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Julie Beaudoin admits she wasn’t sure how a virtual open house would work at Chippewa Intermediate and Secondary School.
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Over the years, the traditional route has been to invite the families of Grade 8 students to the school to check out the facilities, talk with staff and find out what the incoming Grade 9 students could expect in their secondary school career.
“We didn’t know how this was going to go over,” Beaudoin, principal at the school, admitted.
NNDSB chair supports in-person learning
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Written by Greg Bowman
Jay Aspin, chair of the Near North District School Board (NNDSB) is confident that students are safe at school despite the provincial stay-at-home order.
“The health and safety of our students is number one,” Aspin said. “We’re following the health guidelines to a T in northern Ontario. We can go back because our numbers are relatively reasonable in northern Ontario.”
Schools in northern Ontario were permitted to resume in-person learning despite students from the southern parts of the province learning from home for the next month.
Aspin says he’s an advocate for students doing in-person learning.
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The former Widdifield Secondary School building is being cleared out.
The Near North District School Board closed Widdifield last year after trustees decided to reduce its high schools in North Bay to two from three.
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Widdifield officially closed last June. And last fall students transferred to either West Ferris Intermediate and Secondary School or Chippewa Secondary School.
Maintenance staff began sorting items for recycling and disposal prior to the holiday break, according to a report from education director Craig Myles.
To the editor:
The government’s announcement to open schools across Northern Ontario while keeping the entire province in lockdown has provided a wonderfully fulfilling and unique perspective to this local northern president.
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The majority of my ETFO Near North Teachers’ Local (NNTL) members were fully prepared and welcoming of the prospect of returning to the physical classroom on Jan. 11. What they were not prepared for was the government’s announcement that schools would be reopening on Jan. 11, while our region remains part of a complete provincial lockdown, and the prospect of curfews being contemplated and likely implemented.
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Meredith Coulas has several lessons planned for students returning to her classroom, but none so pressing as how to protect themselves against COVID-19.
Coulas teaches French immersion in Sudbury, and her collapsed class of Grades 1 through 3 will be returning to in-person learning on Monday. She wants to take a little extra time to review all the safety protocols as her students, like children across northern Ontario, come back to the classroom for the first time since December.
“I probably will try to get to school a little bit earlier, for my own sanity, just to ensure that my classroom is setup,” said Coulas. “I will be reviewing all my safety protocols but I’ll also spend a few minutes in the classroom, or maybe longer than a few minutes, reviewing with the children. …some kids probably haven’t left their house or apartment in the past th