2025-2026 Back to School Start up Info

2025-26 School Start up Info – PDF

Dear Students & Families:

I hope you all had a wonderful summer. We look forward to the start of another new school year at Westview! Here is some important information to start the 2025-2026 school year.

Westview Summer Office Hours – The office will be open on August 25^th from 8:00am – 3:00pm and effective Sept 2, 8:00am – 3:30pm.
Student Timetables – Our timetable is still being finalized. Therefore, student timetables will be available in MyEdBC for viewing Friday, August 29. All students will be provided with a copy of their timetable as they arrive at school the first week back. We recommend that students take a photo of their schedule as we no longer have the ‘My School Day’ app.

School Staff Updates

Administration

We do not have any changes to our Admin team, but we would like to wish our former VP, Denis Drapeau a happy retirement! We wish him well. The Admin team remains as follows.

Cathryn Blanco (Principal) Grade 12s (Cathyn_Blanco@sd42.ca)

Robyn Sheridan (Vice Principal) Grade 8 & 10s (Robyn_Sheridan@sd42.ca)

Brian Healy (Vice Principal) Grade 9 & 11s (Brian_Healy@sd42.ca)

Counselling

Ms.O’Leary – Gr. 8, 10 & 12s (A-L) & Int’l students (Lauren_Oleary@sd42.ca)

Ms. Sharpe – Gr. 9, 11 & 12s (M-Z) & Int’l students (Shannon_Sharpe@sd42.ca)

Staff Updates – we say goodbye to the following staff members to Westview:

Ms. Brooke Carter/English

Ms. Dani Zagar – ELL/International Student Liaison

Mr. Dan Procyk – Robotics/Metal/Math

We welcome the following staff members to Westview:

Lindsay Zepeski – French
Joseph Robinson – Leadership/Socials (covering Mr. Kite)
Michelle Forsgren – Cafeteria Assistant

Student Orientations – Open House in August

Grade 8 Orientation – Open house 1:00pm – 2:30pm August 28, 2025
New Student Orientation – Open house 10:30am – 12:30pm, August 28, 2025

Opening Day – Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Please note on the first day, not all students attend at the same time. Take a look at the schedule and determine by grade the time you need to arrive. Student Advisory’s will be provided in our Main Entrance upon student arrival.

Students will then proceed as follows below. In their advisory, teachers will review a number of important documents with students such as, how to pay student fees, sign out a locker, who to contact, how to communicate with their teachers, the digital policies, Health and Safety guidelines & plan for the opening week.

Grade 8s

10:45am – 11:45am (dismissed for the day) – meet in the MPR, then go to Advisory

Grade 9-12s

10:30 – 11:45am (dismissed for the day) – go straight to Advisory

International Students

1:00pm – 3:00pm – International Student Orientation in MPR

Week 1 Schedule – Wednesday, September 3rd – Friday, September 5th

All students will be in school for full days from 8:30am until 2:45pm

Each day will begin with Flex in students’ Block A class

Regular lunch service from our cafeteria will not be provided until Monday, September 13th.

September 3 – 5, 2025

If anything changes, we will send out further information regarding details about our first two weeks back in September around the end of August. For now, our tentative schedule for September 3-5 is as follows:

If your child is in Grade 9-10 and wants to change classes, they will need to make an appointment with their counselor. Mrs. O’Leary deals with 8s, 10s and 12s (A-L) and Mrs. Sharpe deals with grades 9s, 11s and 12s (M-Z).

Sept 3: C, Advisory, D A B

8:25am – First bell goes
8:30am – Students should be in their Block C class to start
CATS 8 Rotation Day 1 starts

Sept 4: G, Advisory. H E F

8:25am – First bell goes
8:30am – Students should be in their Block G class to start
CATS 8 Rotation Day 2 starts

Sept 5: FRIDAY ROTATION DAY 2 – E F G H

8:25am – First bell goes
8:30am – Students should be in their Block E class to start
Grade 8 Orientation Day

Grade 8s

Grade 8 Orientation – Open House

On Thursday, August 28 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm we are hosting the Grade 8 Orientation Day Open House.

We are so excited to be welcoming our new cohort of Grade 8s to Westview! Grade 8s are welcome to drop by during this time to get a treat and have a look around the school to familiarize themselves before Sept 2. We will have student leaders on hand to give tours & answer questions. Parents & caregivers are welcome as well.

