Students and families at Lochdale Community School had a chance to learn about one of Canada鈥檚 national obsessions: hockey.
Principal Dino Klarich explained why he decided to celebrate hockey with an event at his school. 鈥淲e have a lot of families who are new to Canada and love learning about what the country has to offer. With the World Junior Championship coming to the Lower Mainland it seemed like a great time to come together as a school community and celebrate hockey.鈥
Only a handful of the children from grades Kindergarten to 7 at the school play hockey themselves. They had the chance to try out hockey skills under the guidance of students from Burnaby Central Secondary, who are part of the hockey academy (which is put on in partnership with the co-hosted the event and brought the 2015 World Junior Cup to the school for the students to enjoy.
Posted November 2018
