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 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week
 Hand in your signed DPA form to your advisory teacher

 Use the template on the GT website to describe your goals for healthy eating, physical activity and stress management.

 Healthy Living Plan:
(700 words minimum)
Provide as much detail as possible in your responses to the questions below
 Setting a Personal Goal for Healthy Eating and Physical
Activity
 Describe your current eating habits and physical activities:
 Refer to the major food groups to describe what you normally eat and drink – include coffee, junk food, water and pop.
 Describe the regular and irregular activities in which you participate – include walking to school, playing on a sports team, skiing or hiking on weekends.
 Analyze your current situation and set two personal goals:
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Identify what you could improve in your diet and set a goal for healthier eating. Consider integrating super foods (those that are nutrient dense and those that have high diseasefighting qualities.)
 Identify how you could improve your physical activity and set a goal for increasing activity or improving your current training regimen. If you are already participating at an optimal level, identify how you will continue to maintain your current fitness levels after leaving high school

Healthy Living Plan: cont’d
 Setting a Personal Goal for Emotional Health
 Describe how you normally react to stressors in your life.
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You do not need to describe specific personal situations that give you stress – share what you can. Perhaps you don’t sleep well when you have a lot of work to do, or you can’t eat before a competition. Maybe you get migraines when your boss gives you a lot of pressure.
 Set a personal goal for handling stress and maintaining good personal relationships.
 What is a strategy that has worked in the past? Do you know how to access help if you are feeling overwhelmed?

A. 30 Hours of Work or Volunteer
Experience during Gr. 10-12.
 Provide documentation in the form of a pay stub or reference letter; or have an employer or supervisor complete the Community Connections form.

B. Show which Employability Skills you developed while volunteering or
 working at this particular job .
Select on Employability Skills checklist on website
C. Describe what you did and how you
 benefitted from this experience.
Type a response. 200 words minimum

A. Résumé
 See the GT website for templates for
‘high school graduate’ résumés
B. Post-Secondary plans
 Use the Career and Life Plan template to outline details of your plans for life after graduation.

C. Financial Plan
 Use the template on the website to make a balanced budget for one year.
 Fill it out as if you were responsible for all expenses, even if your parents are paying the bills!
 Remember: it must fit your plans for work or school or travel or whatever!

 Career and Life Plan
(1000 words minimum)
Answers should be in “essay form” and complete sentences
 1. Career Goals: Short Term, Long term, Career options
 2. Education Goals: Post-secondary options (at least two), Where will you go for training/education? How long will it take? What do you need to do to get ready for this training/education? Are there any prerequisites?
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3. Travel or Work Plans: (complete this section only if you have plans to work or travel instead of post-secondary education after graduation)
4. Give your reasons for choosing this path (Education/Travel/Work):
 Employability Skills (that you already have developed)
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Interests (things you enjoy)
Aptitudes (things you are naturally good at)
Values (what’s important to you?)

Career and Life Plan
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 5. Experience: What have you done that relates to your chosen field?
Why have your activities been important to you? What have you learned? (Extra-curricular activities, Part-time jobs, Summer employment, Volunteer work, Community involvement)
 6. Challenges: What might get in the way of reaching your goals?
Financial barriers? Academic barriers? Personal barriers? How will you overcome these obstacles? Who has been your support in the past and who will you depend on in the next year or two?
 7. Budget Spreadsheet: complete this spreadsheet for the year following graduation (July to June). Even if you will be living at home and your parents are paying for all your expenses you still need to consider what the expenses will be as if you were living on your own and how YOU would pay for them.

 Interview questions are on the GT website to help you prepare
 Interviews will be with a Riverside staff member (January & May)
 You will discuss your school experiences and future plans

Graduation Transitions 12: Graduate Interviews
 When you reflect on your time in high school, of what do feel most proud or what has been the most meaningful experience?
Feel free to bring in something to show if you like.
 What would you like to have done differently?
 Who has been particularly supportive of you during your school days? Have you taken the time to express to this person how appreciative you are of the support they have provided for you?
 What advice would you pass onto a grade 9 student so they could have the best high school experience?
 What are you most looking forward to after graduation? What steps have you already taken towards making this happen?

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To receive your Dogwood, you must complete these 4 sections to earn your
RM and cross the stage!
Healthy Living
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Community Connections
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Career and Life
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Graduation Interview

 You have a Grad Transitions teacher.
 Visit them when you have questions
 All documents are accessible on the GT website
 Students will create an account and upload completed documents to the website.
 Grad Transitions teachers will monitor progress and meet with students if necessary.

 Grade 12s will complete Grad Transitions in the
same semester as their English or Comm 12 class.
 Semester two English 12 students are encouraged to start early.
 First semester English students
 Must have all written work completed by
Nov. 22nd . Will NOT be able to purchase
Winter Ball tickets unless all written work is completed. Tickets go on sale late November.

 Semester 2 English 12 students
 Must have all written work completed by
May 2nd, 2014. Student interviews will be held mid-May.
 All Grade 12’s cannot reserve their
Dinner/Dance table until they have earned their RM
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 Grad Transitions 12 really isn’t difficult but making those post-secondary decisions can be.
 Use the tabs on the Grad Transitions website to access valuable information from the Career
Centre and Counsellors.
 We are here to help and advise you no matter what your plans after high school are.
 Don’t leave it to the last minute! 