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Our secondary program began in 2019 with a “Prep to Grade 9 program”. This innovative program provided students with the opportunity to enhance their literacy and numeracy skills prior to entering a high school program. From this inaugural program grew two streams to our secondary program (OBHS) 1. OSSD Credit Stream and 2. Living Skills Stream. This program was designed to address the special learning needs of students who may have difficulties remaining in a typical high school setting and navigating the social world in such a way that it may impact their academic performance.
Beginning 2022-23 school year
Oak Bridge Academy offers a unique 3-stream approach.
Our Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) credit courses are designed for students who would benefit from a slower pace than a traditional high school program. Our credit course hours well exceed the minimum 110 hours per course to support our students learning needs.
Our alternative Living Skills program focuses on building functional literacy and numeracy skill, social skills, work-place skills and independence. Our Living Skills program runs our “Cookie Cafe” to engage in real-world work experiences. Our Living Skills program offers a Certificate of Achievement upon completion of the 4-year program.
Our combination of Living skills and credit courses are designed for students who may be capable of achieving an OSSD but would benefit from a slower pace accessing credits while engaging in some of our Living Skills courses.
Classroom Technology
We are a G Suite for Education (Google) environment. All of our students have personally-assigned Chromebooks to use in all of their classes. Read & Write Assistive Technology is accessible by every student, in order to assist with speech to text dictation, word prediction in writing, and text to speech read-aloud. Teachers assign work using Google Classroom, so that students can complete and submit work online, directly to their teacher.
Beginning 2022-23 school year
Oak Bridge Academy offers a unique 3-stream approach.
- Specific credit courses at the Grade 9 level (OSSD)
- Living Skills program
- Combination of Living skills and credit courses
Our Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) credit courses are designed for students who would benefit from a slower pace than a traditional high school program. Our credit course hours well exceed the minimum 110 hours per course to support our students learning needs.
Our alternative Living Skills program focuses on building functional literacy and numeracy skill, social skills, work-place skills and independence. Our Living Skills program runs our “Cookie Cafe” to engage in real-world work experiences. Our Living Skills program offers a Certificate of Achievement upon completion of the 4-year program.
Our combination of Living skills and credit courses are designed for students who may be capable of achieving an OSSD but would benefit from a slower pace accessing credits while engaging in some of our Living Skills courses.
Classroom Technology
We are a G Suite for Education (Google) environment. All of our students have personally-assigned Chromebooks to use in all of their classes. Read & Write Assistive Technology is accessible by every student, in order to assist with speech to text dictation, word prediction in writing, and text to speech read-aloud. Teachers assign work using Google Classroom, so that students can complete and submit work online, directly to their teacher.
Living Skills Program
Our Living Skills program (non-credit) is based on a four-year curriculum. This curriculum is based on a variety of resources including LIFE™ and our locally developed program.
LIFE is designed to ensure that every student develops skills that allow for basic essential needs to be met, while also fostering the building of more enhanced abilities to promote the most inclusive well-lived life. Each student has individualized goals from the LIFE curriculum along with goals listed from core course below:
OSSD Credit Courses
Given the small nature of our school, each year specific targeted credit courses will be offered at the OSSD level.
Our Living Skills program (non-credit) is based on a four-year curriculum. This curriculum is based on a variety of resources including LIFE™ and our locally developed program.
LIFE is designed to ensure that every student develops skills that allow for basic essential needs to be met, while also fostering the building of more enhanced abilities to promote the most inclusive well-lived life. Each student has individualized goals from the LIFE curriculum along with goals listed from core course below:
- Functional Living Skills Program (non-credit) is designed to focus on functional academics (language, literacy, numeracy) for high school age students who are working at a grade 3 – 6 level and are not able to enter a credit program.
- We focus on social skills; self-management strategies; self-advocacy; social and emotional learning; and skills for independent living, including fitness, shopping, cooking, independence and community skills and outings.
- Functional numeracy and literacy are taught daily in functional real-life, hands-on, interactive and meaningful ways. Operating our “Cookie Cafe” our students learn how to plan, budget, bake, sell and advertise.
- Social skills including conversation skills and internet use and safety are all a part of this curriculum.
- “Passion projects” are encouraged and worked on weekly to support and develop areas of interest which may lead into volunteer and/or work-related opportunities.
- Volunteer opportunities are supported in the community
OSSD Credit Courses
Given the small nature of our school, each year specific targeted credit courses will be offered at the OSSD level.
- Designed to address the special learning needs of students who would have difficulties meeting the demands of a typical high school program and navigating the complex social environment.
- OBHS has small class sizes to support individualized student needs.
- Individualized programming provides accommodations and learning strategies.
- Embedded in our programming is time management, organization, social skills
and planning skills. - Students typically receive 6 credits per year which allows for a slower pace.
2022-23 School Year time table
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