Father Lacombe High School is a Catholic senior high school

High school

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 in Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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, named after Father Albert Lacombe

Albert Lacombe

Albert Lacombe , commonly known in Alberta simply as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada...

. It has classes for grades 10 through 12. Lacombe is located in the S.E. community of Radisson Heights.

Special programs

The school provides French

French language

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, Spanish

Spanish language

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, Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

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 and Tagalog

Tagalog language

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 (included in the curriculum in the 2009/2010 year) as a second language instruction. Lacombe is one of a small number of Calgary high schools to offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme

IB Diploma Programme

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 in English, French, and Spanish.

Athletics

Father Lacombe participates in many sports sanctioned by the Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association and the Alberta Schools Athletic Association

Alberta Schools Athletic Association

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, including Football, Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country Running, and Volleyball. The teams support both male and female, as well as the senior and junior teams.

Simon's Legacy

Simon's Legacy (originally Simon's Project) was an ongoing fundraiser started by Simon Atem. He started it, hoping to earn enough money in order to build a school in his homeland Sudan. Between coffee houses and other fund raising ideas, Simon was able to raise an accumulative amount of roughly $40,000 over two years.

Each year, Father Lacombe hosts a Run/Walk fundraiser for Simon's Legacy, usually held near the last months of the school year

External links

• Father Lacombe High School official site
• Simon's Story