Huron Expositor, 2006-08-30, Page 9News
The Huron Expositor • August 30, 2006 Page 9
St. Anne's pre -apprentice program chosen
as model for new provincial pilot project
.Stew Slater
While students were
enjoying a summer outside
classes, administrators of an
innovative co-operative edu-
cation program run by the
Huron -Perth Catholic
District School Board were
hunkered down at their
desks.
They were "writing and
re -writing" the program so
it could be transformed irito
what the provincial
Education Ministry hopes
will become a better way for
leading young people into
careers in agriculture:
At a regular meeting.
Monday, Aug. 28, Huron -
Perth trustees learned the
agriculture -based "pre-
apprentice program" at St.
Anne's Catholic Secondary
School in Clinton .- which
was developed in partner-
ship with Fanshawe College
in London - had been chosen
as a model for one of 27 pilot
projects for the province's
new "Specialist High -Skills
Major."
The SHSM was part of an
announcement in December,
2005, aimed at broadening
the types of training activi-
ties which could be used
towards an Ontario
Secondary School Diploma.
"It recognizes that, for stu-
dents who might be proceed-
ing into the world of work,
some of the best strategies
for setting them on their
way will be by allowing
them to try out different
career paths," explained'
Huron -Perth education
superintendent Dan Parr.
Not too long after that
announcement - in March,
2006 the awarding of a
"Rural_ High Schools
Lighthouse" grant showed
the Education Ministry had
become aware of the rela-
tively new pre -apprentice
program at Huron -Perth
Catholic's two secondary
schools, which the board's
Ontario Youth
Apprenticeship Program
director Tim Martens
dubbed "Direct Connect
Your Future."
The program offered
career -specific, on-site train-
ing through partnerships
with various area employ-
ers, as well as preferred
entry into Fanshawe's tech-
nology departments.
According to Parr's report,
"the ministry has since
asked our board to continue
to develop this innovative
program into a provincial
pilot. It is their intent, and
ours, that we will be able to
provide an operating, suc-
cessful example of SHSM in
the area of Agricultural
Technology."
, "We're learning, slowly,
that individual courses
aren't really what students
and parents are looking for
as a way to prepare them-
selves. They don't offer
enough of a glimpse of the
future," Parr said in an
interview.
"But if it's something
that's wrapped around an
ongoing program that leads
into post -secondary activi-
ties, then it's something
they can grab hold of."
Parr provided a break-
down of requirements for all
students hoping to earn the
new agriculture -based
SHSM high school diploma.
Students will need a simi-
lar number of credits as any
other successful graduate,
with the first two years of
their studies looking quite
similar to their counter-
parts.
But there are required
credits in nine areas of
study over the final two
years of high school.
Required credits include
Transportation Technology
and Agricultural
Technology, as well as
English and Math.
And some participation in
.co-operative education
(workplace study) is
required. .
Parr's report included a
long list of possible career or
post -secondary education
paths which might be open
for graduates of the agricul-
ture -based SHSM program.
They
include such
things as
apprentice-
ships on
farms or
machinery
dealerships,
studies in
commerce or
engineering,
or work in
various
Former mayor nominated by son as
next tohave street named after him
Susan Hundertmark
The late Senator
William H. Golding
was nominated to
Huron East council by
his son Frank A.
Golding as the next
person to have a street
named after him in
Huron East.
A letter to council's
Aug. 22 meeting from
Frank Golding outlined
his father's history as a
machinist at Robert
Bell Engine and
Thresher Works, a for-
mer Seaforth council
member from 1916 to
1921 and South Huron
MP from 1932 to 1949.
He was appointed to
the Senate in 1949 and
died in 1961.
"During his time as
mayor he saw the com-
pletion of the cenotaph
in Victoria Park and in
1929, the conversion of
the Scott residence to
the first real hospital
in Seaforth (now the
Manor)," said the let-
ter.
"He was always held
in high regard by his
peers and that fact was
attested in that he was
never defeated when
he ran for public
office," it said.
"We'll keep that on
file and can consider it
at the time if a renam-
ing of a street becomes
necessary," said Clerk -
Administrator Jack
McLachlan.
fields related to agriculture.
"It's very exciting for all
the -communities in Huron
County, in that the agricul-
tural support sector of our
economy is alive and well,"
Parr commented.
Major employer partners
in the program include
Huron Tractor and Vincent
Farm Equipment, among
others.
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