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THE HERALD Wednesday Primary Page IS FINAL 5 DAYS OF CARLOAD BEDDING SALE YOU COULD BE THE LUCKY WINNER OF THE W ADMIRAL PORTABLE TV Purchase of any bedding unit makes you eligible for draw COMMUNITY DAY Jeremy MacPhrrtan and a chum look on as Doug event at Normal Community held last Campbell burst through ihe rubber lire the obstacle I Mr raid photo 18 parents applying for French instruction The Hall on board of tlon has eighteen applications from parents in the George town area who want to enroll their child In a French si on program but board policy says to thirty five are necessary before a class can be offered Joseph Gibbons Public School In Georgetown has a class of grade one students enrolled in what Is known as a partial Immersion program and arc now being accepted from par who would like their child to attend a grade seven im program Sep tember Stewart town Public School French Immersion classes are also available b- In grade seven and continuing In grades eight and nine lor students who were unable to take French imme- In grade one Helen Mitchell of communications and Peter Spencer French consultant for ihe board of education were the a meeting held Monday of parents inter In hearing about the partial French Immersion pr presently operating Joseph Gibbons school DIFFERENT KINDS Mr Spencer said the Minis try of Education has three different kinds of French pro grams operating in schools across the province In a core program which is most common the students receive a period of instruction in the French language each day In an extended course dents receive a course in French language and also one subject In French which Is to say ihe language used in teaching Ihe subject is French immerson prop- gram some all of the are taught in French In Hall on French for half the day and English the other half It is no longer a French lesson a course where the communication Is in French Mr arc aught in French here in Hal I on s Immersion program are French language arts mu sic environmental studies and part or all of their physical education program Mrs Mitchell said the deci was made to the immersion progran in grade one Instead of kindergarten because the staff would be able to consult with the child kindergarten teacher and to determine if he or she would benefit from pro cram or if hurl learning problems which would be compounded by ad ding a second language The child kindergarten teacher and principal would make their comments before staff talked to the child parents Part of the reason for partial immersion program with both English and French being In eluded in the curriculum Mrs Mitchell said Is because the board and its staff feel the student are bet t off learning to read in their mother liingue before they try to master the skill of reading in a second language They also learn to decode French words from pictures and oral exercises she said but by lime they arc using skills they developed while to read In En The English half of the course also permits teachers recognize any learning diffl cullies which the student Lioness Bowlathon LI or est This month Lioness members arc busy soliciting pledges for the Feb iGth bowl All proceeds will go towards i he purchase of a defibrillator for the Georgetown hospital The present defibrillator Is on Ms lasi days and the doctors need a replacement They hope to be able to buy the model valued at This will stay in emerge ncy department bul can be moved a to The defibrillator is us id anyone thai goes into any coronary stoppage If used immediately revival is often possible Another Lioness project cur renily is lie of new club uniforms Hopefully ihesc will be ready in time for ihe annual Lions Club convention parade being held in Niagara I- alls in June ihe Ladies slug in April This is an annual and always sell out Anyone wishing watch Lion esses roar should purchase well in All funds raised by club loour local ratifies threeyear contract Members of United Workers local ratified a new contract with Standard Products Canada Lid last week which will give Is hourly rated employees a Increase over the next three The new contract which look effect Feb also gives workers an Increase In Cost of Living Allowance tCOLA Employees will receive Si COLA beginning Feb and the remainder plus in creases through 1979 less on Feb 1 I960 and a third including increases for I960 less on Feb 1381 The fact that COLA has been folded into the base rate means thai workers will receive greater increases on their overtime and incentive workers can earn bonus on Ihe folded In money WAGE INCREASES Wage Increases effective Feb of each year give employees a Increase this yew a increase next year and a increase the third year as well as inequity in ranging from 50c an hour fur 60 employees in job classifications These increases bring wages 19 in hour plus for workers for operators far floor inspectors and set up men for line and rolling ma chine leaders or men and for toot and die makers Other iiems worked out in Include two more paid holidays one in the se and a second in third year of ihe fora total of a insurance policy plus a or dismemb policy an Increase in Ihe sick benefits available to employees as well as a reduc in walling period before the benefits can be claimed shift premium of an hour for afternoon shifts and 30c an hour for midnight shifts and a I replacement allowance of a year for tool and die makers and a year for maintenance men Improved vacation benefits worked out in tin will per im dtir 12 years ind per cent service the Otic eniirdy new feature of ihi is I lie a puisit pi in of mi nib turns the with ihi up Io was worked oui by j It innsibl of in president Jerry liiiirnational rcpn scnuiive Jim for in personnel Bill liggir and Hay r fur company There has been no disputes during ihe 19 of here said Mr Man and ihlsncw agreement is far Hie best contract we ever have negotlaled in ibii time union was unsuccessful in Io include a dental plan in this contract have which otherwise be interpreted as difficulties the second language ASSURED Mrs Mitchell assured parents that if the need or desire for a French Immersion program diminished after a class had begun the class would stay at same school but ihe class to be si irted would be- held another where a need had been tied and the space was avail able The decision on where to put an immersion program is based not only on a study of which parents want the pro gram and where but the location of the nearest school with the space to accommo date the program she said The board of education has already undertaken a commit ment to provide a suitable I- course in high school for ihosc grade seven students enrolled in an Immersion pro Mrs Mitchell said lausc the students hate had much more extensive in French by the time ihey reach ihe regular French student she said The is to provide subsequent classes is sludenls move ahead provid Ihe number of ii Mrs said while there is a in some in mike time for the French siudics the pro gram is commuted follow Ihe board core lum The is presently get granis which Mrs Mil ihell as grants for the French program from the province she slid ihe reiurn io smaller ordinary would nol cause prob lems in the program since it grants Were made ivailable larger grants were bonus she Slid Mrs Mitchell Mr Spencer the fact that i need exception ally lake pari in the immersion program child who is going In good avirjjc happy child will be lhat in a French mirsim program Mrs Mil Thai won i Applying for a child Io enter in the French immersion pro gram does mean child will be Mrs Mitchell warned The staff will hold discussions with Hie kindergarten lea and principal and with ihe child parents before or a would benefit from pro Were talking in this pro- about funchonal In make students able to survive in culture if they had in Mrs Mitchell Parents interested in the Immersion program can Mrs Mitchell at for further I 39 CONTINENTAL BED Complete with Headboard and 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