New Courses for Grade 11 2018-2019

We are pleased to announce two new Grade 11 courses for the 2018-19 school year: Healthy Living and Outdoor Activities and Contemporary Culture and the Creative Arts.

Under the category of Health and Physical Education, Healthy Living and Outdoor Activities will allow students to further develop their ability to make healthy choices and lead active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical outdoor activities and exposure to a broader range of activity settings, students will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for the outdoors, build outdoor leadership skills and practise goal-setting.

Areas of study will include: Leadership, Risk Management, Wilderness First Aid and Navigation, Rock Climbing, Winter Survival, Nordic Skiing and Snowshoeing, Canoe Trip Planning and Camping. Students who enrol in this new course will have an opportunity to attain a CDS Outdoor Education Specialist Program certificate when combined with the Grade 9 Green Industries Course, Environmental Science, The Nature of Change, and demonstrated involvement in Enviro Council and the Duke of Ed Award program or other outdoor education excursions.

Under Interdisciplinary Studies – Contemporary Culture and the Creative Arts will have students exploring a wide range of cultural products (popular and literary texts, films, media, social media, and visual art), examining the creative-thinking processes that lead to their construction, and critically investigating the perspectives they endorse or critique.

Using a student-driven, Design Thinking approach, students will have the opportunity to identify issues and concepts, and work them through the creative process toward the completion of unique projects connected to their interests and the course’s themes.
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Land Acknowledgment

CDS wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. For thousands of years, these have been the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We also recognize the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee peoples who also shared this land.  CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for these lands and waters for future generations.

School Information

13415 Dufferin Street King, Ontario L7B 1K5 
(905) 833-1220 

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Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.