THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday Match 15 1982
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POUR NOS ENFANTS,
UNE EDUCATION DE QUALITE
ET EN FRANCAIS/

KIFNVENUE
ALTA 2°¢ 3'
ANNIE
PROG CADRE

Le Programme (adre de Francais
élébre 10iémpe Anniversaire

LE PROGRAMME CADRE
DE FRANCAIS

Rernice Carcier's Grade 2 and V students do all their class work in French

PROGRAMME CADRE HERE

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Le Programme Cadre de Francais
Célébre 10iéme Anniversaire

ince George's French schoo!
Le Programme Cadre de Francais
Is ten years old this year and going
strong.

Some 330 students, from kindergarten to
Grade 12, attend classes at King George V
elementary schoo! and are taught the French
language and French-Canadian culture.

“The curriculum is the same as in other
schools in the district, but everythin,

‘ounting for the
ively large number of swdents still
‘Sttending. But ina few years the picture will
change and the student body will be much
smaller, says Green,
When the Cay ter of Rights
end. ‘ame into force in 1987,
nts from English-speaking families
were no longer accepted, and today a new
student must have at least one French-
speaking parent to be eligible.
“This will cut into the enrollment,” Green
says. But, of course, those English-
speaking students who were already
registerod when the chartor changed the
rules were permiticd to continue and their
blings also had the right aticnd, because,
88 Grocn says, “You can't tell 2 brother or

bby Jan-Udo Wenzel

sister they cannot go to the same school as
their older siblings.”

English-speaking swxents, however, still
have a chance to leam to speak French if
they envoll ina French immersion program.

But Le Programme Cadre de Francais
more ihan just a place to leam the language.
It places great emphasis on.

ving this school,
cording 10 Hulty is to preserve and
Promote the Prench tanguage, the history

ke rriculum is the

same as in othe
schools...but everything
is conducted in French."

and culure of one of Canada's founding
races

Hufty, @ product of French immersion,
speaks French with the teachers and the
students as well as with parcnis who wish to
do so. He took over as principal only
recently after spending many ycars in the

disuict's administration. He says the
Parents are proud of their school and have a
strong organization to back the school,
Green says that many teenagers have to be
persuaded to stay in the Cadre,
“Some want to be just li
kid; they want to q\
Weme
juate here,”
only four st
ill be the first
Le Programme
e
imber enrolled in hi
classes is 23, but Green said »
will come into Grade 8 next year and the
high school section will grow.
Otherwise, the just like any
othe, 11 classrooms and some
SSe3 ase split, that means students of
different grades are in the same

Many parents who feel strongly
about the preservation of the French
language and culture do take their children
to the school.

Green also says the French-Canadian club
in Prince George, Le Cercle Francais, is a
strong supporter of the school as are most
French-speaking residents of this arca,

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Jenny Asthon,

ORT

VAN BIEN STUDENTS

French culture learned
on trip to Fahler, Alta.

by JOHN POPE
Citizen Staff Reporter

Cows, sheep, rabbits and bees were
first-time experiences {or some of the
17 Van Bien Elementary School sty
dents who are bilingual plonecrs

It was all part of # recent 640.
kilometre trip to a French community
In Alberta's Peace River country
where the Intermediate class experi-
enced rural life in French

All the students are in the BC. gov-
ernment's Programme Cadre where
the core curriculum Is taken In
French

Alter Van Bien Principal Rud Bur-
bee gave his usual “Bon Jour Les En
fants” in greeting the class, the stu
dents told of what they learned — be
sides French

These experiences ranged from
being on @ tractor for the first time to
milking cows. holding rabbits and ft
ling & silo with grain

People whi teach languages say

the best thing to do Is ga to the cul
ture,” says Burbee, who Is thaprinci
pal of Van Bien this year

We couldn't go to France, so we did
the next best thing ”
1 Fahler, Alberta

Eveline Bergeron, whois a Grade23
teacher In Programme Cadre de
Francais at Van Bien, had a rel
‘who was principal of the elementary
school there

She arranged billeting for Nicule
Cudennec's 17 Grade $7 atudents in
French-speaking homes

‘And Greyhound Bus had # “Back to

Work Special Rate” to celebrate the
end of a strike

The result was pen pals, homes to
stay in, and a round-trip ticket that
cost kids under 11 enly 81475

Wasa finale for a year's work ina
Program that Is becoming increas.
ingly popular

There were 13 kids when Prog.
ramme Cadre started in September
1979

There were about 50 in the clacs this
year with Z) more expected to enroll
this September.

Programme Cadre was developed
by the ministry of education inkeeping.
with government policy alluwing pa
rents the choice of either official lan
uae as a language of instruction for
their children

Its @ compulscry program which
must be offered in any schol district
where parents of 10 of more students
have requested it

At Van Bien. the students are

ther In Kindergarten.
Grade 1, Grades 23, and Grades 4.7

About 25030 percent of the students
come from French-speaking families
with the rest from anglophone
families

=. Your money

has punch.

and Jean MacMillan, 12, locate Falher, Alberta on the

Sometiines the other
children call them the
French Frogs © sad Bow
ers. “but they yu't call the
athers Roghsh Multine
then

She +aid there is no harm

[meant by either nickname

Van Pien Principal Bud

Burbee said Engiich and

French students are en

Con apd toque an muchas

poseable and take part in

[Spies concerts «labs and
fie!d trips tegeth» r Most of
the time English is umd on
these occacwns bil there
might be a sereeo¢ ten of a

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Macunvert

{oie encoding’ te
other children” Hurber
said

Programme Cadre as
establiched in 19:9 by te

minietry of education Site

Joe any school district
ith 19ce mm reripitiechil
dren mut offer it if re
quested
oe

“"Cadre’ expan

King George V Elementary School
will take on @ cosmopolitan flair in
the next school year, as voices min
tle In equal proportions of English
and French

Wis here that Prince George
School District's main thrust for
Program Cadre will be housed

The program. which stands for
“core In Engl h, has been growing
Steadily since It began back in 1979,
says Harry Hufty, district curricular
services director

“We only had 14 kids, the first
year we opened,” he recalied

In the past school year the pro-
gram had 185 students involved. for
& full-time equivalent of 167 stu
dents District officials expect 240
students In the coming school yrar
as it moves into secondary gradzs.

In 20 BC school districts. 1.078
students are involved in Cadre. cont
pared with 9.982 studien's enrolled
In French immersion programs
offered by 28 school districts

This district has the second high:
seat number enrolled in Cadre but
does not offer French immersion
5. The two are entirely different pro-
arams.

any French immersion told The Crise

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( “re ly Intended to be fur peuple
speaking French as a» native tongue
and is total French Instruction for
all subjects

3 French Immersion ts for those
who use It a3 a second language

The immersion program starts

students off with 8) to 100-per-cent
{ Freach instruction, then drops to 50

per cent by the fourth year

They really aren't comparable
programs — or shouldn't be,” Hufly
said

Although Cadre Is meant for stu:
dents or whose parents are Franco
phones, in this district 75 per cent of
students enrolled don't meet that
standard Cadre admission included
non Francophones because budget
festrictions precluded both Cadre
and French immersion being
off red

Its probably ons of the most suc:
cessful prograins we offer in this

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dictret ” Hufly said
Nevause Cadre is for tise who
speak the language as native

(Frenchmen, only teachers. whose
first language ls French are involv.
ed