Exam Schedule

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JANUARY 2026 FINAL EVALUATION BLOCK

The HDSB school year calendar shows there are 5 designated Exam Days at the end of each semester. The Halton District School Board’s 2025-2026 Ministry approved school year calendar’s semester 1 exams days are from Thursday, January 22 to Wednesday, January 28, 2026. This is referred to as our “Final Evaluation Block”, and students will be completing components of the final 30% of a course’s grade on each of these days. The final 30% takes a variety of formats and could include a performance, written assignment, formal exam, presentation, etc., each of which are referred to as “Final Evaluations”. 

As per Growing Success (page 41), “Final Evaluations will be based on evidence from one or a combination  of the following: an examination, a performance task, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation must allow the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.”

Here are some details in reference to the the Final Evaluation Block:

• Final evaluations are to be written on the assigned date, except in the case of illness and/or extenuating circumstances. As soon as you become aware of a circumstance that will conflict with any final evaluation date, please have your student complete this Final Evaluation Conflict Request form.

• All final evaluations begin at 9:00 a.m. and are scheduled to be written in the regular classroom unless a change in location is announced by the teacher. 

• Students are to exit the building immediately after they complete their final evaluation each day. 

• This is the GWSS Final Evaluation Block January - you will see the complete final evaluation schedule (subject to change before January 22). 

• The library will be closed during the final evaluation block and the cafeteria will be closed from January 22 - January 30  and will reopen on Monday, February 2. 

• The final evaluation schedule follows the format of one evaluation per day based on a Week A schedule

If the Board makes a decision to close all schools for any reason, all evaluations will be cancelled for that day and shifted to the final evaluation make-up day - Wednesday, January 28, 2026. (i.e. If schools were closed on Thursday January 22, Thursday's Period 1 evaluations would be cancelled and then written on the evaluation make-up day which is Wednesday, January 28).

Cancellation of Transportation - all exams will still be written that day (GWS has no buses).

Final Evaluation Review Day: Thursday, January 29, 2026

Students will be provided an opportunity to review their work on the Final Evaluations and receive feedback on their evidence of learning. This date will involve a different timetable where attendance is taken and students will meet with their teachers for a short review period. 

The Final Evaluation Review Day Schedule as follows: