Ridgemont High School (Ottawa)
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| Principal | Mary Bada |
| Vice Principals | Susan Swettenham |
| Chief Custodian | Dale Lusk |
| Office Administrator | Brenda Beattie |
| Students' Council Presidents | Khadeejat Momoh, Meher Sheikh |
| School type | Public |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Enrollment | 850 (2005) |
| Faculty | 91 (2005) |
| Campus surroundings | Suburban |
| Mascot | Spartan |
| School colours | Green, White |
Ridgemont High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Canada. The school is located at 2597 Alta Vista Drive in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Ottawa. It is next door to St. Patrick's High School, a Catholic high school.
Work began on Ridgemont in 1957 when Prime Minister John Diefenbaker laid the cornerstone. The school opened the next year. It was one of a series of composite schools built by the Ottawa Collegiate Board during the 1950s and 1960s to deal with the baby boom and increasing school attendance. Ridgemont was planned and designed at the same time as Rideau High School and Laurentian High School. Rideau opened a year earlier than the other two.
Ridgemont is a semestered school offering many programs such as French immersion, gifted, English as a Second Language, ECL (Everyday Community Living), and international languages (Somali, Arabic, Spanish).
Ridgemont is twinned with Bokoro High School, Butha-Buthe, Lesotho. This twinning is helped by the organization Help Lesotho. Ridgemont is twinned with the first school in the Lesotho twinnings to start a writing program to help children increase their literacy skills in school.
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[edit] Recent News
Ridgemont's Drama Club is presenting "A Midsummer Night's Dream"by William Shakespeare for their fall production. The performance will be held in the auditorium of the school. Performance dates are the following:
Wednesday, December 13th 2006
Thursday, December 14th 2006
The doors will open at 7:00pm.
[edit] List of clubs
- Ambassadors
- Archery
- Band: Jazz
- Band: Junior
- Band: Senior
- BEAR (Beautification and Environmental Association of Ridgemont)
- Cheerleading
- Choir
- Drama
- Electric Car
- Exposé
- Gay-Straight Student Alliance
- Golf
- Grad Committee
- Guitar Club
- Help Lesotho
- Improv
- Knitting
- OSAID (Ontario Students Against Impaired Drivers)
- Outdoor Education
- Peer Mediation
- Reach For The Top
- RIC (Ridgemont Islamic Committee)
- Robotics
- Ski/Snowboard
- Students' Council
- Tech Crew
- STAFF CLUB
[edit] Competing teams
- Badminton
- Band: Jazz
- Basketball: Junior/Senior Boys, Junior/Senior Girls
- Hockey
- Improv
- Rugby: Junior/Senior Boys, Girls
- Soccer: Junior/Senior Boys, Junior/Senior Girls
- Tennis
- Ultimate
- Volleyball: Junior/Senior Boys, Junior/Senior Girls
- Cross-Country
[edit] Facts
- School motto: "Knowledge is Power"
- The Ridgemont yearbook is titled "The Acropolis"
- In the 2005 yearbook, a Quidditch Team was listed in the Clubs section
- Ridgemont's Jazz Band received a Gold standing for two years running (2005, 2006) in the Kiwanis music Festival
- A trip to Greece is planned for March break of 2007
- Ridgemont holds an annual Multicultural fashion show where ethnic food is served and cultural clothing is displayed
- Ridgemont runs a radio station, named 107.5 Spartan Radio
- Ridgemont is known for its embrace of multiculturalism: 45 different languages are represented at Ridgemont
- Ridgemont puts on an annual Spring Production.
- Other events include: Arts Night, Music Night, Awards Night
- Holds yearly Eid Dinner
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Keith, Janet. The Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa: A Short History, 1843-1969. Ottawa: Kent, 1969.
