Huron Expositor, 2007-04-04, Page 6Page 6 April 4, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
Potholes make travel
difficult on George St.
From Page 5
When she does come down our street in her scooter,
the sidewalks are in such bad repair that she must
ride the scooter on the road.
Damage has been done to her scooter as it is diffi-
cult to avoid the potholes and it would be very easy
for her to topple out of her chair.
Something needs to be done about the condition of
this street before someone gets hurt, and the town,
would be held responsible.
Carol Barry
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News
Core French instruction not
producing `functionally literate' grads
Stew Slater
It was a case of good news, bad news last
Tuesday, March 27, for the public perception
of French as a second language education in
Huron and Perth Counties.
At two separate meetings, trustees from the
Huron -Perth Catholic and Avon Maitland
District School Boards heard two very differ-
ent messages regarding "core French."
In Dublin, four Grade 2 students from St.
Patrick's Catholic elementary school donned
masks and performed "Les trois petits
cochons" (The Three Little Pigs).
Accompanied by French teacher Wilma
Kolkman, they demonstrated an approach
called "Gestures," which incorporates hand
signals and body language as a means of
enhancing students' ability to retain French
vocabulary.
"The kind of expertise and skill you're
bringing out in our other teachers is just
amazing," said education superintendent
Martha Dutrizac, refefring to Kolkman's
efforts in assisting other Huron -Perth teach-
ers in mastering Gestures instruction.
Down the road in Seaforth, however, Avon
Maitland trustees heard about their province -
wide lobby group's disappointment with the
Ontario Education Ministry's core French
approach.
Perth East trustee Tina Traschel, who rep-
resents the board on the Ontario Public
School Boards Association (OPSBA), reported
that one of the organization's working groups
"has been hearing for a long time" that the
time spent by students learning French is not
adequately reflected in the skill level of grad-
uates.
Perth South/West Perth representative
Carol Bennewies agreed, noting her daughter
always achieved high marks in French and
could read and write the language well, but
was not able to carry on a conversation upon
graduation.
The OPSBA working group is seeking input
from boards, as a response to a recent federal
government plan to require a doubling of the
number of "functionally literate" graduates by
2013.
Stratford trustee Meg Westley said she's in
favour of strengthened core French, if it can
be delivered in such a way as to increase the
fluency of graduates. n}
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in our budgets for it. If
(governments) are
going to make us do shove
that, there should be
funding."
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From Page 4
Change Conference in
Nairobi, Kenya in
November, 2006. The
idea is that while
planting trees will not
prevent the need to
reduce and replace the
use of carbon dioxide -
producing fossil fuels,
it will buy us some
time to make more
lasting environmental-
ly -friendly changes.
Obviously, we- won't
be planting those bil-
lion trees here in
Huron East but we
could start to take a
serious look at how we
can improve the forest
cover in our own back-
yards.
Seaforth business-
man Pete Klaver is
hoping to start up an
environmental
group/tree planting
brigade to begin the
challenge of planting
trees on local road-
sides. He's modelling
the project on one near
Thorndale called Tree
West Nissouri where
110 km of trees have
been planted over the
past 14 years..
His project starts on
Earth Day, April 22.
Why not dig out your
shovel and join him?