School Supplies
For the 2025-26 school year, Arden Elementary has pre-purchased ALL school supplies, and families will pay a fee of $25.00 per child. Supplies will be handed out to students the first week of school.
Please send payment of $25 per student to the school in one of the following ways:
- E-transfer – via ‘arden@sd71.bc.ca’. Please include your child(ren)’s name(s) and reason for payment in the description. Please note that we are only able to accept e-transfers from larger banking institutions (not usually credit unions). We cannot accept e-transfers from any bank that requires a password to accept funds.
- Cheque – made out to ‘Arden Elementary’. Please include your child(ren)’s name(s) and reason for payment in the description
- Cash – Please include a note saying your child(ren)’s name(s) and reason for payment.
(We have several things being paid for at the beginning of the year, and so the explanation as a description will assure the payment goes to the correct item).
The only items you will need to supply are: backpack, lunch bag, water bottle and indoor shoes with non-marking soles.
No student will be denied the opportunity to participate in a course and/or activity associated with a course or specialty program in which they are enrolled because of financial hardship.
1. Parents/guardians and/or students should contact the principal in order that confidential, respectful, and discreet arrangements can be made to ensure that a student is not denied an opportunity to participate in a course, program, or activity.
2. Principals have a responsibility to ensure that students are not excluded from a course, class, program, or activity due to financial hardship. Principals will ensure that such cases are handled in a confidential, respectful, and discreet manner.
3. Any decision to refuse financial assistance may be appealed to the Assistant Superintendent.
4. All procedures to determine financial hardship will follow the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act legislation.
