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Elk Island Public Schools
Central Administration Building
683 Wye Road
Sherwood Park, Alberta
T8B 1N2
Phone: 780-464-EIPS (3477)
Fax: 780-417-8181
Toll Free: 1-800-905-3477
Note: All EIPS' staff email addresses use the following format: firstname.lastname@eips.ca
Office Hours:
Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
James Mowat Elementary (K-6)Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
James Mowat Elementary School is a K-6 school serving over 390 students each year from the westernmost part of Fort Saskatchewan. In addition to the regular elementary curriculum for grades 1 to 6, the school offers a comprehensive music program at all grade levels and intramurals from grades 3 to 6. Students attend ten class periods per day and each class is 30 minutes in length. French as a Second Language is taught in grades 4 to 6. The entire school participates in daily DEAR time (Drop Everything And Read).
A Positive Referral Program has been implemented to encourage and recognize outstanding achievement, attitude or citizenship. Our Character Education Program promotes and supports the Safe and Caring Schools concept in the following ways: monthly assemblies, positive referral program, virtue of the month, and citizenship projects.
A number of extracurricular activities are also in place throughout the school including a school choir, safety patrol, student council, intramurals, rocket club, track team, badminton team, tech club, chess club, and homework club.
A Caring School
Our mission as a learning community is to provide our students with the tools that will enable them to be Successful. We do this to recognize individual learning styles and equip students with the best strategies to Learn. We do this so that all our students achieve the skills and knowledge necessary to be Lifelong Learners.
We believe every student can achieve success.
Parents are always welcome and are encouraged to volunteer whenever they can.
Sandra Sorochan, Principal
Bryce Cumming, Assistant Principal
