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St. Peter High School (Ottawa)
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St. Peter Catholic High School is a catholic high school located in the Ottawa
suburb of Orleans
. The current principal is Norma McDonald. The school offers grades 7-12 and a daycare service. The current school population rests at 1900 students with 420 staff members.
, the arts, history
, geography
, mathematics
, science
, business
, and technology
. It also has a French as second language program offering core and immersion. The science programs include Biology
, Physics
, Chemistry
and Environmental Studies
. The arts that are offered throughout the grades 9-12 are dramatic arts, visual arts (including photography
), music (including instrumental and guitar
) and dance. St. Peter is also suited for special needs and cooperative education
. Courses are offered at the Open, Applied, Academic, College and University levels.
but there is also Track and Field
, Badminton
, boys' ice hockey
, Golf
, Alpine Skiing
, Rugby union
and Ultimate Frisbee.
St. Peter's is also known for its championship tradition. Most notably in 2005-2006, the Knights won city championships in junior boys football, senior boys football, senior girls basketball, junior boys soccer, senior boys rugby and golf. Many of these teams repeated as champions in 2006-2007. It is also known for having one of the best Football programs in the country, winning many consecutive championships, both city and provincial.
St Peter's main Sports rival is St. Matthew High School
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...
suburb of Orleans
Orléans, Ontario
Orleans , also written Orléans, is a suburban area within the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the eastern part of the city along the Ottawa River, about from downtown Ottawa. The Canada 2006 Census gave Orleans a population of 95,491. It became a ward of the City of Ottawa in 2001...
. The current principal is Norma McDonald. The school offers grades 7-12 and a daycare service. The current school population rests at 1900 students with 420 staff members.
Academic Program
St. Peter Catholic High school offers many programs academically. These include religious and family life education courses taught at all grade levels, English, health and physical educationPhysical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, the arts, history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
, and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
. It also has a French as second language program offering core and immersion. The science programs include Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and Environmental Studies
Environmental studies
Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them...
. The arts that are offered throughout the grades 9-12 are dramatic arts, visual arts (including photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
), music (including instrumental and guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) and dance. St. Peter is also suited for special needs and cooperative education
Cooperative education
Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience...
. Courses are offered at the Open, Applied, Academic, College and University levels.
Sports
Grades 7-12 are all offered over 40 sports. From the OCCSB school profile:- Grade 7-8 Boys'/Girls' BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Soccer, Cross-countryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, Volleyball , Badminton and many more sports for every student to find their way - Junior: Boys' FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, Girls' BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Field HockeyField hockeyField Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, St.Peter Rugby - Senior: Boys' FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, Soccer, VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Senior Rugby - Girls' Basketball, VarsityVarsity teamIn the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...
Girls' ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
but there is also Track and Field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, boys' ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
, Rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
and Ultimate Frisbee.
St. Peter's is also known for its championship tradition. Most notably in 2005-2006, the Knights won city championships in junior boys football, senior boys football, senior girls basketball, junior boys soccer, senior boys rugby and golf. Many of these teams repeated as champions in 2006-2007. It is also known for having one of the best Football programs in the country, winning many consecutive championships, both city and provincial.
St Peter's main Sports rival is St. Matthew High School
St. Matthew High School
St. Matthew High School may refer to:*St. Matthew High School *St. Matthew High School , listed on the NRHP in Louisiana*St. Matthew High School...
School Layout
St. Peter is a large school, consisting of 3 stories. The school has 2 gymnasiums (1 dually used as a cafeteria, a gymnasium and an auditorium), 10 washrooms (5 male, 5 female), 4 change rooms, a chapel,and a library. A large, three story extension was built onto the school in late 2004, though several portables still exist on school grounds. The entire second floor (excluding the extension) consists of science labs.Annual events
The Canley Cup is an annual event held by St Peter Catholic High school in order to acquire canned goods to donate to the Cumberland food bank. During the 2008 campaign, the school raised over 52,000 cans. This was enough to fill three food banks. The competition concludes with the entire school carrying the cans on a 7 kilometer walk to the food bank. Afterwards, a barbecue is held and a "Canley Cabaret" is held by the teachers.Alumni and Former Students
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