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ASD-W Digital Learning Lead Wendy Thomas works with students at Cambridge-Narrows Community School to carve out a physical QR Code using an X-Carve machine.

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

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