We are currently accepting applications for the 2013 academic year.
To book your appointment for an information interview, please call 416-642-5474. Application forms will be available at the interview.
A $100 application fee is required with the application form. Application fees are refunded if your application is declined for any reason. Application fees are non-refundable if we have accepted an application and the student does not take up the placement offered. Application fees are deducted from total applicable tuition fees upon registration.
Scholarships are available. Please do not hesitate to ask for a scholarship application along with the regular application form if you require a fee subsidy or wish to apply for a full scholarship. Scholarship awards are based upon three considerations: a) financial need; b) academic merit; c) availability of sponsorship funds.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Saturday, November 8, 2008
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Grade 7 and 8 integrated with Kingswood Preparatory Day School Inc.
We are now accepting applications for September 2013.
Please contact us at:
Kingswood Preparatory Day School Inc.
Centre for Social Innovation
Suite 120
215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto
Ontario
M5T 2C7
Tel. 416-642-5474
We are now accepting applications for September 2013.
Please contact us at:
Kingswood Preparatory Day School Inc.
Centre for Social Innovation
Suite 120
215 Spadina Avenue
Toronto
Ontario
M5T 2C7
Tel. 416-642-5474
Sunday, August 3, 2008
SUMMER SCHOOL
We are currently accepting applications for our Summer School 2013.
Apply early to avoid disappointment!
Please contact us at: 416-642-5474
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Technological Education
TTI1O Integrated Technologies
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand the technological and computer concepts they will need in order to design, develop, and build usable products or to deliver services, as well as to pursue further technological studies. Students will use the technological design process and a variety of tools and software to solve problems, complete projects, and strengthen their communication skills.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand the technological and computer concepts they will need in order to design, develop, and build usable products or to deliver services, as well as to pursue further technological studies. Students will use the technological design process and a variety of tools and software to solve problems, complete projects, and strengthen their communication skills.
Business Studies
BBI1O/BB12O Introduction to Business
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course introduces students to the world of business, including the concepts, functions and skills required for meeting the challenges of operating a business in the twenty-first century on a local, national and/or international scale. Students will also learn concepts and skills related to personal finance, entrepreneurship and international business.
BTT1O/BTT2O Introduction to Information Technology in Business
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course introduces students to the use of information technology in a business environment. Students will learn how to use information technology in a work environment, perform electronic research, communicate electronically, and use common business software. They will also explore possible future occupations in information technology.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course introduces students to the world of business, including the concepts, functions and skills required for meeting the challenges of operating a business in the twenty-first century on a local, national and/or international scale. Students will also learn concepts and skills related to personal finance, entrepreneurship and international business.
BTT1O/BTT2O Introduction to Information Technology in Business
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course introduces students to the use of information technology in a business environment. Students will learn how to use information technology in a work environment, perform electronic research, communicate electronically, and use common business software. They will also explore possible future occupations in information technology.
The Arts
AVI1O Visual Arts
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course offers an overview of visual arts as a foundation for further study. Students will become familiar with the elements and principles of design and the expressive qualities of various materials through working with a range of materials, processes, techniques, and styles. They will learn and use methods of analysis and criticism and will study the characteristics of particular historical art periods and a selection of Canadian art and the art of other cultures.
AMU1O Music
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the performance of music at a level that strikes a balance between challenge and skill and is aimed at developing technique, sensitivity, and imagination. Students will participate in creative activities that teach them to listen with understanding. They will also learn correct musical terminology and its appropriate use.
ADA1O Dramatic Arts
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the active exploration of dramatic forms and techniques, using material from a wide range of authors, genres, and cultures. Students will construct, discuss, perform, and analyze drama, and then reflect on the experiences to develop an understanding of themselves, the art form, and the world around them.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course offers an overview of visual arts as a foundation for further study. Students will become familiar with the elements and principles of design and the expressive qualities of various materials through working with a range of materials, processes, techniques, and styles. They will learn and use methods of analysis and criticism and will study the characteristics of particular historical art periods and a selection of Canadian art and the art of other cultures.
AMU1O Music
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the performance of music at a level that strikes a balance between challenge and skill and is aimed at developing technique, sensitivity, and imagination. Students will participate in creative activities that teach them to listen with understanding. They will also learn correct musical terminology and its appropriate use.
ADA1O Dramatic Arts
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the active exploration of dramatic forms and techniques, using material from a wide range of authors, genres, and cultures. Students will construct, discuss, perform, and analyze drama, and then reflect on the experiences to develop an understanding of themselves, the art form, and the world around them.
