The recently renovated Queensborough YMCA Kids Club child care centre is now offering 24 licensed spaces for school-aged children in a facility conveniently located across the street from Queen Elizabeth Elementary School.

Families in the Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality are benefiting from a new child care centre with 52 licensed spaces that will give children early learning experiences and allow parents and guardians to work or pursue other opportunities.

Twelve new school additions will mean more student spaces as early as the 2024-25 school year in fast-growing communities across the province.

Kitchener Elementary school will have a new school addition with 15 additional classrooms as early as the next school year to help address enrolment growth in Burnaby. 

Families in Kamloops are benefiting from a new child care centre opening at Ralph Bell Elementary in the Valleyview neighbourhood.

A new school addition is on track to deliver more student spaces as early as the next school year in the fast-growing Central Okanagan School District.

Students at Brentwood Park Elementary will soon be getting more space with a new addition and seismic upgrade on the way.

Students and staff are learning and working in a safe, modern school now that the new David Lloyd George Elementary school is complete.

Students and staff of Cedar Hill Middle school will soon have new, seismically safer learning spaces, as work has begun to build a replacement school.

Rachna Singh, Minister of Education and Child Care; Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley; BC School Trustees Association; BC School Superintendents Association; BC Association of School Business Officials; BC Principals’ and Vice-Principals’ Association; BC Teachers’ Federation; CUPE BC; BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils; Federation of Independent School Associations; First Nations Education Steering Committee; First Nations Schools Association; and Métis Nation BC have...