43 - Wednesday, February 12, 198

sh Shore News

Pupils tune up
French skills

NORTH SHORE’S first graduating classes in the French
immersion program are planning a trip to Quebec to fine
tune their second language skills.

Two grade seven classes, com-
posed of 54 students from Cleve-
land and Ross Road Elementary
Schools, will visit Ste. Foie, a
small town outside of Quebec City,
April 6-18.

The group is currently raising
funds to help finance the trip.

Elizabeth McPherson, from the
Cleveland school parents commit-
tee, said the trip will be repeated
for future graduating classes in the

“French immersion program.

DAILY FRENCH

“The purpose of the trip is to
give students an opportunity to use
their French on a day-to-day basis.
It needs to be spoken with Fren-
ch-Canadian people,” she said.

McPherson’s 12-year-old daugh-
ter Jean was one of the first stu-
dents at Cleveland Elementary to
enrol in the program, which
started at the Kindergarten level.

McPherson said the trip is an
excellent opportunity for her
daughter to practise her French
because neither she nor her hus-
band are fluent in a second
language.

“We were born and raised in

North Vancouver,’?. McPherson
said.

“IT would like to speak French,
but I only took some classes in
high school. Jean is very fluent.
Our children were the guinea pigs
for the program, so we were taking
a chance, but it worked out

beautifully.’*

POPULAR PROGRAM

McPherson said the program has
increased in popularity on the
North Shore.

When Jean was enrolled in
Cleveland’s
program there were 20 students.

This year there are 300 French
immersion students at the same
school.

A second aspect of the upcom-
ing trip will involve students from
Quebec coming to the North Shore
to stay with the families of French
immersion children.

The tentative date for their trip
is May 2-11,

To help finance the student ex-
change, the North Shore students
will be holding a fashion show
March 4 at Cleveland Elementary
School.

Tickets are $10 and include
wine, appetizers and the chance to
win a door prize.

French immersion

NEWS proto Mike Waket eld

LA BELLE Province is the focus of Peter Chalmers attention as he and his classmates view the area where they
will be travelling. Peter and 60 grade seven friends from Cleveland and Ross Road Elementary schools will
be ‘going to Quebec in April as part of a French immersion program.

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