You’ve likely been too busy to notice..  A school year is racing to a conclusion. Summer days invite us to all kinds of family activities.  Soccer season is here. The lawn needs mowing. Who could be blamed for not noticing [...]
My mom’s mocha cake was special, not just because it was sooo delicious, but also because she only made it on very special occasions, such as my dad’s birthday.  When that cake was brought to the table and the candles [...]
Challenge given: “You have been asked to submit a proposal for the design of the front entrance of the new school.  The school design committee would like the centre piece of the front entrance to be made of stained glass [...]
What are your deep hopes for your children?  More specifically, what do you hope for when, each day,  you send them off to Edmonton Christian Schools (West, Northeast or Senior High School)?  These are great questions because deep hopes are at [...]
Recently our teachers have been thinking about their deep hopes for the students that attend Edmonton Christian Schools. Â Many of these hopes, in one way or another, Â speak about our students being people who love God and love their neighbours. [...]
Planning a new building for the West school will be exciting work! Â This past week, a group of teachers, staff, Â administrators, architects and Edmonton Society for Christian Education employees took two days to tour some new and newly renovated school [...]
“One candle can light a thousand and is in no way diminished--but actually resurrects in a thousand ways.”  Ann Voskamp,  The Broken Way, Zondervan Press,  2016 One candle.  That’s what would have been on the cake at Willem Kees Huig [...]
 To make peace, one needs to know what peace is. Grade 3 at ECWS began exploring that.  I came across across this bulletin board outside their classroom.  The sign beside it said: After reading the book "What Does Peace [...]
