The first phase of full day learning for kindergarten starts in September 2010 and the Bluewater District School Board will be part of it.
Director of Education Mary Anne Alton says 313 students will be able to take part at nine different Bluewater schools.
Alton says there was a criteria they had to follow when suggesting the locations to the Ministry of Education.
Those include available school space, community needs, minimizing the impact on other child care programs in the community, and making sure schools were ready to support the program.
Alton says the content of the program will not be released until April, but she predicts literacy skills and mathematics skills will be a major component.
Each class will include an early childhood educator and a teacher for about 26 children.
The program is not mandatory, and parents who choose to make use of it will have to pay a fee to cover the before and after school programming.
The provincial government expects to have 35 thousand students enrolled in full day kindergarten in the next school year.
The nine Bluewater schools are:
Arran-Tara Elementary School, Tara
Bayview Public School, Owen Sound
Beavercrest Community School, Markdale
G.C. Huston Public School, Southampton
Hillcrest Elementary School, Owen Sound
Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School, Kincardine
Lucknow Central Public School, Lucknow
Mildmay-Carrick Central Public School, Mildmay
Sullivan Community School, Desboro