English
ENG1D English
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes analytic reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school academic programs and their daily lives. Students will study and interpret texts from contemporary and historical periods, including plays, short stories, and short essays, and will investigate and create media works. An important focus will be the correct and effective use of spoken and written language.
ENG1P English
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes key reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school and their daily lives. Students will study plays, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles, and will describe and create media works. An important focus will be the correct use of spoken and written language.
ELDAO Beginning Literacy
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course builds on students' previous education and language knowledge to introduce basic literacy skills and to help students adjust to their new cultural environment. Students will learn to read and write for everyday purposes, personal development, and enjoyment. Students will also learn school routines and personal management skills.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes analytic reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school academic programs and their daily lives. Students will study and interpret texts from contemporary and historical periods, including plays, short stories, and short essays, and will investigate and create media works. An important focus will be the correct and effective use of spoken and written language.
ENG1P English
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes key reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school and their daily lives. Students will study plays, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles, and will describe and create media works. An important focus will be the correct use of spoken and written language.
ELDAO Beginning Literacy
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course builds on students' previous education and language knowledge to introduce basic literacy skills and to help students adjust to their new cultural environment. Students will learn to read and write for everyday purposes, personal development, and enjoyment. Students will also learn school routines and personal management skills.
Guidance and Career Education
GLS1O Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course explores learning strategies and helps students become better, more independent learners while increasing their personal management skills, both in school and in other contexts. Students will learn how to develop and apply a range of strategies to improve their learning and achievement, particularly their literacy, numeracy, communication, and planning skills. This course will increase students' confidence, motivation, and ability to learn.
GLC2O Career Studies
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 55 hours
This course teaches students how to develop and achieve personal goals in education and work and contribute to their communities. Students' learning will include assessing their own knowledge, skills and characteristics and investigating economic trends, workplace organization, work opportunities, and ways to search for work. The course explores postsecondary learning options, prepares students for community-based learning, and helps them build the capabilities needed for managing work and life transitions. Students will design action plans for pursuing their goals.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course explores learning strategies and helps students become better, more independent learners while increasing their personal management skills, both in school and in other contexts. Students will learn how to develop and apply a range of strategies to improve their learning and achievement, particularly their literacy, numeracy, communication, and planning skills. This course will increase students' confidence, motivation, and ability to learn.
GLC2O Career Studies
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 55 hours
This course teaches students how to develop and achieve personal goals in education and work and contribute to their communities. Students' learning will include assessing their own knowledge, skills and characteristics and investigating economic trends, workplace organization, work opportunities, and ways to search for work. The course explores postsecondary learning options, prepares students for community-based learning, and helps them build the capabilities needed for managing work and life transitions. Students will design action plans for pursuing their goals.
French as a Second Language
FSF1D Core French
Prerequisites: Minimum of 600 hours of French instruction, or equivalent
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the further development of oral communication, reading, and writing skills. Students will build on and apply their knowledge of French while exploring a variety of themes, such as relationships, social trends, and careers. Thematic readings, which include a selection of short stories, articles, and poems, will serve as stepping stones to oral and written activities.
FSF1P Core French
Prerequisites: Minimum of 600 hours of French instruction, or equivalent
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the concurrent development of oral communication, reading and writing skills, using a broad-based theme such as the media. Students will enhance their ability to understand and speak French through conversations, discussions, and presentations. They will also read short stories, articles, poems, and songs, and write brief descriptions, letters, dialogues, and invitations.
Prerequisites: Minimum of 600 hours of French instruction, or equivalent
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the further development of oral communication, reading, and writing skills. Students will build on and apply their knowledge of French while exploring a variety of themes, such as relationships, social trends, and careers. Thematic readings, which include a selection of short stories, articles, and poems, will serve as stepping stones to oral and written activities.
FSF1P Core French
Prerequisites: Minimum of 600 hours of French instruction, or equivalent
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes the concurrent development of oral communication, reading and writing skills, using a broad-based theme such as the media. Students will enhance their ability to understand and speak French through conversations, discussions, and presentations. They will also read short stories, articles, poems, and songs, and write brief descriptions, letters, dialogues, and invitations.
Native Studies
NAC1O Expressing Aboriginal Cultures
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course examines Aboriginal cultures in Canada through an exploration of art forms - painting, sculpture, storytelling, dance, and music - created by Aboriginal artists. Students will learn to identify Aboriginal art forms and describe relationships between the art forms and Aboriginal traditions, philosophy, and culture. Students will also create their own art forms to express their understanding of Aboriginal identity, relationships, and sovereignty.
