School Board briefs: December 30, 2014

Student numbers will need to add up

School District 47 received a Christmas gift from the provincial government this yearnotice of an audit.

The ministry of education will be performing a student enrolment audit at Brooks Secondary School and Westview Learning Centre, an alternate high school program which operates out of the district administration building on Ontario Avenue.

Actually its good news, said Jay Yule, superintendent of schools for the district. He explained that enrolment audits are much less complicated compared to those done for other programs offered by the district. He described it as an audit to ensure the students reported to be there are actually there. Its quite straightforward, something were quite comfortable with.

There are currently 2,026 students enrolled throughout the school districts various programs with 785 at Brooks and 33 at Westview Learning Centre.

Bus money

They are smaller buses, said Steve Hopkins, secretary treasurer, and would augment our small fleet for out-of-town transportation and special ed field trips within the school district.

The two buses have capacities of 24 and 30 students and include areas for cargo. Drivers need a class four licence to operate them.

Henderson update

Seismic and building upgrading work at Henderson Elementary School continues to be ahead of schedule. While the bulk of the work is already complete, by the time school resumes there will only be a few miscellaneous things left, Hopkins reported to the board at its December public meeting. Almost 70 per cent of the siding has already been installed in the upgrade to the buildings envelope, but some painting and window coverings have yet to be completed, Hopkins said.

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School Board briefs: December 30, 2014