Only recently announced by the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC), Black Shirt Day is new this year. ARC created the day to raise awareness of the challenges faced by Black and racialized Canadians, as well as to help foster solidarity against all forms of racism and hate.

Suncrest Elementary School invites students and staff to wear black shirts on January 15 to show support for anti-racism.

Kindergarten is offered at all 41 Burnaby Elementary Schools. Students entering Kindergarten next Fall must register at their attendance area school. To find the school that your child is eligible to attend, click here.

Registrations for September 2021 are not accepted until February 2021.  All registration information will be updated by the school district here.

The following daily health check is for students and their families to determine if the student should attend school that day.

Translations in multiple languages have been provided by the Ministry of Education.

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With winter weather here, we want to remind you about how the Burnaby School District shares weather-related school closures.  CLICK HERE for more information.

The staff at Suncrest would like to wish everyone in our school community all the very best during this Holiday Season!

It has been a year like no other and we hope that 2021 will indeed reveal the light at the end of this very long tunnel.

We miss having you in the building and want to give you an inside look at some of what we’ve been doing to get into the holiday spirit – click here to enjoy a video clip with special thanks to Ms. Fletcher!

Thank you for your patience, diligence, and care this fall in working with the school to keep everyone safe and learning.

May your holiday be both restive and festive!

We have shared letters from the Fraser Health Authority with families and staff. The letter alerts them that someone with COVID-19 was at our school. For more information, please click the link below to view one of the exposure letters from the Fraser Health Authority that was emailed to families and staff on December 12. Please note that another letter was shared with specific classes – the letter posted below is the general exposure letter that applies to the vast majority of the school community. Learn more about Fraser Health’s updated process and the different types of notification letters they send here on their website.

• See the General Exposure Letter from Fraser Health here

In order to keep the integrity of our learning groups intact and see the benefits of a staggered school start and end time, we ask that all students and parents leave the school grounds as soon as possible after pick up.  Students waiting for younger siblings may wait in the area behind the bike rack or behind the fence in the same area as the Wishing Tree. 

Unfortunately this means that students and families will not have access to the playground or gravel field after school for the time being.  School Covid exposures have happened at the secondary and elementary school levels in our District and we need to continue to do what we can to help reduce the risk of infection for Suncrest students, staff and families.  

We also ask that adults continue to be masked and/or distanced while waiting at drop off and pick up times and remain diligent about wearing masks when speaking with staff or being near children other than their own.

As Dr. Bonnie Henry has said “This is not forever, but it is for now.”   We thank you for your understanding and cooperation. 

Although we are not able to have our traditional public Remembrance Day Assembly, Suncrest will be having in class virtual presentations on Tuesday, November 10 to commemorate this very important occasion.

This year we will be collecting donations for the Canadian Legion only through School Cash Online.  Please do not send cash or coins to the school.  You may also donate to the Legion directly.

Schools are not in session on Wednesday, November 11 as we take time to recognize the sacrifices made by our Veterans.

Suncrest Staff wish our school community a fun and safe Halloween!

We loved seeing so many great costumes today!!!

Orange Shirt Day is a day when we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools and those who continue to be impacted.

Wearing an orange shirt is meant to recognize the harm that was done to residential school students and to show a commitment to the principle that every child matters.

We will be having Orange Shirt Day here at Suncrest on Wednesday, September 30th.  We are encouraging all students and staff to wear orange to support children everywhere.

On Friday, October 2nd, Suncrest Elementary will be supporting the Terry Fox Foundation and Cancer Research by participating in our annual Terry Fox Run.  This year we will run within school grounds and adjacent park one Learning Group at a time. 

If you would like to contribute to our fundraising efforts, you may do so through the following link:  http://www.terryfox.ca/SuncrestElementary 

Thank you for your support!

The parking lot at the west end of our building has been returned to school use except for a number of spots that are still needed by the construction company on site. Unfortunately, when we consider our parking lot’s capacity and the staff numbers of both the school and the day care, there are very few remaining parking spaces.  For this reason, we are limiting access to staff only for the time being.  This includes closing the lot as a turn around location.

Once construction is complete we will re-evaluate and potentially add a small number of designated visitor parking spaces.

As always, safety is paramount and having children in the same space as moving vehicles is a dangerous situation. The new and expanded Drop Off Zone on Rumble St. is a much safer option for our students than the parking lot for pick up, drop off, or turning around.

Thank you for your cooperation!