Daily Schedule and Mods

"It's a priority for us at Lakefield College School to monitor the pace of the day and mitigate student stress levels. There is a lot of research that has gone into this schedule that shows that this is the ideal schedule to support student wellness." — Anne-Marie Kee, Head of School and Foundation

We can confidently offer our students the opportunity for meaningful daily learning with their teachers in small average classes of 14 with daily co-curriculars in the arts and athletics. Our students enjoy a full range of all-community activities with their peers such as house meetings, house events, paper house and spirit events during the course of their program day.

To help you visualize the flex modular schedule, and how a student's course load might look through the course of a year, we have provided draft samples for Grade 10 and 12 — please remember that these are only drafts intended to help you understand how the time can be broken down between different courses and across mods. The LCS school year is divided into eight mods, each lasting approximately one month. Think of a "mod" as a short term or mini-semester. The mod schedule allows for course content to be taught in short, intensive chunks, rather than spread out over an entire academic year

Adding a fourth course into a three-periods-per-day week allows a slower rotation of courses and provides students with the time to process and reflect on new ideas and information, and get the support or enrichment they need before they proceed to the next topic. Students can expect their courses to fall at the same time every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, while their courses will alternate, rotating through the 3 periods found on Wednesdays and Saturdays. To help you visualize the modular schedule, and how a student's course load might look throughout the week, we have provided draft samples of a weekly schedule for Grades 10 and 12.