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Senior School is where students begin making meaningful decisions about what comes next. In Grades 10 to 12, they take on greater challenge, more independence, and increasing choice — all within a close-knit community that knows them well and supports them fully.
Through rigorous academics, strong relationships, and opportunities to lead, create, compete, and contribute, students begin to better understand who they are, what matters to them, and the paths they may want to pursue.
Students shape their own program, choosing either the full IB Diploma or a combination of IB courses with Alberta requirements. With guidance from teachers and advisors, they build a path that reflects their interests, strengths, and sense of purpose.
Standards are high, support is steady. Teachers and learning strategists stay close through challenging material and busy seasons, helping students build confidence to trust themselves and handle what comes next.
Post-secondary planning runs through all three Senior years. Counsellors and a global STS alumni network help students explore programs in Canada and abroad so their next step feels well matched, supported, and truly their own.
Earlier years build skills, courage, and foundations. Senior years give students new ways to put those lessons into action. Projects, complex labs, lead role performances, trips, and co-curricular opportunities call for focus and follow-through, but also bring moments of pride, laughter, and close friendship.
Across Grades 10 to 12, IB and Alberta courses ask students to take the wheel: setting plans, using feedback, teaming up with classmates, and adjusting as expectations grow. With support close by and friends beside them, they begin to see what they care about, how they work best, and what a purposeful life might look like for them.
Students choose between the full IB Diploma Programme and a combination of IB and Alberta courses, then work with teachers and advisors to build a timetable that aligns with their interests, strengths, and goals. Advanced sciences, humanities, mathematics, languages, and electives let them explore subjects in real depth.
Senior students take on visible roles as ambassadors, leaders, team captains, peer mentors, and event organizers. They help welcome younger grades, support activities, and model what it looks like to participate fully in school life, practicing the kind of leadership they can carry into the future.
International trips, service experiences, outdoor education, and globally focused coursework invite students to step into new environments. They travel, meet people from different cultures, and engage with real issues, then return with broader perspectives and a clearer sense of how they might contribute in the world.
Senior students have a real influence on campus culture. Many clubs and initiatives are student-led, from interest-based groups to service projects and affinity spaces. Planning meetings, running events, and working with staff advisors give them practical experience turning ideas into action with others.
High-level arts and athletics programs give students chances to commit, perform, and compete. Rehearsals, practices, productions, and games build discipline, teamwork, and the confidence that comes from showing up for a cast, an ensemble, or a team.
Busy years come with real pressures. Timetables, advisory, counselling, and wellness programming all reinforce healthy habits around rest, boundaries, and balance, so students can pursue ambitious goals while learning how to look after themselves.
By the end of Senior School, students are stepping forward within a connected community. Years of shared classes, trips, rehearsals, experiences, games, and conversations leave them with a deep sense of being known and of having a place where they will always be welcomed back.
Graduation doesn’t break those bonds. Students join a broader alumni community spanning programs, professions, and countries. They leave with plans and real possibilities, but also with mentors and friends who genuinely understand their story. That ongoing network, combined with a strong sense of self, helps them approach post-secondary and early adulthood with confidence, curiosity, and the feeling that they never travel entirely alone.
A closer look at learning and life from Grades 10 to 12.
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