IB Information Evening
Each year in October, we are happy to meet interested students and parents at our annual IB Information Evening. If you would like to learn more about the IB Programme and the application process for the IB in York Region, please attend this session. We invite students, parents and guardians who live within Bayview's IB boundaries to join us to learn more about our school and the IB Programme. It is not necessary to register or reserve space in order to attend. We look forward to meeting you! Information for next year's session will be posted by the end of June.
Application Requirements to Bayview's IB Programme:
- You live in York Region at the time of application (students apply centrally to their area IB School) YRDSB School Locator
- You are a student currently in Grade 8
- Complete the online registration process
- The application window is currently closed
- A reference from your current homeroom teacher: you will need to provide an email address at the time of application and after the registration window closes, the IB coordinator will contact the teacher to request the reference.
- Complete the admissions assessment in November.
- Students must provide a COPY of the Grade 7 final report card and your Grade 8 progress report (These are submitted on the assessment day).
Submissions will be assessed and candidates selected by the IB coordinators and school administration. Notification will occur by the end of January.
Registration
The York Region District School Board IB Programme application is completed centrally for all York Region IB Schools. The central application is for offerings at Alexander Mackenzie High School, Bayview Secondary School, Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School, Maple High School and Milliken Mills High School.
During the application process, the YRDSB IB School serving your home address will be identified.
Regrettably, we are not able to consider applicants who live outside of Bayview's IB boundaries.
The Admissions Assessment
Students must complete an Admissions Assessment to be considered for placement.
For the 2019-2020 admissions assement students will participate in a collaborative task inspired by IB assessments. It is designed to target cross-curricular critical thinking and problem solving skills. It is our goal that this activity will allow students to demonstrate learning skills and attributes of the IB Learner Profile. (This part of the assessment is not evaluated).
Based on the experience of the collaborative task, students will be asked to respond to a reflective prompt. The admissions assessment is based on an evaluation of the content of the written response.
We do not recommend any special preparation or study for the assessment.