NAC2O Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes historical and contemporary issues that affect the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian governments. Students will examine legal, political, social, and economic issues; key aspects of the Indian Act and its revisions that have an impact on the daily lives of Aboriginal persons; the different types of relationships that Aboriginal peoples have established with other nations throughout history, and the methodology of historical inquiry.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course examines Aboriginal cultures in Canada through an exploration of art forms - painting, sculpture, storytelling, dance, and music - created by Aboriginal artists. Students will learn to identify Aboriginal art forms and describe relationships between the art forms and Aboriginal traditions, philosophy, and culture. Students will also create their own art forms to express their understanding of Aboriginal identity, relationships, and sovereignty.
NAC2O Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course emphasizes historical and contemporary issues that affect the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian governments. Students will examine legal, political, social, and economic issues; key aspects of the Indian Act and its revisions that have an impact on the daily lives of Aboriginal persons; the different types of relationships that Aboriginal peoples have established with other nations throughout history, and the methodology of historical inquiry.
Mathematics
MPM1D Principles of Mathematics
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to develop generalizations of mathematical ideas and methods through the exploration of applications, the effective use of technology, and abstract reasoning. Students will investigate relationships to develop equations of straight lines in analytic geometry, explore relationships between volume and surface area of objects in measurement, and apply extended algebraic skills in problem solving. Students will engage in abstract extensions of core learning that will deepen their mathematical knowledge and enrich their understanding.
MFM1P Foundations of Mathematics
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to develop mathematical ideas and methods through the exploration of applications, the effective use of technology, and extended experiences with hands-on activities. Students will investigate relationships of straight lines in analytic geometry, solve problems involving the measurement of 3-dimensional objects and 2-dimensional figures, and apply key numeric and algebraic skills in problem solving. Students will also have opportunities to consolidate core skills and deepen their understanding of key mathematical concepts.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to develop generalizations of mathematical ideas and methods through the exploration of applications, the effective use of technology, and abstract reasoning. Students will investigate relationships to develop equations of straight lines in analytic geometry, explore relationships between volume and surface area of objects in measurement, and apply extended algebraic skills in problem solving. Students will engage in abstract extensions of core learning that will deepen their mathematical knowledge and enrich their understanding.
MFM1P Foundations of Mathematics
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Applied
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to develop mathematical ideas and methods through the exploration of applications, the effective use of technology, and extended experiences with hands-on activities. Students will investigate relationships of straight lines in analytic geometry, solve problems involving the measurement of 3-dimensional objects and 2-dimensional figures, and apply key numeric and algebraic skills in problem solving. Students will also have opportunities to consolidate core skills and deepen their understanding of key mathematical concepts.
Science
SNC1D Science
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand basic concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics; to develop skills in the processes of scientific enquiry; and to relate science to technology, society, and the environment. Students will learn scientific theories and conduct investigations related to cell division and reproduction; atomic and molecular structures and the properties of elements and compounds; the universe and space exploration; and the principles of electricity.
SNC1P Science
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand basic concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics; to develop practical skills in scientific investigation and to apply their knowledge of science to everyday situations. Students will design and conduct investigations into practical problems and issues related to cell division and reproduction, the structure and properties of elements and compounds, astronomy and space exploration, and static and current electricity.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand basic concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics; to develop skills in the processes of scientific enquiry; and to relate science to technology, society, and the environment. Students will learn scientific theories and conduct investigations related to cell division and reproduction; atomic and molecular structures and the properties of elements and compounds; the universe and space exploration; and the principles of electricity.
SNC1P Science
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Academic
Duration: 110 hours
This course enables students to understand basic concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics; to develop practical skills in scientific investigation and to apply their knowledge of science to everyday situations. Students will design and conduct investigations into practical problems and issues related to cell division and reproduction, the structure and properties of elements and compounds, astronomy and space exploration, and static and current electricity.
Family Studies
HFN1O/HFN2O Food and Nutrition
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course explores the factors that affect attitudes and decisions about food, examines current issues of body image and food marketing, and is grounded in the scientific study of nutrition. Students will learn how to make informed food choices and how to prepare foods, and will investigate our Canadian food heritage and food industries, as well as global food issues. The course also introduces students to research skills related to food and nutrition.
Prerequisites: None
Course Type: Open
Duration: 110 hours
This course explores the factors that affect attitudes and decisions about food, examines current issues of body image and food marketing, and is grounded in the scientific study of nutrition. Students will learn how to make informed food choices and how to prepare foods, and will investigate our Canadian food heritage and food industries, as well as global food issues. The course also introduces students to research skills related to food and nutrition.
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