On Wednesday October 21, 2026, we offered a session titled “Building Your Post-Secondary Portfolio” for our students and school community. This presentation explored how students can build strong scholarship and post-secondary applications. This presentation also included useful information about scholarship opportunities and helpful hints, career and volunteer opportunities, and our AP program. As a follow up, we have attached the presentation slides for everyone to access: Building Your Post-Secondary Portfolio 2026-27

The Burnaby School District is hosting an upcoming PATH Forward night on Tuesday October 27th, from 6-7:30pm at Burnaby Central. PATH Forward information night is geared for families and students from grades 8-12 with physical and social employment challenges, students in Pre-Employment and students in ACCESS.   This year, the event will be an open house style event. Please see the attached invite for more information.

We are continuing to experience an internet outage at all district sites, which is affecting phone services at schools as well.

IT Services staff are actively working on a solution to restore services as quickly as possible.

To report an absence, please email Mountain.Info@burnabyschools.ca

If you need to connect with school staff, please reach out to our Administrative (https://mountain.burnabyschools.ca/school-info/administration/) & Counselling (https://mountain.burnabyschools.ca/student-services/) team via email.

Any students who are requesting a course change, need to complete the Course Change Form below. Please note, the form will close on Thursday September 10 at 4pm – all course request changes need to be submitted before this time.

Link to course change form: Course Change Request Form For September 2026/27 Courses –> CLOSES THURS (SEPT 10) @ 4pm – Fill out form

Please remember:

• Only students will have access to this form through their Office 365/Outlook account.
• Counsellors will only make course changes if there is a legitimate error in a student’s schedule.
  • Timetable errors include: missing a class (you have fewer than 8 courses), you are in a class that you’ve successfully completed or you are missing a course that is required for Graduation or Post-Secondary.
  • Counsellors will not make changes if: you want a different teacher, you don’t like the time of day a class is offered, your friends aren’t in your class, or you have changed your mind about an elective.
• Students only have one opportunity to submit this form so consider choices carefully before submitting the form.
• Please review the process for course changes in the form before completing and submitting it.
• Students should continue to follow their original schedule after submitting the form, but should continue to be checking their MyEd to see if their course change request has been made.

Counsellors know this can be a stressful time for students, and they appreciate your patience.