-Lord Beaverbrook hotel on Wednesday, May 8.

Adult support, inner fortitude push Turnaround Achievement Award winners to succeed

For some students, the halcyon days of youth can be anything but. Students deal with anxiety, depression, lack of acceptance, and other very serious adult-level problems, which can take a...

14 May 2024 District News

Nackawic Senior High School students attend a career fair at their school on April 23, 2024.

Focus is on the future for Nackawic Senior High School career fair attendees

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It can be a daunting question for teenagers. But high school is as good a place as any to start...

13 May 2024 District News

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