Forest Heights School

“We strive for HEIGHTS of excellence in all we do.”

“Wir streben nach den höchsten Leistungen in allem was wir tun. 

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.

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

Running Club (Running Room Games and Cross Country)

Soccer Intramurals

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 Kimmie.Chizawsky@northernalberta.ymca.ca

Yellow bus services is available to students attending the German Bilingual Program and from the Terrace Heights neighbourhood.  There are restrictions and guidelines with this service.  Please contact the school to see if you qualify.  There is a fee for this service.

Attendance Area Maps

Parent Guide to Yellow Bus

Forest Heights School has an excellent supervised lunch program.  Adult and student supervisors assist students with their lunch provided from home.  Students staying for lunch must pay a monthly fee or a drop in fee for this service. Students living in the Terrace Heights community, and ride the Yellow Bus to school, do not have to pay lunchroom supervision fees.  Terrace Heights families either pay yellow bus fees or lunchroom supervision fees.

Our parents make up two groups in the school; Forest Heights School Council and the Friends of Forest Heights Society (FoFHS).  The FoFHS financially supports school wide activities.  They purchase and supply a Daily Organizer for each student (Gr 1-6).  The Friends of Forest Heights Society runs a casino every 18 months.  With these funds, FoFHS supports student field trips, presentations at assemblies, and a variety of other school functions.  Without the financial support of FOFH, the parents would bear the entire cost of these events.

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.

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

Student Leadership

Handbells

Choir

Lego Club

Games Club

Intramurals

Running Club

Pokeman Club

and many more school-wide activities such as Terry Fox Run, Jump Rope for Heart, Oktoberfest, Weihnachtsmarkt  (German Christmas Market), Socktober, Family Fun Nights (Community Christmas, Game Nights, Concerts, Movies, etc.).

A co-ordinated school wide effort to have all Forest Heights students who measurable growth in reading fluency and comprehension.

This will be accomplished primarily through the use of leveled reading materials and the implementation of guided reading and literacy centres.  Growth will be measured by a variety of diagnostic inventories as well as District and Alberta Learning Achievement Tests.

Die Kleine Kinderschule (DKK) is a German Playschool that leases space from Forest Heights School.  DKK is not part of Edmonton Public School Board, but many of the pre-school students continue their German Language Program at Forest Heights School.

For more information https://dkkplayschool.org/

For the 2023 - 2024 school year, Forest Heights School is full in planned classes in Grades 5 and 6 in the regular and German Bilingual program. We will now only accept resident students in Grades 5 and 6 who have newly moved into the school’s attendance area for the regular program. A resident student of Edmonton Public Schools has at least one parent or legal guardian living in Edmonton who is not Roman Catholic. Non-resident students can enrol in another Division school with space in planned classes.

We are still accepting Kindergarten registration for the 2023-2024 school year.  Here is the link for online registration.

At Forest Heights School, everyone in our school community has the right to learn and work in an environment that is respectful, safe, healthy, and focused on learning and success.  Our students have the right to be treated with dignity, respect, and fairness by other students, staff and visitors to the school.

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.

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.