After-school care pilot coming to Salt Spring Elementary

Salt Spring Elementary School (SSE) is launching a pilot after-school care program in the new year, according to district officials — and registration opens Dec. 1 for 2027 placements from January through June. Gulf Islands School District (SD64) secretary-treasurer Jesse Guy told district trustees Wednesday, Nov. 4 that the new after-school child-care program will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the school’s ELF/Strong Start early-learning classroom. Putting the after-school care at SSE seemed the most central to families likely to use it, she said, and care is being offered for students from Kindergarten through Grade 5 on school days — regardless of where, or indeed whether, they attend a district school.

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