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Arts

Check out the Arts & Culture SHSM Video HERE

Business and Computer Studies

Check out the Business SHSM Video HERE

Canadian and World Studies

The Canadian and World Studies Department is proud to offer a variety of courses dealing with everything from our compulsory courses (Geography, History and Civics) to our Senior level options (Physical Geography, World Issues, Gr. 11 and 12 Law, Ancient Civilizations, West and the World, American History, and Canadian Politics). We also offer Pre AP (History and Geography) and AP courses (Human Geography and European History.) Students will develop not only their understanding of these eras and concepts, but critical and creative thinking skills as well as problem solving strategies. We aim to develop learners who will excel beyond the classroom, recognizing that our world today needs a whole new and diverse skill set to adapt to the constant change. Join us as we explore the story of the world around us.

Cooperative Education

Cooperative Education (Co-op) is a unique learning opportunity that extends classroom learning into business, industry and the community. The opportunity to experience the workplace helps students explore career options and gather information they need to make informed decisions about their post secondary destinations. Students increase their self-knowledge while developing valuable transferable skills and gain an understanding of the importance of attitude, teamwork and personal management skills in the workplace. Those students planning for the workplace destination, co-op facilitates the transition from school into work.

Click here for our Co-op page

English / Moderns / ESL / ELL

Health and Physical Education

Library

For Library Resources, visit our Library Page

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Mathematics

Prerequisite Chart for Mathematics

Math Help

Is always available, please speak to your child’s classroom teacher for more information.

Grade 9 EQAO Math

All Grade 9 (in MTH1W and MTH1WA) Teachers will be discussing and preparing students throughout the class for this Assessment. Dates for the Administration of this assessment will be updated later. For more information, please contact your child’s classroom teacher or visit www.eqao.com.

Contest Dates for 2021/2022 school year are:

Canadian Intermediate (Grades 9, 10) Mathematics Contests – Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Canadian Senior (Grades 11, 12) Mathematics Contests – Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Pascal (Grade 9) Mathematics Contests – Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022

Cayley (Grade 10) Mathematics Contests – Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022

Fermat (Grade 11) Mathematics Contests – Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Euclid (Grade 12) Mathematics Contest – Tuesday, April 5th, 2022

Registrations for Mathematics Contests can be done through school Cash Online.

If there are any other Mathematics contests that students wish to get involved in, you are asked to contact Mr. Sluski in Workroom 34 or by email at sluskimi@hcdsb.org. For more on the University of Waterloo Math contests, please go to the following website: www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca.

Special Education

Special Education Homework Help for Students with IEPs (Individual Education Plan)

Please contact your SERT if you have any questions or require further information.

Special Education Department Staff

Mrs. Patricia Yurincich – Special Education Department Head – 905 257 3534 x 2017
Mr. Jermaine Fletcher – SERT
Mrs. Jill Campbell – SERT
Mr. George Zicarelli – SERT
Ms. Alexandra Laforet – Life Skills SERT
Mrs. Nicole Mayes – Life Skills SERT

Student Services

Welcome to HT Student Services! Our staff work with your teen to provide academic and career counselling. Students are constantly transitioning during their secondary school experience: from elementary to secondary, from semester to semester, from intermediate to senior level, from secondary to post-secondary. These transitions require planning, research and the expertise of the Guidance Counsellor. Our job is to help in whatever way possible, and that help can come in many forms. We also help students with non-academic concerns and work closely with our Social Worker to connect students to community programs that can help.

If you have any questions or concerns about your child, please contact their Guidance Counsellor. The Department posts important information regularly; this includes information about pathways, course selection opportunities, specialty programs, mental health initiatives, volunteers and scholarship opportunities and much more!

Guidance Counsellors see students by alpha via surname:

Ms. Latimer: A-D
Mrs. Castiglione: E-K
Mr. MacPherson: L-P
Ms. Waechter: Q-Z & International Students

Specialty Programming Staff:

Mr. Anand Pillai (Student Success)
Ms. Duguay (Social Worker)
Mr. Henry (CYC Worker)
Mrs. Caruso (Co-op Education)

Technology Education.

Tech at HT@HTTITANSTECH

INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN AUTOMOTIVE?

Holy Trinity now has a SHSM you can now enrol in no matter which pathway you are in. Students interested in Transportation, Small Engines, Tech. Design or Robotics should see their guidance counselor.

TITANS TECHNOLOGY

We recommend that students take Technology courses at Holy Trinity.

”More than 12 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 15 and 24 are unemployed and more than a quarter are underemployed, meaning they have degrees but end up in jobs that don’t require them”.
– CBC news March 12, 2017