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Stuart Wood School Closure
Parents worried after daycare denied space at Stuart Wood school
After the City of Kamloops voted against a daycare temporarily renting out the abandoned Stuart…
City of Kamloops, community agencies to take action on winter homeless shelter issues
KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops is taking action after hearing the public's concerns around…
Museum first choice for future of Stuart Woods school
KAMLOOPS – Plans for the Stuart Woods school house are moving forward. Moving the city’s…
Stuart Wood school has an undetermined and expensive future
KAMLOOPS – With less than a month to go before the city takes it over…
City still not clear on what can be done with Downtown Kamloops school
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University has decided it's not interested and the City of Kamloops…
Beattie name to stay on Kamloops school
KAMLOOPS – The Beattie name will stay on a Kamloops school. The school on McGill…
Decision to rename Beattie school deferred by Kamloops school board
KAMLOOPS – The Beattie name may stay on a Kamloops school, but that’s a decision…
Kamloops school board renames wrong school
KAMLOOPS – An awkwardly worded motion means the Kamloops school board gave the wrong school…
Beattie name could stay on a Kamloops school
KAMLOOPS – The decision to have remove Beattie from school names may not quite be…
Future of Stuart Wood in Kamloops still in university’s hands
KAMLOOPS – Stuart Wood Elementary School could still graduate to become part of a university…
Name change coming to Beattie as Kamloops schools amalgamate
KAMLOOPS – A pair of schools will be getting new names when the two campuses…
Parents lineup overnight for French immersion in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Some Kamloops parents spent Valentine's Day out in the cold as they waited…
Kamloops family has more than a century of history at Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' oldest school is set to shut down next year, but the legacy left behind by the school and the four generations of the Lloyd family that have been part of the school will not soon be forgotten. Blair Lloyd became principal of Stuart Wood Elementary this past May and recently learned his...
Beattie K-12 school gets approval
KAMLOOPS – The Beattie School of the Arts will officially become a K-12 school in…
Beattie School of the Arts amalgamation back on agenda
KAMLOOPS – The future of the Beattie School of the Arts amalgamation will be discussed by the board of education tonight, May 25, but whether this information will be presented publically or not is a matter for the board. There will be a closed meeting prior to the School District 73 regular meeting, where it...
Legal case against school closure comes to abrupt end
KAMLOOPS - The Downtown and West End Residents’ Association is dropping out of a legal battle with the school district over the planned closure of Stuart Wood School. Chair Bruce Thomson says the decision was made official today, Friday, Feb. 6, because the cost is too prohibitive and the likelihood of getting any meaningful change...
District looks to make Stuart Wood closure official
KAMLOOPS - The decision to close Stuart Wood School could become official this afternoon as the school board prepares for a special meeting to pass the official bylaw. The decision to present the bylaw at a special meeting comes on the heels of a letter sent to the district from the lawyer representing the Downtown...
Fight to save Stuart Wood goes legal
CONSULTATION PROCESS ‘DEEPLY FLAWED’ KAMLOOPS - A group upset with the planned closure of Stuart Wood School is hoping to make it a key election issue after a lawyer allegedly found several deficiencies in the way the district handled the decision. Bruce Thomson, the acting chair of the Downtown and West End Residents’ Association, says...
Future of Stuart Wood landmark could include TRU
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University is interested in the historic Stuart Wood Elementary School in downtown Kamloops. The City and university have signed an agreement to look at the possible future uses of the school, which is set to be turned back over to the city in September 2016 after students and staff are head...
Stuart Wood will close
KAMLOOPS - The clock is ticking on Stuart Wood Elementary School after the school district agreed unanimously to consolidate Beattie School of Arts students into one building and shutdown the downtown school by September 2016. The issue has been a hot button issue with the public since an enrolment report suggesting the closure was released in...
Group continues fight to save Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - It may be too little too late but a group of concerned citizens are not giving up their fight to save their downtown school. Denis Walsh, the chair of the Downtown and West End Residents Association, admits they were a bit slow out of the gate but based on previous changes within the...
Council faces off: Is Stuart Wood more important because it is downtown?
KAMLOOPS - More than an hour was spent discussing the merits of keeping Stuart Wood as an elementary school and whether the city should step in to provide ‘support’ to the school district in making the decision. “Where was this passion for John Tod last term?” Mayor Peter Milobar said, “Was it because it was...
Stuart Wood decision left for another day
KAMLOOPS - The board asked several questions and the report was accepted but the decision on what exactly to do with Stuart Wood Elementary School will have to be dealt with at a later date. “No decisions have been made,” School District 73 Trustee Cara McKelvey says. “Some trustees asked questions around heritage status and...
Decision on Stuart Wood expected soon
KAMLOOPS - A report with recommendations on whether the school district should relocate students and shut down Stuart Wood Elementary School will be presented to trustees Monday. In November administration made several recommendations focused on realigning catchment areas to help ease enrolment pressures at some high schools. Following much of the realignment it was suggested...