The nomination period for school board candidates opens soon. It runs from 9 a.m. on Aug. 30 to 4 p.m. on Sept. 9. Nominees require two qualified nominators from the [Continue]
Teachers are hired to educate students, not to indoctrinate them By MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA WHEN PARENTS SEND their children to school, they place a lot of trust in teachers. [Continue]
Statement today (March 22, 2020) from the Kamloops-Thompson School District on COVID-19: Schools remain closed to the public as School District No. 73 makes plans next week [Continue]
The Kamloops-Thompson School District announced today (March 6, 2020) it has cancelled school group tours to Europe during spring break. The decision, due to the worldwide [Continue]
By CARA McKELVEY Trustee, School District 73 WELL, DECEMBER IS UPON US and throughout the Kamloops-Thompson region the giving season is truly underway. The Salvation Army’s [Continue]
The TREC Bridges program will be temporarily moving to the John Tod Centre at the Boys and Girls Club instead of to NorKam Senior Secondary. School superintendent Alison [Continue]
School District 73 issued this statement (Sept. 5, 2019) at 8:44 p.m. about the Parkcrest elementary school fire: At 17:08 on Thursday, Sept. 5, Kamloops Fire and Rescue [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Better communication with parents, improved reporting, staff training and new policies and procedures are needed to address sexual misconduct in schools, [Continue]
June will be a busy month for School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson) as nearly 1,000 students from 15 schools and programs mark the end of their secondary school careers. [Continue]
Several Kamloops district elementary schools have some improving to do, according to a new report card issued by a B.C. think tank. The annual Report Card on B.C.’s [Continue]
By JOE SMALL Trustee, School District 73 IT GOES WITHOUT saying, providing education to more than 14,000 students in several communities across hundreds of kilometres of the [Continue]
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF WE’RE GOING to have a serious discussion about sexual violence in our schools, let’s be crystal clear what [Continue]
“AND NOW GO, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being [Continue]
School District No. 73 will have a one-week spring break in 2018. Following several weeks of talks with the Kamloops-Thompson Teachers Association, senior school district [Continue]