TEACHER Gaston Brisson and a group of students from the North
Shore’s new French school join in giving a rousing merci beaucoup to all
parents and other groups who helped establish the school, which is
located in the old North Star schoo! building and opened at the beginning
of the 1987-88 school year. The school is designed for students whose

native language is French.

French is the focus
at new N. Van school

THE NORTH SHORE’S first
s-hooi for francophones opened in
North Vancouver at the start of
the present school year.

Located at the old North Star
Annex, 370 West Kings, the school
was set up at the request of area
parents who felt a separate school
would be more effective in
teaching the Program Cadre and in
preserving a more complete ap-
preciation and understanding of
francophone culture.

District 44’s coordinator of
modern Janguages Donald Fraser
said 82 francophone students from
kindergarten to Grade 7 will attend
the school.

Five teachers will instruct.

Fraser said while Program Cadre

Seniors
nominated
SEVEN NORTH Shore residents
‘were among the 87 British Colum-
-bians nominated for the 1987
British Columbia Senior Award.

A total of 41 B.C. communities

forwarded nominations for the
award, which is sponsored by the
Brock House Society of Vancouver
and supported by the Bank of
Montreal. | :
_ Nominated from North Van-
couver were Robert Middleton,
William Sass, Jack Scrivener and
T.N. Thornley. From West Van-
couver, Virginia Beirnes, Eleanor
Malkin. and Wilfred Chittenden
were nominated for the award.

The B.C. Senior Award is open
to any Canadian citizen who is a
resident of B.C. and who is 65 or
older. Award recipients are those
seniors who, in the judgement of
the selection committee, have at
any time during his or her lifetime
made a distinguished voluntary
contribution to the community
worthy of the award.

The selection committee is head-
ed by retired Supreme Court
Justice J.V. Clyne.

This year’s winner will be an-
nounced later this month and will
be presented with the Brock House
medal and the accompanying
$5,000 Bank of Montreal prize

Nov. 19.
The award was established in
1984. :

There is light at
the end of the
tunnel.

Ene Please give
BB sp ites generously

has been taught in North Shore
anglophone schools in the past, the
new school has been set up at the
request of francophone parents.

“The parents wanted a special
school because they felt it would
offer a better opportunity of lan-
guage development,” Fraser said.

The new facility is not a French
immersion school, but rather a
school for students whose native
language is French. Students study
between 20 and 30 minutes of
English each day.

Program Cadre is designed for
Canadian francophone children
whose native language is French or
who has one or both francophone
parents and, as such, emphasizes
more cultural aspects of fran-
cophone life than does French
immersion.

The program runs from
kindergarten through to Grade 12.

Program Cadre students who
leave the new North Star Annex go
on to Balmoral for Grades 8 to 10
and then to Carson Graham for
Grades 11 to 12.

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