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Saint Mary’s Academy: Proud Recipient of the 2024 Team Canada Olympic Day Grant!

Kudos to Saint Mary’s Academy on being one of only 10 schools in the nation to receive the $5,000 Team Canada Olympic Day Grant! Learn what they did to win:...

11 Apr 2024 District News

Bath Community School students, accompanied by Educational Assistant Krista Tibbetts, join our school mascot Mo in mailing their postcards at the post office in Bath on February 9.

Postcard project promotes meaningful connection to the wider world

In an age where pervasive and speedy electronic communication can often masquerade as a substitute for meaningful human connection, Bath Community School students and staff recently embarked on an initiative...

10 Apr 2024 District News

An image of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse from the Anglophone School District West office in Fredericton.

VIDEO: #2024SolarEclipse

Many of our Anglophone School District West communities experienced the impressive April 8, 2024 solar eclipse, as they were on the path of totality. If you missed it, enjoy the...

9 Apr 2024 District News

A Cambridge-Narrows Community School student uses virtual reality goggles during the Interactive Skilled Trades and Manufacturing Expo at the school on March 14.

Hands-on career expos let students ‘touch a trade’ and more

March was a busy month in ASD-W as students stoked their interests and explored future employment opportunities during a series of job expos held throughout the district. Exhibitors from both...

4 Apr 2024 District News

Eyes to the sky for the April 8 solar eclipse!

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a spectacular total solar eclipse will be visible in certain regions of the province, providing a unique opportunity for your children to witness this awe-inspiring...

3 Apr 2024 District News

Carleton North High School students enjoy apples during a Great Big Crunch event on March 15, 2024. The event, held during national Nutrition Month in March, is designed to promote both healthy eating among students, as well as highlight the need for a provincewide and nationwide universal healthy school food program.

UPDATE: Great Big Crunch uses fun food to push for provincewide, nationwide school food programs

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD)’s Policy 711 provides the framework for school nutrition in the province, a framework ASD-W follows in any decision made on school...

28 Mar 2024 District News

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk speaks to students at Nashwaaksis Middle School on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

Astronaut visit sparks student curiosity about space exploration

“Meeting an astronaut was mind-blowing!” and “I never thought I’d get the chance to meet a real-life astronaut” were just two of the exclamations voiced by Nashwaaksis Middle School students...

22 Mar 2024 District News

VIDEO: A Pi Day Champion

Classmates congratulate fellow George Street Middle School Grade 7 student Julian DeGuzman for winning the school’s Pi Day recitation contest on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Julian memorized 501 digits of...

15 Mar 2024 District News

Winners of the 2024 ASD-W STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) Expo in Woodstock, NB on Feb. 27, 2024.

Science-minded ASD-W students excel at this year’s STEAM Expo

District students brought their knowledge, focus, and infectious curiosity to Woodstock’s AYR Motor Centre on Feb. 27 for this year’s STEAM Expo science fair and competition. The event saw students...

15 Mar 2024 District News

ASD-W teachers at a civics education workshop in Fredericton.

Civics education workshops give district teachers tools and techniques to engage students in new curriculum

After nearly three years of planning, followed by a school year to pilot the material, the province’s new mandatory civics curriculum is in effect throughout Anglophone School District West (ASD-W)....

6 Mar 2024 District News

2024 District Chess Champions (L-R) Nolan Sherrard (Royal Road Elementary School), Omar Alabdullan (Barkers Point School), Owen Russell (Gagetown School), Youssef Abusmer (Royal Road Elementary School), Kaine MacPherson (Lincoln Elementary Community School), Oscar Bonneau (Hubbard Elementary School).

Student chess champs impress at district tournament

Kudos to our Anglophone School District West chess champs! More than 50 Grade 3-5 students from nine district schools in the Fredericton and Oromocto areas gathered at Lincoln Elementary Community...

23 Feb 2024 District News

Abby Brooks, a teacher and fancy shawl dancer from Sitansisk/St. Mary’s First Nation, leads students in an Indigenous dance at Gibson-Neill Memorial Elementary School on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

Gibson-Neill Indigenous dance event uses fun to impart crucial learning

The drum marks time in most music we listen to, inviting us to snap to the beat or tap our feet. But in the cultures of Indigenous nations, the drum...

12 Feb 2024 District News

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