Grade 12

BBB4M, International Business

CGW4U, Canadian and World Issues

CHI4U, Canada: History, Identity, Culture

CIA4U, Economic Issues

COOP4O1, E-Coop Education 1

COOP4O2, E-Coop Education 2

CPW4U, Canadian and World Politics

ENG4C, English College

ENG4U, English University

ETS4U, Studies in Literature

EWC4U, The Writer's Craft

HHS4M, Individuals and Families in Society

HSB4M, Challenge and Change in Society

ICS4U, Computer Science

MCV4U, Calculus and Vectors

MDM4U, Data Management Math

MHF4U, Advanced Functions

SBI4U, Biology

SCH4U, Chemistry

SPH4C, Physics, College

SPH4U, Physics, University

 

An online summer school is the perfect way for any student to get a credit. Online credits allow the school to fit your life rather than the other way around. The VHS summer school is open to all students from all school boards. All of our courses are open for enrolment and are NOT subject to cancellation, so students may register in confidence knowing that the course will not be cancelled.

Taking a VHS Summer School course does NOT require your current high school principal’s permission. Students taking a Summer School course will receive a report card and an Ontario Student Transcript (OST); copies of the report card and transcript are also sent to your home-school where they are added to your Ontario Student Record (OSR).

Why would a student take summer school courses?

(1) to take a course never attempted before in order to earn a new credit more
(2) to transfer from one level to another level (ie college to university, or applied to academic)
(3) to repeat a course in order to earn the credit or to improve a mark
(4) to repeat a course as a make-up credit, in order to earn the credit or improve a mark
(5) to take a "Reach Ahead Credit Course"more

Students who are applying to University and College can have a registration letter, midterm report, and final report / transcript sent to their destination post-secondary institution. Just let us know where and when.

Please Note: All students need an official transcript or final report card which proves that they have the necessary requirements and/or prerequisites for the course they wish to take, so you may wish to arrange this before your current high school closes for the summer.

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(1) Taking a New Credit

Students can use the summer to complete one or more OSSD credits that they have never taken before. You would do this to open a little free-time in your day school timetable next year, or to avoid a timetable conflict.  When you finish your course, VHS will send a copy of your final report card and transcript to your home-school, where they will add it to your ongoing record of courses completed.

(2) Taking a Transfer Credit

A transfer course is a 0.5 credit course that bridges the gap between courses of two different types in the same subject but different levels. Students who revise their educational and career goals and who wish to change from one destination-related stream to another in a particular subject may often do so by taking a transfer course.

Transfer courses enable students to achieve the expectations not covered in one course type but required for entry into a course in the next grade. For example, the prerequisite for the Grade 11 university preparation course in English is the Grade 10 academic course in English. A student who is taking the applied English course in Grade 10 but who decides to enter the university preparation course in Grade 11 may do so by taking a transfer course.

Transfer courses may earn the successful student 0.50 credits as they change from one course type to another in the same subject between Grade 10 and Grade 11 or between Grade 11 and Grade 12. These courses are coded as "K" courses.

(3) Retaking a Previously Failed Course

A credit is defined as a 110-hour course in which the expectations laid down by the Ministry of Education in the Province of Ontario have been successfully completed. 18 compulsory and 12 optional credits must be completed to earn the OSSD from the full range of courses offered by the school.

(4) Taking a Make-Up Credit

The student taking a course as a Make-Up credit must have completed the course and attained a mark of at least 35%. The student must have completed the final exam in the course, where applicable. The student must have taken the course within the past 12 months. Students who have successfully completed any credit course but need to improve their mark in that course in order to move to the next level of study or to meet their post-secondary education entrance requirements, may take a make-up credit course.

The student has access to the whole course and all of the assignments. Students are encouraged to study the whole course but they will only have to complete one-half of the assignments typically done by students in the regular course. All make-up credit courses will have a final summative assessment task which is usually a final exam.

(5) Taking a Reach Ahead Credit

Elementary school students may reach ahead and take high school credits while they are in elementary school or during the summer before they enter grade 9. This may occur only after the Principal of the Virtual High School (Ontario) consults with the student, their parents or guardians and the Principal of the elementary school of the student. The VHS Principal is also responsible for evaluating the student's achievement of the expectations of the high school course as well as the issuing of the credit. A copy of this transcript is sent to the home-school of the student as they enter Grade 9.