With deep gratitude and respect, we are honoured to be learning and unlearning on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).

Britannia Community Elementary School is located in a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood off of Commercial Drive in East Vancouver. Britannia Elementary has 270 students whose families come from diverse cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds. It is a proud school designated as an Enhanced Services site, on the north-east side of the city. Approximately 14% of our students meet the requirements for specialized supports for their learning needs. We have a variety of programming to support all our students in the regular classroom setting.

Britannia has a full-time Youth and Family Worker, Neighbourhood Assistant, and Literacy Teacher. We also have a full-time onsite food services coordinator. We offer a breakfast and a lunch program and provide a variety of healthy snacks to all our learners. Our hot breakfast program regularly serves over 15% of our school population and the hot lunch program caters to approximately 60% of our students. Additionally, KidSafe provides out-of-school programming for a limited number of referred students during prolonged breaks.

The school shares the site with the Britannia Community Centre and works closely with community centre staff to plan after-school programs and day camps during prolonged breaks and on professional development days. The community centre also has before and after-school care, as well as a preschool program. We work collaboratively with the Community Schools Team and have many close partnerships with community groups and agencies such as the Saint James Music Academy, Red Fox Healthy Living Society and Blue Eagles Community Cadets.

Our learners come from diverse and rich cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds. Britannia has a significant Indigenous population with a proud connection to place and culture. We work with our Indigenous Enhancement Teacher, our Indigenous Enhancement Worker, and outside Indigenous supports to increase our knowledge, awareness, appreciation of, and respect for Indigenous histories, traditions, cultures, and contributions through a variety of cultural and historical teachings. Britannia has a strong commitment to reconciliation and works within the lens of the First Peoples Principles of Learning to guide our work.