JK registrations upcoming at CSCNO

Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) invites parents interested in registering their children in its junior kindergarten programs to its junior kindergarten registration events Jan. 24 and Jan. 25.

Parents are invited to visit schools run by CSCNO on those days.

This event will be of interest to parents of children born in 2008 who will be attending school in September 2012, a press release from the school board stated.

The Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario offers a full-time junior and senior kindergarten program in a motivating and caring environment, the press release said.

This program encourages children’s spiritual, affective, social, and cultural development.

It also promotes the acquisition of French, as well as the academic success and cultural identity of French Catholic students.

The benefits of attending a French Catholic school include: full special needs programs, a quality English language program starting in Grade 4 and ensuring sustainable bilingualism, a curriculum instilled with Catholic values, access to state-of-the-art technology, and an environment that nurtures and promotes a sense of francophone culture and identity, the press release said.

CSCNO schools also attain superior academic results and its students graduate with a high level of bilingualism and a solid grasp of the French language.

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Canadian citizens and landed immigrant families qualify for admission to CSCNO schools if they meet at least one of the following conditions:

-Parent’s first language learned and still understood is French
-Parent received primary school instruction in Canada in French (excluding French immersion);
-A brother or sister has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in Canada in French (excluding French immersion).

The CSCNO further extends this eligibility for Catholic French-language education to children of Canadian citizens whose grandparents’ first language was French and who were entitled to French-language education, as well as to children born into immigrant families whose parents speak neither French nor English.

For more information, phone the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario at 705-673-5626 or toll free at 1-800-259-5565, or visit www.nouvelon.ca.