Author: Conley, Glen

FLEX TIME

Yours to own...

Benefits of Flex:
Seek 1 to 1 assistance from teachers
Collaborate with classmates
Practice / rehearse presentations
Schedule appointments with counsellors, youth workers and administration
Schedule club meetings
Get settled and prepared for the day ahead
Catch up on lessons missed due to absence
Study for tests and quizzes
Occasional grade or school wide events might be scheduled during Flex time this year

Flex time is instructional time that runs 4 days a week from 8:30 - 8:57 (Tues.—Fri.)
High schools are busy places and students are increasingly overscheduled in their school and personal time. Finding time in a day to meet and collaborate with various teachers and peers outside of class, has traditionally fallen into the cracks of the day.
Many of us can identify with the uneasy feeling of stopping someone in the hallway at lunch to ask a few final review questions before the test; waiting around after school only to find out the teacher is on the field coaching ; or scheduling group work on evenings and weekends only to realize not everyone can meet at the same time.
Flex is your time to own your learning while at school, by engaging in whatever it is you feel is the best use of your time that day. Teachers and staff are available during this period for you to seek out.
While PMSS students have expressed the benefits of Flex since it was introduced a few years back, we feel for the year ahead it is especially important considering the reduction of learning and teaching time due to COVID scheduling last year.
So how does it work? Starting Tuesday, September 14th and onwards, you select where the best use of your time is. For this first semester, due to COVID protocols, we ask you focus on your semester one and full year classrooms and teachers only.

Flex Time vs Home Room

Flex time and Home Room are not the same thing. To start the year we scheduled Home Room during Flex. This largely had to do with start up needs and COVID protocols (ex. distribution of school forms, assistance with schedules, account information.
Future Home Rooms, when deemed necessary, will occasionally be scheduled and most likely during Flex.
In past years, we sometimes scheduled Home Room towards the end of the day but this has become less and less necessary as we no longer distribute paper copies of schedules and report cards (accessible on MyEd portals)