Boundary Review Recommendation

The senior admin of School Board‏ has submitted their recommendations for the Boundary Review.

The recommendation is to combine the boundaries for Orchard Park and Sherwood Forest as of Sept 2013 with no additional students coming from outside the combined attendance area.

The full report is at: http://www.tvdsb.ca/files/filesystem/2012%20Jan%2010%20Full%20Package.pdf.

There is a page in the report showing the results of the survey that went to parents at all of the schools. The highest response was of course from Orchard Park and Sherwood Forest.

You have until Weds, Jan 11 to submit a request to speak form if you want to appear before the Trustees on this matter on Jan 24th. You can find the form at:

www.tvdsb.ca/files/78949/presenters_package_dec2011.pdf

January 2012 Update

Happy New Year!

ORCHARD PARK P.S. BOUNDARY REVIEW

The deadline for submitting your request to speak form at the January 24th school board meeting regarding the Orchard Park P.S boundary review is Wed, January 11th. The form and the timeline for the Board’s decision are available here.

One of the important issues regarding the possible change to include students from Eagle Heights P.S. has been whether or not there will be portables at Orchard Park P.S. There have been two different answers from the Board on this question. These are shown below:

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Design Charrette for Sherwood Forest Site

At the community meeting in November at Sherwood Forest P.S., William Pol from Fanshawe gave a quick proposal for a student project. The response was overwhelmingly positive from those attending. Here is the time line.

The GIS and Urban Planning Program at Fanshawe is looking forward to undertaking a design charrette for the Sherwood Forest School. In January the students will be completing background work on the site. This would be independent site visits, policies, regulations, site design guidelines, surrounding land uses, physical characteristics and related features.

1. On Thursday February 16 from about 4 pm – 7 pm representatives of the Ratepayers will be invited to the College to meet with student teams to discuss the site, opportunities, constraints and community ideas. (location at the College to be sent later).

2. The students will spend the next week completing several designs for the site using different options and assumptions.

3. On Friday February 24 Fanshawe will host an all day session 8-5 at the College for presentations by each of the student teams on their designs. Fanshawe will invite representatives from the Ratepayers organization to participate in the evaluation process.

4. Fanshawe is interested in having students present the best projects to the community by students some time in March. (details to be worked out as to where and when)

If you have any questions, please leave a comment, or email Sandy Levin.

New UWO Residence

The University has awarded a contract for the construction of the new residence adjacent to Althouse. A crane will be set up on site early in the new year. There is additional information at http://www.residenceatwestern.ca/newresidence/

A site plan is shown with an access out to Sarnia Road. The City has said that such access would only be through the existing driveway to the red brick buildings if there is agreement with the adjacent property owner, London Property Corp.

Questions about the project can be addressed to Susan Grindrod, 519-661-3549 or grindrod@housing.uwo.ca

Revised Dates for Boundary Review

The revised dates for the Boundary Review have been revised:

  • January 10, 2012 – Administrative Report to the board, with recommendations, considering results of parental input forms
  • January 24, 2012 – Opportunity for members of the public to present to the Board of Trustees
  • February 7, 2012 – Decision by Board of Trustees regarding future boundaries

A memo from the School Board regarding this schedule change is here

If you wish to make a presentation to the Trustees, see:
http://www.tvdsb.ca/files/78949/presenters_package_dec2011.pdf.

Note that the Presenters’ Package must be received no later than January 11, 2012, if you with to give input to the Board of Trustees.