Lakeshore Collegiate Institute
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Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (originally built and operated as New Toronto Secondary School ) beginning in 1950, is a high school
located in New Toronto that serves the New Toronto
, Long Branch
, and Mimico
working class neighbourhoods (formerly the independent 'Lakeshore Municipalities' after which the school is named) in Toronto's west end community of Etobicoke. It is situated at the intersection of Kipling Avenue
and Birmingham Street. It is in Ward 3 of the Toronto District School Board
.
New Toronto Secondary School was originally established to serve the Town of New Toronto with its emphasis on education in the technical trades, sciences, and mathematics. During the 1980s enrollment at Etobicoke Public schools plummeted as many catholic immigrants who arrived in the area transferred their children to the separate school system when full separate funding was started, leading to the closure of many schools including Kingsmill Collegiate Institute, Alderwood Collegiate Institute, and Mimico High School whose students were combined into the New Toronto High School (renamed Lakeshore). Situated in the centre of southern Etobicoke the school suffered from the economic decline in the Lakeshore communities (former municipalities) of Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch.
Due mostly to its staff, Lakeshore Collegiate boasts several leading programs in the Toronto District School Board
, including that of the Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, English and recently Media departments.
In late 2009 LCI got access to the Master Card Center of Hockey Excellence, a $34-million four-pad arena complex adjacent to the school.
In 2009, LCI's Varsity girls soccer team won the TDSAA "AA" West Championship and qualified for OFSAA (Kenora). Also, earlier that year, the Boy's Varsity hockey team won the TDSAA "AA" Championships and qualified for OFSAA (Peterborough) as well.
's Dracula
, William Shakespeare
's The Taming of the Shrew
, Euripides
' The Bacchae
, Ann-Marie MacDonald
's Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Charles Dickens
's Oliver Twist
, Edmond Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac
, and John Kirkpatrick
's Vacancy in Paradise. Drama at LCI offers other extracurricular opportunities, such as the Play By the Lake/Sears Drama Festival, where student directed, student acted, and often student written plays are performed, as well as the Young Company, which offers Grade 9 and 10 students the chance to perform and star in a major play before they can be apart of the Mainstage Production. As of March 9, 2007, Lakeshore has won the Best Host School Award for its district.
One such example of this spirit has taken the form of fundraisers for the local community health centre, LAMP. Another community-oriented initiative, the Clean-Up-the-Parkathon (CUTPAT), involves the cleaning of local parks and recreational spaces by the student body.
Refusing to stop at local involvement, recent efforts within the school have resulted in programs such as the TEEN project, which has taken on two sponsor children and supports their endeavours.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in New Toronto that serves the New Toronto
New Toronto
The historic Town of New Toronto is a neighbourhood in the south-west end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-centre of the former Township of Etobicoke and was an independent municipality from 1913 to 1967, one of the former 'Lakeshore Municipalities'...
, Long Branch
Long Branch, Toronto
The former Village of Long Branch is a neighbourhood in the south-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-west corner of the former Township of Etobicoke and was a partially-independent municipality from 1930-1967...
, and Mimico
Mimico
The historic Town of Mimico is a neighbourhood in the south-western part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-east corner of the former Township of Etobicoke, and was an independent municipality from 1911 to 1967....
working class neighbourhoods (formerly the independent 'Lakeshore Municipalities' after which the school is named) in Toronto's west end community of Etobicoke. It is situated at the intersection of Kipling Avenue
Kipling Avenue
Kipling Avenue, originally named Mimico Avenue, is a street in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, 6 concessions from Yonge Street, and is a major north–south arterial road that also extends beyond Toronto, into the Regional Municipality of York.The...
and Birmingham Street. It is in Ward 3 of the Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board, also known by the acronym TDSB, is the English-language public school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
.
New Toronto Secondary School was originally established to serve the Town of New Toronto with its emphasis on education in the technical trades, sciences, and mathematics. During the 1980s enrollment at Etobicoke Public schools plummeted as many catholic immigrants who arrived in the area transferred their children to the separate school system when full separate funding was started, leading to the closure of many schools including Kingsmill Collegiate Institute, Alderwood Collegiate Institute, and Mimico High School whose students were combined into the New Toronto High School (renamed Lakeshore). Situated in the centre of southern Etobicoke the school suffered from the economic decline in the Lakeshore communities (former municipalities) of Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch.
Due mostly to its staff, Lakeshore Collegiate boasts several leading programs in the Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board, also known by the acronym TDSB, is the English-language public school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
, including that of the Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, English and recently Media departments.
Sports
LCI has several very accomplished sports teams including: Hockey, Baseball, Badminton, Volleyball, Golf, Tennis, Soccer. The football team was resurrected in the fall of 2005 after many years of absence. The hockey team won the TDSSAA West Championships and qualified for OFSSAA in 2004 (Peterborough), 2006 (Timmons) and 2009 (Peterborough). The baseball team won the TDSSAA West Championships in 2006. The soccer team also won the TDSSAA West Region championship for the first time in Lakeshore CI's history in 2008.In late 2009 LCI got access to the Master Card Center of Hockey Excellence, a $34-million four-pad arena complex adjacent to the school.
In 2009, LCI's Varsity girls soccer team won the TDSAA "AA" West Championship and qualified for OFSAA (Kenora). Also, earlier that year, the Boy's Varsity hockey team won the TDSAA "AA" Championships and qualified for OFSAA (Peterborough) as well.
Extracurricular activities
Lakeshore Collegiate offers a wide range of extracurricular programs for students whose interests run the gamut. Among these are the Student Activity Council (or SAC), Leadership, Dance Club, Drama club, The Announcements Committee, The Yearbook Commitee, and a wide range of sports teams and various mathematics and science competitions. These programs allow students to participate in regional sporting events, practice their business skills (via the student-run "Lakestore"), and attend camps, as well as fostering both school spirit and co-operation within the student body.The Food Drive
It has been an annual event at LCI that every December students collect food, clothes, and even toys for Daily Bread Food Bank the local food banks. Every year students become increasingly generous and the donation of items reaches several thousands. It has become a "competition" to see which teacher's homeroom class would collect the most items. Now even known for its recent contribution of over 1,000 pounds of fresh produce donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank harvested from L.C.I's Community Garden."Drama Lives At LCI"
One of Lakeshore Collegiate's highlights is its Drama Department. Headed by Gregory Danakas, the Drama department offers courses for grades nine through twelve. LCI has annual stage production in which students are selected via audition. Past stage productions have featured performances of Bram StokerBram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...
's Dracula
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
, William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
, Euripides
Euripides
Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
' The Bacchae
The Bacchae
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedon, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which...
, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....
's Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
's Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
, Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...
's Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand...
, and John Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick is an English player of free reed instruments.-In London :John Kirkpatrick was born 8 August 1947 in Chiswick, west London. As a child he sang in the choir and played piano. In 1959 he joined the Hammersmith Morris Men, in the second week of their existence, beginning a...
's Vacancy in Paradise. Drama at LCI offers other extracurricular opportunities, such as the Play By the Lake/Sears Drama Festival, where student directed, student acted, and often student written plays are performed, as well as the Young Company, which offers Grade 9 and 10 students the chance to perform and star in a major play before they can be apart of the Mainstage Production. As of March 9, 2007, Lakeshore has won the Best Host School Award for its district.
Reputation
Lakeshore has a strong reputation, owing in part to active involvement with the community.One such example of this spirit has taken the form of fundraisers for the local community health centre, LAMP. Another community-oriented initiative, the Clean-Up-the-Parkathon (CUTPAT), involves the cleaning of local parks and recreational spaces by the student body.
Refusing to stop at local involvement, recent efforts within the school have resulted in programs such as the TEEN project, which has taken on two sponsor children and supports their endeavours.
Guidance
LCI's Guidance office is an important facet utilized by many students within the school. The guidance office operates as a resource for the student body. Students can make schedule changes, discuss career options, examine job postings and apply for or research about post-secondary education programs and scholarships, among other things.Music
Lakeshore has a well-staffed, well-supported musical department which has, in recent years, put on concerts both for the student body and the public. Several meaningful bands have come out of LCI, including In between Breathing featuring Mattii Galazka and The White featuring Michael White.Notable Graduates
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