The Huron Expositor, 1999-04-21, Page 7Too few students enrolled
for French hnmersion to proceed
Registration
may be offered
again in 2000
BY SUSAN HUNDERTMARK
Expositor Staff 1 .
Too few students enrolled
in French Immersion at any
of the three planned sites in
Huron and Perth Counties to
be: able to offer the program
this fall.
But registration may be
offered again in September„
2000. trustees learned at the
April 13 Avon Maitland
District School Board
Meeting.
After the March 26' final
registration date. only five
enrolled in the Grade 1 entry
for French Immersion at
Grey Central Public School.
II' at Huron. Centennial
Public School. and 17 at
Bedford Public School. A
Feb. 19 registration indicated
that earlier plans to offer
French Immersion at the
Blyth
Singers 'Go
Country'
The Blyth Festival
Singers are celebrating the
music of Canada on
Saturday. May 8th with a
dinner and show - Blyth
Goes Country. . -
This evening event will
be held -at the Goderich
Township Community
centre in Holmesville.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
-The 45 -voice choir will
provide an evening of
entertainment. great food
and fun beginning with an
old-fashioned country
dinner at 6:30 p.m.
The menu will include a
variety of country
favourites - baked ham,
scalloped potatoes. Huron
County Naked beans. salads
and fresh baked pies.
After dinner. the audience
is invited to -sit back. enjoy
a drink and get ready for
some ' 'toe -tapping
entertainment.
'Richard Hansen, the
director for the Blyth
Festival Singes, will lead
the choir in a number. of
___Canadian .musical
selections - including folk.
traditional and modern
country.
Highlighted pieces
include the Canadian
Railroad Trilogy by
Gordon Lightfoot, tradition
east coast folk songs like'
, Song for the: Mira and
She's Like The Swallow. As
well the choir.will feature
songs by Healey Milian..
and a' beautiful new piece.
Lake Huron Song; written
by Jeannette Sleeves. a
choral director in Port
Elgin.
Sharon Johnston of
Goderich will accompany
the choir on piano; and also
accompany solo and small
• group songs.
'The entertainment hill
will also feature the talents
by some of. the members of
Homespun. the _members
Celtic vocal group from
Goderich. Homespun has
received audience and
critical acclaim for its
lovely Celtic harmonics
and the group's music is -
often featured on ('13C
Radio.
As well as the Norma
Prestcator of .Goderich
Township will he bringing
the audience to its feet
when when teaches a few
line dancing steps. Norma
•is a well known line
dancing and, clogging
teacher with students from
throughout the area.
Blyth • Goes Country
promises to he a fine
evening 'of• good
entertainment and fun,
Tickets are available in
advance from Campbell's
Photography in Goderich.
at The Dutch Store in
Clinton, from - 'choir
members or the Blyth
Festival Box Office at
523-930b:•
a
Grade 4 level would not be
viable either.
"Even at Bedford. with 17
students , if we even lost a
couple ofstudents we
couldn't r_un a viahle
• program." said
superintendent Marie
Parsons. -"We need 22-25
students to ensure a viahle
class so French immersion
will not happen in
September." .
Parsons said a lack of
transportation to schools
offering French Immersion
was the main stumbling'
Klock to registration.
especially since the Huron -
Perth Catholic- District
School Board provides
busing to its, French
immersion -sites: -
She added that . some
parents also want to he able-
to
bleto enrol all• their children at
the .same. school 'in the.
regular English program if
one child is attending for
French Immersion. Anda
others are only interested in
French Immersion if- it
offered at their child's home
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would he a tremendous
convenience for parents."
Parsons .said allowing
sibling transfers might cause
"considerable staffing
impacts" but said she'd Zook.
into it. She will also research
the cost of busing' in
preparation for the 2000-
' 2(X) I budget.
Trustee Donald Brillinger
• questioned offering French
Immersion it' it means only
attracting a. few: students
hack from the Catholic
system. -
Parsons said the Avon
Maitland board has lost 500
students in Grades -1-8 hut
that since the program is
being introduced one grade
at a time, it would not attract
"huge numbers." adding that
she 'knows of two or three
students registered at
will 'go to the Catholic
system instead if French
;.immersion isnot offered by
the Avon Maitland board.
Trustee Margaret Lapradc
asked if it wouldn't he 'better
'to offer a Grade .1-8 French
Immersion - program
immediately since she knows
of whole families• that would
transfer to the public system
at various grades but are not
Mit pared to split up their
family to different schools
and systems. - -
Parsons said the
insufficient registration for
French immersion will not
cause.thc hoard to look again
at offering primary .core
. French, which was dropped
-• • by the hoard earlier. this year.
"Trustees would have to
bring that hack to the table
and we're too far into the
process to do anything to
bring it hack for. this 1all:.We
needed to know by February.
for .scatting purposes.'' she
said.=
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