Starting with beautiful pictures, students from 3 PRPS schools worked with seniors in their communities, sometimes at care facilities, to write stories. The story of this BRAND NEW Prairie Rose Possibilities project is sure to warm your heart!

District Instructional Lead Kelli-Ann Nixdorf has helped each group publish a book of the stories - Foremost High School, Senator Gershaw grade 9s, Eagle Butte High School grade 11s - they are now all published authors!

Here’s another new Prairie Rose Possibilities Project focusing on Robotics. Lead teacher Jeff Buckle introduces our newest Possibilities project for students in grades 4-6 as they gear up to kick off next school year.

Margaret Wooding is a grade 4-6 school located in Redcliff, Alberta with about 170 students.

Listen in as we check in with Wade Carrier, one of the Ralston teachers involved in Ralston School’s Learning from the Land project. Students are learning about plants - from a brand new greenhouse to a community garden to field trips to unique Southern Alberta locations. 

So much to learn for the Ralston students - most are new to the Prairies!

Listen to earlier updates at 1.07  and 2.05 and 3.05

Teacher leader and coach,  Jaime Didychuk from Warren Peers School in Acadia Valley, tells about taking students to Archery Nationals for the first time and about how the skills necessary for competition also grow student archers in so many other ways.

Listen in to previous episodes at 1.14 and  2.11 and 3.11 and 4.03.

Principal Jason Duchscherer updates us on projects and skills for students as part of the Quad-School project around Agriculture in the northern part of our district. Schools are located in and around Oyen, Alberta: Oyen Public School, South Central High School, and Warren Peers School from Acadia Valley and New Brigden School

Listen in to previous episodes at 1.05 and  2.02,  3.07 and 4.12.

 Listen in as Foremost principal Corey Steeves outlines successes, iterations and how the soon-to-arrive greenhouse kit will bring growth to the  Foremost FARM (Foremost Agriculture Resource Model) project. 

Listen in to previous episodes 1.03  and at 2.08,  3.12 and 4.05

We catch up with Warren Peers School Maker Space teacher leader Kirsten McCurdy. We talk about how the maker mindset is impacting learning in other subjects and the quest to find meaningful projects.

Warren Peers is a district leader for participation in the Alberta Skills Challenge opportunities and Kirsten explains how other schools can get involved.

Listen to past Makerspace updates at ⁠1.13 ,  2.01⁠ and ⁠3.04 and 4.01.

Check out this brand new Possibilities project led by Ralston School Science teacher, Jocelyn Encinas.  She explains how using VEX robotics across the grades at Ralston will eventually lead to robotics programs at other schools.

Ralston School is a K-9 school in Prairie Rose Public Schools with approximately 70 students from the families stationed at Canadian Forces Base Suffield.

Teacher-leader Lynnette Copeland tells how the Outdoor Leadership program in Junior High at Seven Persons School has evolved over the seasons.  She explains how leadership skills gained in this course benefit the school community as students show informal leadership and take on leadership roles within the school and beyond into the community. 

Listen to previous episodes at 1.15, 2.16, and 4.08.

Learn more about REIN - Rodeo and Equine in the North - one of our multi-school Prairie Rose Possibilities in the North with students from Warren Peers School, Oyen Public and South Central High School.

Third-year student Cade Wilson updates us on the variety of skills that students and their horses have learned over 3 years in the program.

Listen in to previous episodes at 1.11 and  2.03 and 3.10 and 4.07