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16 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 3, 1979 What to Do with a 25-Foot Banana Split Save the Children Fund The Canadian Save the Children Fund announces that Curriculum Guidelines for the 1980 CANSAVE Valentine Tree program are now being mnailed directly to elementary schools. "The overwhelming response from teachers, students and parents to this program during 1979 has shown the need for a global educational system. The work weekend is to be held at Glen House, Ganano- que, from October 19 to 21. A suggested list of topics for discussion includes a trustee committee structure, a review of board function, setting board priorities, negotiations with employee groups, com- municiation, and trustee administrator relationships. The Director of Education for the Northumberland and Newcastle School Board says a report on assessment equalization factors will be prepared for the board's consideration. The document will be pre- pared as a result of a new method for determining equalization factors for taxa- tion. The new method would be based on market value, Mr. Sif ton said in his report to the school board. "I would think we can have some general motion of the impact late this fall," said Mr. Sifton. awareness program geared to elementary pupils", said Mrs. R. Douglas Jennings and Mrs. John W. Rogers, Co-Chairmen of the CANSAVE Valentine Tree program in Toronto recently. "We are happy to continue the program as an annual service to schools." Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Rogers and other SAVE THE CHILDREN volunteers across Canada introduced the CANSAVE Valentine Tree to schools as a special tribute to the International Year of the Child. Principals and teachers requiring additional copies of the Curriculum Guideline, or other information about the organization, in this area, are asked to contact the appropriate SAVE THE CHILDREN Regional Office at the following address: SAVE THE CHILDREN, 720 Spadine Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2W3. 1 JOG FOR LIFE AND BREATH Support your local Lung Association 723-3151 Youngsters Enjoy YWCA's Creative Capers Ring-around-the Rosie is a favorite game with the two and- three-year-olds at Creative Capers, a program sponsored by the Oshawa YWCA at St. John's Anglican Church. These youngsters spend 35 minutes every Wednesday for 12 weeks with instructors Nancy Bone and Rita Sloos. Children aged three and one-half to five follow this group at 10:15 for 45 minutes. What do you do with a 25 foot banana split in the middle of a farmer's field north of Bowmanville? It didn't take the children at the Salvation Army's annual Sunday School pienic, held Saturday, September 22 on George Richardson's farm, long to figure that one out. They dove right in and finished it off in less than 15 minutes. Sehool Board Briefs By Peter Parrott Courtice Secondary School's director of business education has taken on a new post as co-ordinator of special services for the Northumber- land and Newcastle Board of Education. Garth Gilpin has been appointed for a two-year term as co-ordinator of special services. He was welcomed to his new job last Thursday, September 27, at the school board's regular meeting in Cobourg. Mr. Gilpin is a former teacher at Bowmanville High School. He later moved to Courtice Secondary School where he eventually became director of business education. He has also served as night school principal at Courtice Secondary School and was co-principal at the western area summer school held in Bowmanville during the past summer. In his new job, Mr. Gilpin will be working out of the school board's Cobourg office. Local schools have been granted permission to take part in fund-raising activities aimed at assisting the Royal Ontario Museum with its massive renovation and expansion project. The museum has invited schools to participate in fund- raising and has prepared information kits for curricu- lum development and co- related fund-raising. The Royal Ontario Museum has been granted permission to distribute kits to Northumberland and Newcastle schools. Individual schoois may participate in fund-raising activities if they wish to do so. Trustees have decided not to add another secretary to the ranks of board of education staff until a report has been made by the board's non- teaching personnel commit- tee. Trustees were considering increasing the number of secretarial staff for the co- ordinator of instructional services, co-ordinator of special services and special education officer from two to three. The board was told that secretarial staff in this area are currently shouldering a heavy workload "I think it is fair to say that we have been limping along. There are some areas where the limping along bas created some difficul- ties," said Director of Educa- tion Doug Sifton. Trustee Dr. Doug Galt, said that he believed it would be difficult to sell the idea of extra school board staff to the taxpayers at a time of declining enrollment. After a brief discussion, the decision to hire an additional secretary was delayed. Courtice North Public School will be getting a new piano as a result of action taken by the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education last Thursday. Trustees voted to purchase three replacement pianos for elementary schools. The instruments will be used in Courtice North Public School, the Thomas Gillbard Public School and the Brighton Public School. Cost of the pianos is $1,645 each with delivery in mid December. Forty-five workshops for elementary teaching staff were held in six locations Friday, September 28. Local workshops were held at The Pines Senior Public School where K to six mathe- matics curriculum was the topic for discussion. Other workshops were held at schools throughout the jurisdiction of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Educa- tion. Topics included environ- mental studies, language and arts, special workshops deal- ing with topics such as values, self-awareness were conduct- ed for the benefit of grade seven and eight staff. Senior officials with the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education will be spending more time in their schools as a result of a policy approved by trustees last week. The board of education adopted a scheme in which the director of education, super- intendent of special services, and superintendent of instruc- tion will visit local schools as often as possible to act as associate area superinten- dents. "We think that our visibility in the schools and our familiarity with the programs and our first-hand knowledge of the schools is of importance to this board," said Doug Sifton, director of education. Mr. Sifton along with super- intendents H. R. Moorcroft and D. W. Patterson will take part in the program. Each of the three officials has been assigned four schools to visit. Trustees are making arrangements to attend a weekend seminar this month to discuss issues facing the e Top Coats e Dress Slacks e Sport Shirts e Men's Shoes • Sweaters • Ties * Sport Coats * Dress Shirts Chargex Mastercharge Du American Express Oshawa centre Open Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 pm. Sat 'till 6:00 p.m. Â94ýà eau a im on IL ià%