News Stories

We are pleased to release our first school newsletter of the year, now that we have the clerical staff to support its creation!  We look forward to sharing a newsletter at the beginning of each month going forward :)  Families should have received a copy in their email, however you should also be able to view the newsletter by viewing the link below!

Ms. MacInnis’ classroom community from Salmo Elementary School has won the Lower Mainland Down Syndrome Awareness Society’s writing competition! The grade 1-3 class won $321 dollars for their efforts to build upon their understandings of Down syndrome.

Ms. MacInnis exclaimed, "We won! We won!" as she was overjoyed with excitement in hearing that her class won the competition. She went on to highlight,  "this was a rich learning experience, and the kids worked hard. I'm so proud of them!"

An overview of discussion items and major decisions of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake). For meeting agendas/minutes and a schedule of upcoming board meetings visit sd8.bc.ca/meetings . 

School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) announced the election by acclamation of a new chair and vice-chair of the Board of Education at the inaugural board meeting held in Nelson, B.C., on November 14. School Trustee Dawn Lang was elected uncontested as the new chair, moving into the role after serving one year as vice-chair. School Trustee Julie Bremner was elected uncontested to the position of vice-chair, her first term in the position.

An overview of discussion items and major decisions of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake). For meeting agendas/minutes and a schedule of upcoming board meetings visit SD8.bc.ca/meetings. 

Mr. Caulford's Grade 4/5 class has been working on an activity based on "WANTED!  Criminals of the Animal Kingdom," a nonfiction book, written by Heather Tekavec and published by Kidscan Press.

School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) announced today that Principal Misty Terpstra will transfer from Nelson Wildflower School to Salmo Elementary School to serve as the new school principal.

Principal Terpstra will assume the school leadership role from Principal Dawn Snell whose move to South Nelson Elementary school was announced in May.

Principal Terpstra has led Wildflower Nelson for the last two years, and has served as vice-principal of Trafalgar Middle School and vice-principal of the Salmo Family of Schools.

– Robust public participation and balanced budget

An overview of discussion items and major decisions of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake). For meeting agendas/minutes and a schedule of upcoming board meetings visit SD8.bc.ca/meetings.

The following school principal and vice-principal transfers and appointments for the 2023-2024 school year will come into effect on August 1, 2023:  

Principal Transfers

Principal Dawn Snell will transfer from Salmo Elementary to South Nelson Elementary. 

Principal Appointments

Vice-Principal Mark Bonikowsky will move from Trafalgar Middle School to become principal of Redfish Elementary School. 

Vice-Principal Jennifer Adams will move from Mount Sentinel Secondary School to become principal of Canyon-Lister Elementary School.