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Elboya@cbe.ab.ca
Phone: (403)
777-7760
Fax: (403)
777-7769
School Hours: AM:
9:00
~
PM:
~
3:30
School Location
4804 - 6 Street S.W.
Calgary
,
AB
T2S 2N3
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Elboya School is a Kindergarten through Grade 9 school with a Grade 7-9 French Immersion Program (Late and Continuing) and a Grade 4-9 GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) Program. It is located in the southwest community of Elboya. The English K-9 program serves the communities of Elboya, Britannia, Bel-Aire, Windsor Park, Meadowlark Park and Mayfair. At Elboya School, the designated French Immersion feeder school is William Reid School. The Grade 7-9 French Immersion students come from the communities of Altadore, Bel-Aire, Britannia, Chinatown, Cliff Bungalow, Connaught, Downtown, Eau Claire, Elbow Park, Elboya, Erlton, Inglewood, Mount Royal, Manchester, Mayfair, Meadowlark Park, Mission, Parkhill, Ramsay, Richmond, Rideau Park, Roxboro, South Calgary, Southwood, Stanley Park, Victoria Park and Windsor Park. In September 2009, Elboya will have a Grade 4-9 GATE Program. Area IV students who have been identified by a psychoeducational assessment as gifted with an IQ about 130 may apply for the Gifted and Talented program.
About the School
The school was built in 1953 and is situated on 6.7 acres. The school has 28 classrooms including a music room, drama room, art room, 1 computer labs, library (with a class set of computers), science rooms, 2 gyms (one small and one larger), 2 creative playgrounds, 2 playing fields, elementary lunch program and a cafeteria. The school houses an English program, a Late Immersion and Continuing Immersion program, and a GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) Program.
About School Name
The school was named after the community that it serves.
School Mission
Mission:
Ecole Elboya School promotes a safe, secure and supportive community, which fosters lifelong learning and integrity, and recognizes the diversity of individuals thus enabling them to reach their full potential through Learning Excellence and Building Community.
Purpose:
Ecole Elboya Elementary/Junior High School, a Kindergarten to Grade 9 school, which draws from a variety of communities, offers a school-wide English Program, Grade 7 to 9 Continuing and Late French Immersion Programs and a Grade 4 Gate program. In 2007/8 Elboya will offer the GATE program in Grades 4, 5, and 7. In 2008/9 Elboya will add Grades 6 and 8 to the GATE program and in the 2009/2010 school year Elboya will offer the GATE program from Grades 4 through 9. Elboya also offers Spanish as a second language option. As an extension of the home/family environment, the school builds upon students' broad backgrounds and experiences to help them connect this learning to their school learning. High, consistent expectations are held for student effort, student success, and student leadership.
The best possible learning environment is one of cooperation and teamwork where there is caring, trust, and respect. This environment encourages risk taking within a dynamic, challenging climate which develops creativity, respects a variety of learning styles, builds a positive self-image, develops a love of learning, and recognizes that mistakes are a part of the learning process.
Lifelong learning requires personal ownership and responsibility for excellence through goal setting and decision making. Academic, artistic, environmental, musical, physical, technological, and thinking skills support such learning.
The education of our children is a shared mission involving parents, students, staff, and community. The needs of all are met in an open environment which recognizes gender issues and encourages optimism, a sense of belonging, and fairness. The relationship between the home and the school is a close partnership developed through shared philosophy, expertise, and an ethical perspective.
The guiding principles of Learning Excellence and Building Community are filters for our work together.
ECOLE ELBOYA SCHOOL HONOUR CODE - TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER, TAKE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY. One of the most distinctive features of the Elboya Community is the extraordinary degree to which students are responsible for themselves, each other and their community.
School Motto
" Learning & LeadingTogether."
The Elboya Falcon embracing the world symbolizes the encompassing and global nature of the quality education program at Elboya. Elboya's school colors are red and white on black or grey backgrounds.
Unique Points
Programme International
A community of trust (Honour Code)
Teaching and Learning are the top priority
A dynamic and challenging learning climate
Elementary & Junior High students work and learn together
Grade 8 Leadership work closely with the elementary children and plan intramurals
Proven Late & Continuing French Immersion Programs
FSL Instruction 4 - 8
Tutoring Support
English as a Second Language Program (Grades 1 - 9)
Award winning Band and Music Program
Outstanding Leadership Program
Strong Environmental & Outdoor Education Program
Innovative Technology Program with student access to networked computers and the Internet
Excellent library resources and facility to support learning
Elboya House System: Buzzards, Snowy Owls, Night Hawks, Ospreys
Lions-Quest School
Junior High Cafeteria and an Elementary Lunch Program
Specialists in Physical Education, Music, and French in the Elementary Program.
Student Enrolment
(September
2009
) Total Enrolment:
504
