École publique Gabrielle-Roy is an elementary school in the Strathearn community of

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. It provides public francophone education to students from Kindergarten to grade 6. École Enfantine is a preschool program located within the school for children eligible for francophone education aged 3 and 4 years old. This playschool is operated by a parent committee and Fédération des Parents Francophones de l'Alberta. The school also houses a daycare and before and after-school care program called Centre d'expérience préscolaire et parascolaire.

School history

École publique Gabrielle-Roy opened in 1997 with 25 students. It operated in a series of different northside locations, then in 2006 it moved to its present site. In 2006-2007, enrolment increased by 55%. On September 30, 2012, the school had 343 K-12 students. By the 2015-2016 school year, the school's K-12 enrolment had grown to 460 students, stretching the limits of the school's capacity. To meet the growing demand, in 2016, the

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reached an agreement with the Edmonton Catholic School Board to take over the former St. Kevin Junior High school in the nearby Forest Heights neighbourhood, and to move students from Grades 7-12 to this new school, which was renamed École publique Michaëlle-Jean. Grades K-6 remain at Gabrielle-Roy. The school is named after the famous French-Canadian novelist and teacher

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. She was born in

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(now part of

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in 1909 and is the author several internationally acclaimed novels, namely The Tin Flute (1947) that won the 1947

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for fiction as well as the

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Francophone schools

According to Section 23 of the

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, parents whose first language is French have a constitutional right to have their child educated in French where there are enough students to warrant it. They also have the right to govern these schools. There are four francophone school authorities operating 34 schools in Alberta. The educational needs of francophone students, of their families and their communities, the expected outcomes for francophone education and the conditions that must be met to ensure these outcomes are achieved, are found in the Alberta Education's document ''Affirming Francophone Education'' (link in

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section).

Academic program

Alberta Education develops the ''Program of Studies'' (link in

section) in French for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Francophone programs. All courses, except for English language arts beginning in grade 3, are offered entirely in French.

New school building announced

On March 1, 2023, the

announced that new funding from the provincial government would allow for the building of two new schools on the current site of École publique Gabrielle-Roy. One of these schools will be a replacement for the current Gabrielle-Roy K-6 elementary school, while the other will be a new facility to house the nearby Grade 7-12 École publique Michaëlle-Jean. Once the new schools are completed, the old elementary school building will be demolished.

Sports

Basketball, Soccer, Curling, Badminton, Track and Field, Edmonton Journal Indoor Games and Skiing.

Extracurricular activities

International and national trips, Ski trips, Camping, Intramural sports, Popular music groups, Student Council, etc.

References

External links

École publique Gabrielle-Roy’s official website

Francophone regional authorities

Affirming Francophone Education

Program of Studies

École enfantine's official website

Fédération des parents francophones de l'Alberta's official website
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