All Saints Catholic High School (Ontario)

For other schools with a similar name see All Saints High School.

All Saints Catholic High School, opened September 2002, is a secondary school in Kanata, Ontario, a district of Ottawa. The school is located in the Kanata North area of Kanata Lakes and serves the communities of Kanata and West Carleton. The school motto is Dei Gratia, Latin for 'The Grace of God'.

The school's first year of operation only saw classes from grade 7 up to and including grade 11 because they did not want to split up Grade 12 classes in their graduating year. In order to prevent over-crowding, the school capped the maximum number of students permitted to attend in the first year. All Saints High School's second year of operation saw classes ranging all the way to grade 12, with population limits beginning to max out.

In its fifth year of operation, All Saints High School installed multiple portables in order to increase the maximum number of students that can be educated at the school, which would later be replaced by the expansion. The idea of an expansion to the school had been put forth, and is currently completed. The expansion was completed in September 2007. The school has a fierce rivalry with a near by school; Holy Trinity.

Expansion

All Saints Catholic High School quickly became too crowded as more people moved into the developing area. The expansion was built primarily for students in Grade 7 and 8 so that they could have their "own part" of the school. However, some high school classes run in the expansion now, as well as some Grade 7 and 8's going into the old part.

Sports

All Saints has has much success in sports such as curling, X-country, Soccer, and Track & Field In 2008, the senior boys basketball team participated in the Bedford Road Invitational Tournament, where they won the coveted Sportsmanship Award. The 7/8 girls soccer team has won the city championships two years in a row. Once in 2008 and again in 2009.

Arts

All Saints is also known for its strong Arts program. In 2009 it adopted the Specialist High Skills Major in the Arts Program, complementing its existing SHSM in Business Program. Most notably is All Saints' dramatic arts program. Last year, All Saints received many nominations and awards in the Cappies program (high school theatre critics), for its two successful productions The Foreigner (4 nominations, 3 awards) and City of Angels (10 nominations, 1 award). Furthermore, the All Saints Improv Team is known for its consistent successes. In 2008/2009 All Saints came in second in the Ottawa Improv Regional Finals; qualifying them for the National Tournament, where they came in 7th in Canada. In 2009/2010, All Saints won the Connor's Cup tournament, and again came in second in the Regional Finals, qualifying them for the CIG Nationals once again. They eventually made it to National Finals and came in 3rd place in the entire country, just behind Guelph's GCVI and British Columbia's GP Vanier. In 2010-2011, after advancing through the Ottawa Regional Finals and Provincial Finals, the All Saints Improv Team placed third once again in the 2011 Canadian Improv Games, behind Vancouver Lower Mainland's Burnaby Mountain and Montreal's John Rennie.