School type Public, high school School number 5757036 Staff 77 Motto PGSS is the Place to Be! | Founded 1968 Principal Ms. Sherry Tibault Phone +1 250-562-6441 Province British Columbia | |
School board School District 57 Prince George Address 2901 Griffiths Ave, Prince George, BC V2M 2S7, Canada District School District 57 Prince George | ||
Prince George Secondary School is a public high school in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, part of School District 57 Prince George. It has been at its present campus since 1968.
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Awards
For Grade 12 writers, the prize with the most prestige in the province may be the $1,500 first place award in University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts essay contest. In 2000, out of 2,600 entries on the subject of Justice, the winner was Prince George's Alayna van Leeuwen.
Health and safety
160 students are trained in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation each year.
Abduction
A school bus taking students home was hijacked on February 13, 1990 with 13 students taken hostage. They were released unharmed. The three youths who carried out the hijacking were armed with sawed-off rifles.
Extracurricular activities
The school presented a production of Canterbury Tales, in December 2007, at the Vanier Hall.