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Honoured by the District Honour Choir Christy Gauley,  Choir Director ,  assisted by  Rachel Casponi  led a few members of the  Kamloops Thompson Honour Choir  (grades 5 to 8) through Build Me a World, and Bidi Bom before persuading the board, staff and the gathered audience to join in a sing-a-long to Jingle Bell Rock and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. The choir of  Brooklynn, Robert Fraizer, Jacob Marchand, Ryan Sherlock,...
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It’s not often youth get to grill the RCMP, the Mayor, and the Chair of the Board of Education about the issues that they’re facing.
On Friday, December 14 that’s exactly what happened. Twenty students in grades 10 to 12 from across the district spent the day at the Henry Grube Education Centre as part of the annual RCMP Youth Advisory Committee.
For many of the youth attending the highlight was the ability to freely discuss issues with a panel consisting...
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SD73 was one of seven local organizations to benefit from the allocation of the BC Winter Games Legacy Fund.
Board Chair Kathleen Karpuk and Assistant Superintendent Bill Hamblett were on hand to receive the $10,000 on behalf of the District on Thursday, December 13, 2018.
SD73 lent school buses to games organizers to transport athletes and officials between the game as well as provided secondary schools which were transformed into athletic villages during the games,...
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If wise owls are the stuff of storybooks, then it stands to reason that a well-known local champion of literacy has received the Owl Award from School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson).
Fiona Clare, Literacy Outreach Coordinator for Literacy in Kamloops was recognized with the Award for Excellence in Public Education for her contributions to learning throughout the region at the regular public meeting of Board of Education on Monday. 
“We are proud to honour...
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Diversity and Inclusion- Strengthening Learning Teams
An Innovation through Inquiry project, led by Sherry Stade, District Coordinator for Health Promoting Schools and Carly Herman, (former)District Coordinator for Diversity Education, set out to enhance the culture of schools by embracing diversity through teacher professional learning.  Throughout the month of February, these teachers built on the metaphor of team to demonstrate that diverse...
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