For over 20 years, the board has presented Citizenship Awards to chosen students in Grades 6, 9 and 12, based on the criteria in Administrative Procedure 20-18 PHPS Citizenship Awards. At their September 12 meeting, the board discussed revising the criteria for the award, including eliminating the academic requirement. Instead of one award winner per year, […]

Last year, principals and senior administration reviewed the language used in report cards to describe student achievement. The discussion came as a result of some misunderstanding of the word “Acceptable”. Parents might interpret “Acceptable” to mean that everything is okay and there are no concerns. However, by the definition used, it can mean that things […]

Alberta Health Services has made changes to the School Immunization Program that will take effect in the 2018-19 school year. Important messages for parents include: In the 2018-19 school year, public health nurses will be reviewing the immunization records of all Alberta students from Grades 1 to 9 to assess immunization status. You will be […]

At the August 30th board meeting, Assistant Superintendent of Education Services Mark Thiesen provided an update on international travel conditions. The report comes as a result of an October 2016 motion, suspending authorization of international field trips to all of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia for two full school years, until August 2018. Following […]

At their August 30th meeting, the PHPS Board of Trustees chose Jennifer Tuininga to serve as Chair and Wendy Scincki to serve as Vice chair for the 2018-19 school year. Tuninga has served as Board chair since August 2015 and is in her second term as a trustee. As Board chair, Tuininga will preside over all board meetings, […]

This year our students go back to school after the Labour Day long weekend. So why don’t we always start after Labour Day? Some years our students go back in late August — why is that? Why can’t it be consistent? We asked Assistant Superintendent Mark Thiesen to shed some light on these questions. Here’s […]