Tag: Longview School

  • Foothills School Division: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples

    Foothills School Division: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples

    By Darlene Cox, FNMI Success Connector, Oilfields School/Longview School Tuesday, June 21 is National Aboriginal Day in Canada. This is the day then Governor General of Canada, Roméo Leblanc designated 20 years ago to recognize and celebrate Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit culture and their outstanding contributions. First, I would like to share some information on…

  • 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…

  • High Country Wrestling Week

    High Country Wrestling Week

    Four schools in the High Country – Millarville, Turner Valley, C. Ian McLaren and Longview – participated in wrestling clinics and a mini-tourney April 5-7. Thanks to financial support from the Black Diamond Amateur Wrestling Association, students worked with wrestling coaches Kelly Delany and Andy Ross. Schools then gathered at C. Ian McLaren on April…

  • FSD: Longview School Education Plans

    FSD: Longview School Education Plans

      Principal Chet Musgrove reviewed the school’s three key goals: Literacy and Numeracy: Both skills are essential for a student’s long term academic success. Utilizing a variety of strategies, tools and data sources, there has been tremendous improvement and growth among students in the first four months of the school year. Chet commended his staff…

  • Longview Library News: Special Programs Coming In June

    Longview Library News: Special Programs Coming In June

    [break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break][break] Submitted By Sylvia Binkley. Joan, our librarian, has some very special programs coming up for the children of the Longview School.  The first will be on the 2nd of June and will be for those in kindergarten. On June 9th there will be one for Grades 5 and 6, and on June 10 the…

  • Six for Six from Fore!

    Six for Six from Fore!

    The Turner Valley Charity Golf Classic held last summer in conjunction with the RCMP Turner Valley Detachment has made presentations totalling $6,000 to six schools in our area. The $1,000 cheques were presented to: Chief Jacob Bearspaw Memorial School towards the new iPads for graduating students to use C. Ian McLaren School towards a Yamaha…

  • Longview School News ~ Longview Eagle

    Longview School News ~ Longview Eagle

    The Eagles’ Nest Brave is something you have to be to fly high in the sky, to search for mice in tunnels wide, Strong is something you want to be to lift fish up to 50 pounds, to circle and dive to catch your prey. That deserves a gift. Men and women work hard to…

  • High Country Learning Commons

    High Country Learning Commons

    FSD’s 18 Learning Commons Facilitators gathered on September 30th for their first professional development session of the 2014-15 school year. The highlight was a tour of all High Country Learning Commons including Longview, C. Ian McLaren, Oilfields, Turner Valley and Millarville as well as Red Deer Lake and Heritage Heights schools. The purpose was to…

  • FSD High Country Schools to Honour Veterans

    Our local schools will hold Assemblies of Remembrance on Friday, November 7th. Turner Valley School and Oilfields High School will gather at 10am; Millarville Community School will hold their assembly at 10:30am; Longview School will welcome Gordon Day as guest speaker and their assembly will begin at 1:30pm and C. Ian McLaren’s assembly will be…

  • Terry Fox Run at Longview School

    Terry Fox Run at Longview School

    [break] By Debbie Graham We did it different and yes it was great! This year Miss. Christensen was in charge of the Terry Fox event at our school. Instead of climbing the Longview Hill which has been a long standing tradition at our school Miss. Christensen approached the students about doing something different. First they…