Spruce Ridge School in Estevan has remained at remote learning this week, due to limited staff availability. The kindergarten-Grade 8 school will return to Level 2 on May 3. Cornerstone director of education Lynn Little said Spruce Ridge remains at remote learning because a number of staff members have been adversely affected by COVID-19. She knows of two who tested positive, while others are close contacts. “We just do not have the staffing required to operate the school next week. So we’ll be able to operate it remotely and then hopefully bring it safely back on the 3rd.” The Estevan Comprehensive School and Grades 9-12 at the Weyburn Comprehensive School will move to Level 3 effective April 26, with a planned return to Level 2 on May 10th. Those two schools were at Level 3 for the final few weeks of 2020 and the first couple of months of this year.
Strueby’s new role takes effect July 1. He began his teaching career at the Estevan Junior High in 2000, where he taught Grade 7, after graduating with great distinction with a bachelor of education degree. He also spent a year as a Grade 7 teacher at Hillcrest School in 2003-04, and was the vice-principal at Westview School in 2004-05, before moving on to Palliser Heights School in Moose Jaw in 2005. His wife Malinda Strueby taught at the Estevan Comprehensive School in the physical education department from 2003-2005. They have three children Walker (13), Chloe (11) and Emersyn (4). In an email to the Mercury, Ward Strueby said they thoroughly enjoyed their time in Estevan. It was such a great community. If it was not for moving closer to family, they would still be in Estevan.
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Most schools in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division and all schools in the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division will return to Level 2, in-class learning, effective . . .
The government asked us to reduce activities outside of the home, work from home if possible, order food through takeout or curbside pickup options, and to avoid unnecessary travel to Estevan if possible. But it was the method in which it was posted that irked some: a paid advertisement through Facebook, rather than a more traditional means. There wasn’t a press release specific to Estevan that had been issued previously for other areas of the province. There wasn’t a message on the Facebook pages of the Government of Saskatchewan or the Saskatchewan Health Authority, an approach taken routinely by the government in the past 13 months.