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Survey On School Board Calendar Now Available

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The school year isn’t half over yet, but local school board want to know what the next school year will look like.

Students, parents and guardians are being asked to fill out an on-line survey about when the next school year should begin and end.

All five school boards are seeking input and two options have been given.

One would see the school year start on September 5th and end June 26th while the other would start the school year a week earlier on August 30th and end June 21st.

Both school calendars would have the same Christmas Break.

The survey will be up until January 20th.

School Year Calendar

Families are asked to complete the survey by January 20, which you can find HERE.

(With files from Ryan Forbes)

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COVID-19 Confirmed At PJP

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It didn’t take long for the first positive case of COVID-19 to be diagnosed at a local school.

The school year is only two days old and the Kenora Catholic District School Board says a positive result has been found at Pope John Paul II School.

The School board says the positive case is being followed up by the Northwestern Health Unit and all contacts of the case will be called and given instructions.

The board says staff and students not contacted by the school can continue to attend school as usual.

For reasons of privacy, the KCDSB says it will minimize sharing personal information about any case and encourage others to avoid identifying individuals.

All students and staff must use the Government of Ontario’s school screening tool daily before attending school. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/school-screening/

 

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Local Boards Launch Back-To-School Survey

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Local school boards have launched a survey to find out parent’s feelings about the return-to-school in September.

All of the area school boards collaborated to put the questions together.

The survey came together quickly after Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced students could either be in the classroom or at home when the school year begins next month.

The Return to School Survey has been posted on the website and Facebook pages for each board, and is open until August 17th.

https://www.facebook.com/KPDSB/posts/4105537402850215

https://www.facebook.com/tncdsb/posts/2206623892804223

 

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Kenora Catholic Holds Meetings About Next Year

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The Kenora Catholic District School Board, which oversees St. John School in Red Lake, says it will be holding a pair of forums to discuss back-to-school protocols following an announcement from the Ford Government that students will indeed be allowed back in the classroom come September.

Derek Haime is the Director of Education for the KCDSB, and says the first with teachers will take place Tuesday.

“I’ll be speaking with staff in a community forum to take and ask their questions,” says Haime, “And then in a couple of weeks I’ll be doing an online forum with families.”

He tells us that one of the questions he’s been hearing has to do with the placement of public health nurses.

“They will be spread out throughout the whole province, so I anticipate that we’ll be sharing a nurse that’ll be working with a number of schools across school boards in our region.”

Haime adds that he expects most students to be physically present come the fall.

“Early indications, with various families reaching out, is that the vast majority will be returning. I respect the choice of families should they not, and a full synchronous learning experience will be available (for them).”

The 2020/2021 school year is scheduled to start for students on September 3rd.

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KCDSB Student Enrollment Higher Than Expected

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Student enrollment at the Kenora Catholic District School Board, which oversees St. John School in Red Lake, is a little higher than expected.

So far this fall, there is just over 1,400 students signed up.

Director of Education Derek Haime says he’s happy with the numbers.

“We are above the projections we had in June,” says Haime, “…we’re pretty close to 1420 system-wide so we’re quite pleased with that.”

He adds they are close enough to budget that they don’t have to make major alterations for the Ministry of Education.

“It (registration) is slightly above projections, but not significantly. We’re very happy that we can use the budgeting we’ve done well.”

The first numbers have to submitted to the Ministry of Education in Toronto by the end of October.