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May 2, 2025

Contingency Planning: Northglen Orchard Public School

Hello everyone,

We are writing today to provide additional information about the updated timelines for building the new school. As we shared, while we will continue to work with the contractor to try and reduce delays wherever possible, at this time the updated timeline targets a building completion date of late November 2025. Students and staff would likely occupy the new school early in the new year.

The contingency plans outlined below have been developed to accommodate students and staff based on this revised schedule.

To allow for the least disruption for all students and staff within the school communities involved, Northglen Orchard Public School students and staff will be organized together as classes within nearby KPR schools, to be able to move together into the new school.

This will allow all classes to remain together as part of the move and keep students with the same teacher throughout the year. To accommodate this planning within available school space, students and staff will be grouped by grades within these three grade clusters:

• Junior Kindergarten to Grade 2 Northglen Orchard students will attend Charles Bowman Public School
• Grade 3 to 6 Northglen Orchard students will attend Harold Longworth Public School, and
• Grade 7 to 8 Northglen Orchard students will attend Clarington Intermediate SchoolÌý
  (Note: Charles Bowman PS Grade 7 students will remain at Charles Bowman as that school transitions to JK to Grade 8)

Upon completion of the new school, students and staff will move to Northglen Orchard Public School.

Our child care partner in this project – Durham Region, is using this information to finalize their planning and communication with families. Further information on child care and before and after school program planning will be shared as soon as it’s available.

Transportation will be provided to students who reside more than 1.6 km from their designated school noted above, and parents can register their transportation request through the Opt-In process beginning May 2nd.

After completion of the new school, transportation will be provided as per board policy to students who reside more than 1.6 km from Northglen Orchard Public School. As part of the move to the new school, the Opt-In window will be reopened for families to finalize transportation prior to the first day at the new school.

We appreciate that families will have continued interest and questions as we move forward with our planning. We invite families to submit their questions to kpr_info@kprdsb.ca, and we will continue to provide regular updates to families directly, and at the dedicated Northglen Orchard Public School section of our website at .

Sincerely,

Sonal Gohil
Superintendent of Education

April 10, 2025

Construction Update: Northglen Orchard Public School

Hello everyone,

We continue to be very excited about the new Northglen Orchard Public School, which will help support our growing student population in the Clarington area.

We are writing today to provide an update on timelines for building the new school.

While the project continues to move forward, the extended winter and spring weather has resulted in construction delays to concrete, block work and other components of the school’s construction.

We will continue to work with the contractor to try and reduce delay wherever possible. At this time the updated timeline targets a building completion date of late November, 2025, with occupancy by students and staff likely early in the new year.

Board administration are working on finalizing a contingency plan to accommodate students and staff based on this revised date.Ìý We will share further information to the school community by the end of this month as these plans are completed.

We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding as we complete this project which will benefit students and families for generations to come.Ìý

Sincerely,

Nina Jaiswal
Superintendent of Education: Student Achievement (Acting)