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.

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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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