Английская Википедия:Highland Secondary School (Dundas, Ontario)
Highland Secondary School was a high school in Dundas, Ontario that opened in 1966. The school was a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, in Ward 13. Highland was originally conceived to be 25% Academic and 75% Vocational, but evolved into a fully comprehensive secondary school. Only 60% of Highland Secondary School students who graduated pursued post-secondary education, making Highland one of the lowest in the board. Highland Secondary was renamed Dundas Valley Secondary in June 2014, when nearby Parkside Secondary closed.[1]
Technological programs
Highland Secondary School offered five specialized technological programs that gave interested students training in a specific field of interest. The program fields were: Transportation, Construction, Precision Machining, Electronic Design, Communication – specialties in cabinet making, pneumatics, aviation.
Program highlights
Highland Secondary School took part in the following programs:
- Variety of courses including: LDCC, Applied, Academic, Open, college, Workplace, university
- Award-winning arts program: Music, Art, Drama
- Yearbook – 2 credit course
- Student Success team of teachers to guide, mentor, and track all students
- Individual timetabling for students considered to be at risk
- Study Hall at lunch for Grade 9 and 10s
- In-class OSSLT preparation
- S.T.E.P. (Summer Transitions program for Grade 8 – 9)
- Caring Adult program
Clubs and activities
Highland Secondary School offered the following clubs and activities:
- Jr. Concert Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Sr. Jazz Band
- Badminton
- Curling
- Basketball
- Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Teams
- Track and Field
- Baseball
- Golf
- Cross-Country
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Touch Football
- Volleyball
- Football (male)
- Waterpolo
- Hockey
- Indoor Track
- Councils (Student, Grad, Music, Visual Arts, Boys’ Athletics, Girls’ Athletics)
- HAVEN (social justice) / WAC (World Awareness)
- Highland Writers' Guild / Drama Student Federation
- Leadership Camp / DECA
- Feel the Power, Feel the Fit (Girls’ Fitness)
- Library / Chess / Model Building / Philosophy/ Sound & Light / Anime
- Knitting
- Cancer Awareness
- Friends of Diversity
- Dance Team
- GLOW
- Roseberry's Board Games Club
See also
References
- Английская Википедия
- High schools in Hamilton, Ontario
- Educational institutions established in 1966
- Educational institutions disestablished in 2014
- 1966 establishments in Ontario
- 2014 disestablishments in Ontario
- Dundas, Ontario
- Former schools in Ontario
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