Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario French Programs
Every school in the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario offers French programs that responds to the needs of the students in each community.
French Immersion, Core French or Intensive and Post-Intensive French is offered and this means your child can learn French in their neighbourhood school, regardless of the French pathway they choose.
Designed to Meet the Needs of Your Child
Our programs are designed in alignment with the French Revised Curriculum of the Ontario Ministry of Education, and are trusted to meet the needs of our various communities. We recognize the unique learning needs of all children and offer pathways that will allow every child to learn French in the way that it best suits his/her individual needs and interests and will ultimately lead him/her to be proficient in French.Core French:
Kindergarten to Grade 8, 40 minutes of instruction per day and Grades 9-12, one course is offered per year.
French Immersion:
Early French Immersion may be offered from Kindergarten, through to grade 12, while middle immersion may be offerend in grade 5 to 8. This program includes the study of French as a second language, and the study of several other subjects taught in French, for a total of 150 minutes of instruction per day (50 per cent of the day).
Intensive French and Post-Intensive French: Some of our schools offer Intensive French at the grade 5 level, which is 200 minutes of French language instruction per day for the first 5 months of the school year, and 60 minutes for the remaining 5 months. At the grade 6 to 8 level, French language is taught for 60 minutes per day for the entire school year. In grades 9-12, in some of our secondary schools, Post-Intensive French is one course offered per year.
Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario EcoSchools
Ontario EcoSchools is an environmental education and certification program for grades K-12 that helps school communities develop both ecological literacy and environmental practices to become environmentally responsible citizens and reduce the ecological footprint of schools.
Participating in the EcoSchools program gives students the opportunity not only to contribute to bettering the environment, but also to learn about the environment through integrated curriculum and there are a variety of projects which are happening to connect environmental issues to the curriculum. Some examples of activities which contribute to EcoSchools certification include: planting trees, growing plants, creating school gardens, garbage clean-up, composting, and recycling projects.
Schools from the CDSBEO first began applying to become certified as an Ontario EcoSchool in 2009. That year, three elementary and three secondary schools became certified. Since then, applications from the Board have grown exponentially each year.
All schools from the CDSBEO were challenged to become certified as an Ontario EcoSchool in 2013-14. This past school year, 28 of 32 elementary schools, and eight of ten secondary schools became certified at one of the three ranking levels. Out of the total 36 schools, nine certified at the bronze level, 19 certified at the silver level, and eight certified at the gold level. In addition, four schools achieved a five-year seal for being a certified Ontario EcoSchool for five consecutive years.
