What Changes from grade 8 to grade 9?

  • Choose your classes - you can choose the classes you are interested in, after grade 9.
  • Class Length - all classes are 75 minutes long, not 50 minutes.
  • Course Options - you can choose between Academic, Applied, Locally Developed or Essentials classes.
  • Exams - you must write exams at the end of many courses.
  • Semestered Classes - you have up to four classes per term.
  • Summatives - you will be completing summative or "end of course" tasks as a part of your final evaluation.

How Course Codes Work

How Course Codes Work

Thursday, January 13, 2011

How can you graduate?

DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS

It is the policy of our school to require that students take their compulsory credits during Grade 9 and 10. When students reach Grade 11, along with compulsory credits, they have opportunities to select from a wider range of optional credits.
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Ontario Secondary School Diploma (O.S.S.D.)

A student must earn at least 30 credits and of the 30 credits, the following 18 are compulsory:
  • 4 credits in English* (1 per grade)
  • 3 credits in Mathematics (at least 1 credit in Grade 11 or 12)
  • 2 credits in Science
  • 1 credit in Canadian History
  • 1 credit in Canadian Geography
  • 1 credit in Arts
  • 1 credit in Health and Physical Education
  • 1 credit in French (Substituted in Provincial Schools)
  • 0.5 credits in Civics
  • 0.5 credits in Career Studies
Plus one credit from each of the following groups:
  • New 1 additional credit in English, or French as a second language, or a Native Language, or a classical or an international language, or social sciences and the humanities, or Canadian and world studies, or guidance and career education, or cooperative education**
  • New 1 additional credit in health and physical education, or the arts, or business studies, or cooperative education**
  • New 1 additional in science, or technological education, or cooperative education**

In addition to the compulsory credits, students must complete:

  • 12 optional credits
  • 40 hours of community involvement activities
  • The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test requirement
    • * A maximum of 3 credits in English as a second language (ESL) or English literacy development (ELD) may be counted towards the 4 compulsory credits in English, but the fourth must be a credit earned for a Grade 12 compulsory English course.
    • ** A maximum of 2 credits in cooperative education can count as compulsory credits.
    • *** May include up to four credits achieved through approved Dual Credit course.
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