Kindergarten Registration and French Immersion News!
Kindergarten
Registration to Commence January 16, 2015
Kindergarten
registration will commence on January 16, 2015 for the 2015-16 school year.
Registration forms are available on YRDSB’s website: www.yrdsb.ca. Children who turn four or five
years old during 2015, live within the school boundary and whose parents are
public school tax supporters will be eligible to register
for kindergarten. A kindergarten information session for parents is being
planned for this spring. For more information please visit the YRDSB website or
contact your local school.
French Immersion Information Sessions and RegistrationsInformation sessions for the French Immersion (FI) program will take place at Ventura Park P.S. (121 Worth Blvd., Thornhill, ON L4J 7V5) on January 15, 2015 at 7 p.m. FI registration will begin January 16, 2015.
In order to streamline the registration process, parents or guardians of Senior Kindergarten students entering Grade 1 in 2015, and wishing to enrol in the FI Program, can visit or call the school office and request an Office Index Card - short version. The Office Index Card must be signed by the principal of the home school. Parents or guardians then take this form, along with one piece of identification showing their address to Ventura Park P.S. to register between January 16 and February 13, 2015. This eliminates the need to provide duplicate enrollment information or to pre-register.
YRDSB’s FI Accommodation Plan provides long-term consistency and equity of access to all students in York Region and will enable YRDSB to continue to offer the FI program to all who wish to enrol. The FI program will be offered in Dual Track or Single Track settings, in a variety of configurations. In order to meet community needs and optimize available space in our schools, a community's Grade 1-8 FI program may be provided over more than one school during the course of a student's FI education. This will allow flexibility in addressing community needs and the opportunity to use existing space in schools. More information is available on the Board’s website: www.yrdsb.ca. Please note: Some of the FI accommodation plans will require facility modifications or the development of new schools and will require short-term transition plans that might include overflow while we work toward the long-term vision. Overflow refers to situations in which the Board directs students to attend a school other than their community school or optional program for a specific period of time, as defined in Policy #108.
