***Course selection will happen at school and be a guided process***
Course selection will be happening at school from Friday, February 21st until Friday, March 7th. To aid this process, please make sure that you are having conversations at home about course selection and that your student knows a parent or guardian email address. When your student has completed their selections, a parent or guardian will receive an approval email. If you reject the approval, please send Miss Ronald an email to let me know what changes need to be made.
Here is the schedule for course selection:
Tuesday, February 25th - 84 and 85
Wednesday, February 26th - 83 and 86
Thursday, February 27th - 8A and 81
Friday, February 28th - 82
Please know that if your student is absent on their course selection date, I will catch up with them the week of March 3rd.
Click each school crest to access their course calendars and/or website links for course options.
A new Financial Literacy requirement has been added to the OSSD requirements. This will be completed during Grade 10 Mathematics and based on cumulative financial literacy learning from grades 1-9. High schools are still learning what this will look like so stay tuned!
Students entering high school in 2024 will be required to take a technology course in grades 9 or 10. The curriculum for technology courses in these grades gives students exposure to a variety of technologies including construction, transportation, manufacturing, computer technology, hospitality, and communications. The goals of this new requirement is to create a new pathway to good careers in STEM and the skilled trades, as well as to encourage more diversity in the skilled trades fields. The new class is titled Technology and the Skilled Trades and its course code is TAS 1O1.
In of September 2022, all high schools in the Waterloo Region District School Board began offering "destreamed" courses in grade nine. In alignment with the provincial announcement to end streaming in grade 9, the applied stream has been phased out. With the exception of the Fast Forward program, ALL students will select destreamed English (ENL 1WI), Math (MTH 1WI), Science (SNC 1WI), Geography (CGC 1WI), and academic French (FSF 1DI) in grade 9 for the 2024-2025 school year.