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SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday April 1WQ page Education in an adult world Continued from page Al curriculum Currently our subject areas bust technical social science and family stud ies are participating with approximately forty community business In and social of what it means to be an adult an experience rarely acquire In the classroom The results have also shown that students who participated valued education mare showed a greater desire and capacity to accept responsibility and be came more aware of the choices open to them upon leaving secondary school Cooperative education also provides students with the opportunity to acquire good work hamls interpersonal communic ation skills and In most cases It Increases self respect self reliance and selfconfidence Coop also serves as a training program for pro spective employees of small businesses Dave Macklnnon display a program be wrote about electricity related problems Photos by Harald Branich Precision and ease are assured In the project Ken Morrow and Jamie are attempting with ihe aid or digitally controlled equipment Equipment at a digital readout ts updated to keep pace with industry equipment Photos by Ilaratd Technical programs offer a future The technical prog rammc at Georgetown District High School cont inues to attract high of motivated stu a The present enrol i shows the majority of the student body is involved in some aspect Of technical studies with many students pursuing an programme In specific areas The goal In the early years of training at Is to expose lo a variety of different shops to enable them to make a wise choice of courses In be Parents at school another week she helped Herald Writer children with their The education system tables and their has come a long way from reading the oneroom rural school Every week It Georgetown a Carol Mc Its not re pet Cartney went to tious and It very Inler- Grade teacher Mrs McCartney helper spends one mora- said I go because 1 ing a week at Howard interested la my child Wrigglesworth Public education School and sometimes ALTERNATIVES more if there a an extra she has always volun- currlcular activity tee red In classrooms requiring parental help where her children are Taught In oneroom pupils she said Mrs school where eight McCartney has a son in were covered by two Grade3ondadaughterin teachers Mrs McCart Grade She said she sold the system her alternate which child children are In Is much class she going to do her different from what she volunteer work in experienced as a child in depending on which child Hornby needs the added parental One teacher used to Interest more a year parent volunteer for and another Grades five years now she finds and S Mrs she spends about our said However by the hours a week at Wriggles- time she went to high worth school most of the one- My kids enjoy my room rural schools were being Mrs Mc- closed she said said Unless you go to the think the kids would be embarrassed w my how things are run coming In but that snot Parents who Just the case They re very see report cords to know comfortable about it now their child Is tunc- she said she Honing Mrs McCartney remember her parents said You see problems ever going into the school other parents don t room when she was a As a parent volunteer child with Grade teacher The school set off Susan Borrow Mrs Mc- by Itself any more It a Cartney finds her work part of the family and varies every week Two part of community life weeks ago she helped which Is a good children practise a play Mrs McCartney noted do TovLonbro of Georgetown gels a lift every Tuesday afternoon with the ActlVau to come to Harrison Public School lo help ml Grade 1 teacher Norma Held Mr Held calls the parent a vital part of her teaching program giving results that really show Lisa Luna deft Adrlenae Miller along with their classmates get a helping hand each week with their reading and writing from Mrs Lonbro Herald photo TIMS AUTO CLEANING senior years This is compllshedbyofferlng In grade nine a technical package consisting of six subjects including draft and blueprint reading machine shop electricity welding and wood In the senior years an Indepth study can be pursued by students opt Ing for single and double credits of their choice and by enrolling in the coop erative work experience EDUCATION WEEK More stories Friday The cooperative work experience programme Is another aspect of lectin education that has been enthusiastically cm braced by students at This program mc allows senior students to be placed with local Industries and earn credit towards their dual ion diploma Students participating in the programme work half days at their respect ive placement and then return to school for the remainder of the day to complete the academic requirements for their There are nine senior students enrolled this year in the following areas machine shop mechanical drafting electronics welding and auto- mechanics Although students are not paid a salary for their working hours they do earn two high school cred its and at the same time gain valuable practical experience and Insight Into the many technical career opportunities wrdefi are available in the co In prog rammc will be expanded to accommodate appro twenty technical students with additional placements In building construction ral drafting and ty Students and teachers alike are most sppreciat of he enthusiasm and support that this mme has generated with our local Industries Courses at the high school are continually changing to meet he needs of industry A new aspect to he teaching of machine shop is a direct result of the Introduction of a digital measuring system to the shop A digital readout unit has been Installed on the vert milling machine This readout system en ables students lo machine components to close tole rances by setting the of cut or travel on digital readout unit of of an Inch can be obtained and unit can be program read In metric or Imperial units The end Is that students gain an appreciation of industrial a lea I ions using tip to date equip men Exciting changes are also taking place with regards ihe leaching of electricity and electron If With the introduction of computers has come he need Mo incorporate digital elect into the technical programme Senior clas are now working with Integrated circuits any of which contain reds and even thousands Sim CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Phone 8770109 Barry Tlmtock CARRETALBULDWG SUITE S GUARANTEED INVESTMENT Annual Interest Payment 5 year term rauuuijtniiingt Standard Trust Deposits have been given an A rating by Canadian Bond Rating Service STANDARD TRUST A federally chartered Trust Company 8 Main St S Brampton Larry Aiderbert Manager Member Canadian Deposit Corporation THE OLD GLEN MILL Beaumont Mills IS own CLEARANCESALE Ply CARDED WOOL Reg Great far bulky 2 ply Poly CROCHET CORD green orange gold Reg 32 17 All while acrylic ODD BALLS Reg 32 NOWJUST GLEN MILL lun itl of transistors on a single clip no 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