French Immersion

French Immersion in Chinook’s Edge takes our students through to grade 12 at schools in Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Olds. After extensive consultation with parents and teachers, a full program has been developed that outlines French Immersion content from kindergarten to grade 12 and allows students the opportunity to graduate with a Bilingual Certificate.

French Immersion programming reaches milestone - September 13, 2010

Ten years after Chinook’s Edge began offering French Immersion, two communities have reached new programming levels. Sylvan Lake pioneered the program at École Steffie Woima School in September 2000, and this year that first class of students has reached high school at H. J. Cody. Further south, the first grade of French Immersion students in Olds has moved up to middle school at Deer Meadow. The program is also offered in Innisfail and, in all three communities, French Immersion is flourishing.

“Our schools started from scratch and have developed a really great program,” said Dr. Shauna Craven, a medical doctor whose three daughters are French Immersion students in Olds. “This program has really grown in Olds and I think it’s because it has been such a positive experience for the whole school. The staff has directed a great deal of time and energy into promoting the culture as well as the language. They host a Winter Carnival and other activities that include all kids and families. It has become a multi-cultural school community.”  (more)

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Fun with French Immersion
Innisfail’s French Immersion team from Ecole John Wilson Elementary
and Ecole Innisfail Middle School shared a special community
event earlier this year. Guests played traditional French
games and tasted some French cooking, while meeting some of
the students, teachers and staff who are involved in
French Immersion programming in Chinook’s Edge.

 

 

 

 
 

 

Bilingual
McKenna Craven, who is part of the lead French Immersion
class at Ecole Deer Meadow School, was considered fully bilingual
as she began grade 5.