2012-13 Option Card Process
For the third year in a row, we are using an electronic process for selecting courses for the 2012-13 academic year. This process works best when the instructions are closely followed and when parents/guardians and students work together to the select appropriate courses. Please note that changes can be made on-line up to Wednesday February 29. To ensure that the students fully understand the process, the Guidance Counsellors will be meeting with all of the students starting on Thursday February 16.
Why Do We Need This?
Before you complete this process, we ask the students and the parents/guardians to carefully consider all of the available options. Over the course of the next month and a half, we will be looking at the courses the students have selected and making some key decisions on what will and will not run next year. Every year students are disappointed when a course they really wanted is cancelled. This is why it is so important that everyone select the courses they really want to take now. The more accurately the student is able to choose appropriate courses now the better job we will be able to do building a timetable that works. So take the time to get the option correct, but don't forget that we need everything completed by Wednesday February 29.
Getting Started
Web Access
To access the on-line course request page go to courserequests.bwdsb.on.ca. Please note that some web browsers such as Firefox, are not supported. For best results, use Internet Explorer.
Courses Offered at WHSS
CO-OP Application Form
If you are planning on taking CO-OP, please note that the following form needs to be completed CO-OP Application Form. If the student is under the age of 18, the form must be signed by both the student and the parent.
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When you need help and are unsure where to turn....Dial 211...a helpline created to assist you and link you to all Social and Community Services, operated 24 hours a day.
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Report Cards
Students will receive their Semester 1 Term 2 report cards in home room on Thursday, February 16, 2012.
Inclement Weather
In the event, no buses are running to West Hill, the appropriate radio stations will be contacted before 6:45 a.m. if bus service to Owen Sound is to be cancelled, FirstStudent, Kunkel, Martin and Bell Bus Lines will call the appropriate radio station to say that one particular bus is not running. When busses are not running but the school is open, the following announcements have been adopted to advise parents and staff of the situation:
No rural buses are running into the Owen Sound Public and Catholic Schools. In-city school buses are operating to Catholic and Public Schools. All schools remain open for those who can get there safely. PARENTS ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION AND DISCRETION IF THEY PLAN TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. |
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No school buses are running into Owen Sound Schools including all in-city school buses to Public and Catholic Schools. All schools remain open for those who can get there safely. PARENTS ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION AND DISCRETION IF THEY PLAN TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL. |
In addition to the radio announcements, a scrolling banner will appear at the top of this page announcing the status of the buses and if the school is open or closed.
NOTE: When a parent provides home to school transportation for a pupil due to a bus cancellation, the parent must assume school to home transportation responsibilities for that pupil. Buses not taking students to school will also not be picking up students and/or taking them home. The school will be open for those who can make their own transportation arrangements.
School Closed
This action is taken only in extreme emergencies. School closures will occur when it is considered too dangerous for students to attend school because of unsafe walking conditions. Please don't send a student to school on these days as all doors at the school will be locked and there will be no staff on duty.
2011-2012 EQAO Literacy Test
Thursday, March 29th all students in grade 10 or those grade 11 and 12 students who have been unsuccessful in the past will be writing the EQAO Literacy Test from 9:00 a.m. until 12:05 p.m. Success on this test is essential for students to graduate and receive their OSSD. This is the only opportunity in this school year for students to write this test so it is VERY important for students to be in attendance on this day.
In preparation of the test, we are running a 4 week after-school literacy test preparation course Tuesday's and Thursday's between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. February 21, 23, 28, March 1, 6, 8, 20 and 22 in Room 144. The course if free. Snacks will be provided. Enrolment forms are available in the Guidance Office.
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Message from the Principal
Welcome to West Hill Secondary School! We are in Owen Sound on Georgian Bay located in a beautiful area just below the West Rocks, which is part of the Niagara Escarpment. The Bruce Trail runs right past our front doors. We are only thirty minutes from Sauble Beach and Blue Mountain and are at the base of the Bruce Peninsula. Owen Sound is an area known for outdoor activities such as skiing, hiking, biking, boating and sledding to name a few. We are also a cultural centre and home to the Tom Thompson Art Gallery, Grey Roots Museum and the Roxy Theatre.
West Hill is the largest secondary school in Bluewater with an enrolment around 1200 students and over 100 staff. We have a great Link Crew program in our school which has senior students welcome our new grade 9’s to the school and mentor them for their entire first year of secondary school.
Our parents are always encouraged to be a part of our school. West Hill has a very active School Community Council who is a valued part of our school community. New parents are always welcome. Meetings are held bimonthly, on the second Wednesday of the month. Contact the school to find out the date of the next meeting.
We have a wonderful diversity in our programs at West Hill. We offer French Immersion, allowing students to take 1/3 of their secondary courses in French. We have a strong technology department offering courses in construction, manufacturing, automotive, design, communications and hospitality. The Arts are alive at West Hill! Our drama students put on great plays each year. Our music department is a thriving area which is award winning. Our art department offers a wide variety of courses including photography. We offer a very popular Specialist High Skills Major in Art and Culture where our students will specialize in fashion and hairstyling and aesthetics. This year marks our first graduates from this program.
West Hill offers a wide variety of extracurricular opportunities in the form of teams and clubs. We enter a team in almost every sport that participates in the Bluewater Athletic Association. Many of our teams and athletes are very successful winning league, CWOSSA and OFSAA championships.
West is best! We say this because we have such great students in our school and a hard working and caring staff who make being at West Hill such a pleasure.
Dan Hobler
Principal
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