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nunavut• A full-day kindergarten program was established at the Frenchlanguageschool, the only full-day kindergarten program offeredin the Territory. The program began as an experimental ventureand was meant to end in June 2008; however, thanks to the greatsuccess of the program, it was maintained and fully integrated intoregular school operation.• A wide array of language enrichment and cultural identitypromotion activities — from francisation camps during summervacation to the production of plays performed outside of Nunavut— were offered by the Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut[francophone school board of Nunavut] in order to foster thecultural identity of franco-Nunavummiuq students.HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS INSECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONNunavut’s achievements in second-language instruction, between2005–06 and 2008–09, included the following outcomes supportedby federal–territorial funding arrangements:• In 2006–07, for the first time, an intensive French program wasoffered in Grade 7. An intensive French program was also offeredin Grade 8 in 2008–09.• FSL teachers were provided with opportunities to upgrade theirsecond-language teaching skills via, for example, professionaldevelopment sessions on intensive French, workshops on howto use smart boards in the FSL classroom, and a workshop onAccelerative Integrated Methodology, a language teachingapproach based on gestures that was later adopted by teachersas classroom methodology.38Pan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education 2005–06 to 2008–09 HIGHLIGHTS