Westbrook School

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Westbrook School is an elementary school located in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, operated by the Edmonton Public Schools board. It shares a field with Vernon Barford Junior High. The school opened in January 1967; students selected for the school double shifted with Malmo school from September 1966 until construction was complete. The original 1966 school building was designed by the Massey medal-winning architect, Peter Hemingway.

At first the school had junior high school grades because there was no suitable nearby high school. Early construction problems - in particular, an open plan central area with protruding electrical outlets, and a bridge outside the front door on which students sometimes enjoyed hanging - occasionally caused ambulances to be called.

The school became one of four district sites for Academic Challenge, a program for gifted and talented children, in 1984.

[edit] Major awards

• 1995
  • Pythagoras Contest - School Provincial Champion
• 1996
  • Pythagoras Contest - School Provincial Champion
• 1997
  • Pythagoras Contest - School Provincial Champion
  • Pythagoras Contest - School Canadian Champion
  • Edmonton Science Olympics - First Place Overall Division II (sponsored by APEGGA - The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta)
• 2003
  • Canadian National Math League Competition - Provincial winner
  • First, Third and Seventh individual winners
  • Byron-Germain Math contest - individual third in Canada out of 7286 students
  • Fibonacci Contest- Provincial Champion
• 2004
  • Math League Grade 7 top in Canada
  • Fibonacci Contest - Top team in Alberta, Top team in Canada
• 2005
  • American Math League (Grade 8 test) - grade 5 student scored top in province
  • Canadian National Math League - Grade 6 test - Westbrook's team scored top in province and fifth in country (Grade 6 individual scored top in province and top in country) - Grade 7 test - individual tied top in province - Grade 8 test - individual scored top in province - Westbrook's grade 6 team was regional winner
  • Gauss Contest - grade 5 student earned Outstanding Achievement certificate for perfect score. Two other students earned certificates of distinction
  • Byron - Germaine - grade 4 student tied for top in Canada out of 7918 students writing the test
  • Pythagoras - Grade 5 student's perfect paper tied for first in Canada out of 12, 866 students writing the test

[edit] External links

• Westbrook School