Education minister visiting local schools Friday to celebrate achievements, an expansion and the future

Education Minister Karen Casey will visit Yarmouth on Friday where she will participate in three ceremonies involving two existing schools and a new one on the way.

One of the ceremonies will be a sod turning for a new high school that will be constructed in Yarmouth. The site that’s been selected for the high school is on Forest Street but because the weather forecast isn’t conducive to an outdoor ceremony, the sod turning will be an indoor event at Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School on Parade Street.

School board representatives and government officials will join Casey for this event, which gets underway at 12:30 p.m.

Prior to this event, during an 11 a.m. ceremony, Casey will honour the Yarmouth high school for being the Tri-County Regional School Board’s first accredited school. Casey will present the staff, students and school advisory council with their accreditation plaque for their efforts to improve student achievement and overall school performance.

Casey’s day will get underway at 9 a.m. when she visits Carleton Consolidated School to officially open the school’s recent expansion, the centerpiece of which is a new gymnasium. Other renovations have also taken place at the school, which is also marking its 50th anniversary on Saturday with events running at the school from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.