Elementary students to select “majors”
Posted Aug 11, 2010 7:39 am.
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Seven-year-olds at an Airdrie school could be picking their own “majors” soon.
Students at R.J. Hawkey Elementary School will learn the provincial curriculum through one of four specialized streams.
Those include the arts, scientific inquiry, sports and the environment.
The school tells the Calgary Herald it’s a good way of boosting interest in learning.
The pilot program is the first of its kind in Canada.