School board looking for a name

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Trustees approved membership on Thursday to the Ad Hoc School Naming Committee that will seek community suggestions for a new school in Cramahe township. Cramahe Now has requested a list of the names of the committe members and will post them when they arrive.

The school board press release is below:

School Naming Committee

Cramahe Township residents will have the opportunity to suggest names for a new elementary school that is scheduled to open next year.

Trustees tonight (Thursday) approved a joint board/community school naming committee that will welcome suggestions from all students, parents, guardians, staff members, school councils and community members for the new school. To be built on the site of the current Castleton Public School in Cramahe Township; this new school will serve students from the current Castleton and South Cramahe public schools.

“Board policy favours certain kinds of names,” explains Diane Lloyd, Chairperson of the Board. “We encourage people to submit names that are based on people who have made positive contributions to society; the current or historical areas served by the schools; the street on which the school will be located; and the diversity of the school communities served.

“A committee including trustees, staff, and parent, student and community representatives, will consider the suggestions,” adds Lloyd. “The committee will then establish a short list of preferred names, and recommend one of those names to the Board for approval.”

Community notices regarding how residents may submit suggestions will be available next week.

In August 2009, the board approved a tender submitted by Tasis Contractors Inc. in the amount of $6,790,000 for construction of the school. The new school will be 35,050 square feet and is designed to accommodate 319 pupil places. Construction has begun with grading for the new school and it is expected to open in September 2010.