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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

School Resource Officers (SRO) returning to Fredericton-area schools

Fredericton, N.B.—The Fredericton Police Force and Anglophone School District West are pleased to announce that the role of School Resource Officer (SRO) will be returning to Fredericton in the near...

26 Mar 2024 Media Release

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

Planet Youth drug and alcohol prevention community carnival to be part of Feb. 19 Family Day events

Woodstock, N.B.— This upcoming Feb. 19 Family Day will be a day of family fun in Woodstock as the Planet Youth Drug and Alcohol Prevention committee hosts a community carnival...

8 Feb 2024 Media Release

Hubbard Elementary School students Noah Cole (L) and Adeline Hogeveen (R) at the 2024 Hubbard Elementary School Read-In. The event honours Family Literacy Day, a day established in 1999 by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which occurs every Jan. 27.

Annual Hubbard Elementary Read-In continues a National Family Literacy Day tradition

No matter your age, there is something enchanting about having a story read to you. And Hubbard Elementary School’s annual Read-In was the perfect setting for members of the community...

1 Feb 2024 District News

Students take a proactive approach to STOMP out an unhealthy habit

Emma Hovey and her friends at Nackawic Senior High School saw a trend among their fellow students during the 2022-2023 school year that concerned them: vaping. But instead of staying...

22 Jan 2024 District News

An exterior photo of the new school being built on Cuffman Street in northeast Fredericton.

Help us name our newest school

Northeast Fredericton is getting a new elementary school and we want YOU to help us name it! The new Grade K-5 school being built on Cuffman Street is a state-of-the-art...

16 Jan 2024 District News

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