22 - Wednesday, March 3, 1999 - North Shore News f ~ | NORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT 44 EDUCATION With CONTINUING EBUCATION support with tax dollars. Every year over 15,000 people enrol in day, evening and weekend classes. Whether you are thinking about finishing your high school, upgrad- ing your skills for the job market, learning to use your home computer or enriching your leisure Adults on the North Shore have as many reasons «as day students to celebrate Education Week. Through the continuing education division of the North Vancouver School District, adults have opportunities to engage in a wide variety of learn- ing activities that take place in the schools they CURRICULUM The past few years have brought abou: major curriculum revisions in British Columbia. Communication, in its many forms, problem- solving and relevance to real life are themes tuat are repeated throughout the K to 12 program. Most subject disciplines have now been introduced with Social Studies, Home Economics, Business EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION Standing”. Of the students who graduated during the 1997 / 98 school year, 173 received “Provincial Scholarships”. A Report prepared for the North Vancouver School District noted that The average grade peint of the 1152 graduates in the 1997 / 98 school year was 3.05 out of a possible 4.0. A grade point of greater than 3.0 is considered by the province to be an “Honours Music in the Mall Schedule: Teacher Time March 4 10:00 am 10:30 am 41:00 am 11:45 am 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm Group Westover, Fromme Band Ridgeway Choir Boundary Band, Choir & Recorders Windsor Jazz Band Montroyal Classroom Choir Montroyal, Queen Mary, Norgate Band Plymouth, Seymour Heights, Blueridge Royal Strings Districe Honour Strings Steve Toren Andrew Voth & Lasse Leslie and Frank Leung ‘Robb Karr Joi Freed-Garrod ~ Val Wood and Bili Piggorc y Gerri Karr 2nd Val Wood 6 Peter Van Ooyen Peter Van Ooyen, Gerri Karr, Roger Wecker Sarah Biles Ken Osterreicher ~~ S a Fad N 2:30 pm 3:00 pm Canyon Heights Choir 3:30 pm Argyle Gr. 9 Choir March $ 10:00 am 10:30 am 11:00 am 11:36 am 12:15 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm Sarah Biles Steve Woodyard Rhonda Smeds & Michelle Chen Sandra Konkin L. Leslie, Joan Perry, Bill Piggott David Bradshaw Pe'er Van Ooyen Atidrew Voth Suzanne Morgan Cove Cliff Choir Carson Graham Band Sutherland Band and Choir Fromme Choir, and Orff Group Upper Lynn Band, Jazz Band and Choir Lynn Valley, Argyle Band Handsworth Strings Ridgeway Classroom Music Braemar Band Eastview, Ridgeway, Brooksbank, Queensbury Norgate Band and Choir District Honour Band Steve Toren Rhonda Jeschke and Bill Piggott All Elemensary Band Teachers “Park Royal North ‘Park Royal North’ ; Park Royal North | Park Royal North Park royal North Park Royal North “Mar, 6: 12-2 Mar. 6: 12-2 Mar. 6: 12-2 daily : 7:30 pm -. | pm .. Mar. 4-5: 6-83: -* Mar, 4-5: 6-8; - > Mar. 4-5: 6-8; Mar. 1-5 . Mar. 4-5 - oe Mar. 3 . ‘Hairstyling Demo , + Are Classes. * NV. Outdoor School Displays N.Y, Outdoor School Presentation Estha7’an Student Performance 7 345 W. Sch Centennial Theatre - Willingdon Church . 5-3 pm : 9-3 pm ~ Mar. 24> Elementary Choral Festival - : » Mar. 1-5" Kiwanis Music Festival Eslha7'an Learning Centre, time with general interest classes, North Shore Continuing Education will have a course for you. The Winterspring course calendar, con- taining hundreds of classes starting in March, April and May as well as condensed classes in Juhy, is still available in libraries, drug and gro- cery stores and at the Lucas Centre (2132 Hamilton Ave.). if you want one Education and Fine Arts being scheduled for implementation in September, 1999. During the next five years North Vancouver School District will emphasize the areas of Reading and Technology. Reading 44 is a program, written in our District, to support teachers in the teaching of reading K to 10. With this document as a core framework, our goal is to have all of our students in North particularly high scholarship was evident in Mathematics, English, History, Physics, Biology, Literature and French. North Vancouver students meet the challenges of Grade 12 examinations with a strong foundation in basic skills. The 1998 Provincial Assessment of mailed to you or if you want more information about udult classes, please Vancouver reading at grade level. At the same time, technelogy instruction in our schools will be greatly enhanced by the arrival of internet and intranet capabilities through the Provincial Learning Network (PLNet). Students will beneiit from the use of this current technology for research, collaboration and communication. Reading und Writing showed North Vancouver students in grades 4, 7 and 10 performing well above expected Provincial standards for those subjects. The results for North Vancouver students was rated as “very satisfactory” by Provincial panel of experts. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Information Technology in the classroom is taking on anew dimension. With the arrival of the PLNet (Provincial Learning Network), all schools are being connected to the Internet and the District's newly developing internal network, our intranet. This connectivity opens up a new dimension to the integration of technology in the classroom and presents the District with exciting new challenges ARTISTS FOR KIDS Since 1990, North Vancouver School District's Artists For Kids Trust annually works with thousands of children in schools and in the community including a wide array of After School Art classes and the ever popular Paradise Valley Summer School of Visual Art. The Trust believes that children who learn the language of art and the self confidence that comes with it, will contribute to an aesthetically healthy community. The Trust sells prints ty 25 of Canada’s finest artists Supporting artists include among others: Gordon Smith, Toni Onley, Gathie Falk, Ted Harrison, George Litilechild and the late Jack Shadbolt and Bill Reid. For more information, please call the AFK office at 987-6667. 7 Whip Park &¢ ets pak Cioyl leaver, lanade my Keg & Cleaver, Esp m : ~ Kansai Lonsdale a The Gathering Place, Dollarton _ ; - Boston Pizza, Main Sc. . 5 and opportunities. One of these challenges is to assist staff and students to develop skills needed to harness the online resources that extend beyond the classroom. Building on existing knowledge from within the District and across the Province, new approaches to delivering the curriculum are being developed. OUTDOOR SCHOOL North Vancouver Outdoor Schcol (NVOS) antici programs will continue well into the future, as they have lor more than 25 years. In May of 1999, the purchase of the land, through a partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, will be completed and the property protected forever by legal covenant as . a Salmon, eagle and environmental education reserve. Over the last two years, & the construction of 3 kilometres of ™ spawning and rearing channels, created rship with the Department of eries and Oceans, BC Hydro and : ~Vorest Renewal BC has increased ; salmon and eagle habitat on the the property. Future partners! being ursued by the Pa ourrdation for Understanding rue a charitable society created to raise funds for the school's Legacy Projects such as Silviculture Nursery Lab, and Artis/Scientist in Residence building, special needs residence and anew welcome/administration centre. "Partners ia Education!