The school in Eagle Ridge Community Centre, attended by students in athletic and arts programs, will now be known as QELEṈSEN Á, LEṈA small secondary school that opened this year in Langford’s Eagle Ridge Community Centre for students who participate in high-performance athletics and art programs has been gifted a SENĆOŦEN name by a local First Nation. Now called Eagle Ridge Secondary School, the school will be known as QELEṈSEN Á, LEṈ Secondary School (pronounced K-wuh-Lun-Sun, Eh Lun) after consultations with five local first nations. The nations determined that as the closest nation to the school, the Sc’ianew Nation would gift the school its new name. The Sooke School Board unanimously agreed to adopt the new name for the flexible secondary school, which opened in January. About 84 students, mostly athletes from the Pacific Coast Hockey Academy, attend the school, which is run out of four classrooms inside the community centre.

Source: Daily Nation December 13, 2023 17:01 UTC