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We want to hear your voice and your thoughts.

Through our 2024-2028 Strategic Plan, we seek annually to consult with interested individuals and parties to understand areas we can align our financial resources (as well as staffing and programming) to support student and staff success.

This year, the school district is conducting an on-line engagement using a survey process to hear from you.  Information gathered will inform recommendations to our budget plan, action plans to support our strategic priorities, and future conversations.

This survey should take about ten (10) minutes to complete.  The closing date is Wednesday April 15, 2026.  

A What We Heard report with responses amalgamated for themes or ideas will be provided to the Board of Education and will be made publicly available on our school district website later this spring.  

For a SAMPLE of the survey to review in advance, please use the following link:
https://bit.ly/sd59_Survey_Sample_2026-27

To provide your voice and thoughts to how we can support student and staff success in 2026-27, please use the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/7tHtkub0AA

The Tumbler Ridge SD59 StrongStart will commence programming on Monday, March 30, 2026. For now, the program will run from 10:00 am-12:00 pm.

Cara McLean, the StrongStart Facilitator will welcome families to the temporary space located at Tumbler Ridge Strong Child and Youth Centre (Tumbler Ridge Place), 215 Main Street on the 2nd floor. There is space for strollers downstairs. Please follow signage for direction. 

Please email Cara McLean at camclean@sd59.bc.ca for inquiries. 

More details will be posted on Cara’s Facebook page for Tumbler Ridge StrongStart families.

February 27, 2026

The Ministry of Infrastructure connected with the president of the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT), John Chenoweth, as they have a mobile trades training unit. NVIT is the only First Nations public post-secondary institution in British Columbia.  NVIT has graciously offered to lend the mobile trades training unit to the district for the rest of the school year. It will arrive in Tumbler Ridge in the coming days with an instructor who will orient school district staff to the operations of the trailer. The trailer will be located in the Phase 2 plan.