Welcome!
Welcome to the Fultonvale School website!
Fultonvale School is a Kindergarten to grade 9 school located just southeast of Sherwood Park, Alberta. We offer the best of the urban world with a warm sense of rural hospitality and friendliness.
Fultonvale's motto is "Feel the HEAT" and we like to encourage all members of the community (students, staff and parents) to embrace it on a daily basis.
Use the calendar and Firewire links on the side to see what's coming up and what's going on!
We are looking forward to a wonderful year of learning together.
Miss MJ Nam Mr. Ken Wlos
Principal Assistant Principal
My Child's Learning: A Parent Resource
Be informed. Be involved.
Fultonvale Elementary Junior High School supports Alberta Education in it's commitment to creating an inclusive education system that inspires and enables all students to achieve success from Kindergarten through to High School.
We recognize that parents play an vital role in shaping the way their children view learning. As a parent, you understand more than anyone else how your child learns and processes information. The following link is an excellent resource that will provide you with a better understanding of Alberta's curriculum and how you can help your child. Here, you'll discover what your child is learning, how they're assessed and what resources are available to help them be successful. Please click on the following link:
Parent Council Newsletter
Please click on the following link to view the latest Parent Advisory Council Newsletter
Parent Advisory Council Newsletter #4 - April
Please click the following link to view Information on our Parent Advisory Council's "Funscrip" program.
Hot Lunch
For the remainder of the year we will be continuing to order hot lunch from Christine at Culinary Delights. We hope that you see your comments reflected in the choices we have made for this school year's menu. For more information if you would like to volunteer to help count order forms please click ton the following link to read the April informational letter and for contact information. You may also view the Hot lunch order form, the hot dog order form, and the Hot lunch/Hot Dog Survey checklist here for your convenience (Reminder: to purvey each form/survey please click the bottom tabs of the excel document)
FNMI COLLABORATIVE LESSON
FNMI COLLABORATIVE LESSON---THE COYOTE AND THE DUCKS
(based on a story by Thomas King)
In this collaborative lesson, classes across divisions worked together to complete a story. We discussed FNMI traditional storytelling and then listened to the start of the story before completing it, with illustrations, with our “buddies”.
In this story, Coyote wants the ducks’ beautiful feathers to enhance his own appearance and so continually tries to trick the ducks into giving him more and more of their precious feathers.
Here are some examples of how the students finished the story:
Fultonvale Provincial Achievement Test Results
Students all across Alberta in grades 3, 6 and 9 wrote the annual Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs) in May and June. Fultonvale students again scored very well in relation to the provincial averages, and showed improvement in several areas. The number of Fultonvale students who achieved the acceptable standard was significantly above the provincial average on all 10 tests. Individual student profiles for students in grades 3, 6 and 9 will be sent home with their first report card. If you do not receive your child's profile, please let us know at the office and we would be happy to reprint it for you.
Please click the following link for more detailed information:
Nut aware
Fultonvale Elementary Junior High is a "NUT AWARE" school. Please help us keep all our students safe. Click the following link for more information and lists of alternative snacks and treats.
Character Education – Accountability
For the next two months our school will be learning more about accountability, which is an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions. If you ask a young child after he or she has engaged in an inappropriate or negative behavior, "Why did you do that?" you'll probably get an "I don't know" response back. The truth is, many children may not know why they did something, so really children are being quite honest. Dr. Manos suggests we stop asking children why and we start asking the 4 WHATS to promote accountability. The first of the 4 WHATS is simply asking the child to identify the behavior. 1. What Did You Do? The second WHAT deals with the consequences of the child's behavior. 2. What Happened When You Did That? These two questions identify a behavior and a consequence. Through this process you are helping a child to learn to self-monitor - to look at their behavior and see what effect their behavior has on the environment and people around them. Once a child begins to make gains in this understanding and awareness of his or her behaviors, adults can then add the next two WHATS which are related to future behavior. 3. What Could You Have Done Instead? 4. What Would Have Happened If You'd Have Done That? This encourages students to focus on future behavior, future consequences. The 4 WHATS is a highly potent strategy, since many struggle with self-awareness, aren't self-observant, and learn to deflect blame, give excuses, and not be accountable. Join our school in promoting accountability.
Twitter: @fultonvale
Follow Fultonvale School activities and staff on Twitter!
We are in the process of establishing a profile on Twitter that will keep you posted of activities and teacher updates for Fultonvale School. If you have an account, you can follow us by searching for Fultonvale or looking for the user: @fultonvale .
The plan is to have updates for school sports, student council, fun days and teacher news all streaming through this one source.
Powerschool Portal- Junior High
The update to version 7 now allows parents/guardians to have the ability to create a single login for all the students in the family.
This requires that the next time you visit the Parent Portal that you must create a new account. To do so please travel to the following link, PowerSchool Portal. Upon arriving scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the link button title Create Account.
Once you have arrived at the Create Account page fill in the required fields. You will be required to create your own Login name and password. You will also be required to share your email address. Lastly, you will have to link your children(s)/ward(s) to this account. You can do so by submitting each student's name and using the pre-existing username and password that you have used for that student up to this time. Then select the relationship you have with this student from the drop down menu. When you have completed this process for each of the students you wish linked to your new account please click on the Enter button.
The next time you visit the Parent Portal enter your newly created username and password and it will allow you access to all of the children in your family that you have linked to your account.
If you have any questions about the process for creating your new Parent Portal Account please contact us at the school.
Other Parent Portal Information
Please note that as our school year continues, please "click" on the dashes to see work and learning.
For a brief video description of the Portal and its use please click the following link
to gain access from the Elk Island Public Schoools' website:
***Please note:
EVERY Sunday between 9:00 and 10:00 pm, PowerSchool will be unavailable due to a scheduled regular maintenance.
Fultonvale G-Mail - Access Link
Fultonvale Elementary Jr. High School's G-Mail domain is an email system for students and teachers. It allows users to upload, attach, send, assignments and information quickly and safely to each other. Please click the link below to access G-Mail.
Student Access to their Fultonvale Gmail accounts shall be inaccessible over the summer holiday. The accounts shall be back up and running on August 31st, 2011. Thank you.
Athletics Banquet
Fultonvale will be hosting its annual Athletics Dinner and Awards Night on May 16th, 2012. The casual evening will start with a catered dinner at 6:00 p.m. and awards to follow at 6:45 p.m. If your son/daughter has played on a team they have already paid for their tickets. If they have played on multiple teams (volleyball, basketball and badminton) they will receive extra tickets that are already paid for through their fees. Journal Games team members will receive invitations, but they have not paid for their tickets yet. We look forward to seeing many faces at this year's event as we celebrate and recognize our Firebirds' successes and accomplishments for 2011-2012.
