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Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 B9
Principal excited by challenges ahead
…continuoed from page B7 St. Patrick’s school is older – turning 57 this year – and the future includes improving the structure and appearance of the school. It is adding a before and after school program in September. But when it comes to Catholic school, the main reason people send their kids to the school, “is not the way it looks, but for the faith of it,” he said. Working in the Catholic system allows Heah to be an “educational leader and a faith leader,” he said. Before becoming a principal at he was at Holy Cross Elementary in Burnaby as vice-principal and a Grade 7 teacher for five years. Before that he was at Vancouver College teaching Grade 4, and before that he was a teacher at a private international, non-denominational school in Switzerland.
Brandon
Meadowridge School
How it all began
In 1950, on five acres of forest in the heart of Haney, Father Steele began the challenging task of building St. Patrick’s school, which opened a few years later with 128 students between Grades 1 and 8. It currently has 190 students between kindergarten and Grade 7.
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Grade 2 kids from St. Patrick’s school walked in front of their new principal Clive Heah.
Jenna
St. Patrick’s Elementary
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