Several principal retirements have School District 43 looking further afield to fill administrative posts at local schools.
Several long-time principals will be retiring at the end of the school year, resulting in new faces at school offices effective July 1, five of them from outside the district.
Marsha Arnold, principal of Mountain View elementary, Carol Coulson, principal of Dr. Charles Best secondary, Petra Kintzinger, principal of Eagle Ridge elementary, Sandra Meister, principal of Alderson elementary and Krisztine Trumley, principal of Encompass 10-12/COL K-9 and the Settlement Workers in Schools Team will all be retiring at the end of June.
Meanwhile, following new school administrative appointments have been made:
At the elementary level:
• Joe Jamieson, a Vancouver teacher, will become a vice-principal at Panorama Heights, and Leanne Kemp, a teacher at Aspenwood elementary will become vice-principal at Walton elementary.
• Elspeth Anjos is moving from acting-principal at Birchland elementary to principal at Birchland; Heather Birnie moves from principal at Pleasantside to principal at Mountain Meadows; Tara Fisher moves from principal at Delta school district to principal at Meadowbrook elementary; Don Hutchinson moves from principal at Ranch Park elementary to principal at Eagle Ridge; Robert Killawee moves from vice-principal at Surrey school district to principal at Ranch Park elementary; Kate McMeiken moves from principal at Mountain Meadows to principal at Central; Jody Moss moves from vice-principal at Port Moody secondary to principal at Mountain View elementary; Theresa Roberts moves from vice-principal at Scott Creek middle to acting principal at RC Macdonald elementary; Anita Strang returns from a leave of absence to become principal at Alderson elementary and Ceri Watkins moves from principal at RC Macdonald to principal at Pleasantside.
At the middle school level:
• Colleen Castonguay moves from vice-principal at Walton elementary to vice-principal at Scott Creek middle, Mark Clay moves from principal at Maillard middle to principal at Moody middle, Tristan McCutcheon moves from principal at Central elementary to principal at Maillard middle school.
At the secondary school level:
• Beth Applewhite moves from vice-principal at the Surrey School District to vice-principal at Pinetree secondary and Sharon Starr moves from counsellor at Pinetree secondary to vice-principal at Port Moody secondary.
Heather Murphy moves from principal at Terry Fox secondary to principal at Dr. Charles Best secondary while David Starr moves from principal with the Burnaby School district to principal at Terry Fox secondary.
Lisa Dube moves from vice-principal at Pinetree secondary to principal at Encompass 10-12/COL K-9 and the SWIS team.
Dawn Holden, principal of Meadowbrook will take a leave of absence.
