How Personalized Guidance at SMLS Builds Success Beyond the Classroom

In thinking about your daughter’s educational journey, it’s natural to focus on grades, extracurriculars, and university preparation. As parents are beginning to think of the children’s middle and high school years earlier and earlier, we wanted to highlight for you an additional factor that SMLS adds to the equation - one that could have a lasting impact on your daughter’s success and happiness beyond the classroom.

That factor is our commitment to personalization. 

SMLS’s unique, individualized university guidance counselling, which begins in grade 8, combined with our unique Advisor program, and teachers who know these girls well (often having had interactions with them since Junior Kindergarten), SMLS mentorship is rare. 

Our commitment to personalization helps your daughter explore her interests, recognize her strengths, and make bold, intentional choices about her future.

In her 2024 graduation address, Head Prefect Sophia Tice shared a powerful moment from her own high school experience at SMLS — a simple conversation she had with Dr. Pollock, her Grade 10 Career Studies teacher:

Dr. Pollock never gave Sophia the answers. Instead, because he knew her so well, he helped refine her vision and find a pragmatic way of weaving it into a path forward. (If you’re curious, Sophia is now in her first year at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.)

Later this week, the Senior School course calendar will arrive in the inboxes of our Middle and Senior School families, marking an ideal moment to consider what having SMLS in your daughter’s corner will mean for her in the years ahead. Our Senior School programming offers so much opportunity for your daughter in the way of personalization and regular touch-points for mapping out her journey beyond high school. 

Perhaps you’d like to learn more about our Senior School and the way we personalize our programming for each student. Contact us at inquiry@smls.on.ca to schedule a tour or join us at our Winter 2025 Open House and discover the growth opportunities that await your family.