8 - Friday, October 20, 1989 - North Shore News

NEWS photo Mike Waketield

COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL headmaster Grzham Baldwin holds up a cheque for $50,000, recently donated by
Robert Flynn to the West Vancowver private schoo! for its expansion program. The expansion program has al-
ready created a new library for the school. Pictured in the library with Baldwin are Collingwood students (left
to right) Elise Cogan, Meghan ‘White, Rachelle Munsie and Doug Brown.

Parents cook up plan te fund school expansion

COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL
parents have found a novel way of
raising millions of dollars to pay
for the ambitious building expan-
sion now under way at 70 Morven
Drive in West Vancouver.

By PATRICK RAYNARD
Contributing Writer

The scheme will finance a mod-
ernization that will raise the style
of Collingwood’s education to
near-university levels, headmaster
Graham Baldwin told the News
last Friday.

As reported in the News on Oct.
6, Collingwood parents have raised
$5.8 million in little over six weeks,
and plan to raise an additional
$400,000 to complete and equip
nine classrooms in the upper storey
of the school’s new wing.

Baldwin said the parents have
set up a self-directed RRSP plan to
create a trust fund used to obtain a
mortgage on the property.

When the last child of a family
leaves Collingwood, he said, the
schoo! will buy back that family’s
units and sell them to a family with
an incoming child.

The scheme has been named the
Collingwood 2000 Trust because
the children now entering the
school will begin using the new fa-
cilities in the millennium.

Six ‘academic domains,’ a gym-

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nasium, a music room and lecture
theatre, and a senior students
lounge wiil comprise the new wing,
Baldwin said.

The academic domains, one each
for science, English, languages,
maths, social studies, and special
education, are designed to provide
Grade 11 and 12 students with a
university-style environment in
which they will be released from
the traditional constraints of a
secondary school, Baldwin said.

Each domain will be largely
self-contained, made up of three
classrooms, staff offices, and a
student base providing computers
and audio and video facilities.

Renovation of part of the ex-
isting school will allow the library
to be expanded from 5,000 to
20,000 volumes and to be fully
computerized, giving students ac-
cess to on-line databases at UBC
and SFU and the records section of
the West Vancouver Memorial
Library.

Part of the old gymnasium will
also be transformed into a small
cafeteria, Baldwin said.

Board member Sue Lonsdale
said the school is not being ex-
panded in order to raise enrol-
ments, but to improve facilities for
the existing population, now
numbering 540 from Grades 1!
through 12.

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