Dear past and present CPF North Vancouver members,
As a parent of a child enrolled in a French Immersion
program in North Vancouver, you will have received an email through School
Connects asking you and your child to each complete a survey about the French
Immersion program. And if you are anything like me, you would have seen
the email, briefly scanned it, and ignored it, or perhaps thought you would fill
it out later, but that “later” would never come because you either don’t have
the time or can’t find the survey link.
With this email, I would like to bring your attention to
this survey, kindly ask you fill it out, and share it with as many French
Immersion parents or former French Immersion parents as possible.
The input NVSD receives via the survey will inform and potentially shape the
French Immersion programming in the future, and provide new opportunities for
your children and new generations of French Immersion students in North
Vancouver.
So, what is the
survey all about, and who created this survey?
The North Vancouver School District is conducting a review of
the District’s French Immersion Program. This review will focus on:
- Exploring opportunities for increasing accessibility to
the Early French Immersion program at the elementary entry points (K/1)
(Do we need more French Immersion classes? Do we need more French
Immersion programs at different schools? Do we need a single-track French
Immersion school?)
- Enhancing flexibility and choice in programming at the
three secondary French Immersion sites
(Do we need more variety in
terms of mandatory French subjects in secondary schools?).
The North Vancouver School District has set up a French
Immersion Review Committee, and as president of Canadian Parents of French
North Vancouver, I have an opportunity to sit on this Committee. Considering
that I am the only parent representative regularly sitting and contributing to
the Committee’s work, it is greatly important that parents from across North
Vancouver (as well as students and teachers) know about this opportunity to
share their thoughts early in the review process. The District and the Committee
are committed to engaging in meaningful consultation with all stakeholder groups
(staff, students, parents) to inform the review process and the final
recommendations that the Committee will submit to the Board of
Education.
Please take a few moments
to complete the survey, ask your children to complete
the survey, and share the survey with other parents.
It would also be greatly valuable to receive input from parents
who used to have children in French Immersion, but no longer do so. Feedback
from these parents would give us a better idea as to why children leave French
Immersion, and how to prevent French Immersion attrition in the
future.
The deadline to fill out the survey is
Friday April 1,
2016.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to the
questions, and share the survey further. There are only 10 questions, so it will
take you 5 minutes to complete it. If you have any questions about the review
process or the Committee’s work, please feel free to contact me at emina@shaw.ca.
The results of the surveys, which will
be posted to the District website, will help inform the Committee’s work in the
planning stages, and the input you provide will be reviewed by the Committee
members after the Spring Break.
Merci,
Emina Dervisevic
President
Canadian Parents for
French, North Vancouver
Chapter
emina@shaw.ca
www.cpfnorthvan.ca
