Our English and ESL curriculum enables our students to develop knowledge and skills through the study of literacy. Our four year enriching program is required for graduation, and offers courses at the destreamed, academic, applied, and Advanced Placement (AP) levels. The curriculum offers opportunities for students to grow as successful language learners and to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Successful language learners:

Understand that language learning is a necessary, life-enhancing, reflective process.
Communicate – that is, read, listen, view, speak, write, and represent – effectively and with confidence.
Make meaningful connections between themselves, what they encounter in texts, and the world around them.
Think critically.
Understand that all texts advance a particular point of view that must be recognized, questioned, assessed, and evaluated.
Appreciate the cultural impact and aesthetic power of texts.
Use language to interact and connect with individuals and communities, for personal growth, and for active participation as world citizens.

Notre Dame High School

Academics and Co-Curriculars

Academics

Departments

Arts

Business and Co-operative Education

Canadian and World Studies

English and English as a Second Language (ESL)

French as a Second Language and Extended French

Guidance and Career Studies

Health and Physical Education

Mathematics

Religious Education

Science

Social Sciences and Humanities

Special Education

Technological Education