If all goes according to plan, Cut Knife elementary and high school students will “attend a renovated high school” next school year.
According to an email from Yvonne Sawatsky, chair for Cut Knife Elementary School Community Council, the council and a facilitator, former Living Sky Director of Education Randy Fox, “spent several months working through what amalgamation could mean and what it could look like.”
The council then voted in favour of combining the schools, current Living Sky Director of Education Brenda Vickers said.
“I think that there is a lot of excitement about that [and] what some of the programming will look like,” Vickers said.
Vickers said work has already begun in some of the second floor classrooms. Work began during the summer, Vickers said, and included tasks such as painting and switching out lights. Other tasks involve an architect.
Sawatsky wrote, “the community was aware of those discussions and at our public meeting they seemed to be in support of the amalgamation.”
According to Living Sky enrolment numbers, as of Sept. 8, 122 students attended Cut Knife Elementary School and 105 attended Cut Knife High School.
