Students mourn classmate who died in trampoline accident
Last Updated: Monday, October 23, 2000 | 1:00 PM ET
CBC News
Classmates of an 11-year-old Beaumont, Alberta girl who died in a trampoline accident, are being offered counselling services.
Paige Myatt died after falling head first off a trampoline last Friday.
Louis Soucy, principal of Ecole J.E.Lapointe School, says staff, parents and students were all informed of the accident by Saturday night.
Soucy says his staff were ready to help the students when they arrived at school Monday morning.
"We have two counsellors, one female one male, available throughout the day," says Soucy. "Students are encouraged to go to them and leave the classroom if they're having some difficulty."
There's no word yet when the school will hold a memorial service for the student.
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