epsbLogo

search icon


  • 2024-2025 Student Registration

    2024-2025 Student Registration

    Did you miss our Open House?  Here is the handout Welcome to Kindergarten 2024-2025.  You may also view our video presentation.

    In order to start Kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year, your child must turn 5 years of age on or before December 31, 2024.

    If you are registering for Kindergarten for 2024-2025 use this link: https://epsb.ca/schools/register/kindergartenregistration/.

    New to Edmonton Public Schools? You may register here: https://epsb.ca/schools/register/newstudentregistration/

     

     

    read more ›

  • Forest Heights School

    Forest Heights School

    At Forest Heights, we are committed to encouraging and supporting students as partners in their learning and as active participants in the school community.  We develop learners who realize that their effort is the greatest factor to achieving their goals.  We facilitate this by analyzing student work to determine next steps in learning and to ensure students are receiving the instruction that will lead to their success.  As we make students part of this process by sharing with them the goals of the learning, they become more engaged in the monitoring of their growth.  The students then become key in sharing their growth with their families.  Our purpose is to help them understand themselves as learners so they can use this knowledge to learn, achieve and growth to their full potential.  Through class work, school wide programs, student council and a variety of special events and activities, students have the opportunity to see themselves as active members of our community.  All members of the school community contribute to the safe, caring and welcoming environment of the school.

    read more ›

  • Regular Program (FSL in grade 4)

    Regular Program (FSL in grade 4)

    Forest Heights offers regular English programming with French as a Second Language starting in grade 4.

    read more ›

  • Athletics & Intramurals

    Athletics & Intramurals

    Running Club (Running Room Games and Cross Country)

    Soccer Intramurals

    read more ›

  • YMCA Before & After School Child Care

    YMCA Before & After School Child Care

    Forest Heights School leases classroom space to the YMCA Before & After School care.  The YMCA works closely with the school. Inquiries can be made at 780-461-6211.

    Check to see if the YMCA has spaces available for the 2023-2024 school year.  Call today or contact  Ms. Merton at dora.merton@ymcanab.ca.

    read more ›

  • Transportation

    Transportation

    2025 - 2026 Deadline to apply for new Yellow Bus Service is Friday, May 30, 2025.

    You may still apply after May 30, but bus service will not start on the first day of school. Yellow bus service is available to students attending the German Bilingual Program and from the Terrace Heights neighbourhood.  There are restrictions and guidelines with this service. There is a monthly fee for this service.  Please contact the school to see if you qualify.  

    Attendance Area Maps

    Parent Guide to Yellow Bus

     

    read more ›

  • Community

    Community

    We would like to acknowledge the following community members who have helped to foster the growth and success of our students.

    Alberta Education International Education Services

    Alberta Health Services (AHS)

    Association for English-German Bilingual Education (AEGBEE)

    Die Kleine Kinderschule German Playschool (DKK)

    Edmonton Public Library (EPL)

    Everything Deutsch (German books and resources)

    Forest Terrace Heights Community League

    Parent Volunteers

    Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area (BCBbigs) with McNally School

    and the YMCA.

    read more ›

  • German Bilingual Program

    German Bilingual Program

    Forest Heights is one of the three elementary schools in Edmonton that offers the German Bilingual Program.  Fifty percent of the instruction is conducted in German.  The last entry point for this program, with no German background, is grade one.  Students wishing to enter the program after grade one must have basic German and go through an interview process.

    German Bilingual Program Description

     

     

    read more ›

  • Clubs & Activities

    Clubs & Activities

    Student Leadership

    Handbells

    Choir

    Lego Club

    Knitting Club

    Intramurals

    Cross Country and Indoor Games Running Club

    Pokeman Club

    and many more school-wide activities such as Terry Fox Run, Jump Rope for Heart, Oktoberfest, Socktober, Community Winterfest, Game Nights.

    read more ›

  • School Hours

    School Hours

    2024-2025 School Hours - designated entry and exit doors

    Grades 1-6

    School yard assembly 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. (supervision on southside of school - playground side)

    Students assembly and classes begin 8:35 a.m.

    Lunch Hour 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

    Students assembly and classes begin 12:35 - 3:26 p.m.

    Thursday early dismissal at 2:20 p.m.

    Kindergarten

    School yard supervision 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. (supervision on southside of school - playground side)

    Students assembly and classes begin 8:35 a.m. - 11:31 a.m.

    Recess

    Morning Recess:  10:10 - 10:25 a.m.

    Afternoon Recess:  2:05 - 2:20 p.m. (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)

     

    read more ›

  • School Philosophy

    School Philosophy

    SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY

    We believe:

    • That students achieve their goals through effort.
    • That problem solving and looking at situations from the other's point of view are the heart of positive behaviour.
    • In contributing to groups beyond the walls of our school.

     

     

    read more ›

  • Volunteering

    Volunteering

    Parent volunteers are a welcome and essential part of our school community.  At the beginning of each school year, volunteers are asked to complete a Volunteer Registration Form, agreeing with the guidelines and conditions set out by the division.

    read more ›

  • Kindergarten Information and Students New to EPSB Registration 2025-2026

    Kindergarten Information and Students New to EPSB Registration 2025-2026

    Student Registration for 2025-2026.

    Pre-Enrolment opens on Monday, February 3, 2025.  The Registration Link will be posted prior to Monday, Feb 3, 2025.

    To be eligible for Kindergarten for the 2025-2026 school year, your child must turn 5 years of age on or before December 31, 2025.

    read more ›

  • School Profile

    School Profile

    We work with families and community partners to provide safe, caring, healthy, diverse, inclusive and equitable experiences that engage students to achieve their full potential in an increasingly interdependent world.

     

     

    read more ›


Principal's Message

Welcome to Forest Heights School

I am both honored and grateful to serve as the new Principal of this amazing school and be a partner with this wonderful Forest Heights community.  Forest Heights School has a wonderful reputation and a long standing legacy of a school that is committed to excellence where student learners are challenged, supported, encouraged to be risk takers, and to always put their best foot forward in their journey to become successful and well rounded individuals that will serve our community at large.

Everything that we do at Forest Heights is through the foundation of family, collaboration, and the perseverance to provide the best educational experience to our students.  As a family we look to our staff, parents and community to work together to create a strong sense of belonging, inspiration, inquisitiveness, and residency for our students to be able to understand their world better and to surpass their dreams and potential. 

Whether your child is in our Regular or German Bilingual program, our aim is to support our students to become compassionate, articulate and seekers of knowledge and wonder.  We honor and pay respect to the land that we are on while recognizing that it is our duty to always do better for those that came before us and those that will come after us.  As a school team at Forest Heights, it is our goal to create an inclusive, vibrant and nurturing environment that fosters creativity, celebrates diversity and encourages independence.

As your Principal, I look forward to establishing a positive and strong working relationship with you.  I believe that through the foundation of “Love, Hope, Support, and Trust” our students will be able to continue to be successful in their academic journey with an appreciation and skill  set to become the best that they can be.

Yours in Partnership,

Francisco Gaviria

Principal

 

2024-2025 Student Registration

Did you miss our Open House?  Here is the handout Welcome to Kindergarten 2024-2025.  You may also view our video presentation.

In order to start Kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year, your child must turn 5 years of age on or before December 31, 2024.

If you are registering for Kindergarten for 2024-2025 use this link: https://epsb.ca/schools/register/kindergartenregistration/.

New to Edmonton Public Schools? You may register here: https://epsb.ca/schools/register/newstudentregistration/