Tag: Education

  • Turner Valley School News: Wrapping Up Another Year

    Turner Valley School News: Wrapping Up Another Year

    Believe it or not, the end of another school year is clearly on the horizon. A glance at the school calendar will confirm, June is easily among the busiest months of any school’s year. In the space of the next 4 weeks courses wrap up, year-end exams are completed and marked, awards celebrated, field trips enjoyed/survived…

  • Solution Needed for Alberta Schools Shortchanged by Feds on Funding for Student Refugees: Wildrose

    Solution Needed for Alberta Schools Shortchanged by Feds on Funding for Student Refugees: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB): Both the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) and the Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) received confirmation today from federal bureaucrats that no funding will be provided for the influx of Syrian refugees in the two school systems, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. In March of this year both the CBE and the EPSB…

  • Alberta’s EcoHeroes Recognized at 25th Annual Emerald Awards Celebration

    Alberta’s EcoHeroes Recognized at 25th Annual Emerald Awards Celebration

    CALGARY, ALBERTA – On June 8, environmental leaders from across the province gathered at Calgary’s Telus Spark for the announcement of the 25th Annual Emerald Awards. Presented by the Alberta Emerald Foundation (AEF), the uniquely-Albertan award recognizes and celebrates environmental excellence in 12 cross-sectoral categories. Earlier this year, the AEF received 70 nominations for the prestigious awards.…

  • Grade 5 Students Become Environment “Minister for the Day” at Legislature

    Grade 5 Students Become Environment “Minister for the Day” at Legislature

    Twelve Grade 5 students from across Alberta came together to talk environment and get a taste of being Minister for the Day. During the day these “mini-ministers” toured the Legislature and discussed their ideas for environmental protection and sustainable development in a mock news conference with Environment Minister Shannon Phillips. The Minister for the Day…

  • Students Support Climate Leadership in Alberta Schools

    Students Support Climate Leadership in Alberta Schools

    Six high school students representing 3,000 youth share their ideas for how Alberta schools should support climate leadership shown by the provincial government. Today, a representative group of student authors presented a white paper to Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips and Education Minister David Eggen. It includes recommendations in four key areas: curriculum, student…

  • Reunion of Old Turner Valley Junior & Senior High Schools

    Reunion of Old Turner Valley Junior & Senior High Schools

    Welcome Alumni of the Turner Valley Junior and Senior High Schools from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Joyce (Compton) Berkholtz is organizing this year’s reunion to be held in Turner Valley on Saturday, September 10th and Sunday, September 11th, 2016. Dinner will be on Saturday, September 10th, 6:00pm at the Legion in Turner Valley. For…

  • Cochrane Youth Charged After Posting Threatening Content on Social Media

    Cochrane Youth Charged After Posting Threatening Content on Social Media

    Cochrane, AB – A local high school student faces one count of Uttering Threats, as the result of an RCMP investigation into threatening content posted on the social media platform “snapchat’”. On Friday, June 4th the RCMP received a complaint that the 15 year-old accused had posted a picture of himself with some gun ammunition, accompanied by…

  • There’s a Goose on the Loose!

    There’s a Goose on the Loose!

    By Andrea Ranson Mount Royal University is home to a gaggle of beautiful Canada geese Over coming weeks, the University community will be able to enjoy watching a handful of geese parading around the pond for the goslings’ first dip. The parent geese will remain protective of their babies until the goslings learn to fly…

  • Sheldon Kennedy Graduates Inaugural Mount Royal Program

    Sheldon Kennedy Graduates Inaugural Mount Royal Program

    Sheldon Kennedy received his Bachelor of Child Studies from Mount Royal University today. His class is the first to graduate from this new program.

  • Chance meeting on Banff ski trip sets in motion promising new multiple sclerosis therapies

    Chance meeting on Banff ski trip sets in motion promising new multiple sclerosis therapies

    Hotchkiss trainees’ collaborative study finds new approach to repairing damaged nerve cells By Kristy Cross A Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) trainee looking for the next big discovery in multiple sclerosis (MS) research got a surprise break while on a ski trip to Banff with some new friends — unveiling a new approach to repair damaged nerve…

  • C Ian McLaren School: Hats for MAC

    C Ian McLaren School: Hats for MAC

    It all started with a student in C. Ian McLaren School’s kindergarten class, Hayes Thomson, who thought it would be a good idea if his school did something to help the people of Fort McMurray. He brought his idea to his teacher Sherisse Dawe and on Friday, May 13, students who donated $2 were able…

  • Foothills School Division: New Office on Track for Completion

    Foothills School Division: New Office on Track for Completion

    The second floor of the new three-story Alberta Government Building, in which FSD will lease space, will be poured during the week of May 9th. The superstructure is expected to be completed by the end of June, on track for completion and move-in by January 2017.

  • C Ian McLaren Students Win Legion Award

    C Ian McLaren Students Win Legion Award

    Kiana Milne and Fletcher Zabek, grade 4 students at C. Ian McLaren School participated in the Turner Valley Legion Remembrance Day Essay Contest, and placed second and fourth respectively in the Div. 2 category! Wonderful achievement, especially when you consider that it was their first time writing an essay for a contest! Several other students…

  • Building for Good

    Building for Good

    Kudos to Ryan King, a grade 11 student at École Secondaire Highwood High School for designing and building an amazing lemonade stand for Spitzee Elementary School student Tate Barton. Since losing his mother to cancer in 2013, Tate has set up a lemonade stand at High River’s Little Britches Parade on the May long weekend,…

  • Oilfields High Presents “Big Bad Musical”

    Oilfields High Presents “Big Bad Musical”

    May 31-June 2, 2016 Matinees: 10 am ($2), every day Evenings:  7 pm ($5), June 1 & 2 The notorious Big Bad Wolf is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by storybooks of quirky characters who want to get even: Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in charge of…