Rosemere High School in 1967

Administered by the North Island Regional Board (which includes two Laurenvale representatives) Rosemere High School presently draws most of its -900-plus student body from the graduates of Laurenvale schools.

To parents it usually seems that the elementary school years have flown.. Gone is the five-year-old who approached his first day of kindergarten clutching his snack with one hand, his mother with the other.

In his place is an adolescent entering grade 7, junior high. If, in elementary school he faced learning difficulties, and perhaps failed once or twice, he will find that special provision has been made for him and similar students in a Prep seven class. Here he will have the opportunity to catch up before confronting the more demanding regular high school curriculum.

Whether in prep. or regular 7 the kaleidoscope of new faces, names, books, subjects and schedules will leave him wondering if he will ever easily find his way around that circle of classrooms and lockers in which he will spend most of his school day.

Already accustomed to specialist in addition to home room teachers, he now finds himself with a different teacher and a different room for every subject. While history is still history, geography is now geomorphology taught in one of the best equipped, most up-to-date laboratories in North America.

French takes on new life as the student discovers and masters the complexities of the modern language laboratory.

A course in instrumental music and a place in the school band is available to the student with leanings in this direction. In the art department he will find facilities and training for everything from ceramics to collages.

While the girls learn to cook and to sew, the boys are busy in the industrial arts shop. Physical education forms a regular part of the daily programme.

The grade 8 curriculum remains the same, with the exception of a Latin option.