Students and families in the Cedar Hill neighbourhood will soon have a safer, environmentally friendly middle school.

$288 million of dedicated, pandemic-related funding has been fully allocated to schools and districts and has helped keep schools open and safe for students and staff throughout the school year.

The upgraded, expanded Victoria High school will be home to new child care spaces, an artificial turf field and dedicated space for the Inter-Cultural Association of Victoria to serve people in the community when it is ready for students in September 2023.

Students and families are getting a new, larger and seismically safe Moody Elementary school with room for projected growth in the community, as well as new child care spaces.

Families will have new options for child care on school grounds and through recreation-based programs, thanks to recent changes to the Province’s Child Care Licensing Regulation.

A 325-seat addition and new child care spaces at Queen Elizabeth Elementary will provide a better learning experience for children in New Westminster.

Students at Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Secondary school will have four new classrooms to learn in once a renovation to their school is complete in 2022.

Students, teachers and staff at Prince Charles Elementary and Queen Elizabeth Secondary schools will soon have safer learning environments now that seismic upgrades are underway.

More classrooms are on the way for students and staff at Sunnyside Elementary with construction beginning on a 10-classroom addition to support families.