LOUIS RIEL SCHOOL DIVISION 900 St. Mary’s Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2M 3R3 Phone: (204) 257-7827, Fax (204) 256-8553, www.lrsd.net E LE M E N T A R Y S C H O O LS S C HO O L O F C H OI C E (W IT H I N D I V IS I ON ) T R A N S F E R A P P LI C A T I O N For Application to be considered, students must be registered at their designated school Please read the guidelines and conditions on the reverse side of this form. Application for the start of the next school year should be received at the designated school beginning February 1 to May 15 Student’s School Currently Current Name: ________________________________ Attending: _________________________ Grade: ________ Designated SCHOOL School: ___________________________________ OF CHOICE: ___________________________________ Date to Begin Attending School of Choice: _____________________ Grade Applied For:_________ Name of Parent(s)/Guardian(s):_______________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________ Postal Code: ____________________ Phone(s): ______________________ _________________________ ______________________ (Home) (Business) (Cell) Email address (optional): ___________________________________________________________ Reason(s): _______________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Check if this application is a transfer from a French Immersion to your designated English school. I have read and accept the Guidelines and Conditions on the reverse side of this form. ______________________________________ ______________________________________________ Parent(s)/Guardian(s) Signature Date S C H O O L O F F I C E U S E O N L Y Designated School Principal’s Acknowledgement/ School of Choice Principal’s Recommendation/ Comments and Signature Comments and Signature Signature: Signature: Comments: Recommendation: Accommodate Waitlist Date Application Received: Date: Does applicant have sibling in school being applied to YES If yes, which grade __________________ NO S U P E R I N T E N D E N T ’’ S D E P A R T M E N T U S E O N L Y Accommodate Waitlist Comments:______________________________________________ Date: _________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________ Divisional Procedure: Photocopy as required on white paper. SOC (Within Division) Application Forms to be signed by Principal of current school and School of Choice, then forwarded to the Superintendent’s Department at the LRSD Board Office. When signed by Superintendent’s Department, copies will be distributed to current school, School of Choice, parent/guardians, and original will be kept on file at the LRSD Board Office. (revised Jan/20/rh) GUIDELINES AND CONDITIONS Pertaining to School of Choice (Within Division) Transfers of Students to an Elementary School other than their Designated School (In accordance with Provincial “Schools of Choice Guidelines”) 1. A School of Choice (Within Division) Form (SOC) for a) Catchment area students transfers within division can be obtained from any b) Within Division Transfer requests school in the Louis Riel School Division. The c) Out of Division Transfer requests application requires the signature of the Principal of 5. If a transfer request is approved, transportation to and the school the student currently attends, as well as from the School of Choice is the responsibility of the approval from the Principal of the School of Choice. parent(s)/guardian(s). 2. Each of the High Schools in the Louis Riel School 6. Once a student’s SOC (Within Division) has been Division receives students from identified accepted, the new school becomes the student’s elementary/feeder schools or catchment areas. For designated school and further requested changes will be High School transition, the designations are as governed as in #1 to 5 above. follows: 7. Each transfer request is considered on an individual basis, Collège Béliveau: École Howden and École Sage Creek following the above procedures. Therefore, there is no (Students from these schools transition to Collège guarantee that siblings choosing the same school will be Béliveau from Grade 6). École Henri-Bergeron, École Van accepted. Belleghem and École Guyot (Students from these schools 8. Completion of this application indicates that transition to Collège Béliveau from Grade 8). Students parent(s)/guardian(s) agree to participate in an intake from École Provencher transition to École Henri-Bergeron meeting, if necessary, to consider the application. from Grade 3. Attendance may include personnel from the School of Collège Jeanne-Sauvé: École Marie-Anne-Gaboury, Choice, from the former school and from pertinent support École George McDowell and École Varennes (Students agencies required to determine suitable individualized from these schools transition to Collège Jeanne-Sauvé programming. from Grade 8.) 9. French Immersion to English Program Transfers are École George McDowell: automatically accepted provided application is received École Julie Riel and École St. Germain (Students from prior to May 15 for the start of the next school year and the these schools transition to École George McDowell from student is requesting the English school designated by the Grade 5). parent(s)/guardian(s) address. Applications at any other Dakota Collegiate: Darwin, H.S. Paul, Hastings, time of the school year, or for schools other than the Highbury, Lavallee, Victor H. L. Wyatt and Victor Mager designated English school, are subject to review of space Schools (Students from these schools transition to Dakota and resources available at the requested school. Collegiate from Grade 8). Glenlawn Collegiate: Glenwood, Minnetonka, Samuel Burland, St. George and Windsor Schools (Students from these schools transition to Glenlawn Collegiate from Grade 8). J.H. Bruns Collegiate: Island Lakes Community, Niakwa Place and Shamrock Schools (Students from these schools transition to J H. Bruns Collegiate from Grade 8.) Nelson McIntyre Collegiate: Archwood*, Marion, and Nordale Schools (Students from these schools transition to Nelson McIntyre Collegiate from Grade 8.) Windsor Park Collegiate: Archwood*, Frontenac, General Vanier (Students from these schools transition to Windsor Park Collegiate from Grade 8.) École Sage Creek School (Students from this school will transition to Windsor Park Collegiate from Grade 6 and up) *dependent on address 3. Space (class, grade, and school population), resources, and other factors as determined by the Principal and the Superintendent’s Department, are considered in the SOC (Within Division) being applied for, to determine whether an application is accommodated or waitlisted. 4. To facilitate the most effective planning for appropriate space and staffing allocations, applications for SOCs will not be accepted prior to February 1. The deadline for submission is May 15 and parent(s)/guardian(s) will be notified, no later than June 30, whether their application can be accommodated. Should space and resources be depleted prior to May 15, parents will be notified as soon as possible. Applications after the May 15 deadline will be reviewed and considered on a case by case basis. SOC (within division) transfers are considered in the following sequence: .