Volunteers are also always welcome.  Our community has changed significantly since the school opening in 1972, but one thing remains the same in all schools - children love to have adult attention and assistance. If you can volunteer even for an hour a week, please do not hesitate to call the office at 780-476-3331.

Our Parent Advisory Council is a huge help to all students.  All children reap enormous benefits from this dedicated group. We are always looking for parents to come and share ideas if you are interested.

1. Lunch

2. Breakfast and Daily Snacks

3. General Nutrition

LUNCH PROGRAM

Our school provides supervision during lunch and lunch recess on a regular or drop-in basis, as a service to parents.  Students are also allowed to go home for lunch, with parent permission.

Lunch fees cover the cost of our lunch supervisors, additional custodial services and equipment.  For example, all outdoor play equipment used during the noon hour, videos and games for rainy days, soap, paper towels and other supplies are paid for with the fees.  Students typically eat in their classrooms.

Students staying for lunch are expected to behave in a respectful, responsible manner.  Students who are not cooperative will be asked to eat their lunch with another class or they may be temporarily or permanently suspended from having lunch at school.

Students who are attending a scheduled extra curricular activity, who do not regularly stay for lunch, will pay the daily fee.

FEES:  $13/child/month                 or $2.00 per day

Breakfast and Daily Snacks

Evansdale school's breakfast program and afternoon snacks are such an important part of learning at our school.  Having students with full stomachs promotes a healthy attitude toward learning.  In order to provide a nutritious breakfast and snacks to our students, we are extremely thankful to e4c and Food For Thought Edmonton (McKesson Canada) for making this happen.  Without the help of these wonderful people and organizations our students would not be afforded every advantage to achieve at school.

Students are welcome to come between 8:10-8:25 to enjoy a healthy breakfast before school starts.  

Healthy snacks are available in the office throughout the day.

GENERAL NUTRITION

In the interest of promoting good nutrition and dental care, the consumption of candy, soft drinks, and “junk food” is not encouraged in the school or on the playground.  We encourage parents to support our efforts and not include such foods in students’ lunches.  We wish to help our students make wise choices in their selection of foods.  Your assistance in helping your child make healthy food choices and in supporting this focus on nutrition by not sending such foods would be most appreciated.

Each year, we have a number of children with severe allergies that may result in life-threatening conditions.  As a result, certain precautions may be taken in the classroom and specific school areas, including the identification of a classroom as “allergy friendly”.  Parents and students are expected to adhere to the guidelines laid out in these instances.

Evansdale houses a large in-school Pre-Kindergarten program to help support the diverse needs of the community. Pre-Kindergarten supports children with severe delays, aged 3 to 5 years.  Programming focuses on cognitive, self-help and social skills, speech and language, and motor develpment.  Parents and staff work together to support each child. Please contact Chris McNeill at the school for more information. 

Evansdale offers Behaviour and Learning Assistance classroom with programing available to students in grade 4 through grade 6.  This specialized program helps students to achieve academically and to develop and apply acceptable behaviour and social skills in the classroom, school, and community.

The regular program at Evansdale features the following classes; two kindergarten, two grade 1, two grade 2, a grade 3, grade 3/4, grade 4, grade 5, 5/6 and one grade 6 classroom. Our Arabic Bilingual Program is offered for grades 1, 2 and 3. Evansdale also offers two Behaviour Learning Assistance classrooms which help students to achieve academically and to develop and apply acceptable behavior and social skills in the classroom, school, and community.

All students receive specialized music instruction, and have access to a library learning commons that offers a wide variety of both regular and electronic resources to accommodate the many learning needs of our diverse school community including our many English Language Learners. A great deal of learning occurs in our classrooms through the use of guided questions, dialogue and problem solving.  Our teacher-Librarian supports staff in providing a collaborative setting in which students are encouraged to think more deeply as the discover more about the world around them.

Evansdale School is committed to supporting the literacy growth of our students. To this end we offer Leveled Literacy, Middle Years Literacy Intervention, and Reading Recovery which are specialized programs designed for our children.  All students benefit from an hour of dedicated guided reading work each day which aims to ensure they arrive at Junior High with the necessary skills to be highly literate students!

Evansdale is the First United Nations Rights Respecting School in Alberta.  We received our final certification (Level 2) in June or 2012.  We are starting with our first full year plan in 2012 and 2013 and look forward to student and parent participation.  This initiative fits perfectly with our Restorative Conduct model, and recognizes the rights and responsibilities of the immensely varied student population at Evansdale.  We are inclusive of all cultures and learning styles, and strive to provide the best education for all our students.  

We focus on programming for our many English Language Learner students, and look forward to continued excellent cooperation with Edmonton Public Personnel, and our community partners including The Family Center, The Mennonite Center, and the Mulit-Cultural Health Brokers.  We are guided by the tremendous work our District has done in laying out the Literacy Plan for the 21^st Century.