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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1998-12-09, Page 1010 Exeter Times -Advocate Community Secondary School Reform info by Philip J,. McMillan VICE-PRINCIPAL They newspapers are filled with rel= •erences to the Secondary Reforms about to affect the secondary schools ..of Ontario. These reforms, that I will .comment un here and next week in part two. •are to take place as o September 1999. The stu- dents who will'tirst notice the changes will be students who are entering the Grade Nine classes in September of 1999. 1 • hope to outline the changes -briefly here. Get in touch with your elemen- tary school to see when there is to be an information night regarding these p changes. If you have already missed s the information night ask to get a copy t of a pamphlet "Secondary Reform" in sent home with your child. My articles • will use this. pamphlet as a source with less detail than the actual pamphlet. The. diploma requirements are as fol- lows. Students will be required to have 18 compulsory courses, 12 optional credits, 40 hours of communi- ty service across four years, -and suc- cessful completion of the grade 10 lit- eracy test. This literacy test will be province wide. The curriculum will be designed as a four year system. The emphasis will be on language, math and science. Full disclosure of all grade -11 and 12 transcripts begins enter a "destreamed" grade nine class. Students fn grades 9 and •1O will have two. choices. They may take courses in . applied .or academic Studies. Some subjects will be considered "open in optional areas of study.. ;These courses will prepare. students for their grade • ten studies in either level. It should be noted that a student' who elects to 'take an applied math in year one is not pre- vented from selecting an acade- mic math in year two. The dif- lerence between the two course levels" is in addressing how the stu- dent . le'arns. The students who approach studies in applied•studies will study the material, focused on the ractical application of the materials tudied. Those who select studies in he acadettlic area will cover core aterial with a focus on theory and enriched activities. • There will also be transfer courses available at the,grade AO, 11, and 12 level to prepare a stu- dent who elects to change levels from one track to another. 1 will continue next week to discuss other features that will be. part of the Secondary School Reforms. Mr. Craig , Head of our Student Services arra at St. Anne's and I, will be in all Huron County Elementary Schools in early January. Check your school .newslet- ters to get ¢dual dates. • We will host an information night on January 25, to saver questions and, allow students see our campus and all that it will er. Parents of students at St. Anne's are asked to watch for a newsletter to sent home in early January with all month's events and some interest - bits cif' information for the month September 1999. That means the stu,- to dent transcript will show all attempts off at gaining a credit . Students who repeat a course to upgrade or to pass. ,be after a second attempt will have, as , the part of their transcript, a citation for ing each,attempt. Students will no longrer ' • r� = S TOOL L-tl-�-lt1Li•ii i. , ar the tae�er . RENTAL STO SUPER SEILE on POWER TOOLS ACCESSORIES up to 3 s °% Discount Sale' Pricing' in Effect I Wednesda December 9 199rc 114 /1100/ Congratulated for their work at Community Living — South Huron at the • organization's annual Christmas Banquet last Thursday were: back row from left. 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