Portables arrive at Waterloo's Elizabeth Ziegler Public School as in-person learning set to resume

1 month_ago 16

Kitchener-Waterloo·New

While Elizabeth Ziegler Public School successful Waterloo volition stay closed for the remainder of the schoolhouse year, astir students and unit volition instrumentality to in-person learning connected the school's property, but successful portables.

School committee says in-person learning could resume 'as aboriginal arsenic Friday'

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 4:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

A photograph of a nationalist schoolhouse with Gothic architecture surrounded by a fence

Portable classrooms volition beryllium added to the spot astatine Elizabeth Ziegler Public School successful Waterloo and the schoolhouse committee says it hopes in-person learning could resume arsenic aboriginal arsenic this Friday.

The Kindergarten to Grade 6 schoolhouse was closed connected March 4 owed to information concerns astir the building's facade. On Friday, the Waterloo Region District School Board said that based connected a structural engineering firm's assessment, "we are not capable to inhabit immoderate portion of the Elizabeth Ziegler PS building."

"Addressing these concerns volition instrumentality clip and the engineers estimation this enactment could instrumentality months to complete," the committee said.

On Monday afternoon, the committee revealed plans to get implicit 500 students and unit backmost to in-person learning. Most students volition stay connected the school's property, but volition beryllium successful portable classrooms. Some students volition request to spell to different schools.

Here's the breakdown of wherever students volition beryllium going:

English watercourse students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 and extended time programs volition stay astatine the school's spot successful portable classrooms.
French immersion students volition moved to Sandowne Public School.
Congregated Alternative Continuum of Education (or ACE) Program students volition beryllium moved to JW Gerth Public School.
Students who are portion of the enrichment programme volition beryllium moved to Brigadoon Public School.

The committee says 7 further portables are being moved onto the schoolhouse property. As well, determination volition beryllium 2 washroom and 2 bureau trailers astatine the site.

LISTEN | Scott Miller, director of acquisition for WRDSB, provides update connected Elizabeth Ziegler Public School:

The Morning Edition - K-W9:51Director of acquisition for WRDSB provides update connected Elizabeth Ziegler Public School

A Waterloo nationalist schoolhouse is closed for the remainder of the twelvemonth due to the fact that of information concerns with the building. Parents person a batch of questions. Scott Miller, the schoolhouse board's manager of education, provides immoderate answers connected the presumption of the school.

All of the French immersion students are being moved to Sandowne Public School to support them together.

"It ensures that teacher-student relationships volition beryllium maintained. This provides continuity and was deemed a precedence successful supporting this transition," the committee said.

Two portables volition beryllium added to Sandowne Public School to accommodate these students.

"The students and unit moving to Sandowne PS volition run utilizing the 'school wrong a school' model. It allows the students and unit to stay portion of the Elizabeth Ziegler schoolhouse community," the committee said.

When it comes to transportation:

French immersion students volition beryllium bused to Sandowne from Elizabeth Ziegler successful the morning, and from Sandowne to Elizabeth Ziegler successful the afternoons.
ACE Program students will beryllium bussed from their homes to JW Gerth Public School.
Congregated enrichment students volition beryllium bussed from their homes to Brigadoon Public School.

In each cases, the committee says transportation times are inactive being finalized.

read-entire-article