Recently our teachers have been thinking about their deep hopes for the students that attend Edmonton Christian Schools. Many of these hopes, in one way or another, speak about our students being people who love God and love their neighbours. [...]
If you had a choice, what superpower would you have? Flight? Invisibility? Time travel? Breathing under water? That's fun to think about and it makes a great conversation starter at a dinner party. If dinner parties aren’t your thing, there [...]
What I can do, I will do. A will-do attitude is a way of living God’s story in a broken world. Because we believe it is still a God-with-us world, Edmonton Christian Schools instils a will-do attitude in students. But, [...]
Last week our schools observed Orange Shirt Day (as shown here in pictures from all three campuses). It was a day to honour indigenous people who survived Residential Schools and to remember those who didn’t. Wearing an orange shirt, especially in [...]
More than one televison show or movie has made us chuckle at a character who often takes things literally. Someone says to that character, “Hop to it,” and we laugh (or groan) as they leave the room, hopping like a [...]
Another school year. Another school theme: “ dig deep. cultivate community.” It’s pretty easy to read the words and then skip right to the next thing that vies for our attention. But moving on too quickly could leave some richness [...]
“What are you doing when you feel most beautiful/successful?” “What are your superpowers?” What did you really enjoy when you were 10 years old? Looking back at your life, 20 - 30 years from now, what do you want to [...]
A deep hope we have for Edmonton Christian students, is that when they come face to face with brokenness that they will rise to the occasion. In term two this year, the grade 5 classes were challenged to take an "expedition" [...]
Talking about watersheds and wetlands is an excellent part of the curriculum in Grade 5. Talking about basic chemistry and chemicals is too! But talking doesn’t always equal learning. Facts and data apart from the story we are in have [...]
Edmonton Christian Northeast School is exactly that -- it is a school. Schools are places to learn STUFF. But at Edmonton Christian, we believe that we have an amazing opportunity for the students not only to learn the STUFF of the [...]
