SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY activities center at Hood Canal School
District's new multi-purpose room, shown with the table set for a parents'
meeting.
A GOOD PLACE to study is the school library at Hood Canal Junior High
School, enlarged in a recent improvement program.
THE PLAY AREA at North Mason Elementary School's modern
building shows plenty of activity during the noon hour.
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" A large new addition to the Hood Canal School District's
educational building complex at the junction of Highway I 01
and State Route 106 went into service early this year.
All grades from kindergarten through ninth are now
housed in a modern, centrally located facility, including
primary students who formerly attended the Skokomish
Reservation school.
The $393,000 improvement includes eight new
classrooms, a multi-use cafeteria which accomodates 240
persons, a teachers work room, and a bus garage.
Next phase in a program which started more than 10
years ago when several small districts were consolidated will
be a vocational training and crafts building. This could also
be used for adult evening classes and possibly a Skokomish
Indian museum.
School officials are exploring the possibility of financing
this project with federal and other funds which might be
obtained without recourse to a district bond issue, according
to Superintendent John Peel.
Preliminary planning visualizes this as a
community-oriented facility where students would be 'taught
electronics, metal and plastics fabrication, auto mechanics,
and mechanical drawing in day classes and their parents could
learn similar skills in the evening.
Expanded recreational facilities which are available for
community as well as school use include a new football field
which went into service last fall, a baseball field also used
for Little League play, and a quarter-mile track.
For college-bound students in the junior high school,
the curriculum will continue to stress academic subjects.
These include French, algebra, mechanical drawing, art,
drama, music, band, two years of home economics, and
typing.
Music and art are taught in all grades. Speech thera-
py is also available.
Senior high school students from the district are trans-
ported to Shelton.
Team teaching was inaugurated for primary grade pupils
of North Mason schools in an ultra-modern new building
which went into service at the beginning of the 1970-71
school year. The $412,000 facility is the latest addition in an
educational complex near Belfair.
The structure consists of two separate units, connected
by a covered walk. One is a multi-purpose building with a
small gym for physical education, public assemblies, and
administrative functions.
The other consists of eight classrooms for 30 pupils each.
This is of open design adapted to full scale team teaching.
Acoustic tile ceilings and carpeted floors keep the noise
level so low that no walls are needed. Instead movable sight
dividers are placed so that students sitting at their desks
cannot see those in adjoining rooms but teachers standing up
can observe several rooms.
The floor plan is arranged so that three class units can be
made into one. By simply turning their chairs around all
students in the enlarged room can face the teachers.
The multi-purpose unit is large enough to accomodate
students from 20 classrooms. Twelve more can be built in the
future when enrollment growth requires it.
North Mason High School offers a four-year curriculum
with emphasis on subjects required for college entrance. As
many as 65 percent of graduating seniors go on to higher
education, according to Superintendent Norman E. Sanders.
The school is housed in a modern new building which
went into service in 1967. Its construction climaxed a ten-
year program Of building improvement.
The standard course includes four years of English
(three required) and four years of mathematics (two re-
quired). Math analysis is offered for seniors.
The course includes two years of French and Spanish,
both of which are taught every year. Since conversational
Spanish is taught in the seventh and eighth grades, four
years of that language may be taken.
Because of an ideal location near Hood Canal, the
school offers a three-year course in marine biology.
Students observe live speciments in a salt water aquar-
ium. Chemistry and biology are pre-requisites. Small class-
es have eight to ten students.
Music is also a strong subject. Each teacher gives
vocal instruction in the first three grades. Instrumental
ipstruction starts in the fourth grade.
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