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2024-2025 School Supply Lists

School Supply Lists

2024-2025 School Calendar

2024-2025 School Calendar

Pink Shirt Day

#PinkShirtDay recognizes the antibullying campaign that celebrates diversity and creates environments where all people can feel safe, valued and respected.

Classroom Champions

The Arrowwood Community School students had such a great day with Steve Mesler, co-founder of Classroom Champions. That's a "real" Olympic gold medal! Fantastic message on perseverance and details on…

Multicultural Family Celebration Cookbook

We are a school division of "wondrous variety" and the Diversity Equity and Human Rights committee is creating a multicultural cookbook to recognize, share and celebrate our diversity. All Palliser employees,…

The Grade 1/2s and 3/4s Writer's Cafe

A very cozy Writer's Cafe was hosted today by the Grade 1/2 and 3/4 students. They shared poems, short stories, and even got to enjoy some yummy cafe treats. Great job to all our promising young writers.

Student Progress Conferences

Student Progress Conferences are on Thursday November 9th from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Teachers are offering in-person and online appointments. Please state in the notes of your booked appointment if you would…

Remembrance Day

Please join us for our Remembrance Day Assembly on November 10th at 10:30 am in the gymnasium. 

Photo Contest!

Calling all students and staff of Palliser School Division! Get ready to unleash your creativity and showcase your photography skills in our exciting photo contest. We're on a quest to capture the vibrant…

Threat Assessment Notice

Threat Assessment Protocol

2023-2024 School Year Calendar

2023-2024 Calendar                                

An Evening with Canadian Author Sigmund Brouwer

Christmas Concert - Welcome Back To Christmas

We were so excited to be able to present a Christmas concert in person again - and with glitches with the extremely cold weather changing things last minute, we were still able to share on Friday, December…

School Supply Lists

These are the school supply lists for the 2022-2023 school year.  You can either order directly from the SchoolStart website or just use these lists when doing your own shopping. Grade 1/2 Supply List…

Zoo Trip

Many thanks to the Arrowwood Community School Lighthouse Team for funding our trip to the Calgary Zoo. This was the big culmination to our One School, One Book event for The One and Only Ivan. It was…

Gratitude

Students and staff will be practicing gratitude for the month of February. Did you know that studies on kids and teens have shown that : Gratitude practice is linked to enhanced happiness, optimism, and…

Remembrance Day Service - Online Video

Things look a little different this year, in many ways, and our Remembrance Day Service is one of them.  The students worked hard at preparing for the service, like they always do, so we would like to…

Pink Shirt Day

Pink Shirt Day at Arrowwood School emphasized showing kindness to everyone by letting our words and actions speak kindness.

Cold weather Science!

The grade 1/2 Science class discovered cold air can't hold as much water vapor as warmer air, so the water condenses. Extremely cold temperatures quickly freeze the water droplets, which fall…

Arrowwood School is getting a new Sensory Room!

Palliser schools benefit from the generosity of southern Albertans Arrowwood and Huntsville schools receive grants from Community Foundation  Staff and students at two Palliser Regional Schools received…

Christmas Concert

Evergreen Theatre came for the week of December 9th and worked with our students to create and present our fantastic Christmas Concert.  The students entertained our guests with humorous skits that taught…

Acts of Kindness

The tantalizing smell of cookies baking in the school kitchen had numerous students asking what was going on.  Miss Williams and her grade 4/5 class were making cookies to hand out to our community members…

Arrowwood School Snow Angels

Bundled up warmly and with shovels in hand, our grade 8/9 class walked around town like angels... snow angels! They kindly shoveled sidewalks for community residents, clearing the way for easier walking…

Our Crop Fundraiser brought in over $12,000.00!!

A huge thank you to all our sponsors for this years crop fundraiser! Arrowwood Lions Club Arrowwood Ag Society Grant and Kim Schalin Arrowwood Co-op Kale and Jennifer McMorris Ryan and Julie Lidstone…

Leadership Day

Thank you to all who came to our 3rd Annual Leadership Day! The students once again did a terrific job in presenting the 7 Habits to our guests through speeches, skits, music and tours.  Our younger…

March is Nutrition Month!

Our Nutrition Program hosted a Long Table Lunch in our school hallway on Friday, March 22nd.  We invited family members to come join their children to celebrate healthy eating in a shared meal.  The…

Pink Shirt Day

Arrowwood Community School students and staff wore pink to take a stand against bullying.  We encourage you to always choose kindness!

