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Ontario Secondary School Diploma
The Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) will be awarded to
students who successfully complete 30 credits including 18
compulsory credits and 12 optional credits. Such credits will be
based on the discipline specific expectations and assessment
policies as set out in the provincial curriculum policy documents.
In addition, a student must complete 40 hours of Christian Community
Service, successfully complete the Grade 10 Ontario Secondary School
Literacy Requirement and successfully a Religion credit each year.
The following chart lists the 18 compulsory credit requirements: |
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Compulsory Credits
(Total of 18) |
Elective Credits
(Total of 12) |
4
credits in English
3 credits in Mathematics
(at least 1 credit in Grade 11 or 12)
2 credits in Science
1 credit in French as a second language
1 credit in Canadian History
1 credit in Canadian Geography
1 credit in the Arts
1 credit in Health and Physical Education
.5 credit in Civics
.5 credit in Career Studies |
Plus:
40 hours Christian Community Service
Successful completion
The Grade 10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Requirement
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Plus:
1 additional credit in English or a Third Language or Social
Sciences and the Humanities or Canadian and World Studies
1 additional credit in Health and Physical Education or the
Arts or Business Studies
1 additional credit in Science (Grade 11 or 12) or
Technological education (Grades 9 – 12)
All students are required to take a Religious Education course
in each year of secondary school. |
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Ontario Catholic
School Graduate Expectations
The image of the learner in the Niagara Catholic District School
Board secondary schools was developed by the Institute for Catholic
Education in consultation with representatives of the Catholic
community across Ontario. The distinctive expectations that the
Catholic community has for graduates of Catholic secondary schools
are based on research which identified current and future
educational goals and priorities across the province and enhance the
expectations of the Ontario Ministry of Education as outlined in
provincial curriculum policy documents. The starting point for the
design of a provincial curriculum framework begins with the learning
expectations which define what all students are expected to know, to
do and to value when they graduate from secondary school.
Distinctive expectations for graduates of Catholic schools are
determined and shaped by the vision and destiny of the human person
emerging from our faith tradition. This Christian anthropology or
world view, reveals the dignity and value of the person. Our
tradition tells us God creatively and lovingly calls each of us into
the wonder of life, sustaining us by the power of the Holy Spirit,
throughout the human journey, into life eternal. We acknowledge that
the journey includes moments of brokenness and sin. We recognize in
the person of Jesus, the risen Christ, the human face of God sharing
our life in order to heal us of our brokenness and liberate us from
sin. This Christian vision of the human journey is best understood
within the context of relationship. |
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