School News

BCHS Monthly Wellness Newsletter

October 29th, 2024

OCTOBER: Wellness Matters: Sleep Habits Sleep is essential for teenagers because it plays an important role in their physical and mental development. Unfortunately, research indicates that many teens are not getting enough sleep. How much sleep is your teen getting? For more information: Teens and Sleep

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Halloween Dress Up At School

October 29th, 2024

Thursday October 31st is Halloween. Join the fun and dress up. Please ensure costumes are school appropriate and no weapons or replica weapons are brought.

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BCHS Academic Update – Online Study Resources and Castle Rock Link (Grades 7-12)

October 28th, 2024

Students at Barrhead Composite have access to the following resources: Exambank – https://alberta.exambank.com/ Ask your teacher for the generic username and password Questaplus – for grade 9 PAT’s and grade 12 diploma exams – https://questaplus.alberta.ca/app/practice-test-access New this year, we are partnering with Castle Rock resources to bulk order different copies of the Castle rock library, […]

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Lost and Found items at our school

October 21st, 2024

If you are coming in for interviews please take a look at our lost and found to see if there are any items that have been lost from your household. Items are located in the High School foyer as well as near Jr. High foyer.

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BCHS Off-Campus Update (Oct. 17/24) – Careers Next Generation & Other Jobs

October 17th, 2024

The following information has been shared with students in announcements and in their google postsecondary classroom (Grade 9, 10, 11, and 12 students.)  I am sharing this information on the website (click on the blue link to access the job ad) so that parents can be kept informed.  If you have any specific questions regarding this […]

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BCHS Awards 2023-2024 School Year

October 8th, 2024

Barrhead Composite High School has  developed a school community approach with presentation of the student awards in front of their peers. The grade 12 students who graduated in June received their certificates at the grad ceremony.   The google slides sharing the award recipients for Junior High and Senior High are posted below. We are […]

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Post-Secondary Exploration Opportunities – Northern Lakes College

October 7th, 2024

Northern Lakes College is offering different sessions that high school students can attend to learn more about different career paths.  Career paths include, Trades, Business and Administrative studies, Early Learning and Educational Assistant, Health Careers and Social Work and Addictions counselling.  These sessions start on October 21st Anyone can register to attend these one-week sessions […]

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SafeArrival is coming to BCHS!

October 3rd, 2024

At BCHS, one of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely at school every day.  To enhance our existing absence-checking procedure, we are implementing a new, more efficient student absence reporting system called SafeArrival.  This new system will reduce the time it takes to verify student attendance, make it easy for […]

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