Kindergarten Transition

Kindergarten Registration

Children turning 5 on or before December 31st of this calendar year are eligible for Kindergarten.

Please see our starting kindergarten brochure here for your guide all things kindergarten.

Unsure of what your catchment school is? Please go to this search tool and input your address.

Please go to the SD 70 Pacific Rim website to get a registration form and other pertinent registration information.

If you have a question, please contact your neighbourhood school or call (250) 723-3565.

K Days Welcome Events

You are your child’s first and best teacher!

As children embark on their educational journeys, early education is of vital importance as it lays the foundation for future social, emotional, and academic success. Our K Days program helps families and children with a positive start to their school journey.

All School District 70 Elementary Schools in Port Alberni, Bamfield, Tofino and Ucluelet host K Days events in the spring. Please check back here early Spring for a list of dates for K Days at your neighbourhood school!

K Days events engages children, parents and caregivers, schools and communities to make early learning a priority at home and help children and their families get excited for school. The program provides parents and caregivers with early learning and literacy resources, and play-based activities that can be done at home.

K Days- Welcoming Video Series

SD 70 Board of Education Welcome Message

Pam Craig, SD 70 Pacific Rim Board of Education Chair, is excited to welcome all families and children coming to Kindergarten!

Welcome Message from Peggy Tatoosh, from SD70 Pacific Rim Indigenous Education Team

Mrs T is excited to welcome all families and children coming into Kindergarten. Please enjoy her welcoming message.

Welcome Message from Lisa Tremblay, from SD70 Pacific Rim Indigenous Education Team

Mrs. Tremblay would love to welcome all families and children coming into Kindergarten! Please enjoy her message.

A Day in the Life of a Kindergartener with Mrs. Dawson, Maquinna Elementary & Howitt Elementary

We hope you enjoy this video of a day in a life of a Kindergartener in Pacific Rim SD 70. Please also enjoy some special messages from Mrs. Manson and Mrs. Dawson

Play-Based Learning with Ms. Girard and Mrs. Jen, Tsuma-as Elementary

Kindergarten is learning through play! As children play, they are… * Solving problems * Learning to explain their thoughts * Using their imagination * Cooperating with others * Expanding their thinking * Developing language and social skills

Importance of Outdoor Play with Ms. Heather, Wickanninish Community School StrongStart

Time spent outdoors in nature has many benefits for children and adults. It helps reduce stress levels, advances self-regulation, promotes health and well-being, helps reduce future health conditions by starting a healthy life-style early and increases cardiovascular health. Join Ms. Heather as she speaks to the many other benefits of playing in nature!

Tips for Healthy Lunches with Helene Dufour, Kimberly Toonders & Oliver Jacobson from Public Health

Join Helene Dufour, Kimberly Toonders, and Oliver Jacobson from Public Health and special guest's Oliver's Chickens :) They will give you some good tips on what to pack for your Kindergartener's lunch and also provide you with some good links to help you as you plan your lunches.

Social Responsibility with Ms Sigmund, Ucluelet Elementary

In Kindergarten, children will have experiences where they will be a member of a group, take turns, wait to speak, join in , and work in pairs in small or large groups. Please join Ms. Sigmund as talks more about that.

Goal #1: Developing Social Responsibility- Being a member of a group, taking turns, waiting to speak, joining in, working in pairs in small or large groups.

INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT with Ms. Bowman and Mrs. Dawson, Maquinna Elementary

Intellectual Development refers to reasoning, thinking, and understanding. By exploring and investigating through hands on experiences in play, kindergarten children learn questioning, problem solving, spatial relationships, classification, number sense, and symbolic play. Kindergarten children learn questioning, problem solving, spatial relationships, classification, number sense, and symbolic play.
Goal # 5: Intellectual Development: Looking to clarify and extend thinking through language, develop literacy and numeracy skills.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING with Mrs. Holt, Wickaninnish Community School

Physical Development and well-being refers to children’s advancements in strengthening their fine and gross motor, core strength, body and spatial awareness and safety skills. These skills are important as they foster a sense of well-being that builds towards a healthy lifestyle as well as a joy of movement.

Goal # 3: Daily Physical Education and Movement teaches safety, body awareness, strength, and joy of movement.

The Kindergarten Orca Program is a free 4 ½ day program that runs in the summer prior to school beginning for students attending EJ Dunn Elementary School.  Typically, we run the second to last week in August. Students who will be attending the catchment school are invited to join with their families for a fun introduction to their school.

Our key goal is to make connections and strengthen family connections with their neighbourhood school.

Our goals are:

1. Parents and children meeting key school personnel in a more informal setting

2. Start building relationships with teachers, secretary, principal, vice-principal, board members and community partners

3. For families and children to be comfortable with the school setting

4. For children to be excited about learning

5. To reduce anxiety

6. To establish positive key messages about Kindergarten

7. To have fun in a play based learning environment!