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The Surrey School District is the largest school district in BC with over 73,000 students. Each of the schools submitted on this application are designated inner city schools of which there are 36 in the district.
Through quality teaching and learning, the Surrey School District commits to engaging our students in their growth as individuals and in their development of the knowledge, skills and attributes necessary to contribute to a healthy, democratic and diverse society. The Surrey Schools District’s primary mandate is to prepare our students for successful futures by ensuring they meet current learning standards of the BC Ministry of Education. However, we believe our responsibilities extend beyond the 9-3 classroom and are committed to working with community partners, businesses and individuals to give our students every opportunity possible for success. This includes providing breakfast to those who come to school hungry each school day.
Attendance Matters is a program targeted at meeting the basic needs of vulnerable students. The program ensures that identified at risk students arrive at school and then are best prepared for the day of learning ahead.
The breakfast program ensures we meet the basic needs of our most vulnerable students by providing them with a healthy meal to start the day. This program intervenes early in at risk students’ educational careers to address poor attendance, lack of skills, feelings of isolation and hopelessness, lack of food, and support at home.
Administration, Teachers and Support Workers at each inner city site
identify the vulnerable students that participate in Attendance
Matters. They pay close attention to students with low attendance
records, access their behavior in class along with their literacy
skills and take note of what food (if any) they bring to school.
Currently, the students registered arrive before school shortly
before 8:00am to receive a nutritious meal consisting of cereal, 2%
milk, toast and jam, cheese, yogurt, eggs fruit and vegetables. Under
current health guidelines, for now breakfast is operated in a
"grab n' go" model to ensure health and safety standards are
met. This menu paired with a warm welcome each morning from a
Community Schools Outreach Worker or Child and Youth Care Worker give
students the incentive to get to school and be on time.
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This project is one of many received by The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for our 2020/21 Adopt-a-School campaign.
Since the day our first Adopt-a-School news story was published in the fall of 2011, generous Vancouver Sun readers have helped us raise more than $6 million to improve the lives of B.C.’s neediest school children.
The money you donate helps teachers and school staff who are dealing with children suffering from the effects of poverty and enables them to provide breakfast or lunch, food at weekends, other necessities (like warm clothing) and educational experiences. We are grateful for your support, and for the opportunity to make a difference.
(100 per cent of donated funds are used for grants. Admin & expenses are either supported by the Vancouver Sun newspaper or paid out of interest on investments.)
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