The community of Windsong in Airdrie and Fireside in Cochrane will each have a new school that will be open in September 2017.

As RVS prepares to break ground on construction, the naming committee has been hard at work to come up with names that would well represent the school as well as the community.

On May 19, Colleen Munro, Chair of the Board of Trustees for RVS, announced the name of both of the schools.

For Airdrie's K-8 School, it was an easy process to agree on the name. After a vote by the Board of Trustees it was agreed that the school would be named Windsong Heights.

"We advertise in the community through newspapers and our website for ideas for a name," said Munro. "Then the committee meets and goes through the ideas and picks two to submit to the Board of Trustees and then the Board of Trustees decides on the name."

For the K-7 school in Cochrane, there was a strong desire to name the school Lindsay Kimmett, in memory of the Cochrane High student who died tragically in a car accident in 2008.

The Board of Trustees discussed the name but felt that there have been many students who have passed tragically and it would be unfair to only memorialize only one.

The board accepted the naming committee's second submital, Fireside School which they felt had a very strong welcoming feel to it.

"Fireside is a very strong name, it has great connotations. There's ways that you can build community around Fireside, theirs warmth, theirs welcoming. The Developer, La Vita Land, they had a representative on the committee and he shared they were quite purposeful in naming the community 'Fireside' because of those great connotations and also ties to our aboriginal neighbors."