Welcoming, caring, accepting, supportive—these are just some of the words students use to describe the Barrhead Outreach School. Teacher Joanne Wallace has been working with students at Barrhead Outreach since 2011 and has helped many of them graduate. Along with program assistants Jane Chapman and Jackie Balzer, the team works with students to ensure they […]

Vista Virtual School (VVS) is one of about 30 online schools in the province of Alberta. Its 30+ teachers provide instruction to almost 500 full-time students and roughly 10,000 part-time registrants making it the largest online school in Alberta. The Pembina Hills School Division Board of Trustees opened Vista Virtual School in 1996 to address […]

People who have lived in the area for a while probably know of the big glass building at the north end of Barrhead as the Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC). Many people still think of it as the “correspondence school.” Pembina Hills staff may think of it as the building where they attended meetings and […]