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Course Selection and School Planning for 2025 | 26 

Paper Based and On-Line Course Selection

For the 2025-26 school year, our counselling team will work with students and families to complete the course selection process using paper based forms.   If a student is not currently registered at Mount Sentinel, please contact the school office.  The on-line system is another option for students to select courses at Mount Sentinel Secondary.  Students will participate in counsellor presentations during class to review course options and the requirements of the grade 10 - 12 Grad Program.  We encourage parents and caregivers to talk with your child(ren) about their course requests for next year. After the course selection process has been completed, parents can view course request information on the Parent Portal. Parents may also review the paper copy of the course planning form that requires completion prior to completing the course selection process online.
 

If a student’s course requests can’t be satisfied, students will be enrolled in their alternative choice.  It is essential, therefore, that students consider the task of choosing courses as a major responsibility.  Once choices have been made by the student and the master timetable has been built, it becomes extremely difficult, and likely impossible to make course changes beyond the options that are available on the timetable. Our goal is to have the timetable built before the end of the current school year.  In September 2025, before any course change will be considered, students will be required to supply a letter – signed by a parent/guardian – which specifically requests a course change and explains the rationale for the desired change.

Prior to beginning course selection, students are encouraged to participate in school provided course planning sessions with staff, meet with a counsellor or school administration with specific questions or inquiries, and discuss future goals about work and post secondary planning with their families.  Carefully planning a pathway to graduation that keeps options open while also fulfilling specific requirements for post-secondary institutions and potential work placement options is important for lifelong work and learning opportunities beyond high school.       


Step 1:  Course Selection Resources and Forms 


** Important Scheduling Notes:
Course selection drives the development of the timetable.  Several of the courses highlighted below are all considerations but not the FINAL course list. 

1)  New elective options and alternating course options next year for Grade 10 - 12:  Drafting 9/10, 20th Century World History, Law Studies 12, Environmental Science 12, Life Science 11, Physics 11 & 12, Literary Studies 12 and ORCA (Outdoor Education meets Culinary Arts!) 
2)  Second Language opportunity for Grade 9 to 12:  French 
3)  Music inside the timetable:  Instrumental Band: Concert Band for Intermediates (full year course option paired with a second linear course option)
4)  Music outside the timetable (OTT): Instrumental Band: Stage Band (full year course option outside the schedule - auditions required) 


Youth Train in Trades in your Grade 12 Year: 

  • February start, you will choose:  English Studies 12, CLC 12 + TWO elective options which may include outstanding required courses for graduation
  • September start:  completed grad plan to ensure all required courses are complete. CLC 12 may be previously completed in Grade 11 or will be included while at Selkirk College
  • Youth Train in Trades for starting February 2027 for grade 10 and 11 students.  Students are required to apply prior to the end of June 2026. 


Academy PM in your Grade 10, 11 or 12 Year: 

  • Grade 10 you will choose: one Math option, Science 10, Social Studies 10 or 11, and CLE 10 or ONE elective option for the first semester
  • Grade 11 you will choose: one Math option, a Science 11 option + TWO other options that may include outstanding grade 10 requirements not completed previously or other elective requirements
  • Grade 12 you will choose: English Studies 12, CLC 12 + TWO other elective requirements or outstanding grad requirements not completed previously


Step 2:  Online Course Selection (see counsellor if this option is available to you)

 

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Please see the 2025 - 2026 Timetable >> HERE

Course Change - beginning September 3  
Students will have an opportunity to review their schedules and made changes to their original requests.  Course changes are done through the school Counsellor, Principal or Vice Principal.  During the opening week of school students sign up for course changes with their homeroom teacher or by using the link >> HERE or the following QR code.  All semester 1 and semester 2 course changes will be finalized by the end of the first week of school.



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