St. Vincent de Paul Elementary & Junior High

St. Vincent De Paul School
Address
4525 - 49 Street N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Information
School type Elementary and Junior High
Motto "With a look toward the future"[1]
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
School board Calgary Catholic School District
Principal Christina Stehr
Grades K-9
Mascot Viking
Website www.cssd.ab.ca/schools/stvincent/

St. Vincent de Paul School is a Catholic elementary and junior high school in Calgary, Canada.

Options

There are many options in the school for junior high such as Sports Performance, Drama, Art, French (Grade 8 and 9 only. It is mandatory for grade 7), and Band. Up until the 2012-2013 school year, information processing (referred to as "info pro") was also available. Junior high students choose two options prior to the new school year.

Drama

The St. Vincent de Paul drama option is available throughout junior high. Productions have included Romeo And Winifred,[2] The Case Of The Missing Ring, and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. More recent productions include "Greece the Musical", "Peggy the Pint-Sized Pirate", "Snow White", and "The Superhero Support Group"

Sports

The sports teams are also very school-spirited and fun. There is volleyball, cross country (which won 13 years in a row), wrestling, basketball, badminton and flag football. There is also the annual Viking Cup Floor hockey tournament. Pep rallies are regularly given to increase school spirit, the most notable being volleyball where the teachers will play the students (the teachers usually end up winning).

Computer lab

The school features an adequate computer lab. In September 2007, the lab was updated with new computers, although they still run on Windows 2000.

Modernization

On January 21st 2014,[3] the Alberta government announced that St. Vincent De Paul would be one of the nine schools in Calgary to be renovated. Many repairs, including an approx. 2 million dollar roof repair, will be performed over the next two years. Most repairs will take place on the elementary segment of the school, sending elementary students to Monsignor E.L Doyle School. Junior high students, although being moved mostly to portable classrooms, will have access to the gymnasium, Career Technology Studies (CTS) labs, band room and washrooms. A Life-long learning program is being proposed, substituting a second option, where students choose a program for three forty-five-minute periods, one day out of the six-day-cycle.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cssd.ab.ca/schools/stvincent/index.html
  2. ↑ Bell, Jon: Role in play, April 2008.
  3. ↑ http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/01/21/nine-calgary-schools-to-get-renovations
  4. ↑ http://www.cssd.ab.ca/stvincent/files/2014/02/Modernization-letter.pdf
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