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Volume 58, No. 21

203/2015

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 17, 2015

B.C. Reg. 203/2015 , deposited November 4, 2015, under the SCHOOL ACT [sections 87.01, 87.02 and 168.02]. Ministerial Order M368/2015, dated November 3, 2015.

I, Mike Bernier, Minister of Education, order that the School Calendar Regulation, B.C. Reg. 314/2012, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— M. BERNIER, Minister of Education .

Schedule

Section 2 of the School Calendar Regulation, B.C. Reg. 314/2012, is amended by adding the following definition:

“non-instructional period” means, in respect of any school, a period of time in a day in session in a school calendar year during which students do not receive instruction.

Section 3 is repealed and the following substituted:

Prescribed minimum hours of instruction

(1) Subject to subsection (4), the following are the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in the schools in its school district in the 2015/2016 school year:

(a) 843 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten;

(b) 868 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7;

(c) 942 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), the following are the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in the schools in its district in the 2016/2017 school year and the 2017/2018 school year:

(a) 848 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten;

(b) 873 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7;

(c) 947 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the following are the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in the schools in its school district in the 2018/2019 school year and subsequent school years:

(a) 853 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten;

(b) 878 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7;

(c) 952 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12.

(4) There are no prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in a distributed learning school.

Section 6 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a board that amends a school calendar for the 2015/2016 school year to include the non-instructional periods required under

section 8 (1) (b) [designation of purpose for non-instructional days and periods] and instead the board must, as soon as practicable and, in any event, within 30 days of amending a school calendar under

section 87.02 of the Act,

(

a) provide the minister with the amended school calendar, and

(

b) make publicly available the amended school calendar.

Section 8 is repealed and the following substituted:

Designation of purpose for non-instructional days and periods

(1) A board must

schedule the following for the 2015/2016 school year:

(

a) one non-instructional day for the purpose of facilitating activities that in the board’s opinion are designed to enhance student achievement with a focus on supporting aboriginal learners and integrating aboriginal content and perspectives into the curriculum and other transformation initiatives;

(b) 2 or more non-instructional periods totalling 10 hours for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities relating to the implementation of the curriculum documents listed in

section 1 (

i) of the Educational Program Guide Order, M333/99.

(2) A board must

schedule the following in each of the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 school years for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities relating to the implementation of the curriculum documents listed in

section 1 (

i) of the Educational Program Guide Order, M333/99:

(

a) one non-instructional day;

(

b) one or more non-instructional periods totalling 5 hours.

(3) For certainty, the non-instructional periods referred to in subsections (1) (

b) and (2) (

b) may be scheduled on different days.

(4) For certainty, nothing in subsection (1) or (2) prevents a board from providing an opportunity for parents of students attending schools in the district, other employees of the board and members of the community to participate in the non-instructional days or periods described in those subsections.

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