Venado Middle School
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| Venado Middle School | |
| Address | |
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| 4 Deerfield Irvine, California |
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| Information | |
| School board | Irvine Unified School District |
| Superintendent | Dr. Gwen Gross |
| Principal | Fran Antenore |
| Vice principal | Robert Valdez |
| School type | Middle |
| Grades | 7-8 |
| Language | English |
| Motto | Honest. On Time. Noble. On Task. Respectful/Responsible. |
| Team name | Knights |
| Homepage | www.venadoms.org |
Venado Middle School is part of the Irvine Unified School District and is located in Irvine, California, United States. It is a national Blue Ribbon School (as of 2005).[citation needed] With Deerfield Elementary School and University High School, it operates Orange County's Regional Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program. Venado's mascot is the medieval knight.
[edit] History
The school was opened in 1967. It has a unique two-story architectural layout and outlined with three stories of buildings with most of the second story open to the first, connected by a series of wooden bridges between classes on the second floor. Although a two-story structure, the building actually has thirty-three different floor levels, as some of the classrooms are slightly "sunken" off to the sides of corridors and larger classrooms.
The band and orchestra program at Venado Middle School, as with the rest of the Irvine Unified School District, benefits from the fact that music is required in grades 4-6 in Iusd schools.
[edit] Music
Since 1968, Brendan McBrien,[1] has been the director of instrumental music at Venado Middle School. He has been the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award in the Irvine Unified School District,[citation needed] Secondary Music Teacher of the year from the Orange County Music and Art Administrators Association,[citation needed] and has multiple listing in Who's Among America's Teachers.[citation needed] In addition to his teaching duties, he is also a published composer and arranger with numerous works for band and orchestra published with the Alfred Publishing, Kjos,[2] and Warner Brothers Music Companies.
[edit] References
- ^ Brendan McBrien at Alfred Publishing
- ^ Kjos Music Company
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