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Geor French school Tilt- litKUD Junr Its been 20 tough years for Coeur School By LOR I TAYLOR writer It took some time and effort to convince the powers that be that was a need and a desire or French language education in Ha It on Hills back in the early Sixties but almost twenty years later is still going The school started in 1900 with children from grades one to grade five being housed In a portable on the property where the present school is located in a bulling chared with Holy Cross School In order to come up with those children members of the French association looked through the phone book and called everyone with French In 1961 the school expanded to include grades six seven and eight and moved into two classrooms in the present building SIT DOWN Ki ln 1964 the school and the community made headlines the country parents and friends he school held a sit down strike to up their demand lor a French language kin that point the local French association had hired a teacher on its own and was conducting a class in the basement of a store This continued from September until Mav when the separate school board approved the kindergarten citing the school its own principal was another ttc didn get that principal from prajer Theresa St Jean one of the leiding members of the French We got him after trip after trip to the Ministry of Education in Toronto Miss Jean said the group flirted out meeting with then minister of education William Davis but it until after Thomas Wells had taken over the post that the decision was made to give Coeur its own principal is a for children whose mother tongue is French or ho have one French speaking parent The school provides instruction in French In all in In struction in English grammar begins in grade three and by grade eight the students tune the level of instruction in as speaking students principal Norman said Mrs Norman has been with principal or four Prior to that had had five years teaching experience in Sud bury Toronto Mrs Norman said she is one of four women principals the Separate School Board I found it a challenge when I came here with five years ex Mrs Norman said I feel I had point to prove I think the school has grown a its budget teaching staff and so on in spite of the fact that it shares the facilities of Holy Cross School There no such is the fcnglish students here the students here Mrs Norman said She pointed out that the two schools par jointly in numerous activities and said Sacre is also taking part in sports events and other ac with the speaking schools in the area Howard Wriggles worth Public hool We find it hard here at the school because we have to compete the community Mrs Norman We have to set a Francophone atmosphere We a month with certificates being presented to students for achievements in French Our activities are geared to I- rench The ist play we performed from Montreal One of the school goals is cultural what wt can give children she continued Because of our en on the cultural aspect We try to the children pride in their mother language and we include things like French folk dances and French songs in prognms i And the children ruction to their position The children realize re lucky in speaking two languages Mrs Norman said There jny problems with the children feeling different or alienated Mrs Norman that half the homes are speaking with the rest being homes where one parent is French She said many families ike an effort with language television records books Most of the school educational material like to keep abreast of whals going on she said The children like it when I come in to give a test because they know it a kind of summation and or evaluation It also gives me the op to judge the progress of the children if I go Into the classroom periodically There are three rench schools in llnlton the other two being and Burlington and Mrs Norman said the three schools tend to stick together The principals meet once a month to discuss Those dajs really help Mrs Norman said Sometimes gel the feeling that you re alone Hut we re encouraged because nowadays pirents arc more of what we re doing Also the Francophone com munity in southern Ontario is becoming more prominent so there is less of a feeling of being isolated Mrs Norman said the school will probably not change too much in the future aside from the ongoing process of im proving the v programs The English program is one of continuing concern because the school must ensure that the students have a good com mand of English in order to function in the community Mrs Norman said he school is looking into the possibility of organizing bus transport for lrench speaking children in Milton to transport them to Fcole Coeur Mrs Norman said If enough families were to become in teres led In such a program changes would have to be made to accommodate those students Ifwchadourown school It would be much better Miss St so we have to be satisfied It vibrant school community Mrs Norman said I like to say that the here is small but the quality is excellent We always have some activity going on I m not worried about the survival of the school but I think we reach success with- our goals Mrs Norman said I think were doing good- things Our children are doing well and learning things I think we have a good school from with the Quebec Mrs said the ministrv of education begin subsidizing publishers of French language texts this year if subsidies continue nil the educational material will be from Mrs her personal goals when she arrived at Sacre Coeur was to make the public more aware of the school existence I wanted the public to be aware that the school existed and I think we that eoal she said Wed like to see the school participate in the and sponsored by other schools I sec the school is integral part of the community One of my personal goals is to have the parents more in in the school s daily activities Mrs Norman said I d like to encourage the parents to become involved as volunteers and I want to encourage them with the help of the Parent Tcichers to come in and participate llltttlN The school has teachers with the school librarian teaching one half day and p in lime teacher taking Ihe Ihcr half day Mrs Norman said she per fori Sister leads of her students In a rench song at Sucre The school which provides instruction In French language for whose mother tongue Is French has been open a appears to he eoink strong duties in the morning and does remedial work in the acting as the school resource teacher certain amount of lime in Ihe with the students GEORGETOWN TIRE Drive with confidence CUSTOM POLYSTEEL RADIALS Priced from EXTRA LONG LASTING Radial construction and steel belts eliminate squirm a cruel caue of ire wear BETTER GAS MILEAGE Rad have lower rolling res than bias ply tires in not savings SAFETY Double steel bells prolecl against mpacl breaks GEORGETOWN TIRE SALES LTD Guelph St 8771535 v Cloth Vinyl Combination from HALTON HILLS 352 QUEEN STREET 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