REGINA – New schools coming to Regina’s newest neighbourhoods mean the borders have been re-drawn.
The Regina Public Schools Board is making changes to school boundaries. The shuffle will see approximately 1,300 students in seven schools across the city impacted.
The school board says those schools are at capacity.
“From (a) programming perspective, they’re designed to ensure that we can manage more growth moving forward”, said Mark Whiting, policy and planning supervisor for Regina Public Schools.
“This is one of the reasons that we need to take a look at how we redistribute the boundaries. We are growing, we’re growing each year, and we’re projecting growth each year and into the future”, said Regina Public Schools director of education Greg Enion.
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Students will move to the school nearest their home’s location, with transition plans in place to assist with the move as well as provide transportation.
Students attending MacNeill and Centennial schools’ English program will be attending the new Rosewood Park school.
W.F Ready School and French immersion students of W.S. Hawrylak School will attend newly formed Greens of Gardiner school.
The new Harbour Landing school enrolment will consist of students from Dr. A.E. Perry and Ethel Milliken schools.
All students in the French immersion program at Centennial School will remain at that location, as it will become a new French centre for the north region.
For families opposed to the switch, the school board says there are options.
“Initially all students will be assigned to the new school boundaries; they will be given an option to remain at the school they’re currently at, but at this time, we’re not providing any transportation” said Whiting.
Three open houses will give parents a chance to learn more.
“The design of the school, what they look like, what the school boundaries will be and answer questions about transition and how we’re going to help them make the new move to the new school”, said Whiting.
The school board is launching a “Name Your School” campaign that invites the public to weigh in on possible names. Proposed names must be relevant to education, as well as be meaningful to the community. Deadline to submit applications is March 24.
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