The French-speaking community of Sherwood Park has reason to celebrate, because the community is getting a new Francophone school in the spring of 2016.
Currently, students are bussed a long way from home to a French-speaking school in Edmonton, but the new school will teach students from kindergarten to Grade 6. It will begin with four teachers, but will grow as the number of students rise.
The school year will begin in the basement of Edmonton’s Cite Francophone facility. In March, the new school will be open in the yard of New Horizons so students will finish the school year much closer to home in their new building in Sherwood Park.
To start, there will be 45 students, seven classrooms, a library, a dance classroom and an afterschool care area. As for a gymnasium, the students will use the Campus St. Jean’s facilities.
The opening of a new school is a lot of work, from ensuring the grounds are well kept and safe, to setting up classrooms and printing curriculum materials. Local printing companies will surely be busy offering all sorts of printing services. If the new school has an opening event, there may even be a need for poster printing.
The Francophone schoolboard, Conseil Scolarie Centre-Nord (CSCN), is officially opening the new school. After a long year of discussions with the Ministry of Education, both staff and parents are no doubt happy with this story’s ending.
