Information Happy Diwali Diwali begins tomorrow! South Asian families in our community and our school will clean and decorate their homes and workspaces, exchange gifts, share stories and meals, and light diyas (clay lamps) that symbolize the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. Click the image below...

Information New Option to Access MyEDBC using your BC Services Card On Monday, October 17, the Ministry of Education and Child Care together with Service BC is providing another option for students and parents/guardians to access MyEDBC. This new option enables students and families to link their BC Services Card...

Information Happy Thanksgiving This weekend, i have reflected on all I have to be thankful for, and you, Richard Bulpitt Community, are high on my list. It is so wonderful working and learning with all of you. The RBE team wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Election Day: Use of...

Information Happy Navratri This weekend falls in the middle of the Hindu celebration of Shadriya Navratri, an autumn festival that pays tribute over nine days to the Goddess Shakti. To all RBE families of the Hindu faith, we wish you a Happy Navratri. Yom Kippur is October 4-5 Yom Kippur...

Information To our community members of the Jewish faith, Online Consent Forms On or around September 8, you should have received an email asking you to fill in a number of consent forms for your child - walking field trips, media release, and that sort of thing. That system will...

Information Driveway As the weather gets wetter and colder, more families seem to start driving to school. The result of this is cars double-parked across the yellow line, other cars blocked in, and worse behaviours still! This is inconsiderate and dangerous, and it would prevent emergency vehicles from accessing the...

Information Mid-Autumn Festival This weekend marked Chuseok 추석 (Korea), Moon Festival 中秋節 / 中秋节 (China), Tsukimi 月見 (Japan) and Tết Trung Thu 節中秋 (Vietnam). In this important festival, families gather to celebrate the full moon of the 8th lunar month. To all of our families who observed these festivals this weekend, we...

Information Welcome back! We are so excited to have you returning to (or joining) the Richard Bulpitt Elementary family. Hopefully your summer had the perfect balance of new and old experiences, and you stayed healthy and safe. We are eager to start another year of learning with you, and to...

Information Report Cards: A Mystery Story Sometimes, technology amazes me. Sometimes it infuriates me. Sometimes it baffles me. Report Cards tend to fall into the latter categories. As teachers prepare report cards, sometimes they log into the system to recheck their work and find inexplicable question marks peppered throughout the...

Information Happy Father's Day To the Bulldogs Dads, Step-dads, Granddads, Uncles and other important men, and to the Moms who fill both Mom and Dad roles,  Happy Father's Day. [caption id="attachment_11223" align="alignnone" width="386"] From Vader & Son by Jeffrey Brown.[/caption] Lost & Found Time is running out for the Lost...