Opening day at 91原创鈥檚 newest school, Yorkson Creek Middle School, was met with many smiling faces but some hiccups too, said Principal Tim Everson, who presented a full report on the $23 million gold LEED school to the board of education last Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Located off busy 208 Street and in the middle of lots of ongoing development, everyone knew drop off and pick up of children would be an issue.
鈥淲e had a lot of parking lot woes,鈥� said Everson.
鈥淎t the end of the day it was utter madness. But the positive of this is 100 more students signed up for the bus system so that is 350 students coming by bus, roughly half.鈥�
So far, 793 Grade 6 to 8 students attend. That is over capacity but around 840 students (if the portables are included) can be accommodated.
Of that population, there are 88 students with special needs, nine with low incident needs, and at least 75 ELL (English language learning) students.
There are 71 staff, a full-time Aboriginal student worker, resource teacher for each grade, four ELL support staff and counsellor and childcare workers.
Unlike high school, teachers work in pods but like elementary, students have one main teacher and do have curriculum with a couple of other teachers.
