SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS COLLEGIATE HANDBOOK 1 Saskatoon Public Schools 310 - 21St Street East Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7K 1M7
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ADEN BOWMAN BEDFORD ROAD CENTENNIALCENTENNIAL COLLEGIATE COLLEGIATE COLLEGIATECOLLEGIATE CITY PARK EVAN HARDY MARION M. GRAHAM SCHOOL COLLEGIATE COLLEGIATE saskaton public schols online learning centre MOUNT ROYAL NUTANA ONLINE LEARNING COLLEGIATE COLLEGIATE CENTRE ROYAL WEST CAMPUS TOMMY DOUGLAS WALTER MURRAY AT ESTEY SCHOOL COLLEGIATE COLLEGIATE SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS COLLEGIATE HANDBOOK 1 Saskatoon Public Schools 310 - 21st Street East Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7K 1M7 306.683.8200 [email protected] @StoonPubSchools facebook.com/SaskatoonPublicSchools youtube.com/SaskatoonPublicSchools13 linkedin.com/company/saskatoonpublicschools TABLE OF CONTENTS saskatoonpublicschools.ca 3 Why choose Saskatoon Public Schools? 4 Grade 9 Compulsory Classes 5 Core Requirement Graduation Plan 6 SPS Graduation Plan 7 Program Opportunities 8 Aden Bowman Collegiate 10 Bedford Road Collegiate 12 Centennial Collegiate 14 Evan Hardy Collegiate 16 Marion M. Graham Collegiate 18 Mount Royal Collegiate 20 Tommy Douglas Collegiate 22 Walter Murray Collegiate 24 City Park School 25 Nutana Collegiate 26 Online Learning Centre 27 Royal West Campus at Estey School 28 Summer School DEC 2020 WHY CHOOSE SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS? At Saskatoon Public Schools, our vision is that every We inspire our students to reach their potential. Our student is known, valued, and believed in. collegiates are home to several unique academies and programs for students with specific interests. Many of This vision can be achieved by focusing on four student these programs can only be found at Saskatoon Public goals: Schools. Whether it is challenging students through our SAGE program, providing valuable, hands-on learning · Academic Excellence through apprenticeship courses, or introducing them · Character to their natural environment through our education for · Engagement sustainable development offerings, we are providing · Well-being. experiences students will never forget. We are committed to creating learning experiences that We believe in being culturally responsive. We want our inspire all students to reach their potential. learning environments, our classroom teachings, and our instructional practices to be respectful of our diverse We believe in safe, caring, and accepting schools. Our community. We collaborate with community members goal is to provide school environments that are safe and on the shared goal of developing strong learners, schools, caring places where excellence in learning is a priority and systems. Being more responsive will improve student and everyone feels included. Our schools are open to achievement and engagement, with an emphasis on First all. We want every student to feel respected and have a Nation, Inuit, and Métis students. sense of belonging. 3 GRADE 9 COMPULSORY CLASSES Every Saskatoon Public Schools’ collegiate offers the regular English Grade 9 program. ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 09 PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH AND CAREER ED 09 ELA9 engages students with unites of study on compelling topics, This full-year, every-day course integrates three areas of learning and including: The Search for Self; Doing the Right Thing; Love, Loyalty, and is an opportunity to engage students in planning for one’s physical, Relationships; and our Shared Linguistic and Cultural Roots. mental, and emotional health and well-being: Students will be challenged to: • Grade 9 Physical Education is based around four main learning • Comprehend and Respond to diverse texts (including oral, print, objectives: being independently prepared and willing to participate, digital, and multimedia) from diverse perspectives and demonstrating positive relationships, being independently active, worldviews (including Indigenous, multicultural, local, national, and displaying skillful movement patterns. The course is designed and international). to improve students’ abilities in all four of these areas through • Compose and Create a variety of texts that have meaning and individual and team activities. An ongoing emphasis is placed on impact in the lives of students and their communities. developing and improving physical fitness and encouraging daily health and wellness habits. • Assess and Reflect upon their own and others’ literacy strategies, becoming increasing self-aware and effective as thinkers, • Health Education, as part of a comprehensive school health collaborators, and communicators. program, will support students in developing a solid foundation Teachers differentiate themes, texts, and approaches to according for attaining and maintaining a balanced life. their