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Below is an overview of district programs that are primarily funded by donations. However, donors may support a program not listed here.
In order to ensure all of our students are safe,
supported and provided with the maximum number of opportunities to
grow and learn, the district and the City of Surrey, have developed a
series of After School Programs at its elementary schools. Programs include sports, dance, arts and crafts, cultural education,
leadership training, and educational talks.
In our most needy areas,
where After School Programs are of critical importance and the most
used, families are often unable to pay for their children's
participation. One way we can engage these students in
meaningful learning programs that keep them off of the streets,
encouraged, supported and involved, is through generous corporate and
community grants.
The district currently operates 13 summer camps
for students who would not otherwise be able to participate in such
programs. 10 Explorations camps are partially funded through
2010 Legacies Now. Three camps are seeking support of private
and corporate donations to support their operations.
Camps offer
fine arts and physical educational components and help students who
need it the most to bridge the gap between the school years and return
in September, confident, invigorated and ready to learn.
Getting students fit and interested in physical
activity is a key goal of the Surrey School District. However,
schools, parents and students are constantly struggling to fund team
transportation to games, first aid services at tournaments, games and
competitions, team uniforms and sports equipment.
Field trips bring classroom lessons to life and
give students an opportunity to learn first hand about the world
around them. The biggest financial barrier to field trips,
particularly in our inner city schools, is the cost of transportation.
The Surrey School District is recognized across
the country for its high quality and expansive fine arts programming. The district hosts eleven annual fine arts events. 10 of these
events fall under the umbrella title of the Westminster Savings Fine Arts Festival and the eleventh is the Envision Jazz Festival, which celebrated its 25th year in 2007. Donations and sponsorships are needed to cover costs for venue and
equipment rentals, adjudicator fees, production labour and
transportation.
Every school in the district also runs a music or
band program but many are working with outdated or broken down
instruments. Donations are needed to provide new or renovated
equipment; from horns and flutes to violins and guitars to drums and
percussion instruments.
Literacy education is a priority in the
Surrey School District. The district is committed to providing
all of its learners with the very best literacy background possible. Consequently, several projects have been started to address specific
literacy needs. Some of these are:
- The Inner City Literacy Project provides
focused reading and writing attention to students in Kindergarten
through Grade 3 in schools with high transiency rates, high ratios of
students that are learning English as a second language (ESL), low
family incomes and low test scores.
- The Phonemic Awareness Program identifies Kindergarten students who are "at risk" for phonological
deficiencies and provides a consistent program of phonemic awareness
and intervention practices for these students.
- SPARK (Supporting Parents Actively
Reading with Kids) is a family literacy program that focuses on
improving English reading skills among primary grade students who
speak English as a second language. The program was developed by
Surrey teachers and brings parents to school to read with their
children from books that include their native language and an English
translation.
- The New School provides an adapted
secondary program for students who have severe difficulty reading,
lack the background knowledge required to understand basic Grade 10
subjects, and have, in most cases, failed more than one grade. Students receive intensive, creative literacy instruction using
untraditional methods that avoid rote learning, memorization, and
student worksheets. Instead students receive art and technology
project assignments that involve writing and reading as a key
component. Literacy is the foundation of The New School Program
- once students can read and write with confidence, they are better
able to engage in and succeed in other areas of learning.
Extensive research has clearly shown children who
have enough food to eat learn better. Surrey School Meal
Programs provides lunch to 1800 students at 17 elementary schools each
school day. The meals for these 17 schools are provided through
funding from the Ministry of Education. With the generous
assistance of private donations and employee contributions, the Surrey
School District also provides lunch to students in need at four
secondary schools, and emergency breakfast or snack food to hungry
students at several additional elementary schools.
There are
still many more students in the District who go through the day
hungry, but who can not be fed because of limited funding. Lunches, which include a sandwich or other cold
entree, fruit or dessert and juice or milk, cost approximately $4 per
day per student. Visit the Meal Program page for more information.
Quality access to computers and advances in
technological equipment is of paramount importance to students today. However, costs for new and replacement equipment are high and there is
always new technology emerging.
In collaboration with the Langley
School District and Kwantlen University College, the district delivers an annual, comprehensive education and career fair that informs Grade 10, 11 and 12 students from around the Lower Mainland
about the trades.
The fair exposes students to the variety of
career paths under the trades umbrella, the potential for lucrative
and rewarding life long careers in those areas, and clearly explains
how to pursue a career in the trades.
For more information,
please contact Business Development.
Business Development
Last Updated: May 24, 2011 |
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