Founded Sept 1998 Principal Glenda Speight Mascot Sun | Superintendent Patricia Gartland Phone +1 604-944-8273 School number 04343114 | |
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School type Coeducational public middle school Motto "A Journey to success"
(Our motto captures our belief that our main purpose is to help students become responsible citizens, lifelong learners, and healthy, caring, ethical, and intellectually reflective individuals.) School board School District 43 Coquitlam Address 1450 Parkway Blvd, Coquitlam, BC V3E 3L2, Canada District School District 43 Coquitlam Similar École Glenbrook Middle Sc, Riverside Secondary School, Yorkson Creek Middle Sc, Archbishop Carney Regional, Burnaby North Secondar Profiles | ||
Summit Middle School is a grade 6 to 8 public middle school within School District 43 Coquitlam, British Columbia.
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Construction
Construction of Summit started in 1997, as part of the NDP's cost-cutting initiative for new schools. Built to meet demand for school space created by a boom in the school-aged population, Summit was one of the first two schools to utilize new low-cost construction techniques — testing the processes, which were used on later schools in British Columbia. These cost 15% less per square meter of space than traditionally constructed schools. Summit Middle was completed by TASK construction management on August 14, 1998, ten and one half months from building excavation to occupancy, and was initially designed to hold 650 students. The total cost for the Summit Middle was $8,500,000.
The school's building envelope began being remediated in April 2015, and work was completed in December 2015. This was done in order to resolve issues with high moisture content inside the walls and to bring the building up to current industry performance standards. Existing stucco walls were demolished and replaced with a Fibre Cement assembly. Additionally, the windows were replaced with double-glazed aluminium windows and the south and west sides of the building received solar heat resistant glass.
Academics
The school participates in the BC government's Foundation Skills Assessment exam in grade 7, as well as maintaining its own academic honour roll and offering a yearly award called the "Summit Award". In the 2006/2007 school year, Summit Middle had a participation rate of 100% in the FSA's. The school also offers math contests to willing students, akin to the national Euler Contest (7th grade) and Pythagoras Contest (6th grade students). In 2003, the school was selected to be part of NASA's "Odyssey of the Mind" educational program, and was visited by the program's founder Samuel Micklus. The school also had a student win one of the Junior Achievement of B.C.'s 2000 Awards for academic excellence.
Arts
Summit has three concert bands and a jazz band, in addition to music explorations classes. The music program presents events throughout the year, including school concerts, assemblies, district band days, choir days, and music festivals. The school's drama program has previously been involved in the production of the play Fiddler on the Roof Junior, and the Summit drama club recently performed Guys and Dolls, Jr. as well as Aladdin Jr.
Extracurricular activities
The school also offers a leadership and peer helper program to its Grade 8 senior students, as well as a number of student-run clubs — in addition, the school publishes a newsletter called "Peak Experiences" for the parents and students. Summit Middle School offers a variety of clubs to students. The school also participates in a yearly Terry Fox Run.
Athletics
Summit has a wide variety of sports teams and activities, including badminton, basketball, volleyball, track and field and swimming. The school's team is the Summit Suns, with their mascot the Sun. In September 2007, the school won national acclaim when one of its students, Jisoo Keel, won the Maple Leaf Junior Tour's Girls national championship title in Whistler during a tightly contested golf match.