Prince Andrew High School is a Canadian

Canada

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 public school, in Dartmouth

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Dartmouth founded in 1750, is a community and planning area of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes after the large number of lakes located in the city.On April 1, 1996, the provincial...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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. It is operated by the Halifax Regional School Board

Halifax Regional School Board

The Halifax Regional School Board is the public school board responsible for 137 elementary, junior high, and high schools located within the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. The current Superintendent of the HRSB is Carole Olsen, who has held the position since 2002...

 (HRSB) and is now an International Baccalaureate (IB) world school, offering the Diploma program. It also offers the O2 program (options and opportunities).

Over 1000 students currently attend, and graduating classes consists of approximately 350 students.

The school was opened in 1960 and has gone through numerous renovations throughout the years, now boasting the largest auditorium

Auditorium

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 east of Montreal

Montreal

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, and a second gymnasium added in renovation. Additionally, upgrades to the cafeteria

Cafeteria

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 and auditorium have given them a more modern design. They are currently going through a new set of renovations from new lockers, re done exterior, The "New" gym Has been repainted and has had a new hardwood floor put in. They are also planning on putting in two production labs in the future.

History

The school was built for the 1960/61 school year. In 1970 an addition to the school created a second gym, now known as the new gym, and a new wing. The additions in 1978 and 1986 added on wings, an auditorium, and expanded the library

Library

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. Prince Andrew's unofficial rival school is Dartmouth High School

Prince Andrew High School celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010, when it its 50th class graduated.

Fine arts

Prince Andrew High School's Fine Arts program has a wide variety of courses including Visual Art, Film

Film

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 & Video

Video

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, Band

Concert band

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, Dance

Dance

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, and Drama

Drama

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Each year in March, April, or May, the theater group "The PA Players" performs a play

Play (theatre)

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 or musical

Musical theatre

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• 2012:The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music
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2011: Grease

Grease (musical)

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2010: Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

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2009: Cabaret

Cabaret (musical)

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2008: Macbeth

Macbeth

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2007: Footloose

Footloose (musical)

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2006: The Crucible

The Crucible

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2005: Twelfth Night

2004: Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...

2003: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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2002: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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2001: Fame

Fame (musical)

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2000: Tonight We Improvise

Tonight We Improvise

Tonight We Improvise is a play by Luigi Pirandello. Like his more famous Six Characters in Search of an Author, it forms part of his "trilogy of the theatre in the theatre." It premiered in 1930 in a German translation in Königsberg, and had its first Italian performance in Turin on April 14,...

1999: Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

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1998: Bye Bye Birdie

1997: Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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1997: Secret of the Palace

1996: Comedy of Errors

Comedy Of Errors

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1994: Jayne Eyre

• held in November 2011

Prince Andrew often hosts the Christmas

Christmas

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 concerts of its elementary feeder schools in its Auditorium

Auditorium

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 as well as community, Woodlawn Dartmouth, events.

Courses

In the 2010-2011 school year the departments at Prince Andrew High School include Business and Technology, English, Fine Arts, Languages and Library Services, Math, Science, Social Studies, Wellness and Guidance. There are four levels of courses available within these departments— Essential, Foundation, Academic and Advanced.

Prince Andrew is an IB World School. It has been offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme since 2007, with its first graduates matriculating in 2009.

Clubs

The clubs at Prince Andrew High School include:

• Safe Grad (a graduation celebration similar to prom which is free of alcohol and drugs)
• SAC
• Christian Fellowship
• Student Council
• Student Council
• School newspaper club
• PA Tech
• PA Robotics
• Jazz Band
• Flute Choir
• Jam Band
• Choir
• Dance Club
• Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)
• Big Bunch (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada)
• Culture at Prince Andrew (C@PA)
• Key Club
• Debate Club
• MindShift
• Vinyl Renaissance

PAWEECA

PAHS is host to the Prince Andrew Woodlawn Environmental Enhancement Conservation Association. This organization is the only federally recognized, student operated, non-profit society with charitable status

Charitable organization

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 in Nova Scotia.

The group was run for many years by now retired teacher Greg King. Some projects have included work with the Children’s Wish Foundation, a replanting initiative at Point Pleasant Park

Point Pleasant Park

Point Pleasant Park is a large, partially forested municipal park at the southern tip of the Halifax peninsula. It once hosted several artillery batteries, and a well-preserved 18th century Martello tower can be found there...

, McNabs Island

McNabs Island

McNabs Island is the largest island in Halifax Harbour located in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. It played a major role in defending Halifax Harbour and is now a provincial park...

 Clean-up, the Nova Scotia Mental Health

Mental health

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 Association, Dartmouth Senior Centre Activities, PAHS Scholarship Fund, Class Gift, Dartmouth Rotary

Rotary International

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, and their own “Trees for Kids” fundraiser

Fundraiser

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 for the IWK Youth Telethon.
PAWEECA has also partnered with such organizations as Free The Children

Free The Children

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, Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger

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, and the Nova Scotia Gambia Association. They sent shoes to Afghanistan in 2007 and were recognized with an award at a local ceremony honouring voluntarism.

This organization has been dissolved in 2009.

Teams & Sports

Some of the sports offered at Prince Andrew High School include football

Canadian football

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, hockey

Hockey

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, 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 union

Rugby union

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, track & field, 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...

, soccer, field hockey

Field hockey

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, cheerleading

Cheerleading

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, badminton

Badminton

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, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, softball

Softball

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, cross country

Cross country running

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, skiing

Skiing

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, golf

Golf

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 and Snowboarding

Snowboarding

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Prince Andrew High Panthers Football Team has a strong winning tradition dating back to the 1960s although recently have experienced a drought in champ cats. The Panthers have played in the NSSAF Division I Championship eight times.

1995
1994
1992* Champions
1989
1977
1976* Champions
1974
1969