Welcome to école Hudson!

Hudson is a dual track French Immersion school. This means that it has both a k-7 English stream and a Early (1-7) French Immersion stream within the school.
At Hudson, the last year you can apply to start in Grade 1 is the 2020/2021 school year (there will be no Kindergarten class for the the 2020/2021 school year).
For information on how to apply for French Immersion, please check out the VSB website.

Grade 1 French Immersion Entry:

If you do not get into French Immersion for Kindergarten, but would still like to be part of the program, you can re-apply during the kindergarten year for your child to join the program in Grade 1.
The number of spaces that come available for Grade 1 French Immersion fluctuates each year, usually it is in the range of ‘a handful’. Some years that is a bigger handful, other years a very small handful.

Hudson is a school at capacity, the staff work very hard to try to fit all in-catchment students in to the school (the school is currently closed to out of catchment students for both English and French streams). Most classes in the school are split grade classes, which helps staff efficiently fit students into the school, but also has other benefits. Due to fluctuations of the population throughout the summer staff typically cannot confirm whether any child will have space in the Grade 1 French program until the first week of September. We appreciate that this involves a lot of waiting on the part of the family. Please bear with the school, they work very hard to fit as many kids in as they can. If you do not get a space at the beginning of September, you remain on the list. You may still receive that phone call in the weeks or months following throughout the Grade 1 year.

If Early French Immersion does not work out for you, remember, there is also the Late French Immersion Program for children in grades 6-7. Our local program is located at General Gordon Elementary, more information can be found on the VSB website.
For more information on the French Immersion Program in general, please check out Canadian Parents for French website.