Immersion Expansion (CONTINUED)

CAMPBELL RIVER
The French Immersion Program is
moving to Cedar Elementary School.

CHILLIWACK

The school board has approved a Late
Immersion program to begin in Sep-
tember 1982 if enrolment warrants.

RICHMOND

In September 1981 the Early French
Immersion Program will be located in
four schools.

Ecole Cook—K-4 and Programme
Cadre

Ecole Whiteside—K-3

Ecole Gilmore—K-3

Ecole Dixon—K-2

Richmond Parents for French are
strongly committed to assisting in
the expansion and maintaining the
quality of education that our children
have received to date in the program.
Four of our local members have
volunteered to be CPF represen-
tatives at each of our immersion
schools. It is hoped that each of
these four members can distribute in-
formation about CPF, encourage new
memberships and keep our chapter
informed about the activities and
concerns evolving at each school.

The principal of Ecole Cook Mr. A
Burt will become the bilingual co-
ordinating principal for the four dual-
track schools.

D. Rosenburg

NEW WESTMINSTER

The district will plan to have French
Immersion Kindergarten and grade 1
in September 1982.

VANCOUVER

In September 1981, two Late Immer-
sion Grade 6 classes will start at
General Gordon Elementary school.
Laurier Annex and Van Horn Elemen-
tary schools will open their first im-
mersion kindergartens and Queen
Elizabeth Annex is to start a second
kindergarten.

COWICHAN VALLEY

School boundary changes are being
discussed so the locations of two
classes each of grades K, 1 and 2 and
1 class of grade 3 immersion has to
be announced. The Cowichan Valley
Parents for French wrote to the
School Board asking that certain
issues be considered when decisions
were made regarding classroom
space for the immersion students.

VICTORIA

Margaret Jenkins elementary school
has full registration for a new 1981
immersion K and Lansdowne Junior
Secondary School will open one class
of grade 6 Late Immersion.

Policies Published

Long - anticipated Ministry of
Education policies for the Program-
me-Cadre de Francais and Early and
Late French Immersion have now
been distributed to all B.C. Superin-
tendents of Schools. Effective Sept-
ember, 1981, the 15 page document
outlines conditions for the implemen-
tation and administration of these
programs.

The preamble states, “It is the
policy of the provincial government to
make it possible for parents to have a
choice of either official language (of
Canada) as the language of instruc-
tion for their children.”

The Schools Department Circular
goes on to detail the province’s third
policy for the Programme Cadre (the
previous two were issued in June/78