Events from February 14, 2025 – April 17, 2025 – Page 2 – Education and Child Care Events from February 14, 2025 – April 17, 2025 – Page 2 – Education and Child Care

Student Data Collection (1701) – February

Form 1701 collects the following information about individual students as at February 7, 2025 : name, birth date, gender, grade level and postal code language programs enrolment Aboriginal Education program enrolment Career program enrolment Special Needs category enrolment Number of courses for all students in the secondary grades including adults. This information is critical for determining … Continued

Three-Year Enrolment Estimates

As per section 106.3(2) of the School Act, "A board must submit to the Minister on or before February 15 of each year an estimate of the number of students who may be enrolled in educational programs provided by the board in the next school year." The enrolment estimates received from school districts will be … Continued

School District Amended Annual Budget

In accordance with the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act (BTAA), school districts are required to provide the Ministry with electronic and print copies of their amended annual budget. Updated after the Fall recalculation of Operating Grants, this is a Board of Education’s legal budget for the current school year. Instructions 1. See the School District … Continued

Testing Lead Content in Drinking Water

School districts must test for lead content in drinking water in their school facilities ​to ensure quality meets established guidelines under applicable provincial and federal legislation. Results must be reported annually to the Ministry of Education using the Excel document linked below. Ministry of Health has changed the limit to 0.005mg/L (was 0.01mg/L) School districts … Continued

February Intake of Youth TRAIN in Trades Program Course Claims

Public schools are required to complete a spreadsheet that collects the number of net new Youth TRAIN in Trades program courses students have enrolled in since September to ensure the appropriate allocation of funding. Instructions Read the February Net New Youth Train in Trades Instructions. Complete the February Net New Youth Train in Trades Instructions sample spreadsheet for … Continued

School Calendars

In accordance with ​Section 87.01 of the School Act​​, ​a board must prepare and submit to the ministry a school calendar for each school in its district for each school calendar … Continued

Event-Driven Reporting

In April 2020, school districts were informed that the Province of B.C. had initiated a process for government organizations to record and report on financial transactions that are incremental to … Continued