School type Catholic high school Superintendent Manon Séguin Administrator Carla Boyle Province Ontario | Founded 1992 Area trustee Stephen Blais Phone +1 613-837-9377 Number of students 1,900 (20 April 2008) | |
Motto "Dedicated to Excellence"
("Home of the Knights") Address 750 Charlemagne Blvd, Orléans, ON K4A 3M4, Canada District Ottawa Catholic School Board Profiles | ||
St. Peter Catholic High School is a Catholic high school located in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans. The current principal is Deborah Kealey. 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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Academic program
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, Phrenology, 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 sacred dance. St. Peter is also suited for special needs and cooperative education. Courses are offered at the Open, Applied, Polish, and some Academic levels.
Sports
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. The Knights are constantly known as the "Team to beat" in Ontario high school football. With the coaching and leadership of head coach Bruce Blomeley at the junior level setting up the senior team led by head coach Jim Mick, the knights are considered to be a top team in not only the province, but the country as a whole as well. Notable football Alumni are;
St Peter's main sports rival is St. Matthew High School, which is known for its excellent recruiting program.
School layout
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) and a chapel. A large, three-story extension was built onto the school in late 2004. On the grounds, there are 13 portable classrooms for school use.
Annual events
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 "Spirit Walk" to the food bank. Afterwards, a barbecue is held and a "Canley Cabaret" is held by the teachers.
Every year the grade 8 students of St Peter's go on a trip to Toronto. They are given the opportunity to visit many of the fun and exciting attraction the city of Toronto has to offer including: the Toronto Zoo, the CN tower, Wonderland, Gretzky's Sports Bar, and the Hockey Hall of Fame.
St Pete's puts on two different plays every year, one by the grade 7 and 8 students and the other by the high school students. The High School plays are known for being, more often than not, a musical. The high school musical is led by drama/music teacher Bernie Leger, who in 2012 won the Diamond Jubilee award for excellence and dedication in teaching. Past plays that the school has performed have been: Grease (2008), Beauty and the Beast (2009), Little Shop of Horrors (2010), Phantom of the Opera (2011), West Side Story (2012), Footloose (2013), Shrek: The Musical (2014), and Tarzan: The Stage Musical (2015). Tarzan was Legers 20th play at the school. The plays always include several dance numbers which use careful choreography, and the plays also always have strong chorus singers. Several of the sets for the plays are made and painted by the school's art students Performances are held during the last weekend of February, usually from the Wednesday until the Saturday.
St. Peter's show choir (Treble Threat) also used to perform annually at the local "choir fest," which is a gathering of numerous Christian choirs to sing and celebrate the Christmas season. The St Pete's choir is cherished for its dedication and youthfulness, and its often given a standing ovation. The St Pete's choir also has many other annual events formerly including the Show Choir Canada Competition, which is held at the Sony Center in Toronto. In 2012, St Pete's performed and won a national bronze medal, only losing to choirs from two of the audition-based performing art schools located in Toronto.
Every year in June, St. Peter's Grade 12 Graduating Class has their commencement at the Ottawa Convention Centre (Shaw Centre).