Last Updated: Tuesday - 01/04/2011

Project FIRST proposals

Here are some recommendations from the Edmonton Catholic Schools' Project FIRST report:

Creative Utilization:

• Move English K-9 program from St. Basil to St. Alphonsus and St. Catherine, Keep Polish program (K-6) at Basil and lease the rest of the space (*) (already approved).
• Convert St. Hilda to a junior high school and transport all junior high students living west of 34th Street and north of 34th Avenue to St. Hilda. (*)
• Convert Blessed Kateri to an elementary school. Move elementary students from St. Hilda to St. Elizabeth and John Paul I based on a boundary determination.
• Move a part of the IOP from St. Francis of Assisi to St. Hilda.
• Create a single campus with St. Anne K-2 and St. Philip 3-6. (*)
• Designate surplus space at St. Brendan to create a satellite high school to Austin O'Brien.
• Review placement of IOP programs among junior highs throughout the division.
• Implement a feasibility study to review French immersion program locations to address accessibility issues in West and North. Implement high school French immersion at Archbishop O'Leary (contingent on study).

Create Magnet Programs:

• Designate at St. Edmund: Centre for excellence in academics and athletics.
• Designate a sports academy program at Archbishop O'Leary.
• Designate St. Clement: primary and middle years international baccalaureate program.
• Designate St. Thomas More: middle years international baccalaureate program.
• Create a centre of excellence for inner city children at Sacred Heart with medical, children's and adult education services.
• Examine feasibility of year-round schooling at Annunciation and St. Thomas More.
• Examine feasibility of year-round schooling at St. Catherine and St. Joe's.
• Examine the possibility of implementing an all-girls school or all-girls program at St. James.
• Designate St. Alphonsus as a fine arts school.
• Implement full-day kindergarten for all high needs area schools (not presently part of AISI project) to include: Annunciation, Our Lady of Peace, St. Bernadette, St. Edmund, St. Elizabeth, St. Elizabeth Seton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Jerome, St. Justin, St. Leo and St. Maria Goretti.

(*) indicates proposal requires board approval.

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