PRPS approves locally developed courses for 2025-26

By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on June 11, 2025.

asmith@medicinehatnews.com

Prairie Rose Public Schools approved a number of locally developed courses during the final board of trustees meeting for the 2024-2025 school year,.

These courses varied in grades and content, but included Design Thinking for Innovation, Forensic Studies and Developing Personal Integrity for high school students, as well as Religious Studies: Islamic Studies, which is tailored for both Muslim and non-Muslim students.

Many of these, says assistant superintendent Boyd Craven, are courses which have been offered previously but are expiring and require board approval once again in order to be offered for the 2025-2026 school year.

The courses were approved by the board, allowing them to be offered in the fall.

In addition, a course was put forward for a Biblical Studies course offered at Burdett School for K-9, which is a course developed locally developed within the division.

“It’s a Prairie Rose locally developed elective course, an optional course that will be offered to kindergarten through Grade 9 students,” said Craven.

He noted that in the coming year, it will be taught by the school’s principal, but another teacher is currently learning the curriculum to take on the course in the future.

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