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Page Wednesday February 1 1989 Board beefs up first aid training focuses in on specific needs by Donna Kelt Herald Starr The Board of Education could beef up their first aid pro gram if funding is approved to tram some teachers assistants and secretaries in CPR according to a board report released Thurs day The report says some staff could be trained in cardio pulmonary resuscitation by St Johns Ambulance at a cost of per person An additional would go toward increasing the hours of CPR trained teachers assistants making the total budget for the first aid program The report prepared by Superintendent of Special tion Services Garry Crosmman says responsibility for first aid ser vices was taken away from school nurses in 1978 when funding no longer came from the board but from the Halton Department of Health Less emphasis was placed on the first aid requirements of the schools says the board report And a legislation passed in 1984 called Ontario Regulation 516 de- emphasized the health nurse as a first aid giver The focus was turned to health maintenance says the report But the recentlycompleted board study points to increasing needs for first aid the schools At the elementary level an average of onehalf hour per day is spent by teaching and secretarial staff to administer first aid This increases at the secondary school level where one-and-one- half hours per day were used by secretarial and teaching staff The Trainable Mentally Han children require a full time first aid administrator says the board report The board proposal supported by First Aid Committee members Eleanor Adams Grant Clathwor thy Garry Crossman Gail McKay Brian Moore and Larry Stevens recommends that the 200 staff members are trained by St Johns Ambulance to administer CPR Staff would include at least two people in each school including at least one secretary one teacher assistant one volunteer two TMH teacher assistants a teachers assistant at the elementary level and a teachers assistant at the secondary level The report suggests the school principal should be responsible for the first aid program in his school and should develop administrative procedures After a year service will be evaluated and a policy put in place The board program if passed by trustees at a meeting could be in place in the fall of 1989 The Halton Board of Education voted Thursday to approve a proposal to protect students with special sensitivities to the school environment These students called en vironmentally hypersensitive or EH students are a very small population with very specific needs say board trustees In a report published by board superintendent Garry Crossman immediate action is recom mended for EH children who have sensitivities to a wide range of foods chemicals and environmen tal substances going beyond the normal Such action would cost the board to research and implement at the elementary level and it would cost the board to renovate a classroom to suit the needs of the EH children The EH classroom would be located in South where the need is greatest said Mr Crossman Of 21 reported cases of environmental hypersensitivity 17 of those students are located in Burlington schools Of the schools who responded to board survey only one student in Hills is a medically detected EH student The student a trainable mental ly handicapped student is from Joseph Gibbons School in Georgetown The principal of Joseph Gibbons Doug Magwood says the EH issue has gained interest in the school over the last few years Its nothing new said Mr who said he would like the system to review the whole spectrum of environmental con But Mr Crossman said the board has already taken action to reduce environmental hypersensitivity It has made use of irritant clean materials has altered dustmg processes removed items contain ing urea formaldehyde and has improved air filtering Painting and repair work are planned for low impact time periods and irritating chemicals have been removed from elemen tary programs said Mr The Report approved by the board trustees was submitted by Mr Crossman and is the- work of the EH Steering Committee The committee is comprised of health experts who have been studying the issue since The committee used the Waterloo Board of Education as a model forming their own pro posal for an EH classroom Presently the Waterloo Board has two EH classrooms The Boards EH now that its approved could be in effect as early as the fall of 1989 said Mr And construction to a present classroom or renovations to a por table to be used as a clean environ classroom could begin in June GEORGETOWN DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE SELECTION INFORMATION NIGHT FOR PARENTS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 1989 645 pm 800 pm Grade specific presentations will be made at and 7 30 RCCAT Assembled Unassembled RAM CONTROL MCLUOED REAL BOSS Georgetown Hobby JUNIORSENIOR KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION FOR SEPTEMBER 1989 THE HALTON ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD ADVANCED registration for those children who will be attending Junior or Senior Kindergarten in the Catholic Schools in Burlington Milton Georgetown and Acton will be held at all schools on TUESDAY WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14 and 1989 9 00 a m to Noon 1 30 p m to 5 p AGE OF ADMISSION AND REQUIREMENTS Junior Kindergarten Children are required to be years of age on or before December 31 1 989 Senior Kindergarten Children are required to be 5 years of age on or before December 31 1989 Birth or Baptismal Certificate required for age verification Before registration is finalized a child will have completed the prescribed program for immunization for diphtheria tetanus poliomyelitis measles mumps and rubella Families registering for the first time at a school are requested to provide their family H I P number at the time of registration For further information or alternate registration date please contact the principal of your nearest Catholic School Donald W Schrenk Chairman of the Board CG Byrnes Director of Education LE C0NSEIL DES EC0LES CATH0LI0UES DE HALTON AVIS INSCRIPTION SC0LAIRE PROGRAMMES DE ET DE DENFANTS pour la rentree classes en septembre 989 Lmscnption par anticipation francophones dSge admissibles a la ou au jardin en septembre 1 989 aura lieu a IEcole SacreCoeur Georgetown IEcole Sainte Mane Oakville et IEcole Saint Philippe burlington aux dates suivantes MARDLMERCREDIETJEUDI 14 15 et fevrier 1989 9hetl2h 13h30et17h AGE DOCUMENTATION REQUISE denfants Tout enfant atteint Iage de quatre ans au plus 31 decembre1989 Tout enfant ayant atteint de cinq ans au plus tard le 31 decembre1989 Certificat de etou On a tout parent qui sonses pour la premiere fois fournir lors de lmscnption le dassurance sante de Ontario 0HIP Tout enfant doit avoir complete le proqramme par la sur Ilmmunisafion contre la diphtlne le tetanos la poliomylelite la rougeole les oreillons la rubeole avant que son inscription finalisee Veuillez communiqueravec la direction de Iecole catholique frangaise votre pour renseignemerfts supplementaires pour fixer autre date description Donald Schrenk President du Gilbert President de la Section de langue frangaise Byrnes Ieducation