Our student registration process for the fall of 2013 is now complete. We will be trying our best to make sure that all students receive the courses they have selected. However, from time to time students may not get everything that they have selected. This is usually due to the fact that there is a scheduling conflict between courses that are only offered one time during the year. Also, if they were late with returning their registration forms, a particular course may have reached maximum enrollment. I would like to thank Mrs. Enyedy, Mrs. Lovell and Mrs. Shepherd for their time and energy spent on our registration process. Our school truly appreciates all of your effort, time and commitment concerning our student registration process.
Continuing in September 2013, Clearview School Division will be entering into the seventh year of embedded Professional Development for all of their teaching staff. Embedded Professional Development allows teachers in all Clearview schools the opportunities to work with the same grade and subject colleagues to plan units, lessons and projects together. It also gives teachers an opportunity to share common assessments, evaluations, teaching strategies, best practices and resources within their areas of expertise. Therefore, every second Monday of the month, students will be dismissed to go home at 2:30 P.M. There will be a calendar mailed home in August that will outline all of the Embedded Professional Development days in which the students will be released earlier. Also continuing in September 2013, Clearview School Division and Wm. E. Hay
will be continuing with our new framework regarding student assessment, evaluation, grading and reporting practices.
The “High School Flexibility Enhancement Pilot Project” officially ends in June this year. However, I am very excited and pleased to announce that Alberta Education has decided to move forward with this initiative. As a reminder, the objective of this project was to investigate the significance of the “Carnegie” unit, which equates the granting of high school credits based on time students spend with face-to-face instruction with their teachers. As a part of this initiative, our school will be continuing to investigate how we might be able to continue to redesign our current educational structure to better meet the needs of the 21st century learners in our schools. We have just finished another round of the “Tell Them From Me Surveys” and we will be making every effort to continue to survey our students at least once a year to
find out what they think about our current educational model and to listen to their suggestions to improve our school and their learning. I will be continuing to host student and parent focus groups, to listen to the student, parent and community voice to discuss various options as to how we can improve.
Wm. E. Hay Graduation is fast approaching on May 25th and students are busy preparing for this very special and memorable day. I would like to congratulate Mr. Jeff martin on being named this year’s valedictorian. Please remind your students that they will need to be present at all the grad practices for the week of May 21st to May 24th. There will be busses transporting the students to and from the arena for rehearsal practices during this week and students need to remember that they are not allowed to transport themselves.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call Mr. Baharally, school principal, at 403-742-3466 or e-mail
Wm. E. Hay Composite High School
Educating Individuals for a Collective Future
5411-50 Ave Stettler, AB, T0C 2L2
P: 403-742-3466 F: 403-742-3260
Attendance Line: 403-742-3476 Email: william@clearview.ab.ca
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