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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.
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Community members are letting local seniors and shut-ins know that the community cares about them.
About 40 Christmas cards have been collected so far at the Town of Vulcan’s office, and Town staff were sending the cards to Extendicare Vulcan, Peter Dawson Lodge and Vulcan Community Health Centre. Staff at those facilities were to give out the cards to residents.
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In addition to some Vulcan Prairieview Elementary students providing cards, other VPE students wrote letters. A letter from a Vulcan Prairieview Elementary School student.
“With residential care facilities limiting visitors to protect those who live in them, it is important we share time with them in other ways,” says the Town of Vulcan about the cards. “Sending Christmas cards will let them now a whole community cares about them and wishes them Happy Holidays.”