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PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Following last year
implementation of four new
programs the development of
teaching French as a first
language continues, with the
opening of a class of
Programme Cadre de frangais
(PCDF) in Saanich.

So far, the 1994-95 school
year is looking really good for
the Association des
parents francophones de
la Colombie-
Britannique. A tour, in
most school districts
offering the Programme
cadre, is presently being
planned for November.
A first, this tour should
give an opportunity to
meet and inform the
Parents Committees on
the Association’s school
year agenda. Pertinent
information on both
grade school and
preschool activities will
be available.

Also in November,
the National Film Board
will present its new
production “Mon
amour, My love”. This
documentary, deals with
the daily challenges
facing couple whose
mother tongue differ.

As part of the promotional
campaign scheduled for next
Spring, a bilingual play
«Sitting on the fence» will be
presented. Michelle Cook,
Artistic Director of théatre
La Seiziéme, wrote the script and will
direct the play.

This play is only one part of acampaign
promoting the Programme cadre de
francais to the communities. This
campaign is mostly aimed at mixed
language couples, who make up 70 per
cent of parents eligible to education in
French as first language for their children.

PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES

In order to increase the PCDF
visibility, a publicity campaign will also
be launched in Spring. It will mainly
consist of daily newspaper ads, posters
and information kits.

CULTURAL PRESENCE

The parents committees should be
kept busy in 1995. Each commitee could
receive up to $1,200 to organize, at their

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discretion, one or more socio-cultural
activities. The main purpose is to bring
together the francophone community in
their respective districts, using the school
as a rallying point.

APFCB will also be involved in two
other major cultural events. From March
13 to 19, 1995, there will be the Semaine
nationale de la Francophonie and from
May 5 to 7, the first Festival Théatre-
Jeunesse will take place at Gibsons on the
Sunshine Coast.

LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS
As always, parents can count on the

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Association to provide a framework
to help them fulfill their planning and
also, give them the proper training in
order to achieve their goals. The training
sessions will be held on a regular basis
but on request.

Another very important aspect of the
Association, is the implementation of the
preschool sector. A new material resource
centre has recently opened its doors.

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elebrate their 10™ anniversary

French books, games, puppets, videos
and tapes are available to your young
children. Preschool educators have not
been forgotten; two of them have just
completed a two weeks advanced training
in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

Torecap, all those activities as well as
the various other actions the Association
des parents francophones de Colombie-
Britannique has undertaken, have only
one purpose: to obtain the best possible
quality in education the students of
Programme cadre de francais deserve.

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