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Most elementary schools in the Winnipeg School
Division (WSD) are now accepting registration for nursery and kindergarten
students for the 2015/16 school year.
Entrance
age
Children who are four years of age on or before
December 31 are eligible for the nursery school program (10 months, half days).
Children who are five years of age on or before December 31 are eligible for
kindergarten (10 months, half days). Children who are six years of age on or
before December 31 may enter Grade 1 this autumn.
The presentation of a birth certificate or
other satisfactory proof of age is required for each child upon admission to
school.
School
catchment areas
Catchment areas for each school within
WSD are established under the direction of the Chief Superintendent. Students
normally attend the school within the catchment area in which they reside. To
find your neighbourhood school please click here and follow the
directions.
Students residing within WSD boundaries may
attend the WSD school of their choice provided there is space available and
transportation costs are not borne by the division.
Schools of Choice
With the provisions of the Schools of Choice initiative, students
may apply for admission to any public school, within limits, in the province
best suited to the student’s learning requirements. To learn more about
Manitoba Education Schools of Choice please click here.
To register for WSD nursery, children
must live within the boundaries of the Winnipeg School Division.
Language programs
Winnipeg School
Division recognizes the diversity of our population by providing a rich and
varied offering of language programming. Students
have a choice of immersion “milieu” or immersion dual track schools. The milieu
schools are where the French immersion program is the only program taught in
the school and starts at nursery.
Dual track and bilingual school starts
at kindergarten and is one where the regular English program is also taught.
Languages include French, Ukrainian and Hebrew.
Ojibwe and Cree language is part of
the Aboriginal Education program that starts in nursery at Niji Mahkwa School.
For more information on WSD’s
Language Program, please click here.
Transportation
Transportation service is provided in
accordance with the Public Schools Act (Sections 43-47), Manitoba Regulation
No. 465/88R and WSD Policy EEA – Transportation of Pupils. Within these
guidelines, every effort is made to improve transportation efficiency by
clustering students to bus stops and by providing service on major streets.
Transportation is provided for:
Special
education programs: Students who have exceptional learning needs
such as social/emotional, behavioural, sensory, physical,
cognitive/intellectual, communication, academic or special health-care are
provided with door-to-door school bus transportation.
Language
and alternative programs: Students in
Kindergarten to Grade 6 in a language or alternative program, and nursery
students attending one of WSD’s three French immersion milieu schools or
Aboriginal education school, who live 1.6 kilometers or further from the
school, are provided with bus transportation.
All requests for
transportation services should be directed to the student’s school.
