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Show Kindergarten to Begin in September for Full Year Half-Day Sessions; First Grade to Go Half Day Also j I A district-wide building program pro-gram is anticipated in the years to come to help alleviate the crowded condition in the smaller grades throughout the district. There will be an added fourth grade in schools here in one of the buildings, Mr. Brockbank reported re-ported and to work in the Kindergarten, Kinder-garten, there will be three full time teachers added to handle kindergarten work. Another teacher teach-er will teach part time in the kindergarten kin-dergarten and part time in the first grade. First grade teachers will not teach any other grade. It wa3 further pointed out that (Continued on page two) Springville, together with the Nebo school district, will open school this fall with a full-time Kindergarten for the first time in in the history of the district. Heretofore, Kindergarten has been held six weeks in the summer for those children who would enter the first grade in the fall. Children who will be 5 before Oct. 31, will therefore be eligible to start to kindergarten this September. The decision was reached to initiate in-itiate the Kindergarten into the school program by a unanimous vote of the Nebo school board after af-ter a plan was worked out whereby where-by the first grade classes of the j V coming school year will be made smaller in order for each student to receive more personal attention atten-tion and advancement and have the same activities in a half day period. Likewise, the kindergarten will be in half day periods also. Superintendent W. W. Brock-bank Brock-bank pointed out that first grades have been averaging 36 to 40 students stu-dents and this will be cut down to 25. This will necessitate more class rooms and Mr. Brockbank reported that in order to take care of this, the auditoriums of the three schools in Springville will be screened off for the Kindergarten Kindergar-ten classes. Kindergarten To Begin In September For Full Year (Continued from Page One) the district will have to bear the brunt of the expense for the kindergarten kin-dergarten the first year but that the following years, the state fund can be drawn upon to assist in this program. At present, based on attendance figures, a class room may receive up to $3300.00 per 50 student unit which now totals approximately $33,000 for Nebo district. However, under the new legislation passed by the house and senate and awaiting the Governor's Gov-ernor's action, a school room may receive up to $4200.00. With the starting of the kindergarten kinder-garten in the district, the board of education is inaugurating a pr6-gram pr6-gram which many people have been hoping and planning on for several years. |
