Explore Your Future: Career Speaker Series
Posted February 9, 2021
The Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region invites Grade 7 to 12 students and their parents/caregivers to participate in the interactive Explore Your Future speaker series starting February 10. This free, virtual series gives our students a chance to learn about their career options and help plan their career pathway. Registration for these events […]
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Thinking Out Loud: Student Survey is Coming
Posted February 8, 2021
Dear Grade 7 to 12 students, We are Tristan John-Jandles and Rowan McDonald, your 2020-21 Student Trustees. Launching this week, we have created a Thoughtexchange survey to help us better understand what you, our peers, currently think we should focus on. Our goal: to better represent you! This survey is exclusively for WRDSB students and is a […]
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Our Digital Story: Listening and Learning
Posted February 8, 2021
Throughout Black History Month, the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) is taking time to highlight and remember the ways that African, Caribbean, and Black Canadians have contributed to Canada’s past, present and future, while recognizing the responsibility each of us has to become anti-racists and combat systemic anti-Black racism. We recognize that African, Caribbean […]
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Supporting Your Anxious Child | Parenting Essentials Video Series
Posted February 8, 2021
The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and Parents for Children’s Mental Health are proud to announce the Parenting Essentials video series, featuring recordings of webinars that took place in the fall of 2020. The second video in this series focuses on information for parents and caregivers, interested in learning more about supporting kids in […]
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Welcome Back Message from Principal Collis
Posted February 6, 2021
Welcome Back! I am sure that is with a range of emotions that students and staff approach our return back to the Adaptive/Hybrid model this coming Monday, Feb. 8th. Since the Winter Break, it has been a small team of staff on site, along with our students in our ACE classrooms, while everyone else […]
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Daily Screening Verification for Secondary Students
Posted February 5, 2021
The Ministry of Education announced, as part of enhanced safety measures for the return to in-person learning, they will now require all staff and secondary students to verify daily that they have completed the self-screening process. As a reminder, students returning to in-person learning on Monday, February 8, 2020, are expected to continue to complete […]
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2021 Course Selection Info Sessions
Posted February 4, 2021
Course selections for the 2021-2022 school year are opening next week. To help prepare students for the selection process, SJAM guidance is hosting a series of info sessions during morning nutrition breaks for both in-person/hybrid and DLP students. Please see the schedule below for dates, times and Google Classroom codes (for students who have not joined their grade class).
Sessions are grade-specific, focusing on helping students plan and select courses for the coming grade. There may also be an opportunity for question and answer during the sessions. Guidance will post Google Meet links to sessions prior to the start of each presentation. Students are also encouraged to plan virtual appointments with their counsellor as needed to discuss plans for next year.
SESSIONS – 10:35-11:00am via Google Meet
- Tuesday, Feb. 9th – grade 9 students/classes (CODE – zj526i2)
- Wednesday, Feb. 10th – grade 10 students/classes (CODE – uuxjrxs)
- Thursday, Feb. 11th – grade 11 students/classes (CODE – uyf5ea2)
- Friday, Feb. 12th – grade 12 students/classes (CODE – ii6colk)
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