News Stories

Grade 8 art students have been working on leaving Trafalgar more beautiful then they found it. Part of this project has resulted in additional signage around the school. 

The “We are all welcome” sign near the centre:

Suzanne Miller

Sequoia Lauritzen

Haliegh Fuller

To celebrate all the Grade 7's that have been doing a tremendous job of building each up teachers treated them to a school cooked breakfast and a trip to Ainsworth Hotsprings, with a stop at Kokanee Park on the way back.  

Trafalgar marked Pink Shirt Day with a school wide celebration of kindness. 

Students and staff shared stories, poety, videos and dramatic performaces about resilience, kindess and bullying. 

A month long cross-cultural learning experience wrapped up in exciting fashion at the Chako Mika Mall yesterday.  Grade 6s and 7s from Trafalgar Middle School showed off the projects that they have been working on with their new classmates from Kunming, China and students they have been mentoring from elementary schools in the area. 

The makerspaces here at Trafalgar have been extra busy the last couple of weeks.  Grade 6 and 7’s have been working with our international students from Kunming China as well as Grade 4 and 5 students from the Nelson family of schools on a wide range of hands on learning projects. 

Some of the projects include:

At Trafalgar we build each other up, and that means building up our community too!

Team Trafalgar will once again be taking parting the Coldest Night of the Year.

Wendy McIntyre, Grade 8 student at Trafalgar, has a passion for writing. Upon connecting with local journalist Tyler Harper, Wendy was encouraged to write her first article and have it published by the Nelson Star itself. 

Not only this, but Wendy got to interview local ski prodigy Sam Kuch! 

Check out the story below.

Wendy, we are so proud of you!

The students in Mr. Mieske's Grade 6 class are all about inclusion and that has attracted a lot of attention from the local media. 

There preperations and execution for their Winter SurTHRIVEal event was covered by the Nelson Star and CBC Radio.

What a day it was at Whitewater on December 6th with the Aboriginal Education entourage! Along with snowshoeing and sharing a hot lunch together, we also learned winter survival skills (creating fires with flint and tinder, and building snow shelters), and traditional Indigenous knowledge about the land we are on (and all the creatures who live here too)!

BC's Largest Middle School Band made it's concert debut last week.