Grade 8 Students

Grade 8 students with timetable errors must go to Student Services on opening day to see their counsellor.

Counsellors will be seeing ONLY grade 8 students on opening day.  Corrections will be made if grade 8 students are

• missing a course, OR
• have been scheduled into the wrong grade level of a course OR
• have a duplicate course on their schedule.

It is best to visit early in the day (before your Block 1 orientation class) to give counsellors the most time to make corrections for Wednesday.

Grade 9-12 Students

Complete the online form to request a course correction.  Counsellors will not begin processing requests or seeing grade 9-12 students until all Grade 8 corrections have been completed.

Grade 9-12 students must follow the Course Correction process outlined below:

The school will not accommodate course changes for the following reasons:

• wanting a class in a different timetable block/period

• wanting to take a course with a different teacher

• wanting to be in a different block/course to be with different people (e.g. friends)

Counsellors will work with students about their schedule according to this priority:

1. 1. your timetable is incomplete (fewer than 8 courses; including authorized spare blocks; may result from being assigned two blocks of the same 1-block course);
   2. you did not complete or failed a Summer School or Online course so are missing a course (e.g. scheduled into the wrong grade level of a course or missing a graduation requirement),
   3. you are MISSING graduation/university admission requirements
   4. you did not receive your requested/alternate elective course (this may occur when the original course caused a timetable conflict or the original course has been cancelled) or have a new elective request
      1. Note: If you believe you should be in an Honours/Enriched/AP class that you requested last spring, contact Ms. Mihic (dragana.mihic@burnabyschools.ca) BEFORE September 13th.

The online form must be approved by your parent/guardian. Unverified forms will not be considered. 

The deadline for course request changes/corrections is 3pm, Friday, September 15th. The later your request is made, the fewer options counsellors may have to address your request.

NOTE: Correcting errors in your timetable may result in other block/teacher/course changes to your schedule as well. We will make every effort to disrupt your schedule as little as possible, but some changes are unavoidable.  Once a change is made, we cannot change your schedule back. 

All timetable changes MUST be processed by your counsellor.  Please do not approach course teachers with requests and inquiries.