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Pinetree Secondary School
School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)
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Principal's message regarding S-trip and Break-away Trip- NOT school sanctioned activities

March 10, 2013

Over the last week or two we have received a number of communications from parents inquiring about the S-trip organization and we feel, at this time, that it is important we clarify information with our parent community.

Pinetree Secondary School is not connected with nor do we support the student organized S-trips. We believe that there is a potential S-trip being planned for this school year by some students at Pinetree. S-trips are organized by a private company that specializes in student travel and the company operates completely independent of the school. The S-trip company usually makes contact with students in the schools to recruit their classmates for the trip, often at school or on Facebook, Twitter etc. We do not sanction or allow S-trip meetings to occur at school.

The information we have about past S-trips indicates that there is a definite difference between both supervision and behaviour standards for an S-trip as compared to a school authorized trip. We recognize that it is a family decision about participation in an S-trip activity. We want to make sure families are able to make an informed decision. To that end, we want to make it clear to our parent community that the school is not connected in any way to an S-trip activity.

Another group referred to as the Break Away Trip, is a different group but operates in the same manner as the S-Trip group.  Pinetree Secondary School is not connected to the Break Away Trip either and does not sanction or allow Break Away trip meetings to occur at school.

Pinetree Secondary School

3000 Pinewood Avenue, Coquitlam BC
V3B 7Y7
604-464-2513 604-937-8056 pinetreesecondary@sd43.bc.ca
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