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ANNUAL REVIEW OFDISTRICT FRENCH PROGRAMS

SD35 Board of Education MeetingMarch 8, 2016 Page 2 of 20

ANNUAL REVIEW OFDISTRICT FRENCH PROGRAMS

At the April 29, 2014 Regular Meeting of the Board of Education, the following motion was passed:

“That the Board reviews the French Programsin the District on an annual basis.”


CORE FRENCH

• Langley schools offer Core French curriculum to students in Grades 5 to 12

• Students in Grades 5 to 8 experience language instruction in French as part of their regular program

• After Grade 8, French as a Second Language instruction becomes optional and is an elective choice for students

• The Revised Grades 5 to 12 Core French curriculum that will be implemented for 2016-17 is posted on the Ministry of Education’s website


CORE FRENCH ENROLMENT

Secondary Schools 2014-15 2015-16ACSS 91 96BSS 237 224DWP 287 315LFAS 225 213LFMS 467 438LSS 128 139REMSS 325 398WGSS 628 636

Total: 2388 2459Middle SchoolsHDSMS 453 524BGMS 334 341Yorkson Creek MS 781 865

Total: 1568 1730Elementary Schools 2502 2596Total Core 6458 6785


FRENCH IMMERSION

• Langley School District offers two choice programs in French Immersion• Early French Immersion which begins in Kindergarten• Late French Immersion which begins in Grade 6

• Both immersion programs afford students the opportunity to continue language instruction in French until the end of Grade 12• Students are able to earn a Bilingual Dogwood certificate

• Early French Immersion is currently offered at Belmont Elementary and James Kennedy Elementary


FRENCH IMMERSION

• Late Immersion is currently offered at Alex Hope Elementary, Betty Gilbert Middle and Noel Booth Elementary

• Continuation of these programs is offered at the secondary level at Aldergrove Community Secondary School, Brookswood Secondary School and Walnut Grove Secondary School

• All Early and Late French Immersion students come together at the secondary level to continue French studies if they wish to pursue Immersion


FRENCH IMMERSION

• The Revised Kindergarten to Grade 9 French Immersion curriculum that will be implemented for 2016-17 is posted on the Ministry of Education’s website

• The guiding premise of the French Immersion program is that students are introduced to French language and instruction in the majority of their subjects is delivered in French

• As they move through the senior years in the secondary school, the students traditionally experience fewer courses in French


FRENCH IMMERSION ENROLMENT

Early Immersion Grades 2014-15 2015-16

Belmont Elem K-7 338 344James Kennedy Elem

K-7 329 354

Late ImmersionAlex Hope Elem 6-7 98 101Noel Booth Elem 6-7 51 50Betty Gilbert Middle

6-8 84 85

Secondary ImmersionAldergrove Sec 9-12 75 58Brookswood Sec 8-12 194 200Walnut Grove Sec 8-12 274 256

French Immersion 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16

District Totals 1412 1369 1366 1397 1449 1443 1448


CURRENT TRENDS

• More parent requests for the Early Immersion programs, than for the Late Immersion programs

• There are wait lists for the Early programs and there are always more requests than available placements

• The Provincial trend is that French Immersion programs continue to grow in popularity

• Natural attrition occurs at the secondary school level where students tend to leave the French Immersion programs for a variety of reasons (also a province-wide trend)


LATE IMMERSIONELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS

• Late French Immersion enrolment has remained relatively steady for the past three years

• The District continues to monitor the enrolment trends at the two elementary school sites that offer Late Immersion

• There have traditionally been two cohorts of Late French Immersion at Alex Hope Elementary and one cohort at Noel Booth• for the past several years, these cohorts have not been

operating at maximum capacity however will be at or near capacity for 2016-17

• The program at Betty Gilbert is operating at close to capacity


EARLY IMMERSIONELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS

• Both Early Immersion programs at James Kennedy and Belmont Elementary schools operate at maximum capacity• always requests for more seats than are currently available

• Both schools currently have greater than 50% of the total student school population involved in the French Immersion program

• Recent policy changes to the registration process for choice options will hopefully benefit these programs


ALDERGROVE COMMUNITYSECONDARY SCHOOL

• At the Regular Meeting of the Board of Education on April 29, 2014, the Board approved the transition from a traditional French Immersion program to an Advanced Placement French Program with an “opt in French Immersion” component for those students wanting to pursue the Bilingual Dogwood Certificate



• In 2015-2016 the staff at Aldergrove Community Secondary School developed a new French Immersion Leadership course to bolster authentic learning opportunities for senior students following the traditional Board Authorized curriculum but with a focus on the French language

• An optional travel experience was to be included as an authentic experience learning about the language and culture in France. Unfortunately, global events forced cancellation of the trip and negatively impacted the overall FI experience

• Students are working with BGMS French Immersion students in Café Français and completing 40 hours of volunteer work in support of the French community



• In 2016-2017, students in grades 11 and 12 will be taking French Immersion 11 and 12 consecutively along with French Literature 11

• Both Grade 11 and 12 students will be able to complete their Dual Graduation requirements by the end of the year

• During the second year of an alternating program, students have an intensive French year followed by a year with practical experiences in French language and culture that may include courses in Leadership, Drama or Foods

• These experiences will be available to all French students


DISTRICT FRENCH SUPPORT

• Langley School District currently has the support of a 0.4 fte District Teacher for Modern Languages who works to support all language programs and curriculum including French


GRADE 5 CORE FRENCH IPAD PROJECT

• In early October 2015, the District received 15 Innovation Grant applications from Grade 5 teachers and Digital Literacy Coaches (DLCs) interested in implementing technology into the teaching of Core French at the Grade 5 level in support of the new curriculum for Core French



• The following ten schools received class sets of 17 iPad minis (15 for student use, one for the classroom teacher(s) and one for the DLC)

Noel Booth Dorothy PeacockGordon Greenwood Langley Fine ArtsLangley Fundamental RC GarnettRichard Bulpitt Simonds/U-ConnectShortreed Willoughby

• At the second Touchback Session in early February, teachers shared project ideas and samples of student work



• Jenna Mattson and Kari Hall at Langley Fine Arts are using Green Screen to have students animate the story Ours brun (Brown Bear). Students in this photo have created puppets torepresent characters inthe story and willincorporate them into thebackgrounds providedby the app



• Julia Henrey at RC Garnett has transformed her Board Game project (students create a game to learn vocabulary items focusing on opposites) into an iBook

• using Book Creator. Theadvantage of the digital

• format is that students• are able to record and • re-record themselves • learning to speak French, • which results in much • more intense practice • with the target words• and phrases.


GOING FORWARD

• The District will continue to monitor:• the attrition rate in secondary French Immersion enrolment • the modest growth in the Late French Immersion program

• Going forward, additional non-traditional language courses and changes to the curriculum for 2016-17 may generate greater interest and participation in this important curricular area

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Reg Annual Review of District French Programs 2016Mar 8€¦ · GRADE 5 CORE FRENCH IPAD PROJECT • Jenna Mattson and Kari Hall at Langley Fine Arts are using Green Screen to have