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Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (Hamilton, Ontario)

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School type
  
Secondary school

Superintendent
  
Jamie Nunn

Principal
  
Wanda Bielak

Mascot
  
Bulldog

Established
  
1967

Area trustee
  
Ray Mulholland

Phone
  
+1 905-547-6415

Province
  
Ontario


Vice-principal(s)
  
Mark Currie Tessa Nieuwenhuis

Address
  
1715 Main St E, Hamilton, ON L8H 1E3, Canada

District
  
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

Similar
  
Delta School, Cathedral High School, Cardinal Newman Catholic, Bishop Ryan Catholic, Hamilton Catholic District Sc

Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School is a Canadian secondary school located in Hamilton, Ontario. It is a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. The school's mission statement is "Educating students to become lifelong learners and contributing citizens in a challenging, changing, multi-cultural world." Apart from the standard course offerings, the school provides special education classes and an ESL program.

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History

Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School was founded in 1967 as part of a plan by the Board of Education for the City of Hamilton to have enough schools available to meet the demand of the baby boomers. In 1972, the school became Hamilton's pilot school in the semester system style of schedule that had been showing positive increases in student achievement amongst schools in Alberta and British Columbia. The school was named after Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.

Program highlights and student support programs

Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School takes part in the following programs:

  • Communications/Media Arts Program
  • Environmental CO-OP Program – award winning
  • Personal Support Worker Program
  • Technology – Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation 2 credit course packages – OYAP incentives
  • Volleyball Focus Programs
  • Hockey Focus program
  • Composting Sewage Program
  • Alternative Education Program – self-paced program packages in college, applied and essential courses
  • Credit Recovery Program for students under age 16 repeating courses in grades 9 and 10 – tied to a learning strategies course credit.
  • Teacher-Student one-on-one Mentoring Program
  • Literacy Volunteers Program
  • After-school literacy/numeracy program
  • Churchill ‘Chievers Recognition Luncheon
  • Locally developed essential and workplace level programming – Geography, History, and French
  • Celebration assembly
  • Literacy Computer Lab – for OSSLC and grade 9 essential level courses
  • Alternative Education Co-operative Learning Program
  • Navigating the Workplace – Co-operative Education
  • Change Your Future Program through the Learning Partnership
  • Aircraft and Aviation's

    • Clubs

    Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School has the following clubs:

  • Student Council and Student Leadership Association
  • Athletics – variety of sports for males and females
  • Girls and Boys Athletic clubs
  • Drama – Lunch hour “Improv” and annual musical production
  • Music – vocal, instrumental band and jazz club, guitar club
  • Care Committee
  • Stage & Technical Crew
  • “Feel the Power" Girls' athletics and Public Health Project
  • Blood Donor Clinic committee
  • Environmental Club – Green Team and “Envirothon”
  • Graduation Committee
  • The Bull Pen – school store
  • The “Churchillian – newspaper committee
  • Creative Writing Club; The Spoken Word
  • Film Club
  • "Secret Geek Society", a computer committee, run by Mr. Wilson
  • "Positive Space Group", A safe space for LGBT* students and allies

    • "Churchill School Song"

    Lyrics to the school song are as follows:

    References

    Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (Hamilton, Ontario) Wikipedia
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