Last week we had another meeting with Celia Caetano-Gomes, the District Superintendent of Winnipeg School Division. She has been a fabulous support to us, even coming to one of our summer presentations at the Spanish Club.
A few updates:
Three school communities will be surveyed by the WSD, Isaac Brock, Earl Grey, and Luxton this month. If you belong to one of these school communities, watch for a newsletter or communication from the division. They are assessing interest for new programming at these schools, one of them being Spanish, and the other two are yet to be determined. We do know that French programming will not be started at these schools as William Osler (offering French) was just opened up this year. To clarify, the programming that may be added to these schools will be in addition to programming already offered. The division is not looking to remove programs from these schools.
Celia has encouraged us to communicate to the families the following timeline:
September 2015 - the Board of Trustees will confirm the survey for the three school communities listed above
October 2015 - the WSD will determine the final location for the Spanish Bilingual programming
November 2015 - we need to have final numbers for children within the WSD born in 2010 and 2011 to present to the Board of Trustees.
We have 20 children in WSD born in 2010 to start grade 1 in September 2016. We need 3 more children for 2010!
We have 14 children in WSD born in 2011 to start kindergarten. We need 9 more children for 2011!
November 2015 - the WSD will appoint a person to contact the families on our list to confirm they want to register.
January 2016 - the board will prepare their budget and then approve Spanish Bilingual programming will be part of the 2016/17 budget
We will keep you posted as we meet again in 2 weeks with Celia.