students’ identities, interests, strengths, and needs. The literacy skills and confidence students develop in ELA9 can contribute to their • Career Education is designed to develop the competencies success in their other classes. required by all people to successfully manage their work and life. This renewed curriculum reflects the latest career development MATHEMATICS 09 research, updated technology, and recent resources, as well as In Math 9, students will continue to grow their mathematical responding to changing economic forces within the province. understandings under the four strands: Number; Patterns and Relations; Shape and Space; and Statistics and Probability. Topics of PRACTICAL AND APPLIED ARTS 09 study include powers, rational numbers, square roots, linear relations, Students are able to experience three Practical and Applied Arts linear equations and inequalities, polynomials, geometry, statistics and modules in the form of a survey course. Each collegiate has unique probability. Math 9 will be taught throughout the year. program offerings that are represented in their practical and applied arts survey. SCIENCE 09 This course is an introduction to a vast range of scientific topics. It ARTS EDUCATION 09 covers atoms, elements and introductory chemistry; electricity, circuits As a foundation to exciting and experiential learning through the arts and energy production; cellular division, reproduction and human in high school, Grade 9 students will explore topics of concern to development; and space, our solar system and the universe. These youth while developing skills and abilities in the four fine arts strands: topics are studied using instructional technologies, hands-on activities, Dance, Drama, Music, and Visual Art. Students are invited to create and and inquiry in order to develop basic science skills, scientific habits of consider arts expressions that reflect the course focus, Taking Action. mind, and an understanding of science’s role in our society. How can youth express themselves through the arts? How can students, as artists in all methods, create or inspire the conditions for change? SOCIAL STUDIES 09 How do dancers, musicians, actors, and visual artists effect change or Grade 9 students will explore worldviews of ancient societies and bring awareness to issues? The goal of this course is to give voice to connections between the past and the present. Students will consider students' ideas, values, and beliefs through the arts on a topic that is how worldviews are shaped and how they are expressed by people personally relevant. living in a particular time and place. They will examine issues related to contact between societies with differing worldviews. The overarching goals of the course include: interaction and interdependence, dynamic Collegiates also offer English as an Additional Language and resource relationships, power and authority, and resources and wealth. These support programs at the Grade 9 level, but options for scheduling may goals are learned through exploring ancient societies to develop an vary. Please contact individual collegiates to learn more about student understanding of anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, geography, support programs. politics, law, economics, and environment. 4 CORE REQUIREMENT GRADUATION PLAN GRADE 10 GRADE 11 GRADE 12 English 10A English 20 English 30A English 10B English 30B At least one of: Science 10 Health Science 20 Physical Science 20 At least one of: Wellness 10 Computer Science 20 History 30 Environmental Science 20 Native Studies 30 At least one of: History 10 At least one of: Native Studies 10 History 20 Psychology 20 or 30 Native Studies 20 Law 30 Geography 20 or 30 At least one of: Foundations Pre-Cal 10 At least one of: Apprenticeship Math 10 Math Foundations 20 Math Pre-Calculus 20 Apprenticeship Math 20 At least two from either or one of each of: Arts Education* or Practical Applied Arts** Electives: Electives: Electives: 1. __________________ 1. __________________ 1. __________________ 2. __________________ 2. __________________ 2. __________________ 3. __________________ 3. __________________ 3. __________________ 4. __________________ 4. __________________ 4. __________________ 5. __________________ 5. __________________ 6. __________________ 6. __________________ TOTAL CLASSES: Grade 10 + Grade 11 + Grade 12 = a minimum of 24 Successfully complete at least five subjects numbered “30” Minimum of 9 electives, at least 6 in Grades 11 or 12 Please see Counsellor to discuss any Post-Secondary requirements * ARTS ELECTIVES: Arts Education, Band, Choral, Dance, Drama, Music, Instrumental Jazz and Visual Art ** PAA ELECTIVES: Accounting, Apprenticeship, Autobody, Career Work Exploration (Academic Placement), Clothing, Textiles and Fashion, Communication Media, Construction and Carpentry, Design Studies, Drafting, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Food Studies, Graphic Arts,