Richmond School District Early Learning

📚 Little eyes, big futures. A caregiver and her baby share a moment over *Love Makes a Family* at our Early Learning StrongStart centre — a beautiful reminder that reading together from birth builds language, connection, and a lifelong love of story. 💛

🌸 Cherry blossom season is blooming at our Strong Start Centres! Little learners explored Sakura's Cherry Blossoms and brought the story to life through hands-on art — sculpting, painting, and creating their very own sakura trees. Beautiful learning happening here! 🌸@sd38elcc

Our StrongStart families came together to celebrate Vaisakhi!Families listened to stories about the meaning and joy of this special celebration, then created their own beautiful mala bead bracelets to take home. 📿✨ What a wonderful way to learn, connect, and celebrate together.

🌸 Spring has sprung! 🐣 Our little learners are celebrating the season with all its colour, wonder, and joy! 🐰Wishing all our families a warm and happy long weekend! 🌷✨

Richmond schools will be closed for spring break from March 16 to 27, 2026. Schools will re-open on March 30, 2026. Please note that two of our schools have slightly different spring break schedules: - Garden City Elementary School will be closed for spring break from March 16 to April 2, 2026. Garden City will re-open on April 7, 2026. - Spul’u’kwuks Elementary School will be closed for spring break from April 6 to May 1, 2026. Spul’u’kwuks will re-open on May 4, 2026. sd38.bc.ca/news/2026-03-0…

🎶👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 What a wonderful Early Learning Family Event! Families enjoyed playful explorations, a lively concert, connected w/ community partners, & built relationships w/other families & SD38 Early Learning staff. Thank you for being part of such a joyful afternoon 💛 @SD38elcc

Join us for our third Early Learning Family event at Thompson Elementary featuring Will‘s Jams @willsjamsmusic No registration required.

Our StrongStart Educator visited kindergarten classes in the school for Lunar New Year and engaged the learners in an exciting lion dance! @SD38Arts @sd38ELCC

Our S.E.E.D Family Learning series is planting seeds for lifelong learning! This four-part series reviewed the importance of outdoor play for strengthening social & emotional learning, numeracy & literacy skills in the early years for children aged 0-5 @sd38ELCC

🩷Pink Shirt Day at our @sd38elecc StongStart Centres are focused on kindness. "Small hands, big Kindness."🩷

With big smiles and lots of excitement, StrongStart families joined a lion dance and eagerly reached out to feel the lion’s soft and vibrant body. Lunar New Year brings many experiences enjoyed by all. @sd38ELCC

Children create cherry blossom trees using a cedar branch, pink playdough & styrofoam. With care & creativity, they shape the blossoms, assemble the materials, then place their artwork in a cream paper container to bring home in celebration of Lunar New Year🌸@sd38elcc

No matter if you are big or small, there is space for all to play together. Happy Family Day to our @sd38elcc StrongStart community!

It is Black History Month and our StrongStart Centres take the time to reflect on the stories, experiences and accomplishments of Black Canadians @sd38ELCC

Did you know our StrongStart centres offer playtime in the school gym? Plenty of opportunity to build physical literacy while having fun! 👟⚽️ @sd38ELCC

Shadow play at our StrongStart Centre…will we have early spring or late winter? Wondering if the groundhog will see his shadow today.  The children played with shadows in various ways. 🔦

🌿🍂Did you know our StrongStart centres go outdoors too? Join Thursday afternoons at our Grauer location to learn all about outdoor play ideas w/your children. 🍃🪾sd38.bc.ca/sites/default/…

Child Care Providers on School Grounds @sd38ELCC gathered to discuss sharing spaces and learners in Richmond Schools. Consensus? Together is better! Follow this link to connect with operators on School grounds: sd38.bc.ca/sites/default/…

Our amazing StrongStart ECE’s spent time with Librarian Kate @RPLBC and dove into the big “why” around Story Time. Key takeaway? Make them an invitation to participate …participation is the point!

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall with this painting session. I wonder what they were thinking?great idea. Always fun. Thank you.