Please click here for our 2021-22 course offerings!

If you’re a current SOLE student, you can pick your courses for next year now! Go to the Guidance Google Classroom and fill in the form there. If you have any questions, email berardo.manari@tdsb.on.ca.

You can also find out more about our course offerings here: Course Descriptions.

Interested in joining the SOLE community for the 2021-22 school year? You can apply today at the link below!

SOLE 2021-22 Application Form

For more information on our admissions process, check out our Admissions page!

If you want to know more, join us at our Spring Open House on May 20th!

We may not get to hold our annual Art Show this year, but SOLE students are still sharing their talent with the wider art community—at the Art Gallery of Ontario! Check out their work, along with the work of artists of all ages, at the AGO’s Portraits of Resilience online gallery. More is added daily, so check back often!

Quad 3 report cards will be sent out via school messenger soon. Check your student email!

If you have taken a Local Virtual School course from a different school, you will receive a separate report card from that school. Students will receive this separate report card electronically. If you don’t receive it, please contact Berardo.

We will be returning to our virtual schedule for Quad 4. Beginning this Friday, April 23, we will be following the same modified schedule that we used last time we went remote.

Please join us this Friday from 11 am to 12 pm for an important SOLE Friday. It’s an attendance-taking day, and for some of you, it’s the first chance we have to meet you! You can find the meeting by going to meet.google.com and searching for solefriday.

SOLE classes will resume on Monday, April 19th in a virtual format. Please note that we are continuing to use our regular schedule (9 a.m. – 12:45 a.m., 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.) for these days. We are currently awaiting more information from TDSB about whether there will be any schedule changes for Quad 4.

On Monday, April 19th and Tuesday, April 20th teachers may wish to use the PM class time to support students with credit rescue.. Attendance will still need to be taken for these periods. 

Please refer to the chart below:

As many of you have likely heard, the Government of Ontario announced today that all schools in the province, including those at the TDSB, will be moving to remote learning following the April break. This decision is in response to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, the increasing risks posed to the public by COVID-19 variants, and the spike in hospital admissions.

Beginning on Monday, April 19, SOLE will be virtual only. The government has not yet provided a date for a return to in-person learning. As part of today’s announcement, the government indicated that data will be assessed on an ongoing basis and health officials will be consulted to determine when it will be safe to resume in-person learning.

We hope you have a safe and relaxing April Break, and we will see you online on the 19th.

Toronto Public Health (TPH), has just announced that all schools in Toronto, including those at the TDSB, will be closed to in-person learning as of Wednesday, April 7, 2021 and remain closed up to and including Sunday, April 18, 2021. This TPH order is being made under Section 22 of Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

SOLE will be sticking with the same schedule as in-person learning for now. Please use Google Meet to attend class as with your cohort on your usual day, and use the Asynchronous Attendance Form for the day that you wouldn’t normally be in class. (E.g., if you normally have in-person class Wednesday from 9-12:45, you will attend a virtual class that morning and your usual virtual class in the afternoon.)

We’ll see you online this week, and we look forward to seeing you in person when school buildings are safe again.

By now, you (and your parents/guardians if you are under 18) should have received an email with your current mark.

April 6th is the last day to drop a course without it showing up on your transcript. Please see Berardo in Guidance if you need to drop a course.

On April 1st, afternoon synchronous classes will be cancelled for a staff meeting.

The April Break is scheduled for April 12-16.

The last day of Quad 3 is April 20th. Quad 4 begins Friday, April 23rd. Since it’s a Friday, it will be virtual—go to meet.google.com and look for the meeting nicknamed solefriday. This is an attendance-taking day, so you need to attend!

This year, the theme for International Women’s Day (8 March), “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,” celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the gaps that remain.

Women’s full and effective participation and leadership in of all areas of life drives progress for everyone. Yet, women are still underrepresented in public life and decision-making, as revealed in the UN Secretary-General’s recent report. Women are Heads of State or Government in 22 countries, and only 24.9 per cent of national parliamentarians are women. At the current rate of progress, gender equality among Heads of Government will take another 130 years.

Women are also at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19, as front-line and health sector workers, as scientists, doctors and caregivers, yet they get paid 11 per cent less globally than their male counterparts. An analysis of COVID-19 task teams from 87 countries found only 3.5 per cent of them had gender parity.

When women lead, we see positive results. Some of the most efficient and exemplary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were led by women. And women, especially young women, are at the forefront of diverse and inclusive movements online and on the streets for social justice, climate change and equality in all parts of the world. Yet, women under 30 are less than 1 per cent of parliamentarians worldwide. 

This is why, this year’s International Women’s Day is a rallying cry for Generation Equality, to act for an equal future for all. The Generation Equality Forum, the most important convening for gender equality investment and actions, kicks off in Mexico City from 29 – 31 March, and culminates in Paris in June 2021. It will draw leaders, visionaries, and activists from around the world, safely on a virtual platform, to push for transformative and lasting change for generations to come.