16 - Friday, February 26, 1999 - North Shore News

NORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT 44

CONTINUING EDUCATION suppori 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 us 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 activitics that take place in the schools they

CURRICULUM

The past few years have brought about major curriculum revisions in British Columbia. Communication, in its many forms, problem- solving and relevance to real life are themes that are repeated throughout the K to 12 program. Most subject disciplines have now been introduced with Social Studies, Home Economics, Business

EXCELLENCE !N 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 point of the £152 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: Group Teacher Time 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 District Honour Strings

March 4 10:00 am 10:30 am 11:00 am 11:45 am 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm

Steve Toren

Andrew Voth

Lasse Leslie and Frank Leung Robb Karr

Joi Freed-Garrad

Val Wood and Bill Piggott Gerri Kare and Val Wood Peter Van Ooyen

Peter Van Ooyen, Gerri Karr, Roger Wecker

Sarah Biles

Ken Osterreicher

2:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm

Mazch 5 10:00 am 10:30 am 11;00 am 14:30 am 12:15 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm

Canyon Heights Choir Argyle Gr. 9 Choir

Sarah Biles

Steve Woodyard

Rhonda Smeds & Michelle Chen Sandra Konkin

L. Leslie, Joan Perry, Bill Piggore David Bradshaw

Peter Van Ooyen

Andrew 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

3:00 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm

Steve Toren Rhonda Jeschke and Bill Piggott All Elementary Band Teachers

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Park Royal North Capilano Mall. ” Park Royal North

Mar. 6:12-5 us daily ae 16-8 pm _ afternoon * Park Royal North Park Royal North “Park Royal North Pack Royal North. Park royal North - Park Royal North Estha7’an Learning Centre, 345 W. Sth . Centennial Theatre a : Willingdon Church

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time with general interest classes, North Shore Continuing Education will have a course for you. The Winter/Spring course calendar, con- taining hundreds of classes starting in March, April and May as well as condensed classes in July, és still available in tibraries, 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 Schoot 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

16. With this document as a core framework, our goal is to have all of our students in North

purticularly 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 sirong foundation in basic skills. The 1998 Pror=cial Assessmeni of

mailed io you or if you want more information about adult classes, please

Vancouver reading at grade level. At the same time, technology instruction in ovr schools will be geeatly enhanced by the arrival of internet and intranet capabilities through the Provincial Learning Network (PLNet). Students will benefit from the use of this current technology for research, collaboration and communication.

Reading and 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 a new 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

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 SCHOGL

ARTISTS FOR KIDS

Since 1990, North Vancouver Schoot District's Artists For Kids Trust annually works with thousands of children in schools and in the community including a wide array of After Schoo! 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 by 25 of Canada’s finest artists to fund

its programs.

Supponing artists include among others: Gordon Smith, Toni Onley, Gathie Falk, Ted Harrison,

George Littlechild and the tate Jack

Shadbolt and Bill Reid.

For more information,

please call the AFK office at

987-6667.

Nowe Totem Commemoraton. “Curriculum. 1 Displays * a . "9 Sec. Math/Graphing ¢ Calculators * Mar.-1-5 “s Elem: Math/Manipulatives” *, * Primary Guided Reading Mar. 1-5 * Intermed. “Night of the Notables"Mar. 4.5 Takaya Dancers Mar..1. - Mar. 4-5

Whitespor, Park & Tilford & Lonsdale, Park Royal

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North Vancouver Outdoor Schoo! (NVOS) anticipates . programs will continue well into the future, as they have tor more than 25 years. In May of 1999, the purchase of the land, throu; Conservancy 0

a partnership with the Nature of Canada, will be completed and the

property protected forever by iegal 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 - in artnership with the Department of isheries and Oceans, BC Hydro and - ‘Pores Renewal BC, has increased salmon and eagle habitat oa the - property. Future partnershi Rs are. being pursued by the Paci : Foundation for Understanding : Nature; a charitable society created . B. to raise funds for the school’s Legacy y Projects such as Silviculture Nursery

' Lab, and Artist/Scientist ia Residence’.

building, special needs residence and

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on “Diversity”, “Thursday, March 4 at -7:30. pm, ‘Lucat Centre, 2152 Hamilton ‘St., North V: Sponsored by th the N,V. Parent Advisory: Council. . rae :

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