{"id":713201,"date":"2026-06-03T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:38:11","slug":"surrey-school-reopens-after-fire-but-still-fundraising-for-supplies-tech-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713201\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey school reopens after fire, but still fundraising for supplies, tech &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Students are back in their classrooms at Surrey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/woodland-park-elementary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woodland Park Elementary<\/a> School, more than five months after the school was badly damaged in a fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Since the fire in late January, classes were held in other schools and buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the repairs are complete, the students are back, but the school is still lacking basic school supplies, classroom materials and technology.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>The school has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surreyschools.ca\/fundraising-alert--support-woodland-park-elementary-with-donations-to-replace-student-supplies-.199593.199593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">launched an online fundraiser<\/a> to campaign for the supplies, but it has yet to reach its $35,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smoke damage and the soot damage went through the entire main building, so unfortunately we lost everything,\u201d principal Lisa Chambers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the classroom teachers have lost their resources, their personal belongings, sentimental items.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Woodland Park has more than 450 students from Kindergarten to Grade 7.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Students are back in their classrooms at Surrey\u2019s Woodland Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,1132,258511,87674,258510],"class_list":["post-713201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fire","tag-school-fire","tag-surrey","tag-woodland-park-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}