Grade 9
Spiritual Fortitude
Starting high school is an exciting new chapter filled with opportunities to grow, learn, and lead. In Grade 9, students begin developing self-leadership, learning to navigate challenges with confidence, perseverance, and faith. Through our Christ-centred approach, we provide learning experiences that strengthen a student's spiritual fortitude, helping them build inner resilience, while staying true to their values. As students take this next step, they'll be supported in cultivating a strong sense of purpose, deepening their faith, and becoming a leader in their own journey.
Compulsory Courses
The primary focus of Arts Education 9 centers around “taking action.” Students focus on examining and producing works of art that serve as a means of raising awareness about topics of concern to youth. We do all four strands of arts education (drama, dance, music, and visual art) and even write and direct performances for the elementary throughout our year. This class is an exciting one as we dip our toes into performance and learn how to use artistic materials correctly.
- See SK Curriculum for the Arts Education 9 course.
This course focuses on the development of efficient key boarding skills, internet safety, and proficient understanding and use of Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Through use of a program called “Typing Master”, students will become adept at touch typing.
Students will investigate personal growth necessary for future careers, connect their learning with the community, and develop life and work plans based on their preferred future. Students will have opportunities to explore career options and their own interests and abilities.
- See the SK Curriculum for the Career Education 9 course.
In Christian Ethics 9, students will explore the life of Jesus and the gospel message through an in-depth analysis of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The course also introduces various theistic worldviews, examines potential careers and vocations within the Christian church, and investigates the discipline of apologetics to equip students with a well-rounded understanding of their faith and its practical applications.
This course incorporates the learning strands of listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and representing. Units are organized thematically around the topics of the search for self, Norse and Indigenous Mythology and doing the right thing. Students will experiment with various writing styles, experience diverse literary genres, and capitalize on public speaking opportunities as they mature into critically thinking citizens.
- See SK Curriculum for the English Language Arts 9 course.
Students will look at how to discern what are safe and reasonable limits to set for our lives, as well as God’s plan for our relationships with others. Discernment will be developed through poetry, short stories, novels and essay analysis. This course will attend to the themes of love and loyalty, awareness, and personal perspectives. Students will continue to develop their expressive and receptive skills
through study of literature and thoughtfully considered reflection.
- See SK Curriculum for the English Language Arts 9 course.
Health 9 explores personal identity, decision-making, dating, relationships, tobacco/vaping, and HIV/AIDS through a biblical worldview and the spiritual, mental, social, and physical dimensions.
- See SK Curriculum for the Health Education 9 course.
This course, which spans one and a half semesters, acts as an essential foundation for the subsequent high school math courses. Math 9 provides a solid grounding in algebraic equations and further applies those skills through problem solving. The numerical skills that students acquire in this class will be built on further in all higher level math courses.
- See SK Curriculum for the Mathematics 9 course.
The aim of this course is lifelong participation in and a positive attitude towards physical activity. Our students will develop self-confidence as skillful movers and will learn to promote personal, social, cultural, and environmental growth. We teach that God created humans with bodies and souls as interconnected parts and that the health of one can influence the health of the other. God made us and redeems us as whole persons, and it's a Christian distinctive to care about it all, not just the soul, but the soul and body.
- See SK Curriculum for the Physical Education 9 course.
Science 9 focuses on chemistry, fluids & pressure, electricity, the atmosphere and the Saskatchewan environment. This focus of Science 9 involves constructing an understanding of how the natural world works. We observe what is around us, ask questions, and seek answers. Consequently, experimentation is a core element of Science 9 as it enables the students to construct meaning out of the everyday things that usually go unnoticed around them.
- See SK Curriculum for the Science 9 course.
The aim of this course is to explore the worldviews of past societies and make connections between the past and the present. Students will consider how worldviews are shaped and how they are expressed by people living in a particular time and place. Students will use analysis and inference techniques as they explore a variety of sources for historical information, including oral stories, images, literature and the arts. Students will reflect upon their own worldviews, and assess the influences of the past on the present.
- See SK Curriculum for the Social Studies 9 course.