2020

By Joti Grewal, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News A Maple Ridge school has an introduced a school-wide online activity to help keep students “excited and engaged” with books while they continue to learn from home, the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School District shared online. Yennadon Elementary School has... read more

By Colleen Flanagan, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News A teacher at Laity View Elementary sent each of her students a personal letter as a way of teaching them about non-fictional writing. Chris Bucholz, a Grade 1/2 teacher, wrote 21 personalized letters and mailed them on April 5, along... read more

By Ronan O’Doherty, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News While many kids his age are playing Fortnite to get through quarantine, Quinn Callander is doing his part to make sure the lives of front line health care workers are a little more tolerable. The 12-year-old Maple Ridge scout has... read more

By Colleen Flanagan, The Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News Sisters at c’usqunela elementary were so upset after seeing injured animals from the Australian wildfires that they started a campaign to help them. Noami and Jaylynn Van de Polder, Grades 5 and 7, called their fundraiser Love Australia and... read more

By Ronan O’Doherty, Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News A plucky Samuel Robertson Technical senior boy’s basketball team punched their ticket to the provincials last Tuesday (Feb. 24). The squad, which is mainly made up of Grade 11 players, bested Port Coquitlam’s Arch Bishop Carney Secondary 72-69 in a... read more