East Northumberland Secondary School
Encyclopedia
East Northumberland Secondary School is a secondary school
located in Brighton, Ontario
, Canada
.
It was also the topic of a song performed by Miley Cyrus
called "East Northumberland High", written by ENSS's own Samantha Moore
.
Club, Art Club, Community Challenge, The Dragon's Voice student newspaper
, Student Drill Team, Science Alliance, Student Government, Chess Club, Culinary, ECO-Cell, Student Beautification Committee, Robotics
, Drama Club, Video Production, and many others. A full list can be found on the school website
.
, Soccer, Basketball
, Volleyball
, Badminton
, Rugby
, Cross Country
, and Track and Field. ENSS has a reputation for excelling at Track and Field. For 27 years straight ENSS has captured the Bay of Quinte
title.
. Two new plays will be gracing the ENSS stage in 2010: Anne Frank and Me
, showcasing the Junior's talents, and Voices 2000, which will primarily cast Seniors. Prior to 2007, these "off-year" shows, which run opposite to the school's major musical productions, were completely student-run. Senior students were selected to direct, stage manage, costume, promote, schedule, and oversee the entire process. Some notable student-run productions include the musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (2001), Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (2003), and Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" (2005). Musicals are what give ENSS its reputation, however, with such performances of the past like Oliver!, Evita, Grease
, Les Misérables
, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
, Beauty and the Beast
and an adaption of Seussical
.
in June 2009 http://www.trentonian.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1582469, generating power and reducing ENSS's carbon footprint
. In the summer of 2011, ENSS installed solar panels on the roof of the school. ENSS was handpicked from over 100 schools to receive solar panels proving the saying of "blue and gold make green" and generating an estimated 46,909 kWh of energy annually. ENSS is also involves in a program called ECO-Cell and E-Waste. ECO-Cell is where we take old cell phones and recycle them properly which continues throughout the entire school year, and E-Waste is an event which cannot happen all the time but is where we have a truck come in and we collect any TV monitors or any electronics
with precious metal
s and properly dispose of them. Also the Student Beautification Committee is a group which is focused on cleaning up litter on school property and surrounding areas. ENSS has also been getting a yearly tradition going which is an event about sustainable living
called 'Earth Song'. In the future ENSS wants to try to build a living wall.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Brighton, Ontario
Brighton, Ontario
Brighton is a town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Toronto and west of Kingston. It is intersected by both Highway 401 and the former Highway 2. It is on the West end of the Bay of Quinte on the entrance of the Murray Canal....
, 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...
.
It was also the topic of a song performed by Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....
called "East Northumberland High", written by ENSS's own Samantha Moore
Samantha Moore
Samantha Jo Moore is a Canadian singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded and re-cut by Miley Cyrus , as well as up and coming artists, including Diana DeGarmo , and The Clique Girlz Samantha Jo Moore (born December 28, 1988) is a Canadian singer and songwriter whose songs have been...
.
Clubs
ENSS offers many diverse clubs. They include AstronomyAstronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
Club, Art Club, Community Challenge, The Dragon's Voice student newspaper
Student newspaper
A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
, Student Drill Team, Science Alliance, Student Government, Chess Club, Culinary, ECO-Cell, Student Beautification Committee, Robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
, Drama Club, Video Production, and many others. A full list can be found on the school website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
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Sports
There are also many sports at ENSS. They participate in sports such as CurlingCurling
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...
, Soccer, 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...
, 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...
, 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...
, 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:...
, Cross Country
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...
, and Track and Field. ENSS has a reputation for excelling at Track and Field. For 27 years straight ENSS has captured the Bay of Quinte
Bay of Quinte
The Bay of Quinte is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter "Z" on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
title.
Dramatic arts
ENSS has a reputation in the surrounding area for putting on productions of plays and musicals. A few notable productions of the past include While the Lights Were Out, Les Belles Soeurs and The Laramie ProjectThe Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
. Two new plays will be gracing the ENSS stage in 2010: Anne Frank and Me
Anne Frank and Me
Anne Frank and Me is a 2001 novel by husband-wife writing team Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. Inspired by the life of Anne Frank, it follows the story of a teenage girl named Nicole Burns...
, showcasing the Junior's talents, and Voices 2000, which will primarily cast Seniors. Prior to 2007, these "off-year" shows, which run opposite to the school's major musical productions, were completely student-run. Senior students were selected to direct, stage manage, costume, promote, schedule, and oversee the entire process. Some notable student-run productions include the musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (2001), Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (2003), and Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" (2005). Musicals are what give ENSS its reputation, however, with such performances of the past like Oliver!, Evita, 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,...
, Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
, Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (musical)
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...
and an adaption of 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...
.
Reputation as a "Green" School
Over the years, ENSS has been known as a "Green" school, with regular garbage clean-ups, tree-plantings, and a heavily involved Environmental Club http://eastnorthumberland.kprdsb.ca/Clubs_ens/EnvironmentalClub_ens. After many years of fund raising, ENSS was able to install a wind turbineWind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device may be called a wind generator or wind charger. If the mechanical energy is used to drive machinery, such as for grinding grain or...
in June 2009 http://www.trentonian.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1582469, generating power and reducing ENSS's carbon footprint
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint has historically been defined as "the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person.". However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is...
. In the summer of 2011, ENSS installed solar panels on the roof of the school. ENSS was handpicked from over 100 schools to receive solar panels proving the saying of "blue and gold make green" and generating an estimated 46,909 kWh of energy annually. ENSS is also involves in a program called ECO-Cell and E-Waste. ECO-Cell is where we take old cell phones and recycle them properly which continues throughout the entire school year, and E-Waste is an event which cannot happen all the time but is where we have a truck come in and we collect any TV monitors or any electronics
Electronics
Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
with precious metal
Precious metal
A precious metal is a rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical element of high economic value.Chemically, the precious metals are less reactive than most elements, have high lustre, are softer or more ductile, and have higher melting points than other metals...
s and properly dispose of them. Also the Student Beautification Committee is a group which is focused on cleaning up litter on school property and surrounding areas. ENSS has also been getting a yearly tradition going which is an event about sustainable living
Sustainable living
Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources and his/her own resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet...
called 'Earth Song'. In the future ENSS wants to try to build a living wall.