PHPS employees contribute each day to making the lives of our students better. Daily they share their gifts and talents with our students and communities. Professional development (PD) days offer staff an opportunity to grow professionally, and improve their knowledge, competence, skill and effectiveness.

The school board believes strongly in supporting our staff PD. For the past number of years, as a way to say thank you to staff the school board has sponsored the lunch for the November PD Day, and lunch at the various ADLC and Vista Virtual sites. For our bus drivers, the board sponsors their PD lunch in August. This year as part of our overall thank you to staff the school board implemented a new draw called the “Gift of Giving” to continue to build up the community of PHPS.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

Here’s how it worked:

• All active PHPS employee numbers were randomly sorted and imported into a spreadsheet
• Trustees highlighted seven numbers
• Payroll ensured there was no more than one employee from a school or department selected – resulting in seven prize recipients

Each lucky winner had $500 to give to a PHPS school or department of their choice.

Congratulations to our 2017 winners and recipients!

A special thank you to Terry Roczkowsky from Sportfactor, who upon hearing about the draw said they would give an additional 10% off to Barrhead Composite Junior High for the sports equipment.

R. F. Staples Secondary School – Sharon Gibson
Life Skills Class for Bowling

Neerlandia Public Christian School – Dagmar Visser
Outdoor School/Library Bench

Regional Office – Tracy Meunier
Facilities – Go Green Project

École Westlock Elementary School – Linda Arndt
Math PD for Staff

ADLC Barrhead – Karla Montgomery
École Barrhead Elementary School – Division II Science Equipment

Facilities Department – Wendy Bazinet
Barrhead Composite Junior High Phys. Ed. Department
Sportfactor participated by providing 10% off the equipment!

Dunstable School – Christina Braben
Leveled readers for Grades 1 & 2

R.F. Staples Life Skills Class Bowling

R.F. Staples Life Skills Class Bowling

Facilities – Go Green Initiative