2024-2025 District Calendar Planning

The DISTRICT CALENDAR HAS NOW BEEN APPROVED. The final calendar can be found here.

A copy of a combined visual & list calendar has been attached as well. Click here.

Link to March 12 BOE Agenda - includes responses received.

Senior Staff and the Board of Education are seeking input on the newly proposed 2024-2025 District School Calendar. You can review the DRAFT here.

You can view the Calendar Chart for better clarity here. Please note, that every individual school will have more school specific dates to share with you on their website at the beginning of the school year. The proposed calendar contains the main dates for the district to follow.

In 2021, the district implemented a 3-year calendar in accordance with guidelines provided by the Ministry of Education. As many things continually change, SD75 will continue planning one year at- a-time. Approval will be required at a Board Meeting prior to sending the final Calendar to the Ministry of Education and Childcare. The approved calendar must be submitted prior to March 31st for the 2024 / 2025 calendar. Additional time could be taken to consider calendars for 2025/2026 and 2026/2027 (which are optional).

The school calendar considers:

1. The Ministry of Education’s BC School Calendar Regulation (LINK1) (LINK2) , and
2. The regular work year for teachers as outlined in Article D.22 of the agreement between the Mission Teachers Union and the Mission School District.
3. October 25 is the PROVINCIAL Pro-D Day, so there are events planned for this specific day, and we cannot move it to November 1 (although we all agree the day off after Halloween would be helpful!)
4. We realize syncing Spring Break with Abbotsford and other neighbouring communities makes public recreational spaces (Vancouver Aquarium) crowded; however, another consideration is that a LOT of our staff do not necessarily live in Mission, and like to have the same break as their children. There are also camps that people in neighbouring communities like to register for.
5. We appreciate all the responses we have received! The changes we are able to apply are CONSIDERABLY limited by the language in the Collective Agreements we have with MTU and CUPE.

These requirements specify that the School Year is:

1. Between the first Tuesday after Labour Day and the last Friday in June (or June 30th if the last Friday is on or before June 25th)
2. Excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and Statutory Holidays
3. Winter break begins the Monday before December 26, and ends the Monday after January 1, (unless January 1 is on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, then school would restart on the Tuesday).
4. Spring Break begins the third Monday in March and reopens the fourth Monday in March. The break would extend to the Wednesday if the fourth Monday in March is Easter Monday.
5. Non-instructional Instructional Days

a. MTU - Four days (MTU exchanged a fifth day for Assessments)
b. Regulation – at least one non instructional day for the purpose of providing teachers the opportunity to participate in discussion and activities that focus on both,

i. Enhancing Indigenous student achievement, and
ii. Integrating Indigenous world views and perspectives into learning environments.

6. Provide the minimum hours of instruction:

a. 853 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten,
b. 878 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7,
c. 952 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12