{"id":63318,"date":"2021-10-04T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=63318"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:10:07","slug":"parents-can-again-participate-in-school-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/parents-can-again-participate-in-school-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents can again participate in school life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in session for a month, Cortes Island School has been able to reopen its doors to parents and guest presenters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brent Wilken, in his 10th year as teaching principal at the school, said that last year \u201cthere was a really painful disconnect between families and the school without being able to allow people into the building\u201d due to COVID-19 restrictions. As of September 2021, parents can once again come in, as long as they are masked and sign in on entry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a result, hot lunches are being prepared twice a month by parents, a guest art instructor takes a turn with each group on Fridays, and more opportunities are on the horizon. The total of 43 students at the school is grouped into three divisions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">16 students in the K-1 classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">18 students in the grades 2-5 classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9 students in the senior class of grades 5-9<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeramie Peacock, chair of the Parent Advisory Committee, said they are discussing having a science fair and a winter festival celebration, in order to \u201cbring folks and their interest back towards the school\u201d and potentially increase enrolment numbers in the senior division.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The school has also traditionally functioned as a community recreational center, and health restrictions will likely allow for youth groups to return this month. However, adult sports groups would need to show proof of vaccination, which the school may not have the means to monitor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in session for a month, Cortes Island School has been able to reopen its doors to parents and guest presenters. Brent Wilken, in his 10th year as teaching principal at the school, said that last year \u201cthere was a really painful disconnect between families and the school without being able to allow people into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":63322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,221],"tags":[376,3953],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63318"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=63318"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=63318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}