L A Matheson Secondary School

L A Matheson Secondary
Address
9484 122 St
Surrey, British Columbia, V3V 4M1, Canada
Information
School number 3636079
School board School District 36 Surrey
Principal Mr P Sarmento
Vice principal Mr.Brown, Ms.Thompson, Mr. Valera
Staff 71
School type Public high school
Grades 8-12
Mascot Max
Team name Mustangs
Colours Blue and White
Enrolment 1326 [1] (October 2009)
Homepage http://www.sd36.bc.ca/sites/lamath/

L A Matheson Secondary School is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia and is part of School District 36 Surrey. The school opened in 1969 as a junior secondary school as a feeder to Queen Elizabeth Secondary School but in 1998 became a full secondary school serving grades 8 through 12.

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Academics

L A Matheson Secondary School was ranked 251st out of 316th in the Fraser Institute annual ranking of secondary schools in British Columbia and Yukon (2007/08 school year).[2] However, this contrays to internal statistics showing that 40% of L.A matheson students achieve a gpa of 3.0 and above. [3].

Athletics

Sports and athletic activities are governed by the Surrey Secondary Schools' Athletic Association. The athletics program includes rugby, volleyball, soccer, swimming, boys and girls basketball, cross-country, running,and cricket. In previous years, L.A. Matheson has suffered a bad reputation as a student was killed off the grounds[4]. Since then, things have changed drastically and L.A. Matheson is a more safe and secure environment[5]

Activities

Each year, students partake in various events around the school. Some of these events include the Grad Committee's Dodgeball Derby; various dances put on by Student Council; The spring Multicultural show "Diggin' the Roots"; the 30 hour famine; Matheson's Got Talent (formerly Matheson Idol) and BYOB day (Bring Your Own Banana day, where students receive a free ice cream sundae).

In recent years the school's Theatre Company has done three one act plays in December and a larger full length production in the spring. The schools band programme goes on a trip each year. Every second year they go to Banff and Edmonton for 6 days with the senior band class and ever other year they go on a bigger trip (past locations have included Beijing, New York City, Disneyland and Cuba).

Each year the Physics 11 class is responsible for constructing racecars completely designed out of cardboard to compete in an annual physics car race.

Each Friday during the second class of the day students take time to watch "Matheson on the Move", a weekly news broadcast presented by volunteers and the Media Services 9 class.

They also have a bhangra team that goes around to different schools and halls performing dances for special occasions.

Anti-racism launch

Provincial Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh chose this school to launch five Responding to Racism booklets in October 1999.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Enrollment is revealed in the "principals message" as of October 2009
  2. ^ "Report Card on Secondary Schools in British Columbia and Yukon: 2009 Edition." Fraser Institute. June 2009.
  3. ^ - p.6 of a recent newsletter showing outstanding academic achievement On the other hand, the Fraser Institute's ranking is substantiated by L A Matheson's current Wikipedia article in which the school states the low ranking "contrays [sic] to internal statistics."
  4. ^ Story on killing near LA Matheson grounds
  5. ^ L A Matheson - Athletics
  6. ^ "Stirring the racism pot", Alberta Report, 25 October 1999

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