Curriculum

 
Elementary Education

Approximately 1.4 million students attend Ontario’s 4,000 publicly funded elementary schools. The focus in these early years is to build a foundation in key areas that will help unlock each student’s potential.

Strong literacy and numeracy skills are the critical foundation for all other academic achievement and for a lifetime of success. The government’s goal is to have 75 per cent of students achieving the provincial standard (equivalent to a B grade) in reading, writing and mathematics.

Curriculum Documents

The Arts, Grades 1-8, 2009 (revised)

This document replaces The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: The Arts, 1998. Beginning in September 2009, all arts programs for Grades 1 to 8 will be based on the expectations outlined in this document.

The Arts, Grades 1-8, 1998
French As A Second Language
Health and Physical Education, Grades 1-8, Interim Edition, 2010 (revised)
Health and Physical Education, Grades 1-8, 1998
Language, Grades 1-8, 2006 (revised)
Mathematics, Grades 1-8, 2005 (revised)
Native Languages, Grades 1-8, 2001
Science and Technology, Grades 1-8, 2007

The updated electronic version of The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Science and Technology, 2007 includes the glossary, omitted from the previously posted version. Please note that this update also includes a revision in the Achievement Chart category “Thinking and Investigation” and reflects factual corrections in some expectations. This updated electronic version is the same as the published document.

Science and Technology, Grades 1-8, 1998
Social Studies, Grades 1-6; History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8, 2004 (revised)