The Anglophone South school district has had to open up another language learning centre for Syrian children after outgrowing the first at Prince Charles school on Union Street.
That’s according to superintendent Zoe Watson who says they opened up a second one at the Hazen White St Francis school on Sandy Point Road around March break. There are approximately 135 Syrian children within the district and there are six teachers that work in the language centres.
Watson says the kids want to learn and they want to learn the language.
“We have tutors who work with the children and also students who are in need of counselling, maybe in need of health attention,” says Watson. “But very very happy students and very grateful students and families.”
Watson says some students have already made the transition from language learning centre to regular classroom at a lot of the schools in Saint John.
As of Thursday, April 14, 90 Syrian families have arrived in Saint John.
