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SIMS MACHINERY in the'area who would like to teach the subject and would take the necessary summer course if encouraged. Want “Personal Touch” Brief reports were given by the Chairmen of the various com- mittees of the Board. Mr. J. J. MacKay reported that he had worked on the Property Commit- tee since its inception in June of 1960 and they had first studied the area and attempted to assess its needs for the future. and had set some standards. The Board had set seven acres as a reason- able size for a school area, un- less it is adjacent to a park and set the school size at a maximum of 16 rooms with a minimum of four rooms. This was done to keep a personal touch between the principal, the teachers and the parents, and yet to avoid having any more than two grades Mr. Axelson stated further, "It should be dealt with through your inspector. If you establish it here, we could quite possibly get other inspectors to establish it in their areas.” It was then further pointed out by a member of the audience, that there would not necessarily be any overlapping as the public school teaching would be in oral French only and that those who had studied French in high school had re- ceived little or so oral French. At the suggestion that there might be some difficulty in ob- taining a teacher of oral French, Mrs. E.. A. Percival advised the meeting that there was a teacher It was pointed out by Mr. Alan Parker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. that there was little or no integration in the public and high school course of study and that the taxpayers would have to face the possibility of paying for French instruction twice, as the children would have to start in at beginning French in high school with the rest of the students who had not had French in Public School. This idea was contradicted, however, by Mr. E. R. Axelson, a member of the York Central District High School Board who stated “The High Schools would be delighted to have French in the lower grades. If the Board would try French at the Grade 7 level, we would be delighted to co-operate with some kind of integration." The possibility of having oral French taught in the schools aroused the most interest. After several people had spoken fav- ourably of this, the audience was reminded that the project would no doubt cause a slight increase in taxes and a show of hands was called for to give the trustees an idea of the ratepayers' wishes. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the teaching of oral French even with a small tax increase. and only three or four hands were raised in opposition. Integration Possible _ Aproximately 50 ratepayers took the opportunity of hearing and questioning the members of the Board of 'the Markham T.S.A. No. 1 when they held a public meeting at Henderson Avenue Public School on May 11th. The poor turnout was disappointing to the trustees but was possibly due to the fact that the meeting was advertised only by means of notices sent home with the school children. Some of the notices had not gone out until the day of the meeting. Teaching Of Oral French ls Approved Open Meeting Of Markham TSA Held§ Attendance Poor - Interest High â€" Trustees Thanked All popular makes on hand n Special Students' Rates Mr. Frost advised that fewer Markham pupils would be edu- cated in Vaughan Township this year as the Richvale pupils would go to the new 16th Avenue School. although the Langstaff pupils would continue to go to the Langstaif school in Vaughan Township this year. He also men- tioned that the Board had set up a special class for slow learners with 11 students but pointed out that these children were not necessarily of lower intelligence but that some of them had other problems and that they would not necessarily stay in the class permanently. A group of excepâ€" tional children have also been given special instruction. They have visited as art gallery, a printing firm and a library. fol- lowing which they took part in a discussion group and made writ- ten reports. The Board felt the children were gaining themselves from these classes and hoped that their interest might be pass- ed on to other students. thcse as 3255554132. 'and actual- ly received $270,206.81. They esti- mated expenditures at $257,107.23 The report of the Finance Com- mittee was given by Mr. L. E. Clark. Mr. Clark emphasized the amount of work required to pre- pare a budget each year, with eleven different categories for expenses, such as instructional, expenses, supplies, administra- tion, plant operation, plant main- tenance, auxiliary services. fees to other boards, capital outlay,ex- traneous payments and bank in- terest. The Board must also try to calculate receipts as well as expenses. In 1960, they estimated Mr. E. J. Sand, the Area's Secretary-Treasurer, Supervising Principal and Business Adminis- trator, gave a report on the staff of the area, and introduced to the meeting four of his school principals, Mr. Learn, of Wood- land School, Mr. Kinzinger of Thornlea, Mr. Martindale of Hen- derson Avenue, and Mr. Myers, a former teacher in the area who is to be principal of the new 16th Avenue School. Mr. Sam! report- ed that there are now 33 teach- ers on the full time permanent teaching staff. three part time, 4 full time custodians, and one part time custodian. Their main in- terest, he stated was in “gaining and retaining teachers." To make this possible, the Board offered such fringe benefits as payment of 40% of the Ontario Hospital and RS]. fees, a life insurance plan, and an accumulative sick leave plan. This plan allows the teachers 20 days sick leave per year but these can accumulate and the plan works in with the retirement gratuity plan. he Board also has a pension plan for non-teaching employees. Teachers Taking Courses Mr. Sand said that the teach- ers are encouraged to improve their qualifications and stated that last year 6 teachers had tak- en summer courses, while 10 had taken courses this past winter. This summer, 18 of the 33 teach- ers will be taking summer course in such things as auxiliary edu- cation, intermediate art, primary supervisor, intermediate auxiliary education, visual aid, and P.T.. while 4 teachers will be taking University courses. The salary schedule compares very favour- able with Metro and is based on the category system which re- quired 5 summer courses or 5 University subjects to move