Parent + Student Information

Summer School General Information

Summer School is a great option for students who wish to complete an additional credit, upgrade a mark by repeating a course, or take part in Summer School Cooperative Education for experiential learning.

Summer School is offered through our continuing education program and is an elective educational opportunity. Given the amount of learning hours (110) that are required in such a short duration (20 days), Summer School may not be a good option for all learners.

Please note, there are no Student Success Staff assigned to support Summer School.

Only travel within continental North America will be supported by MFA during summer school. If you are planning to be outside of this region, please contact the summer school office as soon as possible.

Online students will not be able access their course shells or teachers until Monday June 30, 2025.

For general information about our Virtual Learning Environment, D2L please click here
Online learning may not be a good option for all learners, please review the Information about Online Learning PDF below.

Online staff will schedule 1 hour per day (Monday - Friday) of online synchronous support via Microsoft Teams for the duration of Summer School. Attendance is voluntary for students.

Attendance & Active Engagement and Absence Reporting

Attendance and Active Engagement 

Online students are expected to log into their course shell and actively engage in learning daily. Attendance will be recorded the following day, and a student will be marked present if the student submits the required assessment of the day. Simply logging into the course shell is not enough to be marked present.
In-person students are expected to attend and actively engage in learning daily. Attendance will be taken within 20 minutes of the start of each class.
Active engagement means submitting assignments, corresponding with their teacher, participating in discussion posts (online) and learning course content. 
If a student does not engage in learning for 3 days, their credit will be at risk and will most likely need to be withdrawn from the course. 
Please remember one day of summer school is the equivalent of one week of semestered learning. 
Online students are expected to engage in 5.5 hours of asynchronous learning every day.
In-person students are expected to attend their class for 5.5 hours daily. 
If you do not log into your course and submit an assessment or attend in-person by July 5th, you will be removed from the course.
Requests for work to be provided in advance for a vacation will not be accomodated.
MFA's, which allow access to LDCSB accounts while out of country, need to be set up and tested before you leave the country, see instructions below.

Absence Reporting 

Please email your teacher to report an absence.

Late / Missing Assignment Policy

Students are expected to become self-directed, responsible, lifelong learners who develop and demonstrate their God-given potential. Active engagement in learning is key to the achievement of these expectations. Students demonstrate achievement of the learning skills and work habits by accepting responsibility for providing evidence of their achievement of the overall expectations within the time frame specified by the teacher, and in a form approved by the teacher. This is critical given the pace of Summer School and includes consequences for not completing assignments for evaluation purposes or for submitting these assignments late. Teachers will always take proactive measures to support the completion of assignments in a timely manner.

Students will be givien a new date for submission of an outstanding assignment. If the assignment is not submitted by the date, a mark of zero will be awarded.

If the missing assignment is submitted by the new date:

Students enrolled in a grade 9 or 10 course will receive no mark deduction.
Students enrolled in a grade 11 and 12 course will receive a mark deduction of 10%.

If a Missing Assignment Contract is needed, please ensure current engagement is adjusted to ensure another Missing Assignment Contract is not required. If multiple Missing Assignment Contracts are needed, the student will be referred to the Vice Principal and may be removed from the course.

Important Dates

Monday June 30, 2025 (Day 1):

First day of Summer School for online & in-person new full credit, term 1 credit recovery, civic & careers.
First day of co-op placements

Tuesday July 1, 2025: Canada Day - No school

Monday July 14, 2025 (Day 10)

Midpoint for full credits. A current grade and comment will be provided to all to students and parents/guardians by 12:00pm. Please note there are no formal midterms reports in Summer School.
Last day of term 1 credit recovery, civics & careers

Tuesday July 15, 2025 (Day 11)

First day of term 2 credit recovery and civic & careers.

Monday July 21, 2025 (Day 15)

Last day to drop a full credit course.

Friday July 25,2025 (Day 19)

Culminating Activities due for all online & in-person full credit courses

Monday July 28, 2025 (Day 20)

Last day of Summer School for all courses
Student Success Day for online and in-person full credits
Opportunity to receive feedback from teachers about assessments, including the culminating activity.
For in-person students, this will be the last day to complete any outstanding projects.
Teaching staff will no longer be accessible after 2:00pm

Wednesday July 30, 2025

Report Cards will be sent home via Digital Document Delivery from [email protected]. See information provided below under Communications and Report Cards for more information.
Please note, report cards will also be sent to home schools to be stored in the OSR and will be accessible via Parent Portal in September as well.
Since summer school is semester 3 of the previous school year, the report cards for students who are starting grade 9 in September will show not a credit earned on their report since their new diploma has not yet been assigned. Students who pass their course will earn their credit and it will appear on their transcripts and final report cards moving forward.

Thursday Julyt 31, 2025

Final Marks will be uploaded to OCAS and OUAC

Friday August 1, 2025

The Summer School Office will close at 12:00pm
Summer School email accounts will not be monitored after 12:00pm.

How to Drop a Summer School Course

Dropping a Summer School Course:  

If you wish to drop your Summer School course prior to Summer School starting, please have a parent/guardian contact your guidance counsellor at the school you will be attending in September before June 27th.
If you decide to drop your summer school course after the course commences, please have a parent/guardian complete the Microsoft Form linked: https://forms.office.com/r/2brvVxcCGt 
A student is able to drop their full credit course at any point, without academic penalty up until day 15. After day 15 students will not be permitted to drop their full credit course course.
A student is able to drop their half credit cousre at any point, without academic penalty up until day 7. After day 7 students will not be permitted to drop their half credit course.

How to set up a MFA to access to your LDCSB accounts while out of country before you travel.

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Dress Code for In-person Learning

Students are not required to wear their school unform for in-person courses in summer school. Students are required to comply with the LDCSB Dress Code. The following is considered inappropriate dress for students while attending any school function according to Board Policy J 3.3. School:

Bare midriffs
Exposing of undergarments
Swimwear pieces
Extremely short shorts or skirts
Accessories such as spiked chains or bracelets
Excessively ripped clothing
Clothing that displays sexual content, substance abuse, violence, profanity, racial or gender discrimination, or discrimination of any kind, or that otherwise demeans an identifiable individual or group. Examples include logos, sayings, slogans, gang affiliation, pictures, "playboy" clothing etc.

Students are reminded that they are to dress for the “business of the school day”. Clothing should be appropriate for an occasion such as a job interview, co-op placement or work in an office or retail setting.

Students enrolled in Technology courses need to be sure to dress in a manner that allows them to safely access their classroom. For example, students are not permitted to wear open toed footwear. More information will be provided by your teacher.

Important information about Online Learning for parents and students.

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Technology

General Information about Summer School Reporting

A link to access summer school report cards are emailed to the parent/guardian email address on file.
See below for instructions as to how to access the Summer School electronic report card. Please note, you will only have 14 days to access the link and download the report card.
All final grades are stored in our Student Information System and are immediatly accesible by each student's home school.
All final report cards will be sent to each student's home school to be stored in their OSR.
Report cards will also be accessible via Parent Portal in September.
Since summer school is semester 3 of the previous school year, the report cards for students who are starting grade 9 in September will not show a credit earned on page 2 of their report card since their new diploma has not yet been assigned. Students who pass their course will earn their credit and it will appear on their transcripts and final report cards moving forward.
Prior to the August reporting deadline, student grades will be uploaded to OCAS and OUAC.

How to access the electronic report card.

Digital Document Information for Parents - Updated 2024