Bob Edwards School, Calgary, AB

- Our School Development plan focuses on reading comprehension, personalized learning, student engagement and academic achievement. Staff utilize a variety of current best practices and are dedicated to including principles of personalized learning and inquiry based learning into their practices.- We offer an excellent cafeteria menu and a quality intramural program during the lunch hour. We have a full complement of athletic programs/teams offered throughout the school year. Students can participate in an excellent Band and CTS/Fine Arts program.- Bob Edwards is a bus reciever school with students coming from many communities in the NE & S.E. quadrants of the city.- In order to support second language acquisition, Bob Edwards offers an opportunity for grade 6 students in its designated French Immersion communities to learn French through the use of Intensive French Strategies. This unique learning opportunity emphasizes learning French language skills through a variety of strategies. Students begin the program with little or no knowledge of French; instructional practices are based on literacy with an emphasis on the language competencies of listening and speaking.