Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (Hamilton)
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Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
Ontario
Ontario
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, and is a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is the public school board in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, which was formed January 1, 1997 via the amalgamation of the Hamilton and Wentworth County school boards. HWDSB teaches approximately 50,000 students in its 114 neighbourhood schools...
. Opened in 1967, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School has a 2009-2010 enrolment of 1100. The school's mission statement is "Educating students to become lifelong learners and contributing citizens in a challenging, changing, multi-cultural world." Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School uses the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) to assess Grade 10 students' skills in reading and writing. Successful completion of the test is one of 32 requirements students need to attain in order to receive an Ontario Secondary School Diploma. The school also offers special education
Special education
Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...
classes as well as an ESL
ESL
ESL is a common abbreviation for English as a Second Language, see English language learning and teaching.ESL may also refer to:-Companies:...
program.
| Officials and Administrators | Name |
|---|---|
| School Principal | Glenn Cookie |
| Vice Principals | Timothy Powell-McBride, Corie Pillinini |
| Superintendnet | Pam Reinholdt |
| Director of Education | John Malloy |
| Trustee | Ray Mulholland |
History
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School was founded in 1967 as part of a plan by the Board of Education for the City of Hamilton to have enough schools available to meet the demand of baby boomersBaby boomer
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. In 1972, the school became Hamilton's pilot school in the semester system style of schedule that had been showing positive increases in student achievement amongst schools in Alberta
Alberta
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and British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
. The school was named after Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
Program highlights and student support programs
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School takes part in the following programs:- Communications/Media Arts Program
- Environmental CO-OP Program – award winning
- Personal Support Worker Program
- Technology – Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation 2 credit course packages – OYAP incentives
- Volleyball Focus Programs
- Hockey Focus program
- Alternative Education Program – self-paced program packages in college, applied and essential courses
- Credit Recovery Program for students under age 16 repeating courses in grades 9 and 10 – tied to a learning strategies course credit.
- Teacher-Student one-on-one Mentoring Program
- Literacy Volunteers Program
- After-school literacy/numeracy program
- Churchill ‘Chievers Recognition Luncheon
- Locally developed essential and workplace level programming – Geography, History, and French
- Celebration assembly
- Literacy Computer Lab – for OSSLC and grade 9 essential level courses
- Alternative Education Co-operative Learning Program
- Navigating the Workplace – Co-operative Education
- Change Your Future Program through the Learning Partnership
Clubs
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School has the following clubs:- Student Council and Student Leadership Association
- AthleticsSportA Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
– variety of sports for males and females - Girls and Boys Athletic clubs
- DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
– Lunch hour “Improv” and annual musical production - Music – vocal, instrumental band and jazz club, guitar club
- Care Committee
- Stage & Technical Crew
- “Feel the Power" Girls' athletics and Public Health Project
- Blood Donor Clinic committee
- EnvironmentalEnvironmental policyEnvironmental policy is any [course of] action deliberately taken [or not taken] to manage human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man-made changes to the environment do not have harmful effects on...
Club – Green Team and “Envirothon” - Graduation Committee
- The Bull Pen- school store
- The “Churchillian – newspaper committee
- Creative WritingCreative writingCreative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
Club; The Spoken Word - Film Club
- "Secret Geek Society", a computer committee, ran by Mr. Wilson