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Welcome to École Our Lady of the Prairies School                                                      

 
We Are Now Accepting Registration for the 2012-2013 School Year
Please Contact the School for a Personal Tour (780-481-0389)
 
Our School is a Dynamic and Innovative Place; Look What We Have To Offer:
 
French Immersion - K to 6 English Programming - K to 6 Early Learning Programs

Bussing Available in the following areas:                       Hamptons, Lewis Estates, Country Club, Westridge, Copperwood, Donsdale, Cameron Heights, Glastonbury, Gariepy, Oleskiw, Dechene, Ormsby, Thorncliffe, Aldergrove, Lymburn, Jamieson Place

Serving the following Areas:                                                 Gariepy, Oleskiw, Westridge and Callingwood

 

100 Voices (3 to 5 year olds)   

Kindergarten (French and English)

 

1 to 1 iPads - Grades 4 to 6

Challenge Based Learning

Reggio Emilia Inspired Learning

École Our Lady of the Prairies School is proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s most innovative learning spaces.  Each student in grades 4-6 engages the Alberta curriculum in a challenge-based learning environment that includes the use of their iPad throughout the day.  In our Pre-K through grade 3 classrooms iPads also are present in the classroom as learning centres.  We were one of Canada’s first schools to offer a 1:1 iPad instructional ecosystem to our students and are one of the country’s foremost examples of the use of the iPad as a tool to support instruction.  This year alone, many teacher-leaders and school principals from throughout central Alberta have visited the school to learn from the work we are doing in the school.  Our use of digital technologies in the school allow each student to engage in creating knowledge and in sharing their understandings through interactive blogs, multi-media movies, and other means of communication that they would not be able to experience in many schools.

 

École Our Lady of the Prairies School is proud to provide its students with an opportunity for its students to engage in their learning through project-based/challenge-based learning activities. These activities connect to the school’s four essential questions; How do we learn?”, “What can we create?”, “What does it mean to lead?”, and “How can I make a difference in the world as a child of God?” Through our Challenge-Based learning approach our students are provided with ongoing opportunities to put into action the core values of the school – inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection in all classes. 

In placing these core values in action teachers engage students in an ongoing process that begins with a big idea and cascades to the following: an essential question, a challenge, guiding questions, activities, resources, determining and articulating the solution, taking action by implementing the solution, reflection, assessment, and publishing.

Our 100 Voices (Pre-Kindergarten) and Kindergarten programs are based on the Reggio Emilia approachIn this environment learning is encouraged and developed through student-led investigations, using their diverse perspectives, learning styles, and interests as a guide to inquiry.  This approach also influences the instruction in our classrooms in grades 1-3.  As a support to the many modes of inquiry the students are engaged in, all of our classrooms from Pre-Kindergarten through grade 3 have in-class iPad learning centers and offer rich opportunities for the children in the classrooms to engage in exploration through digital multimedia and through the natural world around them.

*Please see our Reggio-Emilia information page for further details about the world-renowned Reggio-Emilia approach to learning.

 

 

 
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The Prairies Apple Store for Education is open!

The importance of digital technologies in the education of students at École Our Lady of the Prairies School has grown significantly this year and will continue to grow in the 2011-2012 academic year.  To provide our families with as many opportunities as possible to support our students in their work at home, we are pleased to announce a partnership with Apple that provides educational discounts on many of their products and many third-party devices and software through a special Online Apple Store accessible only to students and their immediate families of École Our Lady of the Prairies School.  Your username and password to access the Prairies Apple Store for Education have been sent to each home directly with your child.  Please protect the username and password and do not publicly share the information you need to access the store.  Remember your purchases will be delivered directly to the Canadian home address you provide.  You will need a Canadian credit card and shipping address to make a purchase at the Prairies Apple Store for Education.  Please click here to access the Prairies Apple Store for Education.

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@oloprairies

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École Our Lady of the Prairies Elementary School

17655-64 Avenue • Phone 780 481-0389

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All Times and dates on the website are subject to change.

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English and French Immersion Programs
K-6 French Immersion
To read more, click here.

K-6 English

Little Bethlehem Program  To read more, click here

100 Voices Program  To read more, click here


Announcements
May 14 - PAT - Grade 6 Francais Partie A

May 15 - PAT - Grade 3 English Part A

May 16 - PAT - Grade 6 English Part A

May 17 - PAT - Grade 3 Francais Partie A

May 21 - Victoria Day (No Classes)

May 28 - 29 - Grade 6 Camp (Camp Warwa)

May 31 - Kindergarten Orientation (No Kindergarten classes)

Registration Form for the 2012 - 2013 school year, click here

Remember to check the website once a week for latest information!

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