For students currently in Grade 8:

• Thursday, October 17, 2024: Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Information Evening 

• Friday, October 25, 2024: ALP Application opens on HDSB website

• Wednesday, November 21, 2024: Gr 8 Information Night

• Tuesday, November 26, 2024: OYAP, SHSM, Pathways Information Night

• Late November/Early December 2024: Guidance Counsellors visit Gr 8  classes to deliver Course Selection information

• Monday, December 2, 2024: ALP Applications due via HDSB website

• December 2024: Course selection worksheets due to homeroom grade 8 teachers

• Friday, January 10, 2025: Out of Area Transfer Request Forms for non-GDHS bound students due to home high school (ie: not GDHS) for students who wish to attend GDHS

• January 2025: New Gr 8 registration packages (for students not in Gr 8 classes that are in school boundaries for GDHS) due to GDHS Guidance Office to secure course choices

• Early January 2025: Grade 8s in classes bound for GDHS input course choices into www.myblueprint.ca/halton

• Spring 2025: GDHS student leaders host Transitioning to High School Orientation at GDHS