Bonjour! You have made a great decision to enroll your child in the French Immersion program offered by Waterloo District School Board. Did you know, however, that your child is in a partial French Immersion program only and not a full French Immersion program? In order for the Ontario government to recognize the program as French Immersion there needs to be 50% instruction in French. Our partial immersion program from grades 1-6 has 476hrs of French instruction which represents 50%. In grade 7-8 we drop to 313 instructional hours of French which equates to 35%. Other school boards do offer a recognized full immersion program through the 1-8 grades. Should we not have that at our schools also?
The good news is that with recent changes this school year we now have G.C.I. offering a French Immersion Certificate Program.
Join us for an information session with a school board representative. Take the time to attend, ask questions about the program, along with what we can do to make changes.
- Date: Thursday May 13th
- Where: Clemens Mill PS library
- Time: 6:00 - 7:00PM