Valentines for Vets

The sounds of crafting and creativity were heard in the halls as our students created Valentines for Vets today with the help of some wonderful community members.  A huge thank you to the Buffalo Hills…

Christmas Concert

Once again Arrowwood students put on a great show for parents and community members when they presented Christmas in Arrowwood.  We had a rousing round up of songs and skits punctuated with much laughter…

Remembrance Day Service

Arrowwood School had their Remembrance Day Service on November 9th.  It gave the students, staff and community members a chance to show their gratitude to the soldiers who fought, and continue to fight,…

Halloween

Our annual costume parade that moved through the school to the tune of "Monster Mash", was full of colorful variety again.  All the students joined the costume parade and made their way to the gym where…

Terry Fox Run

Once again staff, students and parents all took part in the Terry Fox Run.  It was a cooler but dry day and the participants all completed their 10km.  Some chose to run the whole way and some walked, …

MP Martin Shields Visits Arrowwood School!

Martin Shields, MP of Bow River, came to Arrowwood School on May 18th to talk to the students.  MP Shields visited each classroom and spoke on the importance of government, the responsibility of voting…

Arrowwood Leadership Day!

Arrowwood School Leadership Day was a huge success!! We were very fortunate to have guests from the community, Bow River MP office, Palliser School Board, Palliser Central Office, as well as parents and…

School Olympics

Arrowwood Community School has been hosting their own Olympics for the students.  We started with an opening ceremony on Feb.12th where students created flags to represent their Synergy Groups. This…

Remembrance Day Contest winners from 2017

A number of students from our school entered the Royal Legion Poster and Essay contest last year and we had some of them win their categories. The following students won awards: Philip Redecop - 1st place…

Christmas is Blowing In!

With the help of Evergreen Theatre productions, staff and students pulled off a fantastic, entertaining night!!  From evil scientists stopping the world from spinning, to a penguin and polar bear snow…

Sigmund Brouwer

Sigmund Brouwer came to our school today and what a fantastic time all the "Story Ninja's" had! He used music and story to give us fun and practical advice on how to make sure reading and writing become…

Farm Safety Presentations

Marie Mckevitt, an instructor with Alberta Farm Safety came to our school today to give presentations to our students.  Each grade grouping spent 40 minutes with her in the library learning the importance…

Arrowwood School's First Leadership Day!

What a fantastic afternoon we had here at Arrowwood School.  The student leaders all did a terrific job in representing our school in an informative and fun way for our guests.  There were guided tours,…

Arrowwood Students Take the Lead!

Leadership Day an opportunity to demonstrate Leader in Me efforts ARROWWOOD — Students at Arrowwood Community School will stretch their leadership muscle at Leadership Day, from 1 to 3 p.m., April 12.…

Family Fun Night

Family Fun Night was a great evening of laughter, games and crazy pictures.  Our School Events student leaders put it together with Hannah Smith at the helm with organizing and getting it all set up.…

Christmas Festivities

We have had a week full of Christmas cheer and festivities at school.  We started with Christmas concert practices, a lovely Christmas dinner, Secret Santa gift exchanges, a Christmas concert and to…

Extendicare Visit

The grade 5-9 students went to Vulcan Extendicare to entertain the residents with music and singing.  The grade 5-6 music class played Christmas carols on their recorders, the Grade 6/7 class performed…

WE Day!!

WE Day  By Rhett, Fallon, Lucia, Breena and Allen (grade 5 Leaders - first time to WE Day) We walked into the Saddledome where music was playing and kids were dancing.  At that point, we were so excited…

Students' view of Headstrong Summit

Conference encourages students to talk about mental illness Six students from Milo and Arrowwood Community Schools have a new appreciation of mental illness and a stronger sense of how to help others…

Classroom Champions

Arrowwood students partnered with Paralympic mentor Students put together a puzzle to learn the name of their Paralympic mentor during a Classroom Champions activity recently. It’s one thing to hear…

Aboriginal Day Celebration at Arrowwood

We had a great day celebrating Aboriginal Day at Arrowwood School.  We were able to share the First Nation's culture with various community members and students from Milo school as well.  We had an…

Keep up with reading over the summer!

Keep up with reading over the summer! Every fall many students struggle to start school at their highest ability due to the summer months of being away. Did you know that: In the summer up to two months…

The Great Hunt for the Golden Easter Egg!!

Once again, our annual Easter Egg hunt is on!!  Every year, on the last day before the Easter break, the staff hide Easter eggs throughout the school grounds.  And every year, the kids excitedly tear…

Taking pride in our school yard!

The Eco Leaders on our Student Leadership Team, Elizabeth and Helena, organized a school wide clean up of our school yard.  All students got into their synergy groups and went out and cleaned up our…

Arrowwood School in Palliser News

Click on the picture to be taken to the write up on Palliser's website!

Scholastic Book Fair

Once again our Scholastic Book fair was a wonderful success!!! Thanks to Mrs. Kasper for all her hours of work put into setting it up, running it after school hours and taking it down. Thank you also…

Students vs. Adults Basketball game

The grade 5-9 basketball team took on parents and staff members in an exciting game!! The game was action packed and full of laughs and quite a few foul shots too - thanks to the parents! Thanks to Deb…