It’s that time of year again. It’s time to pack school lunches and send the children back for another year of learning.
St. Anthony’s school will begin classes on Monday August 31 and Principal JoAnne Akerboom expects a similar student population of about 420.
The school will welcome two new teachers for the 2015/2016 school year.
Sarah Boyne, originally from Brampton, Ontario will be teaching Grade 6 Language Arts, Grade 7/8 Drama and Grades 9-12 Drama.
David Easter will be joining the St. Anthony’s staff from London, Ontario and will be teaching Religion, English and Social Studies for grades 6 to 12.
Akerboom said the school will be offering a media course this year for grades 7 to 12.
“We are going to be doing a media course as an option so that students actually get to practice more with technology and apply it to the work they are doing in school. The course will expose them to more technology and at the same time they can do the assignments they need to do for their classes,” she said.
Akerboom said the school is also excited about their high school redesign program mentioning that the staff want to, “make sure this really helps our students be more engaged with school which is the primary motivation behind the high school re-design, but we also hope that this is a tool that is really going to help them improve in terms of achieving their high school outcomes.”
Akerboom also said the school started a program this spring called Face of Learning where students get a profile based on questions that they have answered of how they learn and where their strengths are.
“The teachers are excited and hope this will engage kids more in school,” she said.
She also mentioned the Track and Field is progressing saying that right now plans are being finalized to make the field an official sized field.
