Times-Advocate, 1979-05-02, Page 5Times-Advocate, May 2, 1979
SS board agrees to shorten, more frequent French classes
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The Huron-Perth County
Roman Catholic Separate
School board agreed to
reduce the teaching of oral
French as a second language
from 40-minute periods to
20-minute periods at a
meeting in Dublin, Monday.
The decision was based on
a recommendation by the
ministry of education
because, in general, the 40-
minute period was found to
exceed the attention span of
the average child in grades
6,7 and 8.
Further, the ministry
recommends that foreign
language development
should be on a daily basis for
continuity. At the present
time the board’s policy now
is for a 40-period every other
day. It is felt that pupils are
not as receptive to the same
amount of new material
over the longer period as
they would in the two 20-
minute periods, and they
forget it on an alternate day
basis.
It has been found too that
if one 40-minute period is
lost because of bad weather
Few read
considerable
The communities of AilSa
Craig and Lucan don’t have
the largest number of
patrons for their libraries,
but they are among the most
prolific readers according to
the annual report of the
Middlesex County Library.
The Ailsa Craig library
had 904 readers with a cir
culation of 33,237, while
Lucan’s circulation was 30,-
027 for its 918 readers.
By comparison,
Dorchester had the most
readers at 1,633, but the cir
culation was only 34,276.
Other area figures in the
report were as follows:
Granton book centre, an es
timated 80 readers with cir
culation of 1,292; Uderton,
408 readers with 12,338 cir
culation.
Frank Hamilton, chair
man of the library board,
reported an upward trend
both in book circulation and
in library use for research
and reference throughout
the county in 1978, He also
expressed pleasure in the
fact 35 handicapped readers
used 782 talking books dur
ing the year.
The number of books used
in Middlesex totalled 354,-
626. The total bookstock is
167,633.
or a professional develop
ment day or the like, that a
considerable amount of
teaching time is lost. Too,
the itinerant French teacher
does not becofne part of the
staff in any school.
As well it has been observ
ed that discipline problems
have occurred with too long
a period of French and this
has resulted in the
lassroom teacher having to
remain in the room during
the French class which is a
serious waste of teacher
time.
Additional proposals on
the teaching of French
(oral) such as extending or
not extending the program
will be discussed at a future
meeting when the trustees
have more time to consider
the program.
Mrs. Edith McCarroll at
the media centre in the
board office and Jim
McDade, resource teacher,
at the board office outlined
to the trustees the use and
value of the video tape
library at the board office.
They explained the
characteristics unique to
television such as in
troducing new perspectives,
as a primary source of infor
mation, as an art form, as
an instructor...
They explained the advan
tages of videotape, such as
the low cost, being easy to
set up and use. They said the
tapes are durable and can be
re-used, available when
needed and they pointed out
a child with reading
problems benefits as the
tapes are non-threatening.
Richard Bester’s request
for a leave of abscence from
St. Patrick’s School, Dublin,
for one year was approved.
The board accepted the
resignation from Ecole Ste
Marie of Lorraine Regier
who is the grades 4,5 and 6
teacher, effective August 31.
Mrs. Carole Ann Kerrigan
of Catholic Parent Teacher
Association of St. Joseph’s
School, Clinton, will be
notified that the ministry of
education has informed the
board that its capital
program for 1979 has been
established and no alloca
tion has been set aside for
renovations at St. Joseph’s
School.
On April 9, Mrs. Kerrigan
its property committee to
# visit the school and see what
has authorized can be done to improve
and two other members of ditional accommodation was
her association presented a required at the school,
brief to the board stating ad- The board
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HURON PARK SOCCER
Brian Mullin, Vai Reed and Tony Jones watch as Bill Reed signs up.
school facilities. In addition
the board will continue to
pursue its request to the
ministry for renovations at
the school in the future.
A motion by Michael Con
nolly was defeated that the
administrative staff be
authorized to investigate the
possibility of giving parents
the option of sending their
kindergarten children to a
near-by school, other than
their own school, to benefit
class loading problems in
the system.
Two trustees, Ronald
Murray and John
O’Drowsky pointed out that
the board has the authority
to staff the schools, not the
parents. William Eckert,
Director of Education,
pointed out this would open
up the problem of requests
for changing schools in other
grades.
The board approved the
establishment of nine
professional activity days
for its teaching staff in 1979-
80 school term.
A request by Trustee Con
nolly was approved that the
number of days be set at a
meeting a month prior to the
meeting establishing the
precise dates for the special
days. It was determined that
it is impossible to set the
time for the professional
development days to co
incide with those in
neighbouring public school
boards of Perth and Huron.
Five days of the nine are
designated as system-wide
days and four are school
days to suit the local com
munity.
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