Future Grade 9 McKinnon Park Secondary School Students
School Profile
2024-25
Below you will find some resources that you can access to better prepare students for the next school year.
- Find the link to Grand Erie’s Multi-Year Plan here
- Please refer to our school boundary map which can be found here.
- Click here for Parent Information for Grade 9 Students
- If your student in Grade 8 is currently attending a school in BHNCDSB, you are welcome to make an appointment with a McKinnon Park Guidance Counsellor on Tuesday, Jan. 28 to submit registration forms and option sheets, verify your home address with proof of address and birth certificate, discuss your child's IEP or latest report card and ask any questions you have about the transition to high school. Please contact the school at 905-765-4466 to make this important appointment.
Grade 8 Student Visiting Times:
- Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
All Day
Future Grade 9 Student and Parent Information Nights:
- Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Alternate Date and Time:
- Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Grade 9 Student Orientation/Registration:
- Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024
Grade 9 Registration Form - For students currently enrolled in Grand Erie District School Board
Completed Registration Forms and Course Selection Sheets are due to McKinnon Park Secondary School NO LATER than Jan. 31, 2025.
Elementary Grade 8 teachers will collect these forms for their students. Please be reminded that students CANNOT register at more than one secondary school.
Click here for a copy of the Grade 9 Registration Form for Grand Erie students
Grade 9 Registration Form for Students outside Grand Erie District School Board
Completed Registration Forms and Course Selection Sheets are due to McKinnon Park Secondary School NO LATER than Jan. 31, 2025.
Elementary Grade 8 teachers will collect these forms for their students. If Elementary Grade 8 teachers will not collect the forms for the students, please email your form to kathy.vanderburg@granderie.ca.
Please be reminded that students CANNOT register at more than one Secondary School.
Click Here for a copy of the Grade 9 Registration Form for Students from outside Grand Erie
Click here for a copy of the Grade 9 course option sheet
OSSD Requirements
To earn a high school OSSD diploma in Ontario, students must:
- earn 18 compulsory credits
- earn 12 optional credits
- pass the literacy requirement
- complete a minimum of 40 hours of community involvement activities
Compulsory credits
Students must earn the following 18 compulsory credits to get their Ontario Secondary School Diploma:
- 4 credits in English (1 credit per grade)
- 3 credits in mathematics (at least 1 credit in Grade 11 or 12)
- 3 credits for group 1, 2 and 3 courses (1 credit in each group)
- 2 credits in science
- 1 credit in Canadian history (Grade 10)
- 1 credit in Canadian geography (Grade 9)
- 1 credit in the arts
- 1 credit in health and physical education
- 1 credit in French as a second language
- 0.5 credit in career studies
- 0.5 credit in civics
Group 1, 2 and 3 compulsory credits
Of the 18 compulsory credits, students must complete one from each of the following groups:
Group 1:
- English (including the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course) or French as a second language
- a Native Language
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies
- a classical or an international language
- social sciences and the humanities
- Canadian and world studies
- guidance and career education
- cooperative education
Group 2:
- health and physical education
- the arts
- business studies
- french as a second language
- cooperative education
Group 3:
- science (Grade 11 or 12)
- technological education
- french as a second language
- computer studies
- cooperative education
The following conditions apply to compulsory credit selections from the above three groups:
- In groups 1, 2, and 3, a maximum of 2 credits in French as a second language can count as compulsory credits, one from group 1 and one from either group 2 or group 3.
- A maximum of 2 credits in cooperative education can count as compulsory credits, selected from any of the above three groups.
Optional credits
Students must earn 12 optional credits by successfully completing courses offered in their school’s program and course calendar.
Optional credits may include up to 4 credits earned through approved dual credit programs
Grade 9-12 Courses Offered in 2023-24
Click here for the Grade 9-12 Courses Offered in myBlueprint
Click here to view a PDF of the Grade 9-12 Courses Offered for 2023-24
Click here to view a course description of the courses offered for 2023-2024
Students are required to earn two online learning credits to graduate from secondary school, beginning with every student who entered Grade 9 in the 2020-21 school year. Adult learners entering the Ontario secondary school system in 2023-24 or later will be required to meet this graduation requirement and may opt themselves out of the requirement. The graduation requirement is intended to support students in developing familiarity and comfort with working and learning in a fully online environment, as well as developing digital literacy and other important transferable skills that will help prepare them for success after graduation and in all aspects of their lives.
Meeting the online learning graduation requirement should not pose a barrier to graduation for students. As with all learning, students taking online courses will have access to the supports they need through their school, (e.g., guidance, nutrition programs, extra-curricular activities, and services for English-language learners). If a student in a publicly funded school has an Individual Education Plan, the plan should be shared, when appropriate, with an educator instructing an online course delivered by another publicly funded school board, with the necessary consent.
Parents/guardians may choose to opt their child out of the mandatory online courses required for graduation. Students aged 18 years or older, or students who are 16 or 17 years of age and have withdrawn from parental control, can also opt out of the graduation requirement. School boards must also allow for students and parents/guardians to opt back into the online learning graduation requirement should their decision change.