Update! – Final Decisions – January 2024
After reviewing and considering the input received, staff brought forward Report No. 24-004 New Findlay Creek Elementary School – Approval of Opening Grade Structure, Program Offering, and Attendance Boundary to Committee of the Whole on January 16th, 2024.
Board, at its meeting of January 30th 2024, approved the following recommendations within Report No. 24-004 on the that evening:
RECOMMENDATIONS:
A. THAT the opening grade structure, program offering and attendance boundary for the New Findlay Creek Elementary School be approved according to Appendix E to Report No. 24-004.
B. THAT the revised attendance boundary for Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6 for Vimy Ridge Public School be approved according to Appendix F to Report No. 24-004, to be implemented upon the opening of the New Findlay Creek Elementary School.
C. THAT the Grade 7 and 8 attendance boundary for Vimy Ridge Public School be approved as per Appendix G to Report No. 24-004.
D. THAT all current Junior Kindergarten to Grade 5 students that have been directed to Robert Bateman Public School as a result of the interim measures outlined in Report No. 22-037 be redirected to their home school upon opening of the New Findlay Creek Elementary School.
E. THAT current Grade 7 students attending Roberta Bondar Public School, as a result of the interim measures outlined in Report No. 22-037, be given a one-time option to remain at Roberta Bondar Public School or attend Vimy Ridge Public School upon the opening of the New Findlay Creek Elementary School.
In summary, the New Findlay Creek Elementary School will open with a Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6 structure, and will offer an English with Core French program, and an Early French Immersion program.
Below please find an information sheet for the New Findlay Creek Elementary School, as well as the attendance boundary map and the revised attendance boundary maps for Vimy Ridge Public School.