Fleetwood Park Secondary School

Fleetwood Park Secondary
Building Successful Futures
Address
7940 156 St[1]
Surrey, British Columbia, V3S 3R3, Canada
Information
Principal Ms. Sue Knox[2]
Vice principal Mr. Sunny Deol[2]
Mr. Michael Stickley[2]
Staff 76
School type Public high school
Grades 8-12
Area Fleetwood
Mascot Dragon
Team name Dragons
Colours Teal     
Enrolment 1403[1] (September 30, 2008)
Homepage www.sd36.bc.ca/fltsec

Fleetwood Park Secondary is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. The school ranked 55 of 316 according to the Fraser Institute Studies in Education Policy in 2007–2008.[3]

Contents

Academics

Fleetwood Park operates on an 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. schedule which includes four periods and at 11:15 am, a break for lunch during which all students may leave school grounds to eat lunch.[4] The four periods are broken in blocks with the numbers 1,2,3,4 during which different classes take places and giving students five minutes to walk to their next class.[4] The blocks are rotated on a fix schedule between Monday and Thursday, but the schedules change weekly on Friday.[4] Every third Monday of the month has an early dismissal with school ending at 1:25 p.m. and is called a Flex Day.[4]

Fleetwood Park students are obliged to undertake a curriculum that includes four years of English, three years of history, three years of science, three years of mathematics, two years of fine arts or applied skills, two years of Physical education and a year of enterprise studies.[5] Besides classes that students are obliged to take, students are allowed choose the courses they wish to fill into their schedule. Classes at a grade ten level or above give four credits for each successfully completed class with the required curriculum earning 48 credits.[5] A total of 80 credits is needed to graduate.[5]

Fleetwood Park offers a wide selection of elective courses such as carpentry, drafting cooking, computers, engineering, drama and music. Students are able to choose from three Advanced Placement; chemistry, physics, or calculus allowing them to earn post-secondary education credits if they choose to take a test provided by the province or institute. A joinery program is also available for carpentry and cooking.[6] Fleetwood Park offers only two foreign language courses, French and Spanish.

The math academics of Fleetwood park are diverged into three categories for different levels. During the first year, students are able to enter a Math Honours eight class. In math ten and above, the courses diverge into three levels for students labeled as Principles, Applications, and Essentials respectively with decreasing difficulty.

School facilities

The school's education mainly takes place in the building three story highs. Recently, school portable buildings were added to the lot behind the school to add classrooms to the growing number of students.

Extracurricular activities

Notable Clubs and publications

ReachOut

ReachOut is a club that focuses on promoting diversity and raising awareness about global and community issues. In the year of 2008-2009, ReachOut fundraiser raised $8500 dollars to which was used to build a school in Sierra Leone.[7]

Notable alumni

Missy Peregrym graduated and became an actress.

References

  1. ^ a b "Secondary: Fleetwood Park". School District 36 Surrey. http://www.sd36.bc.ca/directory/schooldetail.asp?type=s&type2=l&type3=t&snum=167. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  2. ^ a b c "Fleetwood Park Staff List PDF". Fleetwood Park Secondary School. http://www.sd36.bc.ca/fltsec/pdf/stafflist.pdf. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  3. ^ "Report Card on Secondary Schools in British Columbia and Yukon: 2008 Edition". Fraser Institute. http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/product_files/70BCESC09COMP.pdf. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  4. ^ a b c d "Daily Bell Schedule". Fleetwood Park Secondary School. http://www.sd36.bc.ca/fltsec/pdf/bellschedule.pdf. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  5. ^ a b c Course Selection Book "Course Selection 2009 - 2010". 2009. http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/~flynn_m/courseselectionbook10-12.pdf Course Selection Book. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  6. ^ "Carpentry Joinery program at Fleetwood Park Secondary". School District 36 Surrey. http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/~wildeman_j/joinery.pdf. Retrieved August 22, 2009. 
  7. ^ "ReachOut". School District 36 Surrey. Archived from the original on September 18, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5jtJZI0F3. Retrieved September 18, 2009. 

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