Cawthra Park Secondary School
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| Cawthra Park Secondary School | |
| Address | |
| 1305 Cawthra Road Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 4L1, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School number | 899003 |
| School board | Peel District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | none |
| Superintendent | Allison Clinton |
| Area trustee | Janet McDougald |
| Principal | Jane Michalak |
| Vice principal | Brian McCulloch Sao-kham Mork-Gerra |
| School type | High school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Motto | "Learning the art of Living...Living the art of Learning" |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Enrollment | 1,402 |
| Homepage | http://www.cawthrapark.com |
Cawthra Park Secondary School, also known as CP, is a public high school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Cawthra Park provides instruction to students from grades 9 to 12 and is under the juristriction of the Peel District School Board. It is home to Peel's Regional Arts Program (RAP), for which students audition to study music (instrumental [concert band, guitar, and piano] or vocal), dance, dramatic arts or visual arts. Approximately two-thirds of Cawthra's students are in the RAP program, with the remaining students coming from the local area.
Cawthra Park's Chamber Choir, directed by Robert Anderson, is growing in popularity, and was featured in the Spring of 2006 on CBC Radio's national Choral Competition. They placed 2nd overall. In November 2006, the Chamber Choir was invited to sing at the annual University Voices, a prestigeous university level choral workshop, directed by Martin Neary. Robert Anderson conducts a choir called the "Ritz" as well. This is a mixed choir with 330+ singers ranging from grade 9-12.
The school also puts on an annual fall musical. Musicals performed in the past include, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, West Side Story and Merrily We Roll Along. School plays have also been annually performed, with 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' being the 2006 - 2007 school year's play.
Cawthra is very involved in athletics as well, with boys and girls hockey, basketball, volleyball, badminton and soccer teams and an undefeated rugby team, along with several others. The popular joke among students is that the school's football equipment was sold in order to buy a grand piano. However, this myth has been debunked countless time by the administration.
The school day begins at 8:30AM and ends at 3:04PM. There are five 75-minute periods each day, including two lunch periods. It is a semestered school.
Built in 1972, Cawthra has unique features for a public school, including a newly renovated auditorium, a recently redone gymnasium floor, Harlequin-sprung floors in the dance studios, grand pianos and music practice rooms, and a dark room. The school is also attached to the Cawthra Swimming Pool. The rough, "inside-out" walls are affectionately referred to as "cheesegrater walls" as many a hand have been cut on the sharp brick.
Past students of Cawthra Park include Erica Peck, lead role in We Will Rock You (Toronto), INXS lead singer J.D. Fortune, Atlanta Braves Draft Pick Jamie Richmond, supermodel Daria Werbowy, and Degrassi: The Next Generation actors Deanna Casaluce, Adamo Ruggiero, and Amanda Stepto; musicians Death from Above 1979.
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