In Ranch Skills, we learned how to cut up a rotissarie chicken into the different cuts of meat.

In Ranch Skills, we learned about the different parts of a goat and tried our best to label them.

The Jr. High girls had their second game of the season this week!

Biological Diversity

Playing Predator and Prey to reinforce adaptations animals go through in order to survive their environment.

Charter Option

Students completed some special projects that needed to be completed around the barnyard.

Imaginary Species

Students created an imaginary species, decided how it adapted to survive in an assigned environment and then presented to the class.

The Grade 7's and the Grade 9's did gym togther on Friday with a variety of dodgeball games.

The Ranch Skills kids took the goats and Jackson out for a well needed brain break.

In Ranch Skills, we talked about the by-products of animals and sorted different products into which animal we thought they belonged with.

In Ranch Skills, we learned about the different type of injections that you can do on an animal and practiced it on our hotdog bun.

We did our learning in the Greenhouse while we talked about farming and the urban expansion after WWII.

In Wellness, we talked about the importance of Farm to Table is and how important it is to society.

CIDRS Insertion

Students watched as CIDRS were inserted into the sheep. CIDRS is a device that is used to control breeding schedules.

2 of our Grade 9's came out to the LDAA Golf Tournament in Wetaskiwin. They played their hearts out in the cold weather.

In Ranch Skills, we learned how to evaluate animals and then had an auction. Some students even tried their hand at auctioneering.

Novel Study - Refugee by Alan Gratz

It was wonderful day, with beautiful weather, to get out and do some reading in the barnyard.

Power of Perspective

Students began an activity in which they chose a spot in the barnyard to draw a picture of what they saw from that vantage point. They will then describe what they saw in writing. Students will then switch spots with a partner, draw and write about that new vantage point. They will then compare drawings/writings and see how similar or different their individual perspectives were.

Field Sports

The weather has been cooperating nicely with our outdoor options. In the Field Sports option, students switched from Flag Football to Slow Pitch. 

In Social, we learned about all the different groupsw of people that migrated to Canada and why they would want to leave their country.

We went to the driving range for golf practice and a few 9's came out to practice.

We took our learning outside to change the environment and learnt in the trees.

Paragraph Writing

Students worked on writing a strong paragraph about the biological diversity observations they made.

Biological Diversity

Students made observations to learn more about the biological diversity around the school.

Welcome to the 2026/27 school year!

Chores

Grade 9 students have been doing chores until Mrs. Besler has completed interviews and jobs have been filled.

Tower Building

Junior High students were in their Herds, competing to see who could build the tallest, sturdiest tower.

Teamwork

Students worked together to problem solve and be the first group to create a mystery puzzle.