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oul its dual track mew super jackpot starting at both halls monday may 11 hip bingo at its best full card up to 306d consolation 400 second chance number pegged at 54 or less am scarboro ftv a emporium 2814707 2742 eglinton ave e scarboro gjroomstong 1470 midland ave lawrence ave e 7510690 7519183 courtney powell and christine miranda all 9yearolds take a break on he monkey bars dur- ig a break from their french by maxine share what happens when you fill a schoolyard with 275 french im mersion students and 110 english program students why they play together of course it works extremely well says dickson hill public school principal bruce paradine hes been at the dual track school there is both the french immer sion program and an english in struction program for three years now although the immersion stu dents speak only french in the classroom they switch back to english in the playground says mr paradine for most of the children english is their first lan guage this is the second year of the very popular program where young children can become bilingual by secondgrade a skill that has some fringe benefits according to one teacher mr paradine says the school welcomes anyone who wishes to enrol grade 3 immersion teacher flora jaskolka concedes this is not an elite program everyone can succeed in it she says young children have a very good facility for learning languages and very few have trouble learning french they are pretty fluent by this grade paradine agrees they rarely have difficulty only three stu dents have been transferred into the english program because of difficulty with the french program the program begins at the grade 1 level and the pupils are instructed entirely in french for three years then in grade 4 forty minutes of english language arts is added by grade 5 the stu dents are spending 80 minutes a day on developing their english morkvilk cinemas doors open daily 110 630 in the mflrhulue ihoppino cefhrs ttv 7 k mtcoa wut info 927sh0v1 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a demand for it we may decide to open another class in september according to elfi berndl admi nistrative assistant to board of education superintendant terry graythe decision to add another grade 1 class or not hasnt been made and depends on how enroll ment goes for the rest of the year although the prospect of adding another grade 1 class is in limbo paradine says the school will add a grade 7 class this fall then a grade 8 class in 1988 the board is looking at developing a prog ram at the secondary school level so that students can con tinue their education in french he says that education is now provided with a hands on approach says ms jaskolka they write stor ies do plays we even have a kind of store in class where they can learn about money about items all in the french language she says the program does more than give the children a second language it gives them a sense of what its like to be canadian they can see the french and the english side of our culture from her upside down position on a climbing apparatus french immersion student courtney powell can see her french and english schoolmates playing at recess the youngster says she loves the immersion program and says her dad has even learned a little french but she says her long raven hair grazing the sand as she hangs by her knees he just doesnt have the right accent touche courtney st roberts to hold memorial service the st robert alumni associa tion is holding a memorial service in honor of former students who died while attending school the memorial service sche duled for sunday may 31 at 1030 am will be held in the gymna sium at st robert high school in markham an alumni association spokes man said there will also be a mass in memory of the students all are welcome to attend charge of dipping into till a cashier at the unionville iga store has been charged with theft under 1000 after an incident in volving cash taken from the till york regional police say the in cident took place between may 13 at 2 pm and may 14 at 245 pm at the store on hwy 7 at unionville bypass an item worth 550 was not rung into the cash register and the money was later removed a 25yearold unionville woman was charged in relation to the in cident she was released to appear in court may 28