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"All the foundations for our sons excellent results were laid at your school.We appreciate your dedication,personal touch and all the help you gave our children.They are what they are because of your support and the very special atmosphere at Mac."

Our Standards

Inspection and Accreditation

MacLachlan College is registered with and inspected by the Ministry of Education.

In addition, MacLachlan is inspected and fully accredited by Standards in Education And Excellence, (SEAL). SEAL is the only internationally recognized school accreditation agency in Canada. A SEAL accredited school is rigorously reviewed on an on-going basis to ensure that it meets the highest standard of academic programming and excellence. As a member school, MacLachlan must demonstrate and be committed to an on-going process of improvement in the pursuit of excellence. A SEAL accreditation provides parents and students with quality assurance based upon these rigorously applied standards. MacLachlan College is one of only four schools in the Oakville, Burlington, Mississauga and Brampton areas that are members of SEAL.

MacLachlan College has been accepted as a member of CIS, the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario. CIS is an association of Ontario's finest independent schools and provides a collegial forum for the promotion of excellence among its member schools.

MacLachlan College has an independent Board of Governors which acts at arm's length and is responsible to its constituents for overseeing the accountability of the school. It acts as a forum for 'sober, second thought'.

Accountability

An essential component of our curriculum is the measurement and evaluation of its success and the determination of how it contributes to student achievement. We demand of ourselves a high degree of accountability to parents and students. We expect our teachers to share in this commitment. Parents, by choosing to place their child's education in our care, do so with the expectation that we will honour this trust.

Our standardized testing routines include the Canadian Achievement Test which are administered to our students in grade 3 and 6 and are externally marked. In Language Arts and Mathematics our students consistently score in the 80th and 90th national percentile. Formal examinations commence in Grade 7. Examination procedures undergo thorough review by our Director of Academic Studies and externally through the Ministry of Education. On-going informal and criterion-reference tests are embedded at all levels to provide a comprehensive profile of each student.

Discipline

MacLachlan does not subscribe to autocratic ideals in its dealings with young persons. We believe that effective discipline is best rendered through the maintenance of a positive and encouraging atmosphere-an environment which is democratic in that it implies that personal freedom must exist within a social order developed through mutual respect. These are the values we hold and seek to impart to our students. The MacLachlan Code of Behaviour is explicit in its detailing of what we expect of our students in behaviour and appearance. We are firm in its implementation.

We expect our teachers to operate their classrooms with proper respect and authority and it is their responsibility to inculcate respectful and productive attitudes. The teacher is the first and primary contact for any disciplinary action that is required. Maintaining a consistent approach towards student behaviour and ensuring that predictable and known consequences are enforced are the shared responsibilities of all teachers. The Head of School is the final arbiter of MacLachlan's disciplinary procedures and Code of Behaviour.