Complimentary Courses (CCs)

Your Choice.

Your Commitment.
 About
4 Complimentary courses will be offered to students from grades 5 – 9.

Note: grade 4 students will be on a complimentary wheel, which gives them exposure
to all complimentary areas to help inform their decisions from grade 5 to 9.

1) BLAM (Business, Leadership & Management)

2) Band
3) Art
4) Digital Literacy

These courses have been created because they reflect student interest
as well as essential knowledge in the modern era and teacher staffing
realities.
 C.C.
• Students must chose 2 courses with parents.
Complimentary Courses are:
• ALL YEAR- to support depth.
• To be chosen based on individual interests- not
peer grouping or who’s teaching.
• Based on forming specific vocabulary, skills and
application (a final project or experience).
• Vary from each grade level to provide a different
experience to students who stay in one area.
 BLAM
• A practical course to prepare students for their future. BLAM or
Business, Leadership & Management focusses on different
dimensions that support entrepreneurship, organizing volunteer
and non-profit organizations, personal finance and investment
strategy.
Grade level focuses:
• Grade 5: Leadership (organizing, volunteer coordination and
partnership development in service of local level causes)
• Grade 6: Management & Entrepreneurship (starting a unique
business with others and learning through trial and error)
• Grade 7: Management & Leadership: Raising global awareness,
money and coordinating private and public partnerships for a cause.
• Grade 8: Personal Finance (Personal budgeting, taxes, credit, etc.)
• Grade 9: Investment Strategy (stocks, bonds, mutual funds and the
capital markets).
 Art
• Art goes far beyond notions of sketching and painting. Students
who chose art will be able to express themselves through many
mediums, but also gain an in-depth knowledge about the discipline.
Grade level focuses:
• Grade 5: Self-expression (positive & negative spaces, art critiques,
light and shadow, scale)
• Grade 6: Perspective (overlapping, blueprints, 3-D models, design
planning, texture, genre and media)
• Grade 7: Design Elements (form, balance and rhythm, picture plane
and composition & symbolism).
• Grade 8: Realism vs. Abstraction (self-portraiture & representing
identity)
• Grade 9: Design (industrial & graphic design, topography, screen
printing and sketching)
 Band
• Music is universal. Students who play instruments learn individual skills, being
part of a bigger team and gain the skills to represent their thoughts and feelings
through sound. Practice and proficiency are expect to grow with each year,
however there will be a different emphasis according to grade level:

Grade 5: Flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone (RENTAL) & Percussion (School Provided)

Grade 6: Flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone (RENTAL) Alto sax, tenure sax euphonium
(School Provided) & Percussion (School Provided)

Grade 7: Flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone (RENTAL) Alto sax, tenure sax euphonium, French
Horn, Baritone saxophone, Obo, Bass Guitar (School Provided) & Percussion (School Provided)

Grade 8: Flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone, Alto sax, tenure sax euphonium, French Horn,
Baritone saxophone, Obo, Bass Guitar (School Provided) & Percussion (School Provided)

Grade 9: Flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone, Alto sax, tenure sax euphonium, French Horn,
Baritone saxophone, Obo, Bass Guitar (School Provided or Owned) & Percussion (School
Provided)
 Digital Literacy
• Technology and new mediums of communicating are growing every
year. This class will provide technical skills, media source
awareness, digital citizenship issues, programming and design
opportunities at each level. However, there will be some unique
focusses:
Grade 5: Computer Basics (accessing info, google apps, microsoft
office).
Grade 6: Digital narratives (On-line research skills, digital story telling,
video/audio editing and blogging)
Grade 7: Self-representation (Social media, web-design & still image
editing)
Grade 8: Digital design (Coding for games, 3-D designs, intellectual
property)
Grade 9: On-line identity (Branding, corporate representation, public
figures, self promotion & coding)