FIVE YEAR

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

FOR THE FRANCOPHONE COMMUNITY

The francophone community in
British Columbia has recently started
up aconsultation process to elaborate
a global five year development
plan.

The set up of such a process is
necessary due to the changes, not to
say the drastic changes, that will be
brought by Heritage Canada
following the decisions and measures
taken by the Federal Government to
reduce the national debt.

It is important for the
community to participate
at these meetings to give

their feedback to the
people responsible for the
drafting of the global
development plan.

Having in mind these changes it
will be essential to identify the
accomplishments the community
wishes to carry out for the next five
years as well as the ways and/or
actions they should resort to for
attaining their goals. The words
innova-tion, ration-alization, effi-
ciency and diversification of financial
sources will also be on the com-
munity schedule as the resources
must be optimized, mea-ning we
should do more or with less money
what we already do.

Within the process of
consultation, meetings will take place
throughout the province between
April and June. Itis important for the
community to participate at these
meetings to give their feedback to the

people responsible for the drafting of
the global development plan.

The education sector will have a
great importance in the francophone
community development in British
Columbia because the school system
is the foundation for that
development. That is why your
contribution as a parent is vital in the
consultation process. You must tell
your local needs, should they be for
childcare services, school services
or services for teenagers.

We talk a lot of the importance to
bring the community and the school
together to create a strong French
surrounding for the child to identify
to. It is time now to take action and
to makeit concrete. Without creating
a dialogue between all the partners in
education, the French school will
have great difficulties to fulfill its
mission more specifically when it
comes to the transmission of the
language and the culture.

Your contribution as a
parent is vital in the
consultation process. You
must tell your local needs,
should they be for
childcare services, school
services or services for

teenagers.

The consultation meetings that
will take place locally will be a
privilieged occasion to build up,
together in British Columbia, a
francophone community strong and
full of life.

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SYMPOSIUM
ON FRANCOPHONE
CULTURE AT SCHOOL

Within the provincial meeting of
Parents Committees which will be
held on February 24, 25 and 26,
A.P.F.C.B. organises a symposium
on “Francophone culture at school”.

This symposium follows in the
steps anticipated, following the
bilingual publication of the Report
on francophone culture in British
Columbia under the name “The
French school, an environment for
culture”. In May 1993 the
Languages and Multicultural
Programs Branch in the Ministry of
Education asked PRIN
Communications to ‘do a study on
ways and means to promote
francophone culture in schools.

The symposium will be an
occasion to discuss on the subject
and to identify the actions that should
be taken to make things move in that
field.

On Saturday 25, besides the
parents, we have invited teachers,
the Principals of the four
homogeneous French schools and
other partners in education, to come
and listen to Lise Paiement, an
Educational Counsellor in Cultural
Animation for the Ministry of
Education of Ontario. Mrs.
Paiement will talk about cultural
animation: what is it, how to and
why do it?

In the afternoon, there will be
few workshops to discuss on Mrs
Paiement’s presentation and the
groups will be invited to define the
role they can play and the
partnerships which can ensue to
optimize the interventions regarding
this subject.