Beaumont Composite High School
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École Secondaire Beaumont Composite High School, also known as ESBCHS is a junior senior high school with grades 9 through 12 in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Being a bilingual school, all grades are taught in either French or English. Built in the late 1980s, the school has an atrium;the peaks of its roof can be seen from all around the small town. Situated in the south west quadrant of Beaumont, it is the only high school in the town with enrollment of approximately 910 students. The school offers a variety of CTS courses with fully furnished labs including an Automotives, Fabrication, Foods, Cosmetology and an Outdoor Ed labs and classrooms. The school also is equipped with 6 computer labs and a library. The school has a background of athletic teams which include Volleyball, Basketball, Badminton, Track, Football, Golf, Rugby, as well as many others. The school also has a Dramatic Arts program that regularly wins regional Drama Festivals.

Special programs

  • Green Certificate
  • RAPP
  • Vocational Program (Mechanics and Beauty Culture)
  • Skills Program

Sport teams

  • Volleyball
    Volleyball
    Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

  • Football
    Canadian football
    Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

  • Basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

  • Rugby
    Rugby football
    Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...

  • Curling
    Curling
    Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

  • Cross country running
    Cross country running
    Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

  • Track and Field
    Track and field
    Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

  • Badminton
    Badminton
    Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

  • Golf
    Golf
    Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....


  • Drama

    • Grease
      Grease (musical)
      Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...

       (2011)
    • Little Shop of Horrors
      Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
      Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...

       (2008)
    • Once Upon A Mattress
      Once Upon a Mattress
      Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...

       (2007)
    • Seussical
      Seussical
      is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...

       (2006)
    • Li'l Abner
      Li'l Abner (musical)
      Li'l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging...

       (2005)
    • Guys and Dolls (2004)
    • Annie Get Your Gun
      Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
      Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley , who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler.The 1946 Broadway production...

       (2003)
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
      A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
      A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....

       (2002)
    • Annie
      Annie (musical)
      Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

       (1999)

    Notable alumni

    • Mack Behm, musician
    • Meghan Heffern
      Meghan Heffern
      Meghan Heffern is a Canadian actress. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.-Television:* Flight 93 as Nicole Miller* Whistler as Britt...

      , actress
    • Carmen Lavigne, actress
    • Niall Matter
      Niall Matter
      Niall Matter is a Canadian actor mainly known for his work in television.-Biography:Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Matter worked for eight years on oil rigs, to fund his education at Vancouver Film School...

      , actor
    • Shawn Mackey, artist
    • Scott Shpeley, actor and musician
    • Kristen McGregor, writer/performer/producer
    • Curtis Tolonen, musician
    • Shane Krepakevich, compose and visual artist
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