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TIMETABLES for 2025/2026

Students WITH an active HDSB email:

Timetables were sent to student emails on June 27, 2025.

Note: If you have GLD2O1 on your timetable, this indicates a Numeracy course. If you have ELS2O1 on your timetable, this indicates a Literacy course.

In order to make a timetable change, students are asked to complete THIS FORM using their HDSB account. Students should not email their guidance counsellor directly to request changes. All changes must be requested via this form.

Once a change request has been received, a parent approval email will be sent and parents will be asked to submit a Change Request Approval form. The link will be provided in the approval email.

Change Requests will be processed on a first come, first serve basis based on the date/time they are submitted. Students will be emailed a timeslot to come into Student Services to meet with a counsellor and change their schedule. These course requests change time slots will occur on August 25 - 28 and then continue into the first week of school.  Only change requests that have been approved by a parent will be processed.

Please understand:

-Many of our courses are very full.  Some requests will not be able to be fulfilled because these classes cannot accommodate any additional students.

-We will NOT make schedule changes based on teacher preferences or friend requests.

-Changing a class may result in a full timetable reshuffle and some elective credits may need to be re-selected.

Students NEW to the HDSB who DO NOT have an active HDSB email:

Please email Andrea Lukasik at lukasika@hdsb.ca for information on your timetable.

Click HERE for information about obtaining your Transcript.

Google Takeout for Students Leaving HDSB

As of July 12, 2025 students who are not returning for the 2025-2026 school year, including those graduating from the HDSB, will lose access to the HDSB Network & Google Workspace for Education applications, data, and email. Note that this includes both Gmail and Drive.

IMPORTANT:  If you have used your HDSB email when applying for post secondary, resume development, job applications, etc. you will need to update your information and change it to a personal email address before access to your HDSB account is lost.

To retain your Google Workspace data please see one of the options below:

• Transfer email and Drive files to a personal Google Account using Transfer Your Content - see Transfer their content 

  • Personal Gmail accounts only have 15 GB free drive space

  • All files in your My Drive will count toward your quota 

  • Archive data using Google Takeout

• The traditional Takeout is also available to create an archive of all their data in Google Workspace. 

This will enable you to easily retain your email, essays, resumes, science projects, and any other files stored on Google Drive before access has been removed to your HDSB account.

This must be completed before July 12, 2025.

If you require further information or assistance, please ask a staff member at your school to open a TOPdesk request. 

HOW MANY HOURS DO I NEED TO GRADUATE?  **New for 2024/2025

As you may know, it is a graduation requirement that all secondary students in Ontario complete 40 hours of community involvement. 

As always, students are encouraged to continue their engagement with community involvement activities above and beyond 40 hours for the many benefits that this brings including:

• Ongoing civic engagement and positive contributions to their community as Halton youth

• The opportunity to explore interests, passions and potential career aspirations

• Networking and relationship-building with supportive community members and organizations

• Added benefits for award, scholarship and other important recognitions offered by the school and local community as well as post-secondary institutions

New in the 2024-2025 school year: Students who complete more than 40 community involvement hours are encouraged to maintain their own record of completed community involvement hours. Secondary schools will no longer track and collect documentation for the completion of community involvement hours beyond the 40 hours required. Students can maintain a record of completed involvement hours by:

• Digitally tracking the completion of hours in their myBlueprint account (High School Planner and/or Portfolio features, including the uploading of proof of completed hours from community involvement supervisors through your Brightspace page.)

• Maintaining a hard-copy folder where community involvement hour documentation (letters, signed Record of Community Involvement Hours etc.) are kept

• Completing school and outside community processes for award/scholarship selection that may require students applying to provide proof of their total community involvement hours completed 

Further information, including eligible and ineligible activities, can be found on the Community Involvement Hours webpage on the HDSB website (hdsb.ca). 

Please contact your school Guidance Office if you have any questions or concerns. 

Click HERE to view Counsellors Corner - January 2025 edition

Click HERE to view Counsellors Corner - December 2024 edition

Click HERE to view our Grade 8 Parent Night 2024 presentation

Full Disclosure for Grade 11 & 12 Students:

Full Disclosure for Semester 2 was Friday May 2, 2025. Students wishing to drop a grade 11 or 12 course without the course appearing on their transcript must have done so before this date.

What is Full Disclosure? Any Grade 11 or 12 course completed, dropped or failed after the full disclosure date will appear on a student transcript along with the marks earned in the course. If a student drops a senior course prior to the full disclosure date, the course will not show up on their final transcript. Full disclosure does not apply to Grade 9 or 10 courses.