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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1986-10-15, Page 19PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1986. Co-op education program now underway BY LISA BOONSTOPPEL A new program has been developed at Central Huron Se condary School. The co-operative education program, as it’s called, has been successful in other schools and the organizers of the program, Mrs. MacKenzie and Mr. Swhark, believe with approxi mately 90 students involved, it will be successful here also. The idea is to place a student on a job site of their own choosing, to work every other day for a period of Blyth United celebrates Thanksgiving Blyth United Church was well filled for the Thanksgiving Service, Sunday. Members of the Sunday School attended with their parents and brought gifts for the “Survival House of Friendship” atGoderich. There was also a goodly number of visitors. The narthex was suitably decor ated by the Junior Sunday School 2 - 3 hours. The students receive two credits if they complete 202 hours of work. The student must also complete a related course they are taking in school. Before being placed on ajob site, the students receive formal train ing on how to complete resumes, application forms and letters. A booklet was used to determine, by exercises and questions, the stu dents likes and dislikes, abilities and weaknesses and their future goals. classes with fruit, flowers, veget- ales and posters.' Both Junior and Senior choirs sang. The Rev. Mr. Bauman read the lesson about the 10 lepers stressing that only one came back to give thanks. He then invited membersofthecongregation to express some of the things they were thankful for. Flowers were in memory of John Campbell. Some of the areas that students are working at are farms, news papers, hospitals, nursing homes, public schools, florists, pharma cies, restaurants and auto mechan ic shops. Atatime when employers are asking for experience, this pro gram provides the experience they want. Ithelpsthe students cope with responsibilities and the de BY ANN MORTON ANDSANDYEARL To continue our reports on what the classrooms are doing, we again asked “what’s new.” The Kindergarten classes and the Grade 4 class are currently paired with each other and are enjoying the making of books and crafts. Mrs. Richmond’s Grade 1 class just finished studying about ap ples. Their interesting activities included learning the parts of the apple, the different kinds of apples, and thev even made their mands of ajob. It helps students to relate to employers and fellow employees and likewise it helps the older employees to work with a younger generation. There has, of course been some problems. The major problem being the unavailabililty of job sites. In a city there are endless businesses and services for a student to work but in a town such own delicious candy apples. We welcome April and Shawn Rogers to our school. April is in the Grade 2 class and Shaw is a pupil of the Grade 3 room. Speaking of the Grade 3 room, they recently celebrated Danny Gulutzen’s birthday. Danny is now officially nine years old. The Grade 6 class of the school is very busy this month with a wide variety of assignments. Mrs. Gillies and Mrs. Whitmore have as Clinton, the availability of jobs is limited. Fortunately, every stu dent who became involved with this program has found a job placement they are satisfied with. This program has had a lot of time and effort put into it and with such a successful beginning, the school hopes to retain the program for many more years and to have more students involved. their pupils writing autobiogra phies, advertisements and “paint ed poetry. ’ ’ We thank the class for decorating our halls with this unusual style of artwork. Students’ Council meetings are well underway and they are busy planning for Halloween. 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