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With enrolment declining at A.B. Daley Community School in recent years, staff have had a challenging time figuring out classroom configurations.
The Nanton school, which currently has an enrolment of 190 kids, has had different varieties of split classrooms to deal with the fluctuating number of students. But that has meant unequal classroom sizes and inconsistent programming from year to year, reads the school’s website.
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So starting next year the school will start trying out the concept of shared classrooms.
“The idea is to have (students) develop relationships over a two-year cycle,” said Jolene Becker, A.B. Daley’s principal, about shared classrooms.