Welcome to McNair Secondary School! Whether you are a beginning Grade 8 student or nearing graduation, information in our booklet is intended to help you make the best possible

choices for learning

at Matthew McNair Secondary

While some courses are required for graduation, many others can be selected to meet your individual interests and goals. As you move into the latter years of your secondary schooling and your goals are clearer, these choices become even more important. We encourage you to experience a range of electives to support the development of a well-rounded graduate.

Once you have made your selections, we will design an individual timetable for you. Sometimes this timetable may not be exactly the way you expected it to be because of class size limits or graduation requirements. For this reason you should think carefully about the alternate course choices you list on your program planning sheet; it is quite possible you may end up taking one or more of these courses.

You should also be aware that our timetable is driven by student requests. If insufficient numbers of students choose a particular course, it is necessary for us to drop it from the master timetable. What this means is that all courses listed in this book may not be offered each year or every semester. Sometimes due to staffing or other changes, there may be some modifications of course offerings and descriptions without prior notice.