Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM)

What is SHSM?

The Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program is a ministry-approved specialized program that allows students to focus their learning on a specific economic sector while meeting the requirements to graduate from secondary school. It also assists in their transition after graduation to apprenticeship training, college, university or the workplace. Each Specialist High Skills Major is a bundle of 8 to 10 courses within a selected field/sector completed in grades 11 and 12. Students choosing a SHSM program learn on the job with employers as well as in school, earning valuable industry certification and training related to their chosen sector.

What courses are offered here at Aldershot?

We offer four Specialist High Skills Major programs:

• The Health and Wellness: Focus on Fitness - CANFIT Program

  • • Contact Teacher Ms. Greenslade - greensladec@hdsb.ca

    • Click on the link below to learn more about this program

• The Royal Botanical Gardens ECO Studies program

  • • Contact Teacher Mr. Blair - blairj@hdsb.ca

    • Click on the link below to learn more about this program

• The Multimedia SHSM program

  • • Contact Teacher Mr. Hutton - huttonw@hdsb.ca

    • Click on the link below to learn more about this program

• The Transportation Power SHSM

  • Contact Teacher: Mr. Paul Uzarowski - uzarowskip@hdsb.ca

  • Click on the link below to learn more about this program