up to the next category. A report on the Education Committee was given by Mr. L. S. Frost, its Chairman. Mr. Frost pointed out first, that the active curriculum is not set by the trus- tees but by the Department of Education. “All other ways of teaching subjects cost money and the trustees must decide whether to go into them or not," he stated. “At the moment, the trustees are investigating to see if this area can afford the money for such things as Oral French, a Physical Training Supervisor and a Music Supervisor, but we must look to the years ahead.” He promised that during the next year the trustees would do some research into these matters, and stated that they had already done some research into a RT. supervisorâ€" how much he can do and what it would cost. Research Promised The future plans of the Board included the building of the new school on 16th Avenue to get rid of the portables at Thornlea and to provide for a new group of students now being educated in Vaughan Township. The school would have four rooms, includ- ing a kindergarten. The portables would still be used from time to time. however. possibly at Wood- land School this fall. The Board is already discussing an addition to Woodland School to take care of the additional growth and is arranging to purchase additional property near Woodland and Hen- derson Avenue schools. They are also trying to provide access from Elgin Street to Woodland School and are studying various plans for schools’. Mr. MacKay pointed out that in Apri, 1960, the Area had 26 classrooms with 832 pu- pils; in September, 1960 it had 30 rooms and 930 pupils, while by September, 1961 they expect it will have 35 rooms with over 1,000 pupils, and as a result of this growth, the Property Com- mittee has been kept very busy. to a classroom. Mr. MacKay stated that the Board tried to pur- chase properties well ln advance of need to keep the price down to a reasonable figure but had agreed to use portables where necessary to act as a buffer. He noted that the Woodland School had been opened in February. 1960 and the addition to Hender- son Avenue School completed in September, 1961, freeing the portables. which were rented to Aurora. Future Plans Described Mr. Parker reported that the Board is using a new design in the 16th Avenue School, getting away from what he called the “egg box" type of construction with the traditional double-load- ed corridor with classrooms open- ing on each side of it. The new school will be built around a central core with boiler room, and storage room in the centre, lit by skylights, .and the princi- pal’s office and teachers' room at each end with outside windows. Around the central core will be a hall and opening from it will be classrooms, almost square, a-p- proximately 26 by 30 feet. “In this way we reduce the perimeter walls and reduce the floor space by the reduced hall area," stated Mr. Parker and mentioned that before deciding on the design, the entire Boardhad spent a Saturday morning inspecting a school of this’design in Oshawa. Trustees Thanked The balance of the meeting was taken up with questions and an- swers and was chaired by Mr. Stone. Following this. Mrs. F. Aimone stood up to express the appreciation of the ratepayers in the area for the fine service the members of the board were ren- dering the area. Having attended several of the board meetings as Mr. Parker, Chairman of the Board, then gave a general report and stated that the Board’s policy with respect to transportation was to provide transportation for pupils over 2 miles from the school, as ‘no government grant was given for any transportation under that limit. School boundar- ies, he stated, would be very definitely determined in the_near future by the CNR by-pass line. an observer, Mrs. Aimone stated that she was aware, from personal observation, the mass of detail work the board accomplished. The meeting then adjourned and refreshments were served. Prior to the public meeting, the board held their regular monthly meeting, although it was neces- sarily shortened. Mr. Sand re- ported that the atten-dance aver- age for the past month had been 93.5%, slightly less ,than the March average of 93.69%. The board gave approval of payments totalling $21,087.08 in the Gen- eral Account, and $23,350.60 in the Capital Account. It was re- ported that final approval for the plans of the 15th Avenue School had been received and the Ontario Municipal Board ap- plication for debenture issue had also been received. A letter of resignation was read from Miss Calder of Henderson Avenue Public School, expressing her en- joyment of the years she had taught in the area, and this resâ€" ignation was accepted with regret by the board. Mr. Stone reported that there was playground equipment at each school and that during the summer, additional baseball stops will be erected. Intra-mural sports had been conducted under the Area Athletic Association with volleyball. soccer and hock- ey teams taking part. Mr. Stone also mentioned that daily calls- thenics were carried out in each classroom and that grades 5 to 8 compete in house leagues. Transportation Policy and actually spent $258,759.42,[ leaving a deficit of $1,654.19. This year, however, they hoped to be $2,000.00 in the black and in spite of the increase in most _of In reporting for the Safety, Health, Recreation and Public Relations Committee, Mr. J. S. Stone advised that the York County Health Unit maintains the health services in the schools. with a nurse visiting each school at regular intervals. who conduct- ed eye examinations and examin- ed chlldren referred by the teachers. - Under the heading of Safety, Mr. Stone reported that the Board had provided a guard at 16th Avenue and Yonge Street for the children attending Rich- vale School, as well as at the LangstaflE School. All the schools have had Elmer Safety flags, he reported. and the Lions Club has promised to issue a plaque to each school with a traffic acci- dent-free record. The Board has also procured two metal warning signs, in the form of a policeman with raised hand for each school. the items of expenditure, the Board had held the increase :0 the taxpayer to .3 mills. Health Services Maintained SOMETHING TO SELL TRY A LIBERAL CLASSIFIEDS - PHONE TU. 4-1105 | SHOP WHERE I CAN SAVE THE MOST MONEY! THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS SHOP AT HOME! 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