Student Services

A school that takes differences into account means:

  • Understanding the student’s needs
  • Offering the appropriate support and tools
  • Engaging students in the acquisition of tools and strategies that will follow them throughout their lives

Professionals

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Are at your disposal:

Substance Abuse Prevention Worker

The role of substance abuse prevention work is to provide prevention services in the school. They are required to facilitate various substance abuse prevention workshops in the classroom, develop and participate in awareness campaigns to meet the needs of students, provide early intervention and referrals, and support the school staff team in substance abuse prevention practices.

Our team:

Joele El-Hayek 

Mélodie Lapierre 

Speech-Language Pathologists

The speech-language pathology service at Vanguard School supports the academic success, socialization, and professional integration of students with language and learning difficulties. Through their expertise, the speech-language pathologist can equip the student and support the school team in terms of social communication skills and strategies, oral language (expression and comprehension), reading, writing, and mathematical problem-solving.

Elementary, French sector:

Elementary, English sector:

High School, French sector:

High School, English sector:

Sex Education Specialists

The sex education specialists offer workshops in the high school classroom based on the Ministry’s mandatory sexuality education content. In addition, they offer individual support services to meet the more specific needs of students. They are available at the school from Monday to Friday and can be reached by email if needed.

High School, French sector:

Karine Janelle 

High School English sector:

Audrey-Ann Gaudreault

Resource teachers

Resource services at Vanguard are complementary service that aims to help children and adolescents develop their full potential. The resource teacher works in collaboration with teachers, parents, and other professionals involved with the student. Resource periods can be used in a variety of contexts, such as developmental, remedial, and manipulative activities, to support students in their learning and development so that they can reach their full potential.

PhD in School/Applied Child Psychology

The psychology department addresses the learning and emotional needs of students in the school setting. Our goal is to promote a positive learning environment for students with specific learning disabilities and other neurodevelopmental disorders. We do this through individual and group interventions with students, consultations with teachers, workshops, and liaison work between families and community services.

Psychology department (High School only)

English sector:

Marina Ter-Stepanian

Psychoeducators

A psychoeducator is first and foremost a field person, present in the daily lives of students at school to promote their social integration and autonomy. To do this, psychoeducation can detect, evaluate, and support students who are experiencing adjustment difficulties that have a negative impact on their integration and learning at school.

Laurianne Marquis (Primary) – Psychoeducator

Amélie Ménard-Vendette (Secondary) – Readaptation Agent

Special Care Counsellors

The SCC works in collaboration with teachers and other professionals to intervene directly with students with disabilities or with learning difficulties, adjustment difficulties, or behavioural difficulties. Their role is important to help the student, but also to support the teacher in the execution of their various tasks or in maintaining a harmonious climate. For example, they are often called upon to develop, organize, and lead various educational activities to develop social, cognitive, psychomotor, communication, self-esteem, assertiveness, problem- and conflict-resolution skills, etc.

Elementary:

Judith Asselin 

Karolyne Normand 

High School, French sector:

Stéphane Allard

Camille Boisjoly-Grisé 

Léonie Lévesque 

Paul Conrad Petiny 

High School, English sector:

Joses Obas

Paul Conrad Petiny

Social Worker

The social worker usually helps identify and recognize students experiencing social, family, personal or academic difficulties, with a view to prevention and intervention. At Vanguard School, our social worker works mainly on creating and adapting educational content related to anxiety (Dé-stresse Progresse program in elementary school and Hors piste in high school).

Name of the person: Lydiane Dugas-Legault

Vanguard School provides transportation for more and more students from one year to the next. Supported by the Ministry of Education, students can sometimes be transported by their school board or (for many of them) by a transport set up by our school. For any information on this subject, do not hesitate to contact Student Life.

Please note that carpooling arrangements are also in place, and direct shuttles between our school and metro stations are also in place to facilitate transportation for everyone.

Transportation

Please see this document for transportation options offered by Vanguard School.

