The Anglophone East School District is well equipped to integrate Syrian refugee students into their schools.
District Superintendent Gregg Ingersoll says the first step is an orientation session at Edith Cavell School, “We bring them in with their parents, and sit down with a translator and do all of the registration that a New Brunswick student would do coming into our school system. We take all of the information and get as much background about their schooling and education as we can.”
Ingersoll says they then go through three weeks of orientation, working with an English as an Additional Language teacher as well as tutors, to get a feeling of where they are academically.
They will also get support with regards to the feelings they have about leaving their home country, and also the experiences they may have been through.
They will eventually be transferred to their home school depending on where they live in the City.
