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Principal's Message
This is being written before the school year, 1965-66, is half over--and anything may happen yet. At the moment it appears destined to be remembered as the year when the tide of change in education began to subside.
Our school enrolment is levelling off. It has been climbing for years and passed the 900 mark in 1965. However, unless there is an unexpected move- ment of population into the district, the number of students registered at the collegiate should remain relatively stationary in future.
The changes in courses brought about by the Reorganized Program of Studies and the building of the Vocational Wing have been completed. The 'double shop' and 'double commercial' options in the Five-Year Program have reached Grade Twelve. In the Four-YearProgram the former single commer- cial course has been broadened to three: Secretarial, Accountancy, and Clerical. For a school of its size we are now offering a wide variety of courses and do not anticipate further additions.
There is one aspect of secondary school education in which tlle pattern of recent rapid change subsiding into a period of consolidation is not being followed. That is in the field of subject matter. We began the New Mathematics in Grade Eleven last year, continued it in Grade Twelve this year,. and will introduce it in Grade Thirteen next year. New courses in Biology and Physics have been introduced in Grade Thirteen. New courses are coming next year in Chemistry, and the end is not in sight.
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