Contact Transport

Daycare Service

Summer school

Summer school participation – Eligibility Criteria

If your child fails one of the subjects listed below and the grade shown in the “Summary” column is between 50% and 59%, you will receive a communication between June 27 and July 2 informing you that your child must attend summer school.

If you do not receive any communication during that time, it means:

  • your child is not required to attend summer school,
  • or they do not meet the eligibility criteria outlined above.

Important to note:

  • Summer courses for grade 7 are offered as remedial (upgrading) courses only. No summative assessments will be given, and no official grade will be assigned.
  • For grades 8, 9, 10, and 11, summer courses include evaluations, and the results will count toward the final grade.

At the end of summer school, a certificate will be sent to inform you whether your child passed or failed the course(s) taken.

Students wishing to reinforce their learning or prepare for the upcoming school year may also register for summer school on a voluntary basis.

⚠️ Please note that summer courses will only be offered if there are enough registrations.

 

Summer Course Format

Vanguard School offers one format for summer courses: group classes (31.5 hours).

These classes will take place from July 7 to July 18Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at a cost of $750.

Students are required to bring their own snacks and a water bottle, as the cafeteria will be closed during this period.

Important: Group classes will only be offered if a sufficient number of students are enrolled.


Potential Group Courses Offered

  • French Second Language
  • Mathematics

Registration and Payment

Registration will take place through the Coba portal, in the “Activities” section, starting June 27 at 9:00 a.m.
Payment must also be made exclusively through this platform.


Contact Information

For more information, please contact us at: coursdete@vanguardquebec.qc.ca
Office hours are Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., except on July 1 (holiday).

Ministry retakes

In the event that a student fails a MEQ single subject exam, we offer the possibility to attend a preparatory course aimed at retaking the exam. Concerned students will be contacted during the week of July 7, once the results are published by the MEQ.


Course Format

Vanguard School offers a single format: group courses (24 hours). These courses will be offered at a cost of $600 (this also includes the cost of retaking the exam), within the two weeks prior to the retake exam date (SCHEDULE HERE). The exact schedule for each course will be announced no later than July 11.

If a student is retaking the exam only without attending the course, the cost is $120 per exam.

Important: Group courses will be offered only if there is sufficient student enrollment.


Potential Courses Offered

  • Mathematics – Grade 10
  • History – Grade 10
  • Sciences ST (Science and Technology) – Grade 10
  • French Second Language – Grade 11
  • English Language Arts – Grade 11

Registration and Payment

Registration will be done via the school portal (Coba), in the “Activities” section, starting July 7 at 9:00 a.m.
Payment must also be made exclusively through this platform.


Contact Information

For more information, you can contact us at: coursdete@vanguardquebec.qc.ca.
Please note that office hours are Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., except on July 1.

Uniform

Our uniforms are available according to your requests, all year long.

Catering service and cafeteria

Elementary catering

Elementary school students do not have access to the high school cafeteria directly, but they do have access to catering for families who want it.

Here are the menus for the 2024-2025 school year:

Menu for September to January

Menu for February to May

To order the catering service online, here is the information:

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If you have any questions, please contact us

 

High School Cafeteria

Included here are the menus as well as the price list:

Menu for 2024-2025 (September to January)

Menu for 2024-2025 (February to May)

Price list

You can add credit to your account online at the following link:

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If you have any questions, please contact us.

To open an account

Information needed to open an account with the cafeteria.

Open an account

Necessary information to open an account with the cafeteria.

Interval: a school company

Interval is a school company made up of students, staff, and professional teachers specializing in food service for the entire Vanguard School. For the past 26 years, our priority has been to guide students through courses, training, and internships that orient them toward the job market.

See specific work-oriented programs

Tutoring Services

Your child will be accompanied by a tutor (teacher or resource teacher) who has training or experience working with students with learning difficulties. This is a tutoring service that allows students to review certain concepts, learn to work with their strengths and develop effective strategies specific to their learning style.

Rates

Private lessons :

116$/1 hour

Semi-private courses

75$/1 hour

To make a tutoring request for your child, please complete the relevant information in the following link: FORM

For any other question, you can reach us at the email address tutorat@vanguardquebec.qc.ca.

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