Elementary Schools in Peel Region - Elementary Schools in Brampton, Elementary Schools in Mississauga, Vista Heights Public School (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elementary Schools in Brampton, Elementary Schools in Mississauga, Vista Heights Public School, Dunrankin Drive Public School, Islamic Society of North America Elementary School, St. John of the Cross Catholic School, St. Hilary Elementary School, Russell Langmaid Public School, Hillcrest Public School, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School, Helen Wilson Public School, Huttonville Public School, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Lakeview Park Public School, Kindree Public School, Lyndwood Public School. Excerpt: Vista Heights Public School is an elementary school in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada that offers classes from Kindergarten to Grade 5. Built in 1957 as part of the Vista Heights suburb, the school was originally designed as a Grade 16 school for approximately 300 students. It has since undergone several significant expansions, added kindergarten, removed Grade 6, and is now home to approximately 680 students, half of whom are enrolled in a French immersion program. Before 1955, Streetsville was a small rural village built along the Credit River. However, after the Second World War, a burgeoning post-war population looking for new housing convinced developers to build two of the first suburbs in Canada beside Streetsville. One of these was the proposed Vista Heights development, but before the village council would grant approval for it, the councillors made the unprecedented requirement that the developer also had to build a primary public school as part of the development. (Regular practice since then is that the provincial Ministry of Education provides a grant of money to the local school board to build public schools.) Construction of houses in the Vista Heights area began in 1955, and Vista Heights Public School was subsequently open... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20177541