French immersion program
ofiers fun environment

YOU DON’T need the four
walls of a stuffy classroom
to learn a new language.

By Wendy Haysom
Contributing Writer

Fresh air and fun will make the

learning go better, say the teachers
of West Vancouver’s Sentinel
High School late French immer-
sion program, which is open to
anyone on the North Shore.

If Josee Cleremont and Annie
Bouchard get their way, come
September their new grade seven
late immersion studerts will be
swimming, kayaking, cross-coun-
try skiing and hiking up moun-
tains.

The school is throwing open the
classroom door to motivate the
students. It is also a bid to attract
enough students to enable the
six-year-old late French program
to survive.

It needs 20 students to operate

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the program. So far 15 are regis-
tered.

“We think this program will
motivate our students — the out-
doors will energize them. It will
create a good spirit and help their
learning,’’ says Cleremont, an
outdoors enthusiast and world-
class athlete.

Formerly a Quebec biathlon
champion (cross-country skiing
and shooting), she recently placed
in the top 10 at the Worlds
Masters Cup in Alaska for cross-
country racing.

She is also on the Canadian
kayaking team for downriver
whitewater racing.

“I’ve always loved the outdoors
and nature ... and we have such
great opportunity to take advan-
tage of it here (on the North
Shore)’’ she says.

She emphasized that the stu-
dents will still get their regular
studies such as math and science
but the language arts will focus on
themes that will take the students
out and about.

There are plans for an expedi-
tion to Cultus Lake; 4 tour of
Radio Canada; cross-country ski-
ing at Hollyburn; hiking at
Grouse Mountain and visits to the
Capitano Fish Hatchery, the
Seymour Demoastration forest
and the Anthropology Museum.

Students need not fear that the
program will be too arduous for
them.

“In fact we think our students
will develop more self-confidence
and self-esteem as an acded

bonus of participating in this pro-
gram,’’ says Cleremont, who, as
well as being a language arts
teacher, is also a certified instruc-
tor in cross-country  skiiing,
swimming and kayaking.

“This is very much in the spirit
of the Year 2000,’’ she says, re-
ferring to the new approach to
education which aims to bring it
into the ’90s.

Principal Peter Lefaivre agrees:
“This is a very exciting program
we have planned. We’re just hop-
ing to get enough students. Last
year there were not enough stu-
dents, and the program had to be
cancelled.

But Lefaivre is optimistic this
year.

He points to the proven success
of late immersion.

“We are graduating our first
group of fate immersion students
this year,’’ he says.

‘And I have to tell you that
they are achieving just as well and
often better than the regular stu-
dents,’ he said.

“It’s an amazing thing to :e¢,”’
he added, ‘‘that after just one
year of late immersion the stu-
dents are speaking French well
enough to integrate with some
early immersion classes. And by
Grade 10, the teachers find it very
difficult to tell the difference be-
tween late and early immersion
students.”’

Anyone iaterested in finding out
more about the program or regis-
tering a student should contact
Annie Bouchard at 922-3291.

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