Simcoe Composite School

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Simcoe Composite School
Non sibi sed patriae
Address
40 Wilson Avenue Simcoe, Ontario, N3Y 2E5, Canada
Website
http://www.simcoesabres.com/main.html
Information
School board	Grand Erie District School Board
Principal	Helene High
Vice principal	Dave Abbey
School type	Public secondary
Grades	9–12
Language	English
Team name	Sabres
Established	late 1800s
Enrollment	1004 (2004-2005)

Simcoe Composite School is a high school in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Over 900 students attend this rural secondary school and courses range from English, French, Spanish, and mathematics to computers, business, athletics, world history, civics, and even drama class.

Contents 1 Bridge Special Needs Program 2 Athletics and lifestyles at SCS 3 Simcoe Composite School TV Show 4 Carillon Tower 5 Nearby attractions 6 External links

[edit] Bridge Special Needs Program

There is also a special education program called Bridge that teaches mentally challenged children how to adapt to adult life in the community. Every Wednesday afternoon, the special needs students take swimming lessons at the local recreation centre. Bridge children range from 14 to 21 years of age.

After graduation, the student is usually assigned to NACL to begin their advanced life skills training, job placement, and possible independent living arrangements. A large majority of Bridge graduates live either with their parents or in a group home.

[edit] Athletics and lifestyles at SCS

Simcoe Composite School has a basketball team, a football team that recently won the coveted 2006 Hadimand Norfolk Bowl with a 41-20 win over rivals Delhi Raiders, a soccer team, and a hockey team and a Rugby team that collectively use the school team name Sabres. The school's swimming team uses the school team name Sabercuda which is said to be a cross between the conventional sabre and the barracuda.

Students from this school rarely eat from the in-school cafeteria. Instead, they take advantage of their proximity to downtown and enjoy lunches either at home or inside fast food restaurants where meals are served inexpensively, quickly, and appeals to the adolescent taste buds.

In addition to the courses mentioned above, SCS has a wide variety of other courses available for the children in order to teach them the skills and concepts needed to live in a democractic society with a well-paying career and a successful life.

[edit] Simcoe Composite School TV Show

On Thursday nights before Bingo Live on Cable 5, the school has its own local access cable show for the people in Simcoe to watch. The show features highlights on the school, its students, and general popular culture. The communications class is responisible for the weekly programming and graduates of this project have become very successful in university.

[edit] Carillon Tower

The high school is located next to the Carillon Tower where Remembrance Day ceremonies are annually done to honor the town's departed veteran soldiers of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.

[edit] Nearby attractions

There are also two parks near the high school. One can be accessed from a bridge and the other one can be accessed by crossing the main street, which outside of Simcoe, becomes Ontario provincial highway 24. These two parks also hold the Friendship Festival every August. To the south, there is a post office and an ice cream store. To the north, there is a Wendy's and a submarine sandwich shop, and other fast food restaurants. To the east, there is a neighborhood, where teenagers usually walk to the high school and back.

[edit] External links

• Simcoe Composite School
• Simcoe Sabres football