| Prior to 1953 the children received
their education by attending the Residential School in Onion
Lake and St. Paul.
Pierre Metchewais wanted to have his children educated on
the reserve. A meeting was arranged with the Indian Agent
to discuss the issue. As a result of that meeting, in 1953
Le Goff Day School was established through an agreement between
Pierre Metchewais and Indian Agent Knapp. The school was
located in the rectory and had three students enroll on the
first day. Those students were Maynard Metchewais, Francis
Muskego and Bobby Kjenner. By the end of the school
year the enrollment had increased to twelve students.
A new school was eventually constructed to house the
students. Parents now had a choice from that point to keep
their children at home rather then send them to residential
school. Five portables were required to handle the increased
enrollment in the school.
As attendance increased the school became over crowded. Chief
Ralph Blackman petitioned the Department of Indian Affairs
to construct a new school. To add their support of the petition,
parents agreed to keep their children home from late September
1971. Also, after a year of demonstrations and almost a year of keeping the children home,
a sit-in was held at the Indian Affairs offices on the 27th
floor of the CN tower in Edmonton. The department finally
agreed to build the new school.

“Success starts at home”
The new school opened in the fall of 1974. It was built in
two stages. Initially it housed grades four to nine plus kindergarten,
grades one to three stayed in the old school. Additional rooms
were added to house kindergarten to grade nine. As a result of
a drop in enrollment,
grade nine was no longer offered but was later
re-introduced.
Extracurricular sports activity has also been re-introduced,
after a twenty year absence;
“students that get involved in extra-curricular activities
do better in life”
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