Students at a Terrace private school mourning the loss of two classmates killed along with their mother

Students at a Terrace private school are mourning the loss of two classmates killed along with their mother in a head-on crash as they drove to school last week.

Centennial Christian School says in a Facebook post that the entire community is grieving the loss of Grade 6 student Ashton Hesketh, his sister, Kylie, who was in Grade four, and their mother, Elizabeth.

The post says students and staff are receiving the help and support they need in classrooms and with counsellors, while thoughts and prayers go to the victims' father and husband, Dan Hesketh.

Kitimat RCMP have confirmed three people died at the scene on Friday when their car veered into the path of an oncoming transport truck on Highway 37 between Terrace and Kitimat.