Monday January 15, 2024 | LANGFORD, BC [Updated 3:48 pm]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Starting today, children born in 2019 can be registered for Kindergarten in Sooke School District 62 (SD62), to start classes in September 2024 (for the 2024/25 academic year). That’s for children who will turn age 5 years by December 31, 2024.
First comes the Nature Kindergarten and French Immersion streams. That registration opened this morning online and will be open to 11:59 p.m. on Friday January 19. It is highly likely both programs will go to a lottery.
- Nature Kindergarten Registration – lottery FAQ (Sangster and Sassenos)
- French Immersion Kindergarten Registration – lottery FAQ (John Stubbs, Poirier, Millstream)
There is typically a lottery for French Immersion and Nature Kindergarten. If a Regular Kindergarten program at an elementary school receives more registrations than available seats, a lottery will be held.
Schools will notify parents of lottery results during January 23 to 25, 2024.
SD62 catchment:
Families who live in Langford, Colwood, Sooke, Highlands, Metchosin, and the Juan de Fuca areas (East Sooke, Otter Point up to Port Renfrew) are within the SD62 catchment.
All but two of the SD62 schools are in Langford, Colwood and Sooke. There is also an elementary school in Metchosin and one in Port Renfrew.
Currently there are 44 Nature K students in the 2023/24 academic year, with 141 students in French Immersion. In the Regular Kindergarten stream there are 807 students this year.
Various school locations:
Nature Kindergarten is available at the following schools:
French Immersion Kindergarten:
French Immersion Kindergarten is available at the following schools:
Kindergarten in BC:
Regular Kindergarten registration runs January 29 through February 2.
More information about Kindergarten in BC is available on the Ministry of Education and Child Care website.
How to register:
All registration is done online at registration.sd62.bc.ca .
Parents or guardians are advised to read the Registration Guide to make sure the required documents are ready to upload during registration.
Students will not be officially registered until all documentation is uploaded.
===== RELATED:
- Robust registration expected for Sept 2024 Kindergarten (January 4, 2024)
- Sooke school district faces steady student population growth (November 7, 2023)
- Classroom space slam dunk for SD62 (October 31, 2023)
- School in rural west shore Metchosin finally gets a crosswalk (August 18, 2023)
- Indigenous name gifted to new elementary school in south Langford (August 14, 2023)
- SD62 ushering in Paul Block as their next superintendent starting 2024 (July 3, 2023)
- SD62 Sept 2023 waitlists for Nature K and French Immersion (January 20, 2023)
- Alive with gardens and light at SD62’s new PEXSISEN Elementary (September 3, 2022)
===== ABOUT THE WRITER:
Mary P Brooke has followed the news of SD62 at the board and committee level since 2014. She is the founding editor and publisher of Island Social Trends which launched at IslandSocialTrends.ca mid-2020 (and before that was in print as MapleLine Magazine 2008-2010, Sooke Voice News 2011-2013, and West Shore Voice News 2014-2020). Island Social Trends will re-emerge in print starting 2024.
Ms Brooke reports with the BC Legislative Press Gallery and in 2023 was nominated for a Jack Webster Foundation award for contributing to community through journalism.
Mary P Brooke was an SD62 trustee candidate in 2022 as a way to enliven discussion around key issues for parents in the community. In 2024 she has launched the Urban Food Resilience Initiatives Society (UFRIS).
Mary raised her four (now-grown) children in Oak Bay/Fairfield and Sooke (SD61 and SD62) through the years when education suffered under cutbacks and slow school growth under the previous (BC Liberal) government. Ms Brooke was active in parent PAC leadership, generating facilities results with new sidewalks at two elementary schools (2006-2007) and a parking lot for parents at one of those schools (2008).