Hellings Elementary is celebrating one of our school’s newest additions: an Augmentative Communication Board installed on the playground. The board features symbols and illustrations that empower students with limited spoken language ability to express themselves by pointing or gesturing to the images to communicate – making playtime more inclusive and interactive.

Thanks to school fundraising through last year’s cookie sales, Spirit Wear sales, our Neufeld’s Fundraiser, and a very generous anonymous donation, $1933.00 was raised—an amount that was matched by a Variety Schools Grant, from Variety – the Children’s Charity of BC, doubling the impact for students at the school.

We hope you get a chance to see and experience it when you are on our playground!