Prince George Secondary School

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Prince George Secondary School
Address
2901 Griffiths Ave Prince George, British Columbia, V2M 2S7, Canada
Information
School number	5757036
School board	School District 57 Prince George
Principal	Mrs S Cairns
Staff	77
School type	Public high school
Grades	8-12
Enrollment	1284 (January 16, 2006)

Prince George Secondary School is a public high school in Prince George, British Columbia part of School District 57 Prince George. It has been at its present campus since 1968.

Contents 1 Academic programmes 2 Awards 3 Health and Safety 4 Abduction 5 Extracurricular activities 6 Notable alumni 7 References 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] Academic programmes

Notably, this school offers the International Baccalaureate programme.^[1]

[edit] Awards

For Grade 12 writers, the prize with the most prestige in the province may be the $1,500 first place award in University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts essay contest. In 2000, out of 2,600 entries on the subject of Justice, the winner was Prince George's Alayna van Leeuwen.^[2]

[edit] Health and Safety

Unusually, 160 students are trained in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation each year.^[3]

[edit] Abduction

A school bus taking students home was hijacked on 13 February 1990 with 13 students taken hostage. They were subsequently released unharmed. The three youths who carried out the hijacking were armed with sawed-off rifles.^[4][5]

[edit] Extracurricular activities

The school presented a production of Canterbury Tales, in December 2007, at the Vanier Hall.^[6]

[edit] Notable alumni

• Demetri Goritsas, actor with starring role in Gallipoli^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Monarchy in British Columbia

[edit] External links

• School site
• District site