Colonel Irvine School | Calgary Board of Education

Unprofessional Front Office Experience I recently had an unpleasant experience with a front desk staff member at this school. The Caucasian woman in the office was dismissive and spoke in a rude, condescending tone, making the visit feel unwelcoming. Looks like she just hates her job and had no clue what is going on. Professionalism and courtesy are especially important in a school setting, and this interaction did not reflect the respectful environment families and students should expect. I hope this issue is addressed to ensure better experiences for future visitors.

This school is great, I've been at this school for 3 years, and I've been loving it. HOWEVER, Ms. Fan's substitute teacher who's been here since mid February of 2025. She is genuinely the worst teacher I've had in my entire life. On our tests, she uses the student's tests as her answer key, and many students, including me have gotten answers wrong on tests, which are correct. She has given several students 1s on their tests because they didn't show their work, with most of the answers correct. Students have consulted other math teachers in the school, who have consistently said they would have given 2s or 3s on their tests. She also uses AI to mark our tests, which can give our markings some inconsistent marking. A student in grade 9 also had a completely correct answer and steps, and was correct, but she circled a random part of it, which prevented him to get 100% on his test. When he asked her about it, she just shut him down, and said, "I'm the teacher, I'm correct.", which is a ridiculous answer on it's own, but refused to elaborate. She gives students no class time to work on math worksheets, and spends the entire class either handing out packages to do at home, and then goes over the answers the next day, which many students did not have time to finish it. On many occasions, she has booked computers for us to practice math on, but then only lets us use the tech for 15 minutes or less, because she has to go over yet another package she gave us. On a few occasions, she has also booked 2 computer carts, which totals to around 50 computers in a class of around 27 kids because we were 5 computers short of everyone having one. This has caused many students having issues booking tech for assignments, especially with the PATs using them. Many classmates in her MLA 7 (mandarin language arts gr 7) class have also said that she often tends to start teaching the class about Cantonese idioms, which is not supposed to be taught (THIS IS MANDARIN). She has also told me and other students to "sit properly" because apparently we were being distracting by sitting sideways, slouched, etc. Her class is the one class where I have had a bad experience and am not learning anything. If it weren't for the 2024-2025 gr 7 curriculum being almost an exact repeat of the 2023-2024 gr 6 curriculum, math would by far be my hardest subject with her teaching. I know that this is not really the school's fault, as a substitute teacher who can speak mandarin well and teach math are quite hard to find. Overall great school, just 1 bad teacher for 4 months who ruined grade 7 for me.

Saw my old friend Henry post a review about this school. I did go here for the fifth and sixth grade until i moved up to Edmonton. I still remember all the great times I had here. I have lost contact with nearly all of my old friends now that I'm in the ninth grade, and I miss all of them incredibly. Edmonton is fine I suppose, but Calgary, and this school in particular (along with neighbouring Highwood of which I spent elementary schooling there), has given me the most memories. I don't know if any of my friends still go to Irvine, but I'll mention them anyhow. Vincent, you were by far the coolest guy I've ever known back then. I could always depend on you for something. Sky, I swear I could have beaten you in Table Tennis. Daniel and Gordon, you guys are the most hilarious twins I know. And to the rest of you in my old homerooms, those times were some of the most fulfilling moments in my life. If any of you guys see this, you can find me on discord, if that's still relevant. Discord user: greatcanadianhailstorm Best wishes to y'all Shawn

I thought this school was going to be amazing, boy, was I wrong. This school is a complete joke. A student threw a chunk of wood at my sons face, made him bleed and my son had to get 5 stitches. That child was never even suspended!!. The grade 9s bring vapes and sell them to the younger kids and nothing seems to be done about that as my child continued to come home from with them. Hell the grade 9s even brought booze to sschool. One kid told my son he was going to come shoot up my house. Nothing was done. Said I wanted something done about it, school pretty much laughed in my face about it. There is absolutely zero control at this school, they pick a choose who they punish and if your child struggles with behavior or regulating their emotions, there labeled as a bad child.

this school sucks, teachers, principals and school counselor don’t do anything about problems. they side with the first person that talks to them and then doesn’t listen to the other persons perspective. they avoid other conflicts that the second person is telling them and focusing on what the first person has said. they can’t tell if a person is lying just because they were first to say something about it. they never listen to what the other person says. the first person can be lying and teachers principals and school counselors don’t know because they don’t have brains. all they do is listen to the first person and side with them and agree but never understand the second persons which is very unfair. this school needs to do better before anything worse happens. do better colonel irvine

I have had an interesting experience for the last two years at this school, sometimes loving it, sometimes hating it. The school is filled with lots of teachers like able, but at the same time there are a few not so like able. Sincerely, The young league MVP

terrible school the teacher only listens to the person who told on someone and do not cares about the other person explanation. the teachers are terrible. Yells at students until they cried over mistakes made in practise chinese new year shows.