Birch Cliff Public School is home to an Early French Immersion program. In the 2024-2025 school year, we are home to a French Immersion Program from SK - Grade 8. The application process for September 2025 has now closed for the year.
TDSB students who are currently in Grade 3 have the opportunity to apply for the Middle Immersion Program starting in Grade 4 for September 2025. In Middle Immersion, all class activities in Grades 4 and 5 are conducted in French although some specialist subjects (like Health and Physical Education) may be taught in English. In Grades 6 to 8, all subjects will be taught in French with the exception of English Language and Science. Please note that Birch Cliff does not offer the Middle Immersion Program and students accepting the offer will be attending the program at another school.
Important Dates for the Middle Immersion Application Process:
Application process opens: January 6, 2025
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2025
FAQs for the Middle Immersion Program can be found HERE
- Offers of placement will be ongoing throughout the weeks and months following the close of the application period. Please check your email regularly, including junk mail folders, and follow all instructions. You must take action to reserve a spot by the deadline.
- While every effort will be made to place students in the school identified as their area French Immersion school, this is not always possible. In cases where the number of applications in a given area is greater than the number of allotted program spaces in the school, students may be redirected to schools with available program space.
- Placements are made based on the child's primary home address of record prior to the application deadline. If the address changes between the application deadline and the fall of the entry year, there is no guarantee of placement in the new area.
- Late applicants will be held on a local school waitlist and considered subject to available space until the end of September of the entry year.