VICTORIA Members of the Oak Bay High School community are expressing their condolences after a teenager died unexpectedly over the weekend. In a letter sent to families Monday, Oak Bay principal Tom Aerts said that St. Michael s University School student Harrison Helliwell died on Sunday. The Grade 10 student went to Oak Bay High last year, and was expected to return to the school for Grade 11. Since he previously attended Oak Bay High, the school said he likely had many social connections with current students. The school provided some advice for families who may be affected by the unexpected death. The school suggests that parents listen to children and make time for them as they grieve, try to maintain a regular routine and watch for physical signs of grief, such as headaches, loss of appetite, anxiety or sleep disturbance.
1940 Vic High grad’s estate donates $126,000 for bursary The Victoria High School Alumni Association has received a $126,000 donation from the estate of a woman who graduated from the Fernwood . . .
It has come to the attention of myself and many other students within the Greater Victoria school district that the proposed new budget could remove music classes (band, strings, choir and so on) from students below Grade 8.
“From September to March, our schools had three COVID exposures,” said GVTA president Winona Waldron. “In the four weeks school has been in session from March to this point, we have had 18 more exposures reported. “We are hearing from our members that they are not necessarily informed when a case is in their class, [when] they have a student who is a close contact of a COVID case, or when siblings are affected.” Most recently, COVID-19 exposures have been reported at Mount Douglas Secondary School and Victoria High School, where classes are being held at the former S.J. Willis Education Centre while the Fernwood school undergoes a seismic refit and expansion.
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