D. Roy Kennedy Public School
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D. Roy Kennedy is a public elementary and middle school in the Bay Ward
of Ottawa
, Ontario
, Canada
, offering classes from kindergarten
to grade 8. It is located at the corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Lenester Avenue in Ottawa's Glabar Park
neighbourhood.
The school is named after D. Roy Kennedy, who would in later years become a prominent Kiwanian and Ottawa educator.
The school is notable for its music program, and its emphasis on French immersion
. It has a notable emphasis as well on academics, having produced the "best speller in Canada", the youngest life master in Bridge, and many other academic programmes.
D. Roy Kennedy School feeds Woodroffe High School.
Bay Ward
Bay Ward is a municipal ward in Ottawa, Canada. It covers much of the western portion of the old city of Ottawa as well as some portions of what was once Nepean. The ward runs from Sherbourne and Maitland in the east to March Road in the west. The southern border in the Queensway while the northern...
of Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
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, offering classes from kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
to grade 8. It is located at the corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Lenester Avenue in Ottawa's Glabar Park
Glabar Park
Glabar Park is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's west end. It is bounded on the west by Woodroffe Avenue, north by Carling Avenue, south by The Queensway and on the east by McKellar Heights. Its population is about 1,700....
neighbourhood.
The school is named after D. Roy Kennedy, who would in later years become a prominent Kiwanian and Ottawa educator.
The school is notable for its music program, and its emphasis on French immersion
French immersion
French immersion is a form of bilingual education in which a child who does not speak French as his or her first language receives instruction in school in French...
. It has a notable emphasis as well on academics, having produced the "best speller in Canada", the youngest life master in Bridge, and many other academic programmes.
D. Roy Kennedy School feeds Woodroffe High School.