PLEASANT VALLEY SECONDARY SCHOOL

SD83 families are invited to take part in the Farmer’s Choice Box Program. To order a veggie box please click here and to order a protein box please click here.

Food boxes are delivered to the school for easy pick up. For parent convenience, information about this program can be found on our website under the “Parents” drop down menu.

During the week of April 15-19 PVSS will have a modified schedule of double blocks on Monday and Tuesday to allow students in grade 10 and 12 to complete their provincial graduation assessments (Literacy/Numeracy).

Food boxes will be available for pick-up at PVSS on March 7, April 4, May 2, and May 30 from 4:00-4:30.

SD83 is collecting feedback from families and community on the proposed 2024-2025 district school year calendar.  Your input will be shared with the Board to help trustees decide if any edits to the calendar are necessary before it comes back for approval during the March Board meeting.

The draft calendar, which was co-created by a District Calendar Committee consisting of senior leadership, principals and vice-principals and North Okanagan Shuswap Teachers’ Association representatives, meets all Ministry requirements (for example for hours of instruction) as well as contractual obligations. An approved calendar must be submitted to the Ministry by March 31, 2024. 

The draft calendar proposes the school year will begin with a full non-instruction in-service day for all employees on September 3. This will be followed by a gradual start half-day for students on September 4 with the first full day of instruction on September 5. 

The in-service day will allow District staff to complete important work related to the Strategic Plan, explained Assistant Superintendent Michelle Guillou when she presented the recommended draft calendar to the Board of Education at its meeting on February 20, 2024, at the District Education Support Centre (DESC). She added that feedback from District staff last year was clear that the traditional half-day gradual start on the first day of school is needed to organize classes in the afternoon on the first day after meeting the students in the morning. 

Other dates to note on the draft include the last day of school before Winter Break being December 20, Spring Break is March 17-28, and the last day of school for students, which is a half day, is June 26. 

Please note the following:

• The number of professional development days (in red) have been decided through provincial negotiation, and are not part of the local calendar process. The proposed placement of these days, done in collaboration with the local teachers’ association (NOSTA) as per the language in our Collective Agreement, is part of the local calendar process.
• As of November 2015, the new BC School Calendar Regulation has been in effect. It is different from the earlier regulation in several ways, primarily that it sets the number of hours of instruction rather than the number of days of instruction. You may also have noticed the added non-instructional days and a subsequent reduction in instructional hours in recent years. These were negotiated provincially to help implement Ministry of Education New/Renewed Curriculum. 
• The Semester Transition Day (in light purple) on January 28th is for secondary schools only. Elementary and middle schools will be in session on that day.   
• Once a District Calendar has been approved by the Board of Education, each school will work with their local stakeholders to establish their bell schedules in a manner with the framework of the BC Calendar Regulation and the SD83 Teachers’ Collective Agreement.

VIEW PDF OF CALENDAR HERE

Please review the proposed SD83 District School Calendar pictured above, then provide comments in the survey form by clicking the link below.
FEEDBACK SURVEY LINK HERE