Cawthra Park Secondary School

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Cawthra Park Secondary School
Address
1305 Cawthra Road
Mississauga, Ontario, L5G 4L1, Canada
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 Anne Mckenzie
Catherine Mcgrann
School type High school
Grades 9-12
Language English
Motto "Learning the art of Living...Living the art of Learning"
Colours purple, orange
Founded 1972
Enrollment 1,335 (June 2006)
Homepage http://www.cawthrapark.com

Cawthra Park Secondary School, also known as CP or CPSS, 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.

Built in 1972, Cawthra Park 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.

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.

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[edit] Arts

Cawthra Park 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.

The school also puts on a fall musical and a spring play annually.

Fall Musical Spring Play
2007 - 2008 Cabaret Les Belles-sœurs
2006 - 2007 Merrily We Roll Along One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2005 - 2006 West Side Story The Laramie Project
2004 - 2005 Into the Woods Doctor Faustus
2003 - 2004 The Sound of Music A Midsummer Night's Dream
2002 -2003 Les Miserables A Streetcar Named Desire
2001 -2002 Carnival! Auntie Mame

[edit] Music

The music department boasts 12 different ensembles, which are either open to the entire school or require an audition. All auditioned groups, excluding the Senior Wind Ensemble and Cawthra Park Rock (CPR) are credit courses, meaning that students will be tested regularly on repertoire and have to complete extra written work, usually reflections, reviews on performances, and critiques on recordings.

The Chamber Choir, directed by Robert Anderson was featured in the Spring of 2006 on CBC Radio's national Choral Competition. They placed 2nd overall in their category. In November 2006, the Chamber Choir was invited to sing at the annual University Voices, a prestigious university level choral workshop, directed by Martin Neary. Mr. Anderson conducts a choir called the "Ritz" as well. This is a mixed choir with 330+ singers ranging from grade 9-12 and is called the largest competitive high school choir in North America, though whether this is true or not is unknown.

The Senior Wind Ensemble (commonly referred to as Sr. Wind) is the premier instrumental group at Cawthra, performing pieces at the B500 and B600 levels, the highest level in competitive band music in Ontario. Prior to the 2007-2008 year, Sr. Wind was a repertoire course, allowing students to receive a credit for their participation in the course. However, due to board cut backs in the arts, Sr. Wind has been demoted to just an extra curricular band, limiting the amount of group open to instrumental students, especially flutes, clarinets, bass clarinets, and french horn players who's only other options are to join a vocal group or learn another instrument. This has caused severe unhappiness in students who are affected as vocal majors have a wider variety of courses available to them.

Cawthra is known for its especially strong music department. The department has performed during the past four years including mass at the Vatican City, onstage at Disney's Magic Kingdom, and for the American ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins.

[edit] Athletics

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 Cawthra Panthers Baseball Team won the 2007 ROPSSAA Tier 1 Baseball Championships for the first time in the schools history with a 6-2 win over Mount Carmel.

[edit] Notable Alumni

Past students of Cawthra Park include:

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Schools part of Peel District School Board in Brampton, Caledon, Mississauga, Ontario
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Coordinates: 43.576081° N 79.573497° W