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School District 63 is pleased to invite you to attend a "Ready, Set, Learn" Open House for parents and preschoolers (3 years and up) at Cordova Bay, Lochside and Prospect Lake Elementary schools on Tuesday, January 17th from 3:15 to 6:00 p.m. or at Sidney, ḰELSET, Deep Cove, Keating and Brentwood Elementary schools on Wednesday, January 18th from 3:15-6:00 p.m.

Everyone in School District 63 welcomes 2012 with the optimism and enthusiasm that characterize our wonderful schools and the equally wonderful families and communities that they serve. Our new board is settled in and ready for its work, both formally through board committees and official meetings, and informally through trustee engagement with citizens and community partners.

We are very proud to announce that the Saanich School District was a finalist in Canada's Greenest IT. We have shown that you don't have to compromise functionality while reducing energy, green house gases (GHG) and our carbon footprint. Saanich is utilizing an open source solution which uses a Linux server at each school and very energy efficient diskless clients for our desktops.

At its inaugural meeting of December 5, 2011 the Board of Education discussed a report from the superintendent that proposed a move of recess to the end of each day. This move would be to create efficiencies around supervision schedules of district management staff who are required to do supervision as a result of teachers being on strike. With a number of valid concerns being raised by parents it became evident that if this move is to occur it should only be after further deliberation by the board. As such the board passed a motion to deploy additional non-union staff to supervision duties (speech and language pathologists, psychologists and First Nations assistants) and review the supervision issue at the public board meeting of January 18, 2012.