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BA THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredey, Auguet 25, 1966 - «* ie ENROLMENT OF 700 EXPECTED AT EASTDALE THIS FALL $4 Million Spent On Construction By Boards Of Education In Oshawa | Tve been gone -- will probably be the student reaction in Osn- awa when school resumes this fall and they face new or renovated buildings. The Board of Education and the Separate School in Oshawa have spent about $4,000,000 in construction costs changing the school scene for thousands of students this. September. The only new secondary school is a three million dollar project on Harmony Rd. N., which consists of 50 teaching ateas, including shops, labora- tories and 28 classrooms and 41 teachers, half from Oshawa and the remainder from differ- ent points in Ontario. Eastdale Collegiate Institute expects an enrolment of 700 at least and opens this September 6, although its official opening will be marked by the Premier Foot. Pabheast- in Na Jonn -Rebarts-in _November. FIFTH. HIGH SCHOOL Courses taught at the fifth Oshawa High School will be: the five-year arts and science course, a business and- com- merce course and a two-year occupational course that trains people for industry. Beau Valley is a new public school on Ritsén Rd. N., that will accommodate 225 pupils and nine teachers and will .cost the board of education $235,000. A seven-room addition to the well-established O'Neill Collegi- ate and Vocational Institute will accommodate the. secreta- rial and special commercial classes of that school. Con- struction costs and completion date have not yet been deter- mined. Vincent Massey public school will also be six rooms larger as a result of a $130,000 addi- tion made this summer. It will comprise of five regu- Jar classes and one perceptual class for neurologically-impair- ed chiidren. Eight children with "learning disabilities'? will be taught by Mrs. Marjorie Lake of Oshawa. The Separate School Board has one new, eight-room ele- mentary school for eager pupils this fall on a three and a half acre site on Vancouver Ct. St. Michael's construction ex- penses are $194,000. An eight-room addition to St. Francis': school on Elmridge is larger than the previously-used six-room building and will cost $204,000. St. Francis' and sey- eral other elementary schools. will be equipped this fall- with library classrooms and_ all-pur- pose rooms. St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Christopher and Sir Albert Love and perhaps St. Joseph will operate grade seven and eight classes on a rotary system. when the St. Francis addition is completed in October. 200 ACCOMMODATED Until the addition is com- pleted, 200 pupils will be tem- porarily accommodated _ this way: 1. Senior opportunity classes will be located in St. Thomas Aquinas, and the three grade seven and the three grade eight classes scheduled for St. Fran- cis' will find accommodation at the new St. Michael school. 2. A kindergarten and a grade one and two class will be open- ed. in St. Michael's and the grade two and three pupils of St. Michael's will he placed at St. Christopher's until the sen- ior classes vacate the rooms at St. Michael's school. 3. Grade five and six pupils will return to St. Michael's when the school is vacated. A port- able at St. Francis' will house pupils from kindergarten to grade six inclusive. 4. Portables at St. Gertrude and J. F. Kennedy schools will be moved to the St. Joseph and St. Francis sites. - About 180 pupils from St. Gertrude's, St. Francis' and St. ! The gravest shortage of teachers 'today, according to the National Education Associa- tion, is in the elementary edu- cation field. Elementary school teachers are needed in the ratio of 9 to every 6 secondary school. teachers, but students are now preparing to teach in the inverse ratio, Hedwig's will be transported by tination and returned, at the board's expense. Oshawa Catholic High School will have two additional grade hine classes and oné grade 13 for the first time of'the school's five-year history..All but one of the 16 classes are being used for teaching or studying. ROSSLAND SITE : The Separate School board has three new sites in store for the future. They. are five-acre parcels costing $35,000 each and are located at Glover's Rd., Rossland Rd. W., and an- other on Athabaska Kd. The Rossland Rd. site is stirring the most controversy among school authorities and city officials. The board does not feel obliged to pay taxes usually requested by the ci when property is sub-di ; as the land wili be used for educational purposes. .City council is not making a distinc- tion for it is requesting for- feiture of $18,600. ~ Secondary school enrolment is up 400 students over last year's 4,486: Public school en- rolment shows an increase also by about 300 pupils and Oshawa Catholic High School shows an additional surge of about 300 students. : ee School board enrol- ment is expected to be up about 325 over last year 4,087 register- ed pupils. Both boards will employ 15 additional teachers this fall. In public 'and separate elementary schools, there are about 540 teachers in the 26 public and 13 elementary schools. Separate school teachers number 140 to the board of education's 400. ' ember 6th, first. time, J. ROSS BACKUS, Business Administrator and Secretary-Treesurer OSHAWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS Registration of all pupils who are new to the city or who have moved and will be attending a dfferent school than the one they attended in June should register at the new school on Thursday, September Ist, 1966 9:30 A.M. to 11:45 A.M. Principals will be at their schools to accept registrations and assign pupils to classes in readiness for school opening at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, Sept- Pupils will be admitted to Kindergarten whose fifth birthday is not later than December 31st, 1966. = Birth Certificates will be required for all children entering school for the BOARD OF EDUCATION OSHAWA, ONTARIO S. E. LOVELL, Chairmen 'ave Cc. M. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Public Schools