Lillian Osborne High School
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2019 Leger Road Edmonton, Alberta, T6R 0R9 Canada | |
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| School type | Public Secondary School |
| Founded | 2009 |
| School board | Edmonton Public Schools |
| Principal | Janet Hancock |
| Grades | 10–12 |
| Enrollment | approx. 1100 |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue, Cardinal Red and Silver |
| Team name | Legends |
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lillianosborne |
Lillian Osborne High School is a high school located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the Terwillegar community. The school is operated by the Edmonton Public School System, and it offers a wide variety of educational opportunities for students, including: International Baccalaureate, Fine Arts, Athletics, and Leadership Programs. The school has an enrollment of approximately 1100 students. Lillian Osborne is currently the newest public high school in Edmonton. The school serves the south west area of Edmonton. Due to the great development in southwest Edmonton, Lillian Osborne will be expanding to accommodate an extra 600 students. This expansion is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year. The school is named after Edmonton's first female school teacher, Lillian Osborne.
Academics
International Baccalaureate Program
Lillian Osborne is one of several schools in the district offering an International Baccalaureate diploma program.[1] Lillian Osborne has one of the highest IB participant rates in the city.
Languages
Lillian Osborne currently offers 3 language options all in regular or in International Baccalaureate.
French 3Y/9Y
Spanish 10/20/30
Mandarin (Chinese) 10/20/30
Leadership
Lillian Osborne is well known to have an outstanding Leadership program which is offered to every student. Leadership 15 is a mandatory course for all grade 10s. Students are taught many skills including speaking skills, teamwork skills, and listening skills. Optional grade 11 and 12 courses are offered through leadership 25/35. These courses are done by over 60 students.
Athletics
Lillian Osborne has an established athletics program and currently has teams for:
Soccer, Volleyball, Cheerleading, Basketball, Badminton, Golf, Swim, Curling, Track & Field and Handball. Lillian Osborne currently partners with Jasper Place High school's football program and sends players to play for Jasper Place. Additional sports teams are expected to be created as the school develops.
The Cheer team won small varsity provincials along with many other first-place trophies in 2010. Badminton singles took gold in 2014. Lillian Osborne host many tournaments of volleyball and basketball throughout the year. The school's athletics are showcased every year at Lillian Osborne's annual pep rally.
Extracurricular Student Activities
Lillian Osborne currently has over 30 running clubs. Clubs are a huge part of Lillian life, and most are student run. Clubs at Lillian include: Terwilligar Interact Club, a UNICEF Club, New Chapter's Foundation, Minions, Gay Straight Alliance, Muslim Club, Improv Club, Ping Pong Club, Robotics Club, Theater Tech Club, Model UN, Random Acts of Kindness, and many more. New clubs are constantly being introduced.
Debate Team
Lillian Osborne's Debate Team is considered one of the best debate teams in Alberta. In 2014, Lillian Osborne swept regionals, winning in both categories as well as sending more teams than any other school in the province to Provincials. Lillian Osborne also won Best Debate Team in Alberta 2013-2014. In April 2014, it was announced that Lillian Osborne and Riverbend Junior High will be hosting Debate Provincials. It was the first time Edmonton has hosted Provincials in over 10 years.
LOHS Student Council
The most influential club is Lillian Osborne's Student Council. Student Council at Lillian is responsible in creating events throughout the year that are fun and help create school spirit.
Student Council's list of events include: Welcome-Week, Hallo-Week, Winter-Week, LOHS dance, Touch of Class, LO ROCKATHON, Culturama and more. Student Council is made up of around 28 students who are selected through an interview process. However, the president and vice president are selected through a voting process.
Fine Arts
The school has a jazz band, concert band, musical theatre, visual arts, drama, graphic design, animation, and photography programs. The musical theatre class performed Alice in Wonderland and the open drama production performed Peter Pan in 2010. In 2011 the musical theatre class performed The Wiz and the open drama production performed the Hunchback of Notre Dame in April. The various bands perform and have concerts nights at the school frequently. One of the highlights of the Arts Season is the Annual ArtsFest, which is a year-end celebration of the works produced by Lillian Osborne students in their studies.
Expansion
In February 2014, the province announced that they would be putting money in place to expand Lillian Osborne High school to go from a capacity of 1000 to 1600. The architect firm that built the original building was returned to design an expansion. In October 2014, plans were released to the public.
This expansion includes: a second gymnasium, another wing of the school with over 14 new classrooms and 6 new science labs, an extra CTS wing, and a theater with over 300 seats. This expansion was scheduled to be finished for the start of the 2016-2017 school year, but will likely not be finished until early-mid 2017.
