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The Five-year Developmental Work Experience Program provides students with the opportunity
to build functional literacy and numeracy skills, social skills, independence skills and
transferable work skills.
Grade 9
Grade 9 is very much a transition year to High School. Students learn the routines of secondary school environment, meet new teachers, and make new friends. We encourage our grade 9 students to get involved in one extra curricular activity-- a lunchtime club, intramurals at lunch, school team tryout, a school event (i.e. the Fall Fair, a dance, Sports Buy-in, etc.)
Students will be working on functional literacy, numeracy, social skills and learning about volunteering in the school and wider community. In additional to their academics, we currently offer a rotation in Art and Music. Our volunteer opportunities help students begin learning about the world of work.
Opportunities in the Community
Partnership with the YMCA
Grade 10
Grade 10 is a year where students have more opportunities to volunteer in the community. They will continue to build on their functional literacy, numeracy, social skills and "soft skills" for the world of work. In additional to their academics, we currently offer a rotation in Art and Music.
Opportunities in the Community
Partnership with Original Kids Theatre, the Boys and Girls Club, Horton Street Seniors Centre
Grade 11
In grade 11, students will continue to build on their functional literacy, numeracy, social skills and "soft skills" for the world of work. In additional to their academics, we currently offer a rotation in Art and Music.
In addition to the class volunteer opportunities, students will go out in small groups, with staff support, will go through a is a year where students have more opportunities to volunteer in the community. They will continue to build on their functional literacy, numeracy, social skills and "soft skills" for the world of work. In additional to their academics, we currently offer a rotation in Art and Music.
Opportunities in the Community
Partnership with Original Kids Theatre, the Boys and Girls Club, Goodwill Industries
Grade 12
In grade 12, students will begin to put their functional literacy, numeracy, social skills and "soft skills" for the world of work, to the test. Their year is split into two rotations: a work experience placement, and the Commercial Foods Kitchen rotation.
Our unique Commercial Foods Kitchen rotation. It is in the only Developmental Education Commercial Foods program, in Ontario, of it's kind! Students will spend a full semester in the kitchen, learning by "step-process", how to complete tasks.
In the work experience placement, students will spend part of the day in the classroom, and the other part at a work experience placement. It is a chance to build some independence skills-- completing an interview for a job placement, learning and riding the LTC to and from the work placement, completing job specific training, and hands-on job experience.
Community partners include:
FarmBoy, Cobbs' Bread, CarStar, American Eagle, Wink's Eatery, Wendy's, PetParadise
The SURE program (Supported Understanding Regarding Employment) is the fifth year of our Developmental Educational Work Experience Placement. Students will attend class in the mornings and then go out to work, independently. Students will master riding the LTC, learn to troubleshoot in the workplace , and continue to develop their soft-skills, functional literacy, and numeracy skills.
4 out of 6 students in the SURE program have been offered employment from their work placements, by the end of the school year.
Community partners include:
FarmBoy, Cobbs' Bread, CarStar, American Eagle, Wink's Eatery, Wendy's, PetParadise
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