W O Mitchell is in Silver Springs. It's currently undersubscribed as is the other elementary in the community. The CBE has recently announced that WOM will be running a Spanish bilingual program from 2014-15 as well as its regular program so that numbers improve and they don't have to close.
http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b257/default.htm

This letter might help a bit http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b257/pdf/Ki...ion_letter.pdf

They have an out of school club called summit kids if you require such a facility.

I haven't heard anything bad about WOM or the other elementary in Silver Springs and hope to send my kids to one of these in the future.

Also some interesting background and projections on the Tuscany school issue: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/Schools/ceop/pp...ngOct%2018.pdf

P.s. you need three posts to do private messaging.

Hi Geordie Lass

Can you pass any info / thoughts to me (if you don't mind) as I'm in the same position for my kids starting in Sept this year in NW Calgary

Thanks

Hi, I can't add anything useful but wanted to say thanks to the posters in this thread. We have a baby son, and I now realise just how difficult it will be to try and get him into a good school.

Luckily we'll be renting at least until he starts kindergarten so we're flexible on being able to move. But it's good to have read some of the admissions processes into the charter schools. Are these the best schools? Just on first appraisal I'd like him to go to CSS!

Thank you everybody for your responses I will definitely look into some of the suggestions that has been made.

I read the PDF - interesting how different school districts/provinces run things. There really is no "Canadian" schooling system.

Just move to Ottawa

Yep sure - will PM you.

Hmmmm.....Inquiry based learning. If the You Tube video on the CBE website is anything to go by, I'm a little bit sceptical. I especially liked the clasroom diagram which seemed to go from order to chaos. Or the quote that "children become teachers; teachers become learners". IBL seems more suited to adult learning than child learning.

I guess the alternative would be the Traditional Learning Centre program.
http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/Choices/prog-tlc.asp

It seems pretty popular but there are only a few of these. Oo and they wear school uniform too.

That's interesting. Thanks for flagging it.

One of my children is at High School doing the pre IB course in the "regular" programme. Apparently in his classes there are some children in the TLC programme - they wear uniform but only on some days. Mixing up non uniformed students with uniformed who then only wear it on "formal" days does seem a rather strange arrangement.

Thanks for this info. I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens. I guess I'm probably in a different situation then most on here as I know my son will only be doing 2 years in a Canadian school and then we will be back in the uk!

I guess I will have to right more posts if I want to PM people then lol

That does seem really weird.

But then I'm not one for traditional learning either

If you want him to go to Calgary Science School then you need to be on top of applying as soon as you are allowed. We applied as soon as we got here, one term into KG. We didn't get a grade 4 place and I think were quite back on the wait list.

PS. I think that is completely untrue. Think there are loads of good schools and a lot of older areas will have good schools and take out of area kids

BTW. Have heard good things about WOM, people I know rate it and rate the Principal. The school my child is at is great and swimming in money for extra programming (not found in catholic schools, or larger CBE schools)