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PAGE 6,r+1,-,-QODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH.10, 1977
Snowballers
The junior students of Victoria Public School par-
ticipated in Winterama last Wednesday and took part in
several games. Here a young lady prepares for the ball
toss. (staff photo)
HPSSB initiates
new curriculum
Curriculum planning at
local level is already
derway in the Huron P
Roman Catholic sepa
school csystem according
guidelines from the Mini
of Education superintend
of curriculum Bill Eckert
members of the board at t
regular meeting in Dublin
Monday night.
Mr. Eckert' said educa
minister Thomas Wells
said that the ministry
provide curricul
guidelines that "Make s
kids get the fundamenta
and provide a base for lo
development of curriculu
The HPRCSSS system
use curriculum guides t
are already available to p
courses of study for k
dergarten to grade
students and will g
guidelines on grades sev
and eight in April from
ministry.
Curriculum committees
art and science have alrea
started work and a co
mittee on reading will sta
next week Mr. Eckert said.
Teachers in the Hur
Perth system are being ask
what curriculum co'mmitte
they want to sit on and w
contribute programs` that
they've' already developed
and which are working well.
In addition to courses of study
already used in the board's
schools the curriculum
committees will draw on
ideas from other boards Mr.
Eckert said.
"We're not going to invent
the wheel all over again," Mr.
Eckert said explaining that
developing the curriculuffi is
a matter of consolidating
what -teachers in the system
already know and what can
be gained from the ex-
perience of others. If the
ministry guidelines are as
descriptive as has been in-
dicated "a lot of what we need
to work with will be there",
he said.
A system wide professional
development day on readin
is being held March 7 at St
Michael,s School in Stratfor
Mr. Eckert told the trustees
Trustee David Teahen o
Stratford asked if a record
will be kept of attendance a
the PD day since it is "an
important day for all
teachers."
Director of Education John
Vintar told Mr. Teahen that
principals are responsible for
informing the administration
about any absences and
,the filling in any teachers who
un- are sick and unable to attend.
erth The board met in com-
rate mittee of the whole for an
to hour . and a half in public
stry session for two hours and then
ent went back into committee of
told the whole at 11:30. One of the
heir items being discussed in
on private is the feasibility of
introducing French in grades
tion other than seven and eight in
has HPRCSS schools. But the only
will report out of committee of the
u m whole was a recommendation
ure that the board's insurance
ls" committee study the
cal possibility of 24-hour accident
m. coverage for trustees before,
will policy renewal in October.
hat The custodians, negotiating
lan team has been formed and
in- has told the personnel
six committee that they are
et ready to start meeting Mr.
en Teahen added.
the
Trustees felt that it was
on probably no longer necessary
dy to• appoint two of their
m- number' to go over the
rt monthly computerized
cheque list with business
on superintendent Jack Lane.
ed But trustee Teahen pointed
es out the board is responsible
ill for all money paid out and he
thought there should be a
chance to question and
approve accounts at each
board meeting.
If you think a bill's too high
you'll want to question it",
trustee Mike Connolly said.
He's chairman of the board's
finance committee which will
bring a recommendation on
handling the cheque list to the
next board meeting.
Trustee Ron Marcy asked
the administration about an
article in Dimensions a
magazine on education from
the ministry for trustees
which indicated that there
are more funds available for
special education. "How
much extra has this board
been getting?" he wanted to
know. '
Superintendent Joe Mills
g explained that there isn't an
extra per pupil grant
d available for special ed like
. there is for French or metric
f studies just an adjustment in
the grant weighting factor
t that the ministry uses.
"There's a kind of window.
dressing in Ministry reports
when they;re talking about
grants," added 'business
superintendent Jack Lane,
"It's not nearly as profitable
as it looks then," said Mr.
Marcy.
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Housing Action Committee
Seek approval for budget
The Goderich housing
action committee will seek
approval of a budget totalling
$3,700 from Town Council.
The proposed budget was
drawn up when the com-
mittee met for its first session
of 1977 last Thursday af-
ternoon at Town Hall. A $150
stipend _ to committee
members, totalling $1200 and
$300 to the committee
secretary Roy Brechenridge,
make up about half the
proposed budget while $200
was set aside for advertising
and sundry expenses, $500 for
public relations and $1,500 for
conferences and conventions.
Members noted that the
budget was considerably
higher than that for 1976 but
also observed that the $1200
for representatives had been
more or less imposed through
a letter from town council
which also directed the group
to negotiate the amount to be
paid to the secretary.
The striking of a budget to
be spent on conferences and
conventions created some
debate as many members felt
-the sum seemed large in
comparison to the remainder
of the budget. When put to a
vote however, the budget
passed unanimously.
Apportioning the budget
between the town of Goderich
and the twn partieipatine
municipalities, Goderich and
Colborne Township, produced
little disagreement. Although
Don Wheeler suggested he
would have been happier with
a 12.5-12.5-75 percent split, the
final agreement (subject to
ratification by the councils
concerned) was fol 10-10-80
percent.
•
In other business,
establishing groundrules for
the upcoming year's work,
the committee agreed to set
their meetings on the first
Thursday of the month at 8:00
p.m. in the council chambers.
Mayor Deb Shewfelt told
the meeting that Goderich
should know within a month
GREAT SAY
where the _Ontario Housing
Corporation will build 50
senior citizens housing units.
The Mayor said he had been
in touch with the ministry of
government services in
December and was told the
ministry was looking at
several sites and would make
a decision in the near future.
The ministry is responsible
for purchase of land for the
government.
The new housing will be.
administered by the Huron
County Housing Authority
and the participating
municipalities will pay 7.5
percent of any deficit arising
from operations.
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