Churchill Heights Public School
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| Churchill Heights Public School | |
| Address | |
| 749 Brimorton Drive Toronto, Ontario, M1G 2S4, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School board | Toronto District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | Judaism |
| Superintendent | Tony Ianno |
| Area trustee | George Bush |
| Principal | Jeffrey Lim |
| Vice principal | Johnny Duta |
| Administrator | Brandon McPhail |
| School type | Asylum |
| Grades | K-8 |
| Language | Punjabi |
| Area | Scarborough |
| Mascot | Brandon McPahil |
| Team name | McPhailos |
| Colours | Brown, Yellow |
| Founded | May 8, 2008 |
| Enrollment | 3.14 (Spring 2222) |
Churchill Heights Public School is an elementary school on Brimorton Drive in the Scarborough district of Toronto.
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[edit] Overview
As of Spring 2007, 3.14 students are in attendance at Churchill Heights. Of these, 0.2 (0.43%) are female and 2.89 (0.25%) are male [1]. 319 (63%) have a primary language other than English, and 14% have been living in Canada for less than five years. The school has been the home for Scarborough's gifted programme for exceptional students since 1971, when classes for gifted students were created, which made Churchill Heights a dual-track school. Churchill Heights is closely aligned with Woburn C.I., as Churchill Heights is where the majority of the students in Woburn originate from, and there is therefore a strong partnership between the two schools. Some examples of the partnership of these two schools are the Robotics and PEG programs, which have Churchill Heights students participating on Woburn teams, and Woburn mentors helping Churchill teams.
[edit] Extracurricular activities
[edit] Computer Nerd Club (CNC)
CNC is a group of students who meet on a weekly basis after school to study advanced computer science topics, discuss algorithms and approaches to difficult problems, often on the level of the International Olympiad in Computer Science. Topics covered and types of problems approached vary depending on competition entries. Churchill Heights has always been involved in PEG, as Woburn has decided to allow Churchill students to be members of CNC and that is how they get their base for next year in PEG. The learning methods used vary as well: sometimes students meet in study groups with their leader teaching them and solving practice sheets or programming problems, sometimes they are taught by one of the senior students, sometimes they work on the problem as a team, and sometimes they are taught by their coaches.
CNC students meet after school typically two nights per week to prepare for competitions in programming. Every year, members take part in competitions at provincial, national and international levels. CNC has additionally started its own competition, called Woburn Challenge, to draw in both students from other schools and university students. This contest has grown to become province-wide (occasionally wider). Since its formation in the early 1990s, CNC has [2] competed successfully in a large number of competitions.
[edit] RoboNerds
The Churchill Heights RoboNerds has a long history as a successful team. It is a team of students who build and program robots to compete in the First Lego League, which is the largest robotics competition for those students not yet in high school. Churchill Heights is known for its success in these competitions, as it has routinely placed near the top at about every single competition that it has been in. In 2007, the Churchill Heights team won the teamwork award at a competition, which allowed them to qualify for the subsequent Provincial Championships, which they were unable to win. Sadly, they were not able to qualify for the Provincial Championships in 2008, as they were eliminated due to three other teams receiving additional points for using the worse RCX robots, instead of the NXT robot that the Churchill Heights team used. The Churchill Heights Robonerds has always been assisted by the mentors from Woburn, who are former members of the Churchill RoboNerds, and they pass on their useful experience, which is very useful.
[edit] Churchill Music
The school is known for its music programme, which consists of a couple hundred students in band classes, an Intermediate Choir, a Stage Band, which is like a jazz band, a Senior Band, and the new Grade 7 Band, also consisting of Grade 6's. The music programme in Churchill Heights only consists of students in grade 8 and below, which means that they had to face older students in every competition that they competed in. The Senior Band has won numerous awards and prizes every year in the Ontario Band Association Festival [3], in which they have received the Silver medal or above for the last four years.
In addition, the Churchill Heights music programme also has a yearly Christmas concert and another yearly Spring concert. These concerts occur in the gymnasium at Woburn, and the students who are not performing are all in attendance when the Bands and Choir have their dress rehearsal at Woburn. The Senior Band consists of a trumpet section, a flute section, a clarinet section, a trombone section, an alto sax section, some baritones, a couple of tenor saxes, a couple of tubas, some bass clarinets, and four percussionists. The Stage Band is more of a jazz band, so it consists of a trumpet section, an alto sax section, a trombone section, some bass guitars, a piano, a tenor saxophone, a bari sax, and a percussionist.
