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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, June 30, 2010 · 12 Chisholm will open, but not finish the new school year By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Oakville's Roshni Dell still remembers where she learned to jump rope, climb monkey bars and many other early life's lessons. It was the same place where she learned multiplication and division, to read and write and much more. It's also the same place where her youngest daughter is currently getting similar lessons -- at Chisholm Public School. Now, this school is set to close after the Halton District School Board has chosen it and two other southeast Oakville schools to shut their doors due to changing demographics in the community. Some of Chisholm's students were at the school for the last time this month -- the end of this school year -- while another portion will stay until partway through the next school year. Dell was one of the school's first students when it opened in 1974. She was in Grade 2 at the time. She has many memories of her old teachers and the principal and much more. Now her two daughters, one in Grade 3 and another one, who already moved on from the JK to Grade 5 school, have developed their own memories of the school. But as Dell sometimes steps into the school these days, she sees its very much the same as when she attended it. "It's still that warm, caring environment and Part 3 of 3 I'm often tickled by that picture they have in the library, it's the Queen of England, and that white rocking chair and I'm sure they were there for my story time," she said. "I remember washing my grubby little hands in the same fountain that my kids are doing it in right now. It's still in an immaculate condition." Now, her daughter will spend next year at Maple Grove Public School. Her two daughters had actually spent one year at Maple Grove before being moved to Chisholm when the family moved. Dell said she remembers things such as field trips to Québec when she was in Grade 6 (at the time Chisholm included Grade 6), doing a carwash fundraiser in the parking lot and signing up for crossing guard duty, a program that a teacher at the school started. "Whenever we were doing it in the cold winter months, he (Mr. Hutchinson) would give us hot chocolate," she said. Her most vivid recollections come from an old wooden creative playground that has since been replaced for a new one on the school property. "I learned how to climb the bars and go down a big slide and there's a sort of magical ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER DO YOU OWN A BUSINESS? Are Your Business And Family Assets Protected In The Event Of A Lawsuit Or Bankruptcy? The IncorporatorsTM Will Build A Corporate And Personal Asset Structure For You That Will Ensure Such A Situation Does Not Occur. Does Your Combined Corporate And Personal Income Tax Rate Exceed 16.5% Of Your Combined Business And Personal Income? 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LOOKING BACK: Current Chisholm students (l-r) Quinn Caldwell, Eric Mordon and Jacob Clyde look at old school photo albums. forest on the edge of the perimeter of the prop- because it is small and people get to know each erty that has always been a special place," she other. Over the years not much has changed in the said. Now Dell is a regular volunteer at the school. school, she said, it is still just as close-knit a In the next school year, Chisholm will community as when she started at the school. accommodate some of its own students, as well However, some of the school's structure has as Maple Grove's JK to Grade 5 children, until changed. It's open concept -- no doors between renovations are completed at Maple Grove, like- classrooms -- has changed to modern day stanly in March of 2011. The renovations are being dards. Now classrooms also have windows. "The school has been filled with great people: done to accommodate the increase in population at the school. Until then, only the Grades 6, great parents, great kids and great staff," she said. 7 and 8 will be attending Maple Grove. The school holds Christmas concerts each Another portion of Chisholm's students will be going to the new James W. Hill Public School year for parents and has an annual Fall Fair for in Clearview. Those students will attend the the students. Mayers added that former students Clearview school at the beginning of the school come back each year for the fair. The school has been involved in numerous year in September. "This is a hard place to leave," said teacher charity fundraisers over the years including the Leigh Mayers, who has been at the school for 19 Terry Fox Run, Jump Rope for Heart and othyears. "There's always been an incredible work- ers. "It's still the warm wonderful place it always ing relationship between the community and the staff. You can see that in the many battles was and very community oriented," said when they tried to close Chisholm and many Virginia Swistara, a staple at the school, as Dell dedicated groups of parents, many times, have calls her. Swistra had been a secretary at the come to the rescue because of their passion for school for 25 years, before she retired four years ago. She returned to the school this year to end the school." 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