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COLONY SCHOOL HOME PAGE
Lomond
Colony is located 10 miles east of Lomond which is east of Vulcan and north
of Lethbridge. The colony is 4 miles south of Badger Lake, site of
a fishing derby. The colony produces cattle, dairy products, pork,
chickens and eggs, sheep, various crops on dry and irrigated land, garden
vegetables and Badger Lake gloves.
The
2-room school is located in the middle of the colony in the basement under
the church. In the 1999-2000 school year, there are 18 students;
9 elementary and 9 junior high (6 girls and 12 boys), 1 teacher and 2 part
time assistants. There will be 4 kindergarten students starting in March
who will come for part of every day until the end of the year.
We
enjoy belonging to Horizon School Division, centered in Taber. The
school was part of the County of Vulcan until amalgamation. The best
thing that's happened in our division is that we now have a full time principal
for our colony schools.
I,
Wendy Egeland, have taught here for 12 years. I enjoy a supportive, collegial
relationship with the German teacher and colony parents. My colony
'family of students' now numbers 37 with
8
pre-schoolers.
Highlights
of 1999-2000 school year:
Christmas Concert
holiday parties (Hallowe'en, Valentines, Easter)
end of year excursion
students entering contests and winning
voting in nation-wide Rights of Children
getting a personal answer to students' letters from the Minister of Infrastructure.
more money in our budgets than ever before.
Innovations
in 1999-2000 school year:
revised timetable
social and science in the morning (gets the 'noisy' activities over in
the morning)
math in the afternoon (my assistant and I love it)
2 assistants (even though they are both just part time)
new novel studies for junior high
Brain Gym activities every morning
Looking
for suggestions concerning:
math series (currently using Houghten-Mifflin and Western Canada Protocol
for
elementary and distance ed. courses and old modified math for junior high)
Lomond
Colony School
Box
103
Lomond,
AB
T0L
1G0
lomcolny@telusplanet.net
Wendy
Egeland
Shauna
Wiest
Joanne
Armstrong