First week of School for Grade 8s –

The first day of classes for ALL students is September 3. On September 5, after our Grades 8s have had a chance to settle into their new school, we will be holding a Grade 8 Orientation to High School Day as part of the regular schedule and lunch will be provided. Parents & guardians/carers do not attend this day.

Grade 8 Parent Night –

And don’t forget to “Save the Date!” Grade 8 Parent Night @ WSS Thursday, September 18 – more details to follow in Sept. Parents, Caregivers and Students are welcome! Hope to see you there!

New student Orientation – Open House – The Westview Counselors will be holding a New Student Orientation on August 28th from 10:30am – 12:30pm. This is open to all students who are new to our catchment area.

Please note this is not for the ‘incoming’ catchment grade 7s or new international students as they have their own separate events taking place. We will provide a school tour and a rundown of how our timetable works while welcoming you to our great school!

We are really looking forward to the positive impact this program will have on our new grade 8s.

School Info

Class/Schedule Changes

Students will receive a paper copy of their schedule in their Advisory the first week of September. For students who want to make a change to their schedule, Course Correction Forms will be available for pick up and drop off in the main office.

All Course Correction Requests will be made online, by students scanning a QR code and entering their requests via the online form
Please note that submitting a Course Correction Request does not guarantee that we will be able to accommodate your request.
It is essential that students follow their current schedules, even while waiting for changes to be made. Counsellors and Admin will be looking for you according to your current schedule, and if you are not present in class, they will move on to the next student’s course request change form.
Should you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact the counsellors by email.

Student Fee Payment & Lockers (2025-26)

All students in SD42 are required to pay a $35 Student Fee. This fee may be paid on the Portal or students can pay student fees by cheque or cash at school during the first week of school. Yearbooks are OPTIONAL ($65) which may be paid on-line through the parent portal or at school

There will be two portal notification emails with instructions for portal payments.

One portal notification will be for the $35 Student Fee
One portal notification will be for the OPTIONAL $65 Yearbook

Lockers – will be assigned at Advisory during between September 3-12th, 2025.

WSS App

As of July 1, we will no longer be using the My School Day Westview App as a communication tool. Moving forward, our main communication platforms will be:

Parent Portal
Instagram: @wsswildcats
MyClass
Facebook
Westview Secondary Website: https://secondary.sd42.ca/wss/
Coming This September:
We’re excited to introduce new messaging pathways for students through their SD42 Microsoft Teams accounts. Stay tuned for more details! Thank you for staying connected and engaged with our school community!

School Supplies:

Please be prepared on Sept 3 for your child/ren to be in regular classes. They will need their typical supplies but here is a list you can go by. Each teacher may have specific additional requests for supplies depending on the type of class it is, such as Baking/Foods, Art, Computers, PE, Science etc.:

Pencils
Pencil Sharpener
Pens, Blue or Black
Highlighters
Markers – Sharpies/fine sharpie
Pencil Crayons
Pencil Case
Erasers
Ruler
Scissors
Calculator
Package(s) of Loose Leaf/Filler Paper, Wide Ruled
Binders – Zipper Binder to hold multiple class information and supplies
Pocket Folders for binder – with 3 hole punch
Spiral Notebooks for binder – with 3 hole punch
Binder dividers – with a 3 hole punch
White out tape
Glue
Sticky notes (not necessary though)
Kleenex

Important Dates:

Thursday, August 28: New Student Orientation/Grade 8 Open House
Monday, September 1: Labour Day (School Closed)
Tuesday, September 2: First day of school for students (see above for detailed information)
Tuesday, September 2: International Student Orientation (1 -3 pm in MPR)
Wednesday, September 3: First day of regularly scheduled classes
Friday, September 5: Day 2 (E F G H)
Friday, September 5: Grade 8 Orientation Day (Brian)
Friday, September 12: Day 1 (A B C D)
Thursday, September 18: Grade 8 Parent Night @ 7 pm
Friday, September 19: Day 4 (G H E F)
Monday, September 22: Elementary Band Registration @ 7pm
Tuesday, September 23: Dry Grad Parent Meeting @ 7pm
Friday, September 26: Day 3 (C D A B)
Friday, September 26: Terry Fox Run