IMPORTANT NOTE:
- This year's grad 12 cohort a minimum of 20 hours of community service hours for graduation.
- In addition, the Ministry of Education is providing increased flexibility in how all secondary students can earn hours in 2020-21 and 2021-22, at the Principal’s discretion schools may allow students:
- to earn hours during the time allotted for the instructional program on a school day;
- to earn hours through duties normally performed at the home; and,
- to count up to a maximum of 10 hours of paid employment towards their earned hours (age 14+). Students counting paid employment towards their graduation requirement will be required to complete a reflection exercise indicating how their work contributed to service for others. *Note: the 10 paid hours that can be used towards your volunteer hours is for the duration of secondary school - you can only use 10 hours total over your 4 years).
Please see here for suggestions on how to take advantage of the above opportunities.