Riverdale High School, Montreal, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Riverdale High School is an English language secondary school located in the Pierrefonds
area of Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada. It was founded in 1964 and is still currently in use. The school is part of the Lester B. Pearson School Board
, where it is designated a "community school".
Riverdale has many athletic teams, including basketball, rugby, soccer, volleyball, track and field, and swim teams. The school also has a wide variety of community-based clubs and organizations.
In 1971, the Riverdale Band won the International Band competition held in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
.
The school RHS logo visible to the right and the school slogan "Reach Higher and Succeed" (RHS) were adopted during the 1988/1989 school year when they were chosen in a school-wide contest. Both were submitted by students at the time. The school's official colours used to be Blue (a dark navy blue) and Grey, with the school paper having the matching name "Blue & Grey", but they were changed to match the uniforms which were adopted in 1993, whose colours were also selected by the student body. Before this the school had no uniform, only a dress code which included "No jeans" and "No clothes with holes".
Due to a dwindling student populace, which itself was due to government restrictions on which school-aged children are allowed to attend English language schools in Quebec (Bill 101), Riverdale apportioned out half of its first floor to a French-language elementary school in 1988 to share costs, leaving the other two floors to the high school, along with the other half of the first floor, which included the cafeteria, shop classes and music department. Later in 2007 the school got back the full 1st floor. Sadly in 2011 the main hallway that was used for the junior grades was closed off for adult ed due to a low student population but, the cafeteria is still very much part of the school and so is the drama department,music department and shop classes which are situated on the first floor.
Pierrefonds, Quebec
Pierrefonds was a city on the Island of Montreal. It ceased to exist on January 1, 2002. The city was located along the Rivière des Prairies at the western end of the island...
area of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada. It was founded in 1964 and is still currently in use. The school is part of the Lester B. Pearson School Board
Lester B. Pearson School Board
The Lester B. Pearson School Board is an English-language school board in the province of Quebec, the largest of the nine English school boards in the province. The LBPSB is responsible for English public schools in the western part of the island of Montreal, Ile Perrot and "mainland" territories...
, where it is designated a "community school".
Riverdale has many athletic teams, including basketball, rugby, soccer, volleyball, track and field, and swim teams. The school also has a wide variety of community-based clubs and organizations.
In 1971, the Riverdale Band won the International Band competition held in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
.
The school RHS logo visible to the right and the school slogan "Reach Higher and Succeed" (RHS) were adopted during the 1988/1989 school year when they were chosen in a school-wide contest. Both were submitted by students at the time. The school's official colours used to be Blue (a dark navy blue) and Grey, with the school paper having the matching name "Blue & Grey", but they were changed to match the uniforms which were adopted in 1993, whose colours were also selected by the student body. Before this the school had no uniform, only a dress code which included "No jeans" and "No clothes with holes".
Due to a dwindling student populace, which itself was due to government restrictions on which school-aged children are allowed to attend English language schools in Quebec (Bill 101), Riverdale apportioned out half of its first floor to a French-language elementary school in 1988 to share costs, leaving the other two floors to the high school, along with the other half of the first floor, which included the cafeteria, shop classes and music department. Later in 2007 the school got back the full 1st floor. Sadly in 2011 the main hallway that was used for the junior grades was closed off for adult ed due to a low student population but, the cafeteria is still very much part of the school and so is the drama department,music department and shop classes which are situated on the first floor.
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