Tag: Education

  • Foothills Schools Offer Affordable Live Theatre Experience

    Foothills Schools Offer Affordable Live Theatre Experience

      Oilfields High School Drama Presents Peter Pan! Enjoy the magical story of Neverland. Meet Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and Captain Hook through the eyes of the Darling children as they journey to the land where you never grow old! December 1st to 4th in the OHS theatre. Matinees 10:30am every day and evenings December 3rd and…

  • Oilfields High School Implements Flexible Learning

    Oilfields High School Implements Flexible Learning

      Last June Oilfields High announced changes to the bell schedule to accommodate a more flexible learning environment. This project was put forth by Alberta Education’s Moving Forward with High School Redesign. What does this mean for students? Flexible learning environments offer students choices about their schedules, so that pursuit of extra-curricular activities is recognized as…

  • Oilfields High: Career Convention Today

    Oilfields High: Career Convention Today

    Today, November 17th, between 4 – 7pm at OHS – We are holding a career convention in conjunction with Bow Valley College and Foothills Continuing Education. We will be having guests from other agencies as well. The Career Convention is open to all grade 11s, 12s and their families as well as graduates from 2014…

  • Tax to Fight Parental Choice in Education must be Investigated: Wildrose

    Tax to Fight Parental Choice in Education must be Investigated: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB: Education Minister David Eggen must investigate why families are being taxed to pay for litigation challenges against expanding parental choice and increasing the presence of separate school districts across the province, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. In May, the Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta (PSBAA) unanimously passed a motion to…

  • Province Honours Child Development Professionals

    Ten caring and committed professionals were celebrated at the 2015 Child Development Professional Awards of Excellence. Selected from over 120 nominees, award recipients were recognized for the significant role they play in young children’s lives. Nominees work in child care, early childhood development programs and services, and in Parent Link Centres. “Our government understands quality…

  • Turner Valley School News: Welcome to November!

    Turner Valley School News: Welcome to November!

    Can you believe fall has all but disappeared and winter is knocking at our door? As we go through this change please remind your little ones to dress appropriately for the weather and to watch for ice. The students and staff at Turner Valley School continue to work hard to achieve outstanding educational outcomes. It is…

  • Turner Valley Students Hold Unique Fundraiser for Legacy Park

    Turner Valley Students Hold Unique Fundraiser for Legacy Park

      Elijah (Grade 2) and Ikey (Grade 1) wanted to find a way to raise money for the new school playground. With the help of mom and dad, they will be selling growth charts at $35 each. For each growth chart sold $10 will be donated to legacy park. Perfect timing for the holidays. These…

  • MCS Principal’s Message: Working Together for Improvement

    MCS Principal’s Message: Working Together for Improvement

    Welcome back from your weekend (or week-long) of Halloween fun! We hope your little goblins and ghouls had a great time! Last week, Ms. Davis and I met with the rest of the Foothills School Division’s administration, executive team and board members to collaboratively look at our data results from last year. One of my…

  • From the Teacher’s Desk: Building an Inner Citadel

    By Leonard Quilty If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry That’s how I see my job as an educator. To somehow spark in…

  • Emerald Awards Celebrate Silver Anniversary

    Emerald Awards Celebrate Silver Anniversary

      Alberta Emerald Foundation opens nominations for prestigious environmental award EDMONTON, AB – “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking,” said Albert Einstein. “It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” For the past 25 years, the Alberta Emerald Foundation has embodied a similar concept as Einstein’s as their…

  • What’s Happening at Oilfields: November 2015

    What’s Happening at Oilfields: November 2015

      Food Bank Donations The Student Council in connection with WE Day is taking on a local initiative to bring in food for the food bank. We encourage students to bring non-perishable food items to school and put them in the box in the front entrance/foyer. We will have a 2 week blitz of collecting…

  • ALES Receives Gift of Unique Cattle Herd

    ALES Receives Gift of Unique Cattle Herd

      By Michel Proulx Retired Senator Dan Hays and wife Kathy are gifting their herd of Hays Converters, developed by his father Harry Hays. They are also making a major donation to maintain and care for the herd, which will be housed at ALES’ Roy Berg Kinsella Research Station. The Faculty of ALES’ world-leading livestock…

  • Canadian researchers discover fossils of first feathered dinosaurs from North America

    Canadian researchers discover fossils of first feathered dinosaurs from North America

    Significant find provides clues on early wing uses The ostrich-like dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie were portrayed as a herd of scaly, fleet-footed animals being chased by a ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex. New research published in the prestigious journal Science reveals this depiction of these bird-mimic dinosaurs is not entirely accurate — the ornithomimids,…

  • Alberta Government Reinstates and Expands Student Employment Program

    Alberta Government Reinstates and Expands Student Employment Program

    Students will soon be able to access more job opportunities as government brings back the Summer Temporary Employment Program (STEP). The program will support employers by providing wage subsidies for more than 3,000 student positions starting in summer 2016. STEP will help students gain valuable work experience while helping small businesses and other employers access…

  • Oilfields Student Sell Cookie Dough as Fundraiser

    Oilfields Student Sell Cookie Dough as Fundraiser

      The OHS Travel Club are doing a Cookie Dough Telethon on Monday, November 9th. If there is anyone interested in purchasing cookie dough, please let one of the travel club students know or the front office so we can send that information along. There is a variety of different flavors and there are sugar free,…