Desert Sands Community School

CELEBRATING OUR ATHLETES!
5PM - 7PM TOMORROW, JUNE 10 IN THE ATRIUM.
DSCS ANNUAL ATHLETIC BANQUET

This is your opportunity to have the items on your learner's school supplies list fully sponsored! Available for every student from K-12. Registration forms were sent home with elementary students, and high school students have been collecting their forms from the office. Deadline to return the forms is Friday, June 5.

Sweet news! 🍫✨ Desert Sands Community School is bringing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the stage on June 2 & 3! 🎭 Doors open 6:00 pm • Showtime 6:30 pm — admission by donation. Grab your tickets (and your golden ticket vibes) and join us for a night of wonder, music, and chocolatey magic. Who’s ready for a taste of the fun? 🎟️👀

The bus is now in Spences Bridge.

Our combined sciences field trip bus from Vancouver is approximately 1hour and 15 minutes away.

All the buses are running late this afternoon. Thank you for your understanding.

Remember: Today is a Staff Professional Development Day. There is no school for students.
Happy Long Weekend! We welcome our students on Tuesday, May 19.

Each week, we are featuring a DSCS staff member to celebrate the amazing people who make our school community so special. 💛

Introducing Melissa Boulianne! Melissa was born in Kelowna, B.C. and is of mixed European descent. She studied International Relations and French at the University of British Columbia and has a double Bachelor's degree in Arts and Education. As part of her education, she studied overseas at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and taught English as a Second Language in Ukraine. These days, she is a proud mom of two spirited girls and in her free time enjoys writing poetry, cooking, hiking and swimming in whatever lakes she can find. She has been teaching at DSCS for nearly 3 years and is happy to call the region home.

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The tables are set, and our special guests are ready to share about their heritage! Please come and join us if you have some time! There will be live demonstrations on how to prepare Dutch meals. 3pm - 6pm today at Desert Sands Community School.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last evening. We learned so much from our guests Rob and Laurel Zuidema! We got to see lefse made in real time using Laurel's great-grandmother's lefse pan. Our Grade 10 Social Studies and Grade 12 History classes came alive as Rob shared the connections and significance of WW2 to his family, and how it influenced the decision to migrate to Canada.
We enjoyed videos, photos and stories of their life as sailors. Rob made a tasty peachy sambal chicken.

See you all on June 13 at 3pm for our South Asian cultural experience evening. All are welcome! Events sponsored by United Way BC, Harambee Alliance for Health, Wellness, and Aging Society, Gold Trail School District 74, Sage Hills Evangelical Free Church.

Each week, we are featuring a DSCS staff member to celebrate the amazing people who make our school community so special. 💛

Introducing Beth Bastedo! Beth was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is Bearfoot Onondaga/Mohawk (Haudenosaunee) and Canadian, and holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education from University College of the Cariboo, now known as Thompson Rivers University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking, and cooking, and spends a lot of her time being a dedicated hockey mom. She has been with School District 74 since 2018, and is currently teaching the Grade 6/7 class with an outdoor learning focus.