We offer two French language immersion programs at Humberside CI: 

Extended French and French Immersion

Why should my child continue in French?

The ability to speak both of Canada’s official languages helps prepare students for their role as active and engaged citizens in today’s bilingual and multicultural Canada. The language learning strategies that students develop in the Extended French and French Immersion programs can contribute to an interest in learning languages throughout their lives and provide them with the skills to do so.

Extended French Program

The Extended French program provides students with extensive opportunities to speak and interact in French for various purposes about both concrete and abstract topics.  Students will learn to independently apply language learning strategies in a variety of real-life and personally relevant contexts in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and will broaden their creative and critical thinking skills through responding to and analyzing oral and written texts from all over the French-speaking world. 

The Toronto District School Board grants two certificates of bilingual studies in Extended French:  

      Le Certificat d’études bilingues en Français Intensif (7 credits) 

      Le Certificat d’Honneur d’études bilingues en Français Intensif (8 or more credits)

In order to satisfy the requirements of  the program, students must successfully complete the sequence of four courses in Extended French (FEF 10-12) and a minimum of three courses in other subjects where the language of instruction is French (course codes ending in 4,  e.g. CHC 2D4/5).

French Immersion Program

The French Immersion program provides students with extensive opportunities to communicate, interact, and think critically and creatively in French. Throughout the program, students will develop and consolidate their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and apply language learning strategies in a variety of contexts and forms. Students will read a wide variety of literature from the Middle Ages to the present from all over the French-speaking world. 

The Toronto District School Board grants two certificates of bilingual studies in French Immersion: 

Le Certificat d’études bilingues en Français Immersion (10 credits) 

Le Certificat d’Honneur d’études bilingues en Français Immersion (11 or more credits)

In order to satisfy the requirements of the program, students must successfully complete the sequence of four courses in French Immersion (FIF 9-12) and a minimum of six courses in other subjects where the language of instruction is French (course codes ending in 5,  e.g. CGC 1D4/5).

Courses in French

The entire curriculum document for French, French as a Second Language – Core, Extended, and Immersion French, is available on the Ministry of Education’s website:  https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/secondary-fsl

To be successful in our course, a student should:

• Speak, read and write in French!

• Participate actively in class and ask for help when needed

• Stay organized and up-to-date, and complete all assignments to the best of their ability

• Ensure work is being submitted on time and in the format required (in-person or in Brightspace / Google Classroom)

• Remember that plagiarism, which includes getting too much help from a friend, translating information from different websites, using an on-line translator or using generative AI tools or apps may result in a mark of zero

What to do if more support is needed?

The students need to contact the teacher who can help to choose the next steps