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Student trustee position open to Grade 11 or 12 student
Any high school student in either Grade 11 or 12 who is interested in representing student concerns to the board is asked to contact their local principal for more information.
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The latest Education stories from Lindsay and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
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Extracurriculars available at both elementary and secondary
One of the surest signs of a return to approaching normal at the schools in the Trillium Lakelands District Secondary Board is the availability of extracurricular programming at both elementary and secondary schools right across the district.
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Driver shortages for local school board still an issue as enrollment increases
Finding bus drivers is still an issue for a local public board of education that keeps on growing.
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Supply teachers in short supply
Trillium Lakelands District School Board is having difficulty finding enough available supply teachers to cover absences.
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Kawartha Lakes Catholic education trustee Michelle Griepsma resigns
After more than 11 years working as a trustee for the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington (PVNC) Catholic District School Board, Kawartha Lakes Trustee Michelle Griepsma has moved out of the board’s jurisdiction and has resigned from her role.
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Unforeseen enrollment increases at public school board
Trillium Lakelands District School Board director Wes Hahn believes he can explain where an additional 500 students came from. These students are are responsible for larger than expected class sizes, which has caused issues such as buses not picking up all students.
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School sports are back, with adjustments
“Extra-curriculars are back,” Trillium Lakelands District School Board’s director of education, Wes Hahn said at the recent board meeting, but not all coaches and teams will be running. “We will respect if staff feel uneasy or anxious about running teams again,” because of the pandemic, he said. “It is their voluntary right.”
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COVID cases largely contained at Trillium Lakelands schools
Director of education for the Trillium Lakelands District School Board Wes Hahn said there are nearly 40 cases of COVID in TLDSB schools, with one case in Haliburton and 21 cases in Kawartha Lakes.
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Creating new digital spaces with fall after-school coding camps
Pinnguaq’s Kawartha Lakes Makerspace will be filled with aspiring in-person and online coders and game designers this fall as they launch four after-school workshops, starting in October.
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TLDSB faces serious issues in re-opening
Trillium Lakelands District School Board senior staff, led by superintendents Tim Ellis and Tracy Hubbard, told trustees at their Sept. 14 regular board meeting that the board is dealing with a number of worrying issues.
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School's in: Students return in droves to higher learning
Undergraduate application statistics provided via e-mail by Deanna Underwood, manager of communications and events, at the Ontario Universities Application Centre show that 2021 could be a very busy year for universities right across the province.
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No mandatory vaccinations at school board but staff will need regular testing
There will be no mandatory vaccinations for staff or students for COVID-19 at the Trillium Lakelands District School Board. The local board takes direction on vaccination policy from the Ministry of Health – and the Ontario government has been steadfast in its opposition to mandatory vaccines or vaccine passports.
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Libraries, cafeterias, and extracurriculars are back at school this fall
Trillium Lakelands District School Board’s director of education, Wes Hahn, hopes to see students return to schools with recess, music and choir programs, open cafeterias and libraries and a full range of extracurriculars when school starts again this fall.
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Optional courses in high school could be hit hard as 300 students opt to stay home: Union president
The new secondary school union head says the nearly 300 students that are staying home this fall for online learning may end up affecting class choice for the majority who are going back.
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Board negotiates deal with area high school teachers
A deal has been made. After months of difficult negotiations and the intervention of a provincial conciliator, the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and District 15 of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) have reached and ratified a three-year collective agreement that will guarantee labour peace until Aug. 31, 2024.
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More pop-up vaccination clinics coming, says health unit
After months of operating large mass immunization clinic sites in Cobourg, Minden, Fenelon Falls and Campbellford, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is shifting its COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the coming weeks in favour of launching more pop-up clinics instead.
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TLDSB picks former high school principal to fill new superintendent position
Kim Williams, a long-term secondary school principal, will be a new superintendent at Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB). Williams will replace Katherine MacIver who recently left TLDSB to become the director of education at Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board.
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LCVI archives now under city's care
Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Institute (LCVI) is transferring its collection of archives to the City of Kawartha Lakes for better safekeeping and storage. The archives contain many items, some over a century old given the school was founded in 1889.
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Online petition against Catholic school board's Pride flag decision keeps growing
Nearly 5,000 people have now signed an online petition against the decision made by the Peterborough- Victoria- Northumberland Clarington Catholic District School Board to disallow the flying of Pride flags in front of their schools.
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Summer learning programs offered to students by TLDSB to fill in learning gaps
On the heels of a second straight school year disrupted by COVID-19, the Trillium Lakelands District School Board will be offering many summer learning opportunities to assist students who may have fallen behind during the pandemic. Superintendent of learning Jay MacJanet shared with the board the multiple learning opportunities available, and where the funding is coming from to support some of these unique course offerings.
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Board rejects Ford’s call for in-person graduations
The Trillium Lakelands Board of Education has decided to stand their ground on their decision to host virtual graduations for their Grade 8 and Grade 12 students. Director of education Wes Hahn told trustees that the planning for these events has been going on for months, the provincial recommendation for in-person outdoor graduations came too late and that after discussions with the two local health units, the board was told in-person outdoor graduations would be unsafe.
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King Albert principal sad to leave, says school is in good hands
For the last four years, Dean Burke has enjoyed every minute he has been the principal of King Albert Public School in Lindsay. With the help of staff, students, parents and community partners Burke has worked very hard to make King Albert a place his students want to be. Burke, a King Albert graduate himself, began teaching in 2009, and made the transition into administration as the “teacher in charge” at Our Lady of Fatima in Longlac, Ontario in 2014.