Appointment of Daycare Operator for New Carson Elementary School
The Quesnel School District is pleased to announce that The Whole Child Early Learning Centre Ltd. has been selected as the daycare operator for the new Carson Elementary School and will open in the Fall of 2026.
The Quesnel School District is pleased to announce the following appointments effective August 1, 2026:
Principal – Dragon Lake Elementary
Ms. Sue Saip has been appointed as principal of Dragon Lake Elementary. Ms. Saip has been in the principal position at Parkland Elementary since August 2023.
French Immersion week was an incredible experience for our students! French Immersion students from Kindergarten to Grade 11 enjoyed watching Zootopia 2 in French at the Carib Theatre on April 23 and dancing and singing to French country music with Éloïz on April 27. Éloïz is a famous French country singer who has been on a tour of French Immersion schools across our province.
Thursday April 2nd, the Easter Bunny went to Madame Suzie's car and stole the treats she had prepared for her Kindergarten students. The whole class ran outside to catch the thief! They found him in the garden. He had hidden all the eggs in there. Student were sure happy and Madame Suzie was relieved that her treats were not stolen.
"I was educating the children on how the salmon was caught. It was caught by dip netting at Farewell Canyon. I wanted the kids to see salmon that was actually caught by dip netting. I gutted and fileted the fish in front of them and explained that after the fileting process, our elderly from my community, will get ready to smoke it in a smoke house, using willow sticks across the fish and then it gets put onto a pole to hang for smoking. I also talked about how my community elders and people eat salmon, there are different ways.
Over the past month, five grade 6/7 classes at both Lakeview and Voyageur Elementary schools have been busy learning about wind turbines. Working in teams, students have been working through the design thinking process with wind turbine blades. They first researched components of energy, environmentalism and trades involved with wind turbines. They were then challenged to work together in teams to design and create blades.
