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School mural activity strengthens community ties across official language lines

For students of Saint Mary’s Academy in Edmundston, relating across cultural and language differences is a part of life. With roughly half the student body speaking a language other than...

17 Oct 2024 District News

Keynote speaker John Fletcher addresses anglophone principals and vice-principals at the LEAD 2024 professional learning (PL) seminar on Oct. 9 and 10 at the Fredericton Convention Centre.

Anglophone principals gather for LEAD 2024

Principals from the province’s four anglophone school districts, as well as directors from the districts and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD), gathered, on Oct. 9 and...

11 Oct 2024 District News

The Family of 2024 Youth Human Rights Award winner Merrit Johnson. (L-R) Doug Johnson (father), Alisa Weyman (grandmother), Debra Weyman (mother), Merrit, Celia (sister), Karen Weyman (aunt). Johnson was honoured for her advocacy for 2SLGBTQIA+ students.

Supportive family is key to FHS student’s Youth Human Rights Award win

Fredericton High School senior Merrit Johnson received the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission’s Youth Human Rights Award in September in recognition of her passionate advocacy for 2SLGBTQIA+ students. Johnson, described...

3 Oct 2024 District News

Grammy Award-winning bassist Victor Wooten playing in Officers' Square on Sept. 12. Wooten and his brothers Regi, Roy, and Joseph--The Wooten Brothers Band--held a musical masterclass for middle- and high-school students as part of the annual Harvest Music Festival.

Wooten brothers’ Harvest workshop inspires the district’s next generation of musicians

“Music is…?” That’s the seemingly simple question Grammy Award-winning bassist Victor Wooten posed to roughly 800 district middle- and high-school students, and the general public, during a Harvest Music Festival-sponsored...

1 Oct 2024 District News

McAdam Elementary School Principal Scott Cousins and several students inspect the new equipment being installed on the school's playground.

In McAdam, a community’s generosity benefits the local elementary school and more

McAdam Elementary School’s playground has hosted countless childhood thrills and spills throughout the decades. But after years of use, some of its equipment needed a refresh. Its 40-year-old monkey bar...

18 Sep 2024 District News

ASD-W’s Facilities Management Team uses summer break to prep for the new school year

While ASD-W’s students and faculty enjoy a well-deserved summer break, our facilities department works hard to ensure they return to clean, comfortable, and modern buildings in September. Routine building maintenance...

4 Sep 2024 District News

Newcomer students from the Woodstock area hike at the Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve during ASD-W's summer language camp for newcomers, held at NBCC Woodstock from July 22-24.

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

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