What is the Life Skills Program?

 

Life Skills Program:

• Provides alternative programming for students who have significant physical and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities

• Develops communication, numeracy, literacy, and basic life skills

• Students can remain in a Life Skills’ program for 6 years, or until the year of their 21st birthday.

The program is best suited for students who:

• Have a formal Individual Education Plan

• Have a reading/writing and arithmetic level a the primary level, or below

• Have been exposed to alternative curriculum programs in elementary school, either in the classroom or with the Learning Support teacher

• Are exempt from french, and EQAO testing

 

What courses are included in the Life Skills’ Program?

For the most part, students will take K-coded (non-credit) courses.  Students may also be integrated into other courses to promote inclusion.  If  a student has strengths in a particular area, he/she will be given the opportunity to earn a credit in that specific subject area, working towards an OSSC.

 

An OSSC (Ontario Secondary School Certificate) includes:

7 compulsory credits (english, math, social sciences, science, physical education, art or technology) and 7 elective credits.

 

Educational Assistants are available to provide support to students in the Life Skill’s program.
 

Sample Schedule for students in Life Skills

Students in the Life Skills’ program are working towards an Certificate of Accomplishment or an Ontario Secondary School Certificate.  Students’ schedules will normally be balanced with both stand alone K- courses, and integrated courses, based upon students’ strengths and personal profiles.

 

Students are encouraged to take a literacy (KEN) and numeracy (KMM) class each year

 

Other courses offered will vary, but included (and are not limited to):

KCW: community, religion

KHI:    hospitality

KSN:  science

KPF: Fitness and Healthy Living

KAL:  Arts (can include visual art, drama, music, dance)

KGL:  Life Skills

KGW:  World of Work

 

Additional Information:

 

St. Anne is fully accessible, and equipped with an elevator to the 2nd floor. We also have several fully accessible washroom facilities on both floors.

 

Lockers are provided for students outside rooms 111, 111j (the Life Skill’s classes)

One digit locks are available as necessary.

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Bussing:

 

Students who require Special Education bussing, will be dropped off at the doors in the Phys. Ed wing in the morning, and greeted by Educational Assistants.  

 

They will board buses at the front of the school at the beginning of the day.

 

For further information regarding bussing, parents should check www.buskids.com

 

Outside of bussing, all other drop off and pick up for students must be done through the front office.  Parents (or designates) must sign in at reception at the front office.  A staff from the Special Education department will be notified to pick up the student.  He/she will greet the students and walk him/her to class.