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School Search To determine which Virtual School your child is a part of (LC1, LC2, LC3 or LC4), search for your home school here: Learning Centre School List.
Elementary Virtual School Family Newsletter
Elementary VS Family Newsletter - March 2020
Newsletter Translations - March 2021: Bengali PDF - Bengali Word Gujarati PDF - Gujarati Word Hindi PDF - Hindi Word Punjabi PDF - Punjabi Word Tamil PDF - Tamil Word
Elementary VS Family Newsletter - February 2021
Newsletter Translations - February 2021: Bengali PDF - Bengali Word Gujarati PDF - Gujarati Word Hindi PDF - Hindi Word Punjabi PDF - Punjabi Word Tamil PDF - Tamil Word Urdu PDF - Urdu Word
Elementary VS Family Newsletter - January 2021
Newsletter Translations - January 2021: Bengali PDF - Bengali Word Gujarati PDF - Gujarati Word Hindi PDF - Hindi Word Punjabi PDF - Punjabi Word Tamil PDF - Tamil Word Urdu PDF - Urdu Word
Elementary VS Family Newsletter - December 2020
Elementary VS Family Newsletter - November 2020
Parent/Caregiver and Community Volunteer Process
We have a wealth of expertise and resources among our family community. Several parents/guardians have shown an interest in supporting Virtual School classrooms. As with volunteering at in-person school, a "cleared" police check must be provided by volunteers prior to working with students. If you are interested in volunteering, please complete this form:
Parents/Caregivers and Community Volunteers
This form asks you to provide the Learning Centre, class code for your child and the teacher’s name. If you do not have this information, please ask your child’s teacher.
This form will include a question asking for confirmation and providing information regarding having a valid Police Reference Check. If you have any questions about the application you will need to contact the Police Reference Check (PRC) office at 416-393-0759 or email PoliceReferenceCheckOffice@tdsb.on.ca.
If you require financial assistance to offset the cost for the PRC ($20), please speak to your in-person school principal to subsidize the cost. Alternatively, you can contact the Parent and Community Engagement Office at 416-397-3529. If you have any questions, please connect with the Principal for your Learning Centre.
Virtual School Updates
Code of Conduct
Virtual learning is a new experience for students, teachers and parents/guardians in response to COVID-19. While virtual learning is taking place at home, the same responsibilities and expectations of students and parents/guardians apply as they do for in-person learning. This includes existing board policies and procedures such as the TDSB Online Code of Conduct.
Outlined within the TDSB Virtual Schools Code of Conduct are guidelines and expectations for schools/educators, students and parents/guardians as well as information regarding privacy issues and expectations related to online learning.
Daily Synchronous Learning Requirement
Students take part in synchronous (live) learning throughout the day with maximum class sizes and synchronous (live) learning times (outlined below). The synchronous learning time requirements align with the Ministry of Education’s guidelines for virtual learning.
Grade
Maximum Class Size
Daily Minimum Synchronous Learning Time Requirement*
JK/SK
29
180 minutes
Grades 1-3
20
225 minutes
Grades 4-8
35
*This is in addition to asynchronous (independent work) learning time.
Structure of Day
Exemptions
Learn more about requesting to be exempted from the minimum requirements of synchronous learning. Expectations for Synchronous Learning by Grade
Synchronous Learning
Kindergarten
Grades
1-3
4-6
7-8
Whole Group Instruction
5-6 sessions per day for short periods of time
4 sessions per day
Guided Instruction and Independent Work (Teacher oversees work and is available for questions)
2 sessions per day
3 sessions per day
Synchronous (live virtual) Check & Connect
1 sessions per day
Time in Minutes
180
225
TDSB Virtual School