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While each member had a chance to speak to the committee about his or her own section of the review, Mr. Nuttall's comments left little doubt high schools get preferential treatment when it comes to equipment. teachers and facilities for phys. ed. “It‘s true that one of the board‘s priorities this year was to review all our phys. ed. programs with an emphasis on upgrading them where necessary. However. in the last couple of years there has been a lack of money for new facilities and we have been con- centrating on obtaining new schools where they are needed.“ As for disparities, he said you could take any program you want. at either the elementary or secondary level and once you start comparing them within different schools. you’re bound to get dif‘ fering opinions. The review committee, which worked with Superintendent of School Operations Walter Willms. was composed of: Master Teacher Dave Kennett. Miss Sandra Strachan. Ed Griffith (principal of Baythorn “Any lack of facilities is something we look at in our five-year capital expenditure forecast," said Mr. Willms in an interview afterwards of physical education programs offered to York’s elementary and secondary students varies greatly. Several reasons for the disparity were discussed but it was concluded a lack of adequate facilities, such as gym- nasia. proper sports equipment and even useable playing fields. is keeping elementary pupils from getting the well-rounded phys. ed. instruction they need. P.S.|, Cliff Nuttall (phys. ed. teacher at Bayview Secondary), Charles Seath (principal of Don Head 5.8.) and John Laughlin (principal of Ballantrae P.S.). A lengthy presentation to the Program Com- mittee shows the quality In committee. Mr To honour Canada, our land created by the fusion of two founding cultures, enriched by the contribution of many other cultures, fatherland of all Canadians; all are proud, I hereby prbclaim the week of JUNE 25 to JULY 1 “CANADA WEEK" To honour this country, home of over 22,000,000 people, proud of their heritage and the freedom they enjoy; To honour this land of peace and prosperity, this promised land of untold resources; Thus I invite the citizens of The Town of Richmond Hill, to celebrate it by striving to know our country better, by flying our flag and displaying our symbols. To honour this country which is ours, of which we Physical education quality varies in schools â€"- THE LIBERAL, Wednesday. June 20. 1979 TOWN OF , RICHMOND HILL "CANADA WEEK" lcuvto 'VO$¢ “Though many of the elementary schools have the courses. there are too few with the space or the equipment to make them effective. The ‘disparity lies in what they have available to do and where they can do it." said Mr. Nuttall. All the secondary The York Board currently has several task forces at work, in- cluding a response to Ministry guidelines in general and a review of safety standards in phys. ed. across the Region. Nuttall explained there are a minimum of four specialist teachers who are trained to teach such programs at all the high schools in York Region. Because of staffing restrictions. elementary schools get no specialists so a regular classroom teacher has to handle his or her own class in the gym or outdoors, in most cases. “Ideally. it would be nice to have one specialist for pys. ed.. one for science. one for music. until you have one in each program area of the school and there are more specialists than there are regular classroom teachers,“ said Mr. Willms. “That's one of the arguments I use in favor of larger schools â€" in a small school it‘s just not possible to have those kinds of resources because it has to live within a set of priorities. A bigger school can allow for more variance in program and hence more room for specialists.“ The committee heard some elementary schools have gyms with the same quality as high school gyms and others have either no facilities or very poor ones. Mr. Nuttall claimed there is an abundance of' excellent physi ed. programs (sets of course of study) as outlined in Ministry of Education documents like the Formative Years and the Intermediate Guidelines. The committee will hear a final staff report on phys. ed. programs the first week in July. It will likely go the full board at the August meeting. H.D. Schiller Mayor school gyms are in good shape with the exception of Newmarket High School, according to the committee’s findings. It also reported equipment and budgets for these schools are excellent. Last January, the SOUP OF THE DAY SPECIAL GREEN SALAD WITH BLACKHAWK DRESSING CHIEFTAIN'S DINING ROOM THE BIG "CHEF'S SPECIALS" "STEAK 'N LOBSTER O'BRIEN POTATOES, BABY CARROTS DESSERT, .COFFEE mfiBIack Hawk MOTOR INN 10711 YONGE ST. YON('3E EVERY WEDNESDAY NY. 7| Ministry did a review of senior division phys. ed. programs in 11 randomly selected schools across the province. It found that the health education parts of phys. ed. programs are generally underâ€"emph- asized. It also found, after $795 ANNOUNCES RICHMOND HILL examining seven broad categories of phys. ed. activity, team and in- dividual activities get too much course time and outdoor education for all students and dance for males, receive too little instruction time. O’BRIEN POTATOES LES [HARICUTS VEG. ALMONDINE DESSERT COFFEE “ 10 OZ. PEPPER STEAK SPECIAL GREEN SALAD WITH BLACKHAWK DRESSING SEE YOU THIS THURSDAY. FRIDAY & SATURDAY. YOU SHOULD/V7 MISS IT! STEAK AU POIVRE THURSDAY & FRIDAY 10 AM. TO 9 PM. SATURDAY 9:30 AM. TO 6 PM. SIDEWALK SALE HOURS: EVERY FRIDAY that 77 per cent of the sampled programs follow most or all of the Ministry guideline‘s recommen- dations and 17 per cent follow some of them. However, it concluded .884~9171 $995 'THE RICHMOND INNe 10097 Yonge St. Richmond Hill Three wonderful days with drastically reduced items for the sidewalk sale. 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