Carlyle Elementary School is welcoming 252 new students between pre-Kindergarten and grade 6.
“We are up about 30 kids from last year,” Principal Tyler Fehrenbach explained. “We’re looking forward to the New Year.”
Right now the school’s goals are to continue providing quality education and a fun, safe place for youth to enjoy.
This year they welcome three new members to their staff including Karla Ilchuk, Kathy Tomaszewski, and Jordyn Harcourt.
Ilchuk is new to Carlyle Elementary School, although not new to the area as she has been teaching in Arcola for the past four years. Ilchuk will continue working in Arcola as their pre-K teacher. She will spend her mornings in Carlyle and her afternoons in Arcola.
“I’m looking forward to getting to know the students and parents,” Ilchuk said.
Tomaszewski is taking on the role of Community Education Liaison for the semester. She is focused on the nutrition program in the school, facilitates relationships between the school and the community, works alongside Cornerstone Family and Youth, and is in charge of searching for grants available to the school.
She had worked as an Educational Assistant in Carlyle and Manor, so this is a new role for her, which she is excited about: “It’s a new position, which comes with new challenges. I really like that I will get to be interacting with families and the community as well as the students.”
Finally, Harcourt is new to the school as an intern in Sherry Zacharias’ grade 4 class. Harcourt is originally from Kipling and is going to school at the University of Regina where she’s focusing on elementary education.
Harcourt will be at the school until December and says she’s very excited about the opportunity to teach in Carlyle.
“I’m really excited to teach, we talk about teaching in the classes I take, and now I get to be in the classroom teaching,” she exclaimed.
