| St. Peter Catholic High School | |
| "Dedicated to Excellence" "Home of the Knights" |
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| Address | |
| 750 Charlemagne Blvd Orleans, Ontario, K4A 3M4, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School board | Ottawa Catholic School Board |
| Superintendent | Manon Séguin |
| Area trustee | Stephen Blais |
| Principal | Norma McDonald |
| Vice principal | Chris Hughes, Vince Brunetta, Linda Meulenbroek |
| Administrator | Carla Boyle |
| School type | Catholic high school |
| Grades | 7 to 12 |
| Language | English |
| Area | Ottawa |
| Mascot | Knight |
| Team name | Knights |
| Colours | silver, blue & white |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Enrolment | 1900 (April 20th 2008) |
| Feeder schools | St. Clare, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Theresa, Our Lady of Wisdom |
| Homepage | http://www.stpeterhigh.ca |
St. Peter Catholic High School is a catholic high school located in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans. The current principal is Norma McDonald. The school offers grades 7-12 and a daycare service. The current school population rests at 1900 students with 420 staff members.
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St. Peter Catholic High school offers many programs academically. These include religious and family life education courses taught at all grade levels, English, health and physical education, the arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, business, and technology. It also has a French as second language program offering core and immersion. The science programs include Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Environmental Studies. The arts that are offered throughout the grades 9-12 are dramatic arts, visual arts (including photography), music (including instrumental and guitar) and dance. St. Peter is also suited for special needs and cooperative education. Courses are offered at the Open, Applied, and some Academic levels.
Grades 7-12 are all offered over 40 sports. From the OCCSB school profile:
but there is also Track and Field, Badminton, boys' ice hockey, Golf, Alpine Skiing, Rugby union and Ultimate Frisbee.
St. Peter's is also known for its championship tradition. Most notably in 2005-2006, the Knights won city championships in junior boys football, senior boys football, senior girls basketball, junior boys soccer, senior boys rugby and golf. Many of these teams repeated as champions in 2006-2007. It is also known for having one of the best Football programs in the country, winning many consecutive championships, both city and provincial.
St Peter's main Sports rival is St. Matthew High School
St. Peter is a large school, consisting of 3 stories. The school has 2 gymnasiums (1 dually used as a cafeteria, a gymnasium and an auditorium), 10 washrooms (5 male, 5 female), 4 change rooms, a chapel,and a library. A large, three story extension was built onto the school in late 2004, though several portables still exist on school grounds. The entire second floor (excluding the extension) consists of science labs.
The Canley Cup is an annual event held by St Peter Catholic High school in order to acquire canned goods to donate to the Cumberland food bank. During the 2008 campaign, the school raised over 52,000 cans. This was enough to fill three food banks. The competition concludes with the entire school carrying the cans on a 7 kilometer walk to the food bank. Afterwards, a barbecue is held and a "Canley Cabaret" is held by the teachers.
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