Odyssey Heights School for Girls is pleased to announce our new location for 2019-2020 inside Alliance-Français 24 Spadina Road. Located just north of Bloor between the two entrances to Spadina Station, our new location makes commuting to Odyssey Heights more accessible for more families. As Alliance-Français is a hub of French culture and language in Toronto, our students will be exposed every week to an environment that encourages them to improve their French language skills and to learn about French culture.
Odyssey Heights is Now a School Within a School
As of September, Odyssey Heights will be in a building designed for learning, and for fostering the arts, bilingualism, and French culture. In addition to classrooms, there's the 147 seat Spadina Theatre with a movie screen, lighting and sound equipment, an art gallery, and the only Francophone bookshop in the GTA.
Convenient, and Safe TTC Connections
With it's location on the west side of Spadina Road between the north entrance and the south entrance to Spadina Station - the only TTC station on both the Bloor and Yonge/University/Spadina subway lines, and a streetcar line - Odyssey Heights students and their families can easily take the TTC.
With automatic stations entrances on the west side of Spadina for both subway lines means that students don't have to cross Spadina, or Bloor Street to get to school.
Spadina Station is a 15-35 minute TTC trip from most parts of Toronto, and a 45-50 minute trip from Vaughn.
Excellent Parking &
Safe School Drop-off/Pick-up
Parents who prefer to drive for school drop-off & pickup, Alliance-Français location on the corner of Spadina Road and the quieter residential Lowther Avenue, can safely stop on Lowther Avenue. There's also a GreenP parking lot (#231) across the street at 19 Spadina Avenue. GreenP lot 231 is mobile enabled allowing parents to top up their parking without having to go back to their cars.
Read more about Alliance-Français from the Alliance-Français Toronto website:
https://www.alliance-francaise.ca/en/about-us
Located in the brand new extension, classrooms are bright with floor to ceiling windows, smart boards, screens, and built in projectors. The addition to the Pierre Léon Gallery is a wonderful space showcasing French visual arts in Toronto. For special events the student council or Odyssey Heights staff can arrange to book the 147 seat Spadina Theatre. With the potential Film Making POGO week in the fall Odyssey Heights students will have the perfect place to showcase their work.
Created by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the theatre of Alliance française de Toronto is a 147-seat auditorium with a stage dimension of 9m x 5.4m and professionally equipped with a complete sound, lighting and cinema system. The Theatre is suitable for live performances, plays, concerts, operas, seminars and screening. Other facilities include a projection screen (16’x 9’), two changing rooms and an intercommunication system.
All full-time students participate in three hours a week of DELF Junior French lessons taught by experienced Alliance-Français teachers. The curriculum is from the French Ministry of Education. Students who have good attendance, and do a bit of extra work should be able to write one of the four levels of the DELF Junior each year, and complete the full diploma in 4 or 5 years.
DELF Junior is the second level in the DELF/DALF series of certificates awarded by the French Ministry of Education for proficiency in French as a Foreign (or Second) Language.
It can only be taken by children of secondary-school age (12 and above). The diploma awarded is identical to the standard DELF diploma.
Alliance Française de Toronto is the only exam centre for the DELF Junior. ...
DELF Junior is composed of four individual diplomas corresponding to the initial levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL).
Examinations are independent, and candidates can register for the examination of their choice. Each examination evaluates the four communication skills: written comprehension, oral comprehension, written production, oral production.
The junior version of DELF has the same basic structure as the standard DELF. Only exam topics differ and take the interests of the target age group into account.
An average grade of 50 out of 100 points for each part of the exam is required to obtain the DELF A1, A2, B1, B2 diplomas.
