Next Step

NEXT STEP offers a wide variety of programming and course selections to assist students in meeting their educational needs. Whether you want to become a full or part-time student in one of our junior or senior high programs, are interested in home education or are an adult learner, we provide alternative choices for academic success.

We wish all of our students success on their Diploma Exams which begin Wednesday, January 11.

To accomodate our exam writers, our campuses will be closed to non-exam writing students and the public in the morning of both Wednesday, January 11 and Thursday, January 12.

We will also be closed in the afternoon of Wednesday, January 11, for our monthly staff meeting.

There is still time to register for Diploma Exam Preparation courses with Next Step Continuing Education. Visit their website for all the details.  

We invite you to see the newly renovated Next Step campus in Vegreville. Further information can be found here.   

Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) has moved to a new student information system and teacher record gradebook that will allow students and parents to access an online website to see a student's course progress and marks on an ongoing basis.  Parents will be mailed a username and password in October

Below is a link to an instructional video to assist parents with logging into the Parent Portal of PowerSchool. It is presented in two formats, Quicktime and Windows Media Player.

Instructional Video in Windows Media File Format

Instructional Video in Quicktime Format

EIPS is migrating to a new version of PowerSchool. Starting Wednesday, February 8 at 6 pm and continuing until Monday, February 13, at 6 am, PowerSchool will be unavailable to all users due to the upgrade. This includes Parent Portal access.

Thank you very much for your cooperation. 

Outlook, the newsletter of the Outreach Education Council, is published four times annually and provides information on council activities, conferences and updates on outreach education across the province. Students, parents and staff are invited to submit articles for the Outlook newsletter. These articles could be about student work, how our programs operate, positive experiences or anything that would be of interest to other outreach schools. Please email your submissions to paul.pallister@eips.ca for review. Please note these submissions must be emailed no later than February 22